Meet the Team
By
Rebecca Esselman on 12/23/2008 |
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Meet the Conservation Methods and Tools Team
Craig Groves
Director
Bozeman, MT
craig_groves@tnc.org (406) 586-2781 | Craig Groves is the Director of the Conservation Methods and Tools Unit. His primary focus in 2009 is implementing the organization-wide Conservation Measures Business Plan in collaboration with the field programs (Conservation Programs) of the Conservancy. His career with The Nature Conservancy started in 1984 when he was hired as the Director and Zoologist for the Idaho Natural Heritage Program. He has held several different science positions with the Conservancy at the state, regional, and global level including the Director of Conservation Planning for the Conservation Science Division from 1997-2002. Craig also worked several | years as a Nongame and Endangered Species Biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and as a conservation biologist and planner for the Wildlife Conservation Society. In 2003 he published an Island Press book on regional conservation planning - Drafting a Conservation Blueprint: A Practitioner's Guide to Planning for Biodiversity. Craig resides in Bozeman, Montana where he spends his leisure time trail running, backcountry skiing, whitewater rafting, and hunting blue grouse with his golden retriever Fresa. |
Dan Salzer
Applied Scientist
Portland, OR
dsalzer@tnc.org
(503) 802-8128 | Dan has worked on research, monitoring, and measures of conservation success since joining The Nature Conservancy's Oregon chapter in 1989. In 2003 he joined the Conservation Science group, where his primary responsibilities are supporting and sustaining the adoption of project-based measures of success across the Conservancy through the Conservancy's Conservation Action Planning process. This includes developing and disseminating conservation measures standards, methodologies and tools, developing and delivering conservation planning and measures training programs, and working to ensure that information systems are developed and procedures are in place to collect and store measures of success information. He has co-authored two books on monitoring and taught in more than 20 | week-long monitoring workshops to train Conservancy and federal and state agency staff in best monitoring and sampling practices. | 
Kirsten Evans
Deputy Director kevans@tnc.org
(206)343-4345 x 399 | Kirsten joined the Conservancy in 2008 and is the deputy director of the Methods and Learning Team. Based in Seattle, she assists Craig in leading the Methods and Learning Team. Her previous experience includes managing a stakeholder-led marine CAP in Washington's San Juan Islands, working as a policy analyst for the Seattle City Council, managing community involvement in water resources management, leading a nature guide training program with RARE Center in Mexico and serving with the Peace Corps in Panama. Kirsten has a Master's of Marine Affairs from the University of Washington and has published on the institutional arrangements for and barriers to the implementation ofecosystem-based management of marine resources. | | | | | | | | |
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Rebecca Esselman
Conservation Knowledge Specialist
Ann Arbor, MI
resselman@tnc.org
(734) 222-9338
| About five years ago Rebecca began her career with the Conservancy doing restoration work on one of our small fen preserves in Michigan using her background in Botany and Freshwater Ecology. During her early career at the Conservancy, Rebecca contributed to guidance documents on freshwater conservation, ecoregional assessments and conservation action planning. Rebecca now supports Conservancy staff and partners by collecting best practices and innovations in the science and practice of conservation and sharing this knowledge via the Conservation Gateway (www.conservationgateway.org). Rebecca also provides direct support to field staff developing Conservation Action Plans as a member of the CAP Coaches Network. Rebecca holds a Master's in Conservation Ecology from the University of Georgia. Prior to working for the Conservancy, Rebecca worked | in stewardship for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and in research at the University of Michigan investigating impacts of land use on freshwater ecosystems. | 
Jensen Montambault
Conservation Measures Specialist
Gainesville, FL
jmontambault@tnc.org
(352) 231-1882
| Jensen joined The Nature Conservancy in May 2008 as a Conservation Measures Specialist. She helps selected projects measure the effectiveness their conservation strategies through prioritizing indicators, developing robust and feasible monitoring plans, analyzing data, and incorporating the results into management plans. Jensen is also collaborating with academic partners to develop innovative methods to optimize monitoring investments. Previously, Jensen worked for 13 years on conservation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the South Pacific, and the eastern U.S. She served as a community environmental promoter in Peace Corps-Nicaragua, managed grants for the USAID Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Program at the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and coordinated Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program. Jensen received her M.S. in | interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida assessing socioeconomic influences on household attitudes toward conservation in rural Nicaragua. She received herPh.D. in the same program studying the effects of rapid suburbanization on endemic landbirds in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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Eddie Game
Conservation Planning Specialist
Brisbane, Australia
egame@tnc.org
(+61) 7-3214-6921 | Eddie joined the Conservancy in 2008 as a Conservation Planning Specialist. Based in Brisbane, Australia, he works across the organization, trying to improve approaches to ecoregional prioritization and conservation decision making. In particular, he is working to develop planning methods and tools better able to incorporate a range of socioeconomic data and considerations, ecosystem services, risk, and climate change adaptation. Eddie completed his PhD at the University of Queensland, under Professor Hugh Possingham and has previously worked in fisheries and marine conservation. He has published on conservation planning, coral reef resilience, pelagic protected areas, dynamic decision making, evolution and mountain biking in Kyrgyzstan. Whenever possible he seeks out adventures in far flung places. | |
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