NAS Committee

• Description: related to the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Cooperative Agreement [CA]; aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program [PRRIP])‎
• State: CO
• State: WY
• State: NE
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/2002
• Author: PRRIP
• Title: Panelist and Experts for the National Academy of Science Committee
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Memberships/Mail List

VEGETATION / HABITAT
Dr. William C. Scharf — Dr. Scharf is retired from teaching at Northwestern
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Michigan Collage, was Associate Director of the University of Nebraska Cedar
Point Biological Station and Director of the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory.
Dr. Scharf has extensive experience with avian ecology in Platte River riparian
areas. 760 Kingston Court Traverse City, MI 49684. Phone: [phone].
Email: wscharf(@traverse.com
Waite OsterKamp — Mr. OsterKamp is a hydrologist with U.S. Geological
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Survey, Water Resources Division. Mr. Osterkamp has extensive experience
with fluvial systems including the braided rivers of the western United States.
Building 803, Tumamac Hill, Tucson AZ, 85745. Phone: [phone]
Ext.113. Email: wroster(cD-usgs.gov
Dr. Joy Zedler — Dr. Zedler is a Leopold professor at the University of
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Wisconson Arboretum - Madison. Is an expert in wetland and riverine ecology.
Dr. Rebecca Sharitz — Dr. Sharitz is with the Savannah River Ecology
Laboratory in Aiken SC. Is an expert in wetland and riverine ecology.
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Dr. Scott Robinson — Dr. Robinson is with the Illinois Natural History Survey in
Champagne IL. Is an authority on the effects of forest fragmentation on north
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American bird populations. Is well published and a recognized national
authority.
Dr. W. Carter Johnson — Dr. Johnson is a Professor of Ecology at South
Dakota State University in Brookings. He received a B.S. in Biology from
Augustana College (Sioux Falls) in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Botany (Plant Ecology)
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from North Dakota State University in 1971. Carter began his professional
career as Research Associate and Research Staff Member at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (1971 -77), followed by 12 years in the Department of
Biology at Virginia Tech. In 1989 he became Head of the Department of
Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape, and Parks at South Dakota State University,
a position held until 1995. His research interests include river regulation and
riparian forest ecology, climate change and prairie wetlands, seed dispersal in
fragmented landscapes, and paleoecology (climate reconstruction using tree
rings; Holocene seed dispersal and plant migration). His research program is
strongly multi - disciplinary and inter - institutional. He was the recipient of the
William S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America in 1996 and
the Best Paper Award from the International Association of Landscape Ecology
in 1995 for his 1994 Ecological Monograph, "Woodland Expansion in the Platte
River, Nebraska: Patterns and Causes." He is a life member of the Ecological
Society of America and serves on the editorial boards for Landscape Ecology
and Wetlands and on the National Research Council's Committee on the
Missouri River Ecosystem. He has been certified as a Senior Ecologist by ESA
since 1988. Carter Johnson(a.sdstate.edu
Mr. Paul Tebbel — Mr. Tebbel has managed the Lillian Annette Rowe
Sanctuary since 1995. Rowe Sanctuary located on the Platte River south of
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Gibbon NE, is managed for migratory waterfowl, shorebirds and cranes.
Management activities have focused on river channel, wet meadow /prairie
restoration. National Audubon Society, Route 2, Box 146, Gibbon NE 68840-
9802, Phone: [phone], Email: rowe(c�nctc.net
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