Christine Olsen

Christine Olsen, Ph.D., is a member of the teaching and research faculty in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University. She also serves as a faculty member for the environmental sciences and natural resources graduate programs. She earned a Ph.D. in Forest Resources (social science focus) and an M.S. in Environmental Sciences (social science focus) from OSU, and a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Science (ecology focus) from the University of Virginia. Christine's research focuses on human dimensions of natural resources, including planning and decision-making processes, public agency communication and interactions, collaboratives and partnerships, trust and resilience in communities and the impacts of social networks on land management. Much of her research examines these topics in the context of forests and fire management near communities in the western United States and around the world. Christine serves on the leadership team for the Northwest Fire Science Consortium, a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional network that works to facilitate dissemination and adoption of fire science information, knowledge, tools and expertise.

Tina Amorok

Dr. Amorok earned her BS in Kinesiology/Exercise Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and MA and PsyD in clinical psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, California. At the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), she co-edited the complimentary medicine textbook anthology, Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine (Churchill Livingston / Elsevier, 2005) and co-authored, Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, (New Harbinger/Noetic Books, Jan 2008). Living Deeply publications are drawn from the IONS Transformation Study, in which Dr. Amorok was a co-principal investigator for seven years.

Her published dissertation research and most passionate ongoing area of inquiry, The Eco-Trauma and Eco-Recovery of Being, (UMI, Dissertation Services, 2007), examines how to heal and transform the primal wound of human alienation from nature from which destructive ecological behaviors, violence, and unhealthy life styles arise. Dr. Amorok's clinical psychology practice is in Corvallis, Oregon. She provides integrative psychological services that are evidence based and responsive to a diagnostically diverse population, as well as honoring human differences inherent in culture and ethnicity, gender and gender identity, religion and spirituality.

Badege Bishaw

Dr. Badege Bishaw was educated in Africa, Europe and the United States. He has over 25 years of experience in forestry, natural resources and agriculture education, research, outreach and administration. He received his Ph.D. from Oregon State University in Forest Resources in 1993, an MS in Tropical Forestry from the University of Dresden, Germany in 1985, and a B.Sc. in Plant Sciences from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in 1979.

Dr. Bishaw has been involved in teaching courses in International Forestry, Agroforestry and Natural Resources at Oregon State University and universities in South Africa and Ethiopia. He was involved in developing curricula for forestry, agroforestry and natural resource programs for universities in the U.S., South Africa and Ethiopia. As a member of the Sustainable Forest Partnership, he has participated in the development of the Sustainable Natural Resources Graduate Certificate program at Oregon State University. He was also instrumental in developing a Master of Natural Resources degree program, which is taught online through Oregon State University Extended Campus.

Dr. Bishaw has been involved in forestry and agroforestry research funded by state, federal and international agencies. He finds international work to be an enriching experience that provides an outstanding opportunity to share his experiences and knowledge with a broader audience. He has participated in research, outreach, formal instruction and program development in South Africa, Ethiopia and southern Africa (Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia) with funding from the USAID. These projects had an outreach and development programs and addressed food security, watershed management, poverty alleviation and land degradation in South Africa, Ethiopia and southern Africa. To learn more about these projects please visit the following project websites at http://www.cof.orst.edu/project/usaidalo/index.htm and http://www.cof.orst.edu/project/ethiopia.

Currently, he is the Program Director for the Master of Natural Resources degree program and the Sustainable Natural Resources Graduate Certificate Program at OSU.

Sam Chan

Sam Chan is Oregon Sea Grant's expert in aquatic invasive species and aquatic ecosystem health. He provides public education and engagement to Oregonians of all ages on identifying, controlling and managing the spread of marine invasives, and he conducts research to test, evaluate and implement invasive species educational programs. He also serves as chair of the Oregon Invasive Species Council. Sam has additional expertise in the areas of risk analysis, water quality and oil spill response and mitigation.

