WWETAC: Who We Are
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Jerry Beatty
E-mail: jbeatty [at] fs.fed.us
Phone: 541-416-6583
Jerome “Jerry” Beatty is the current Director of the Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center. Jerry graduated from Duke University School of the Environment in 1977 and began his Forest Service career as a biological technician in Asheville, North Carolina. Jerry came to the PNW Station in April 2005, after a 29-year career as a forest pathologist with Forest Health Protection in New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, and as the Deputy Director of Forest Health Protection in the Washington Office.
Charles "Terry" Shaw
E-mail: cgshaw [at] fs.fed.us
Phone: 541-416- 6600
Charles G. "Terry" Shaw is the chief scientist at the Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center. Prior to coming to the Center Terry was the national program lead for forest pathology research in the Forest Service Washington Office. Terry has had a long career as a scientist and project manager in Alaska and Colorado and has served in many capacities, including the science review team leader for the Tongass National Forest plan. Terry’s field of expertise include Armillaria root disease, dwarf mistletoes, and forest pest modeling/risk assessment. Terry graduated from Oregon State University in 1974 with a Ph.D. in plant pathology and spent time with the research arm of the New Zealand Forest Service.
Becky Kerns
E-mail:
bkerns [at] fs.fed.us
Phone: 541-416-6602
Becky Kerns is a research ecologist and has been with the Pacific Northwest Research
Station since 1999. She received her B.S. in geology from UC
Santa Barbara, M.S. in quaternary science and Ph.D. in Forest
Science, both from Northern Arizona University. Her research
has focused
on understanding the effects of disturbances such as fire, management
treatments, and cattle grazing, on the structure and composition
of forest plant communities. Becky was involved in the initial
establishment of WWETAC and her work at the center has focused
on risk analysis and threats such as invasive species, fire,
and climate change. She also is an affiliate major professor
with the Forest Resources Department, Oregon State University
and serves on graduate student committees.
Alan A. Ager
E-mail: aager [at] fs.fed.us
Phone: 541-416-6603
Alan Ager is an operations research analyst. He received a Ph.D. in forest genetics at the University of Washington, M.S. in plant genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.S. in forest science and forest management from the University of Washington. Alan has worked on a wide range of research and management projects since starting with the Forest Service in 1987. His current interests include stress detection in forest trees, spatial modeling of wildfire, risk analysis, and a variety of operations research problems related to forest management.
Michelle Buonopane
E-mail: mbuonopane [at] fs.fed.us
Phone: 541-758-7768
Michelle Buonopane works as a biological science technician specializing in botany
for the PNW Research Station. She received her MS in Botany and
plant pathology at Oregon State University completing a project
on the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology
to herbarium database management. She has worked as a botanist
with
the Nature
Conservancy,
the
Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State University, and with
the Jornada Basin Long-Term Research Station. Michelle works
for
WWETAC helping with database management, statistical analysis,
GIS support, and with field logistics and botanical expertise.
Bridgett Naylor
E-mail: bnaylor [at] fs.fed.us
Phone: 541-962-6504
Bridgett Naylor is an information resource specialist and has
been working for the Pacific Northwest Research Station since
2001. She received her B.A. in physics and environmental studies
from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Currently, her
focus is on developing and using GIS and remote sensing technologies
to support invasive plant, fire, and climate change research.
Her work includes compiling
and generating geospatial layers, conducting spatial analysis,
and designing and developing databases to support many WWETAC
and DEM projects. Additionally, she helps manage and organize
field data collection efforts, including incorporating data
generated
with global positioning systems (GPS).
Judy Haigler
E-mail: jhaigler [at] fs.fed.us
Phone: 541-416-6618
Judy Haigler is the program assistant for WWETAC. Judy has 19 years of experience working with the Forest Service in numerous administrative positions. Judy's duties at WWETAC include financial management, procurement, newsletters, contracting, and other technical and administrative tasks. She received a Business Management Certificate in 1972 from Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, and continued with administrative work throughout her career.
