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Earlene Swann
Training Coordinator
U.S. Geological Survey
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave, Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80526
970.226.9346
earlene_swann@usgs.gov

 

Katie Walters
Asst. Training Coordinator
U.S. Geological Survey
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave, Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80526
970.226.9334
katie_walters@usgs.gov
 

Nina Burkardt

Nina Burkardt is a Research Social Scientist with the Policy Analysis and Science Assistance Branch (PASA) at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center. Since 1987, she has worked with her PASA colleagues to help stakeholders plan and undertake collaborative decision processes, and has conducted research to determine factors leading to success in environmental negotiations. Results of this research have been published in Environmental Management, Wildlife Society Bulletin, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Water Resources Bulletin, Environmental Practice, International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior, and other peer-reviewed journals. She has a long standing interest in instream flow issues and has conducted research to evaluate the effectiveness of state instream flow policies. Ms. Burkardt is a past President of the Western Social Science Association and is active in this and several other professional groups. She has been teaching negotiation courses since 1992.

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Berton Lee Lamb

Lee Lamb is Chief of the Policy Analysis and Science Assistance Branch (PASA) at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center. Dr. Lamb has led teams of researchers investigating decision making and negotiation in resource management since 1980. He was one of the developers of the Legal-Institutional Analysis Model (LIAM). He and his colleagues have assisted in planning and initiating collaborative decision processes. Dr. Lamb has published studies on conflict resolution, instream flow law and policy, and natural resource negotiation and institutional analysis, with articles appearing in peer reviewed journals such as: Water Resources Research, Journal of Environmental Planning & Management, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, International Journal of Public Administration, Public Works Management and Policy, Environmental Management, and Environmental Practice. Dr. Lamb is currently on the editorial boards of Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (2004-present) and International Journal of Sustainable Society (2007 to present). He served on the Advisory Board of the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and was also a member of the editorial boards of PA Times (1992-1993) and Society & Natural Resources (1995-1998). Dr. Lamb organized international conferences on instream flow assessment methods (2004) and institutional analysis for natural resource decision-making (2005). Dr. Lamb co-edited a symposium in International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior on the subject of multi-party environmental negotiation (2006) and has taught natural resource negotiation courses since 1978.

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Phadrea Ponds

Phadrea Ponds is a Wildlife Biologist in the Policy Analysis and Science Assistance Branch (PASA) at the USGS Fort Collins Science Center. Her focus is on the human dimensions of natural resource management. She investigates how public participation processes affect environmental management. Ms. Ponds has worked with PASA since 1996, helping to integrate biological, social, and economic analyses so that resource managers can use the resulting information to make informed decisions and resolve resource management conflicts. She served as the vice-President (2004-2005), President-elect (2006-2007), and President (2007-2008) of the Western Social Science Association and is active in many interagency committees and advisory boards, including the Strategic Habitat Conservation initiative of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Ms. Ponds’ publications have appeared in Human Dimensions of Wildlife, Bioscience, the Cyber Journal of Applied Leisure and Recreation Research, Wildlife Society Bulletin, and Journal of Wildlife Biology.

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