Cynthia Chapman

Cynthia B. Chapman earned the first Master of Science in Scientific and Technical Communication from Oregon State University in 1990; she received a multidisciplinary (chemistry & social science) Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in 1972. Her career began as a health and science analyst in the Congressional Research Service, Science Policy Research Division of the Library of Congress. Mid-career, she founded Authors & Editors to provide authors' editing, manuscript editing, and publication management for academic authors in business, education, and science while also teaching technical writing, science writing, and project management in both community college and university classrooms. She was certified Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS) in 1993 by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS) and was certified Professional Project Manager (PMP) in 2003 by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Ms. Chapman has published extensively in government (committee prints, reports, and Congressional white papers), in industry (trade papers and magazines) and in professional journals (communication); she has also published two technical paperback books. In addition, she has managed fundraising projects for non-profit organizations; publication, event, and construction projects in academia; database development, website design, and technical documentation projects for business and academia

Currently, Ms. Chapman is developing and teaching for OSU Ecampus the advanced scientific and technical writing course and the course in project management for scientists. Both courses enhance professional development of graduate students, practitioners and post-docs.

Todd Jarvis

W. Todd Jarvis, PhD, is a consulting groundwater hydrologist with nearly 30 years of experience in deep well drilling in fractured rock and karst, working for global water/wastewater engineering and groundwater engineering firms before coming to Oregon State University. He has served as an expert witness on groundwater rights and water well construction disputes in the western U.S. He earned a post-graduate certificate in conflict resolution, supporting his professional insurance and license as a mediator in the U.S., and worked as a mediator for eBay for three years. He specializes in dispute prevention and conflict resolution related to groundwater resources and water well construction. Jarvis is a consultant to UNESCO in their Shared Waters training program and provided weeklong "train the trainers" sessions for African water professionals in 2010 and Arab water professionals in 2011. He originated and maintains the Rainbow Water Coalition blog on greywater.

Edward Ray

Dr. Edward J. Ray was appointed as the 14th president of Oregon State University on June 5, 2003. Dr. Ray came to Oregon State from Ohio State University where he served as executive vice president and provost since 1998. He was a member of the economics faculty at Ohio State for more than 30 years, serving as department chair from 1976 to 1992. His research interests include the history of protectionism in the U.S., the role of financial reform in economic development, and foreign direct investment in the U.S. and abroad. He has been published in leading economic journals and has authored or co-authored several books on economics topics. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Queens College (CUNY) in 1966, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Stanford University in 1969 and 1971.

Brent Steel

Brent S. Steel is Professor and Director of the Public Policy Graduate Program in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. He has a B.A. in Government from Eastern Washington University and a M.A. and PhD in Political Science from Washington State University. Steel is coeditor of Oregon Politics and Government: Progressive versus Conservative Populists (University of Nebraska Press) with Richard Clucas and Mark Henkels, and is coauthor of State and Local Government: Sustainability in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press) with Chris Simon and Nicholas P. Lovrich. His current research concerns the effectiveness of collaborative governance institutions and the role of science and scientists in the natural resource management process.

John Turner

John Turner has been an instructor in Entrepreneurship at the College of Business since 2007, specializing in technology commercialization. In the College of Business, he acts as MBA thesis advisor to students working on the Integrated Business Project (IBP), teaches framing courses for the Clean Technology MBA track, and a cross disciplinary undergraduate course in technology commercialization. He also serves as COB liaison to the College of Engineering (COE) and Office of Commercialization and Corporate Development, collaborating on COB/COE divisional innovation and commercialization initiatives. Prior to joining OSU, John worked for 21 years at Hewlett-Packard Company in a variety of technical and management roles: as a research scientist at HP Labs, in new product development, and strategic supplier management. In addition he has served as a consultant to a number of technology startups in intellectual property management, manufacturing and process control, and modeling of dynamic systems.

Jonathan Velez

Jonathan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Sciences (2000) and a Master of Arts in Teaching (2001), both from Oregon State University. He taught high school agriculture at Oakland High School in Oakland, Ore., for one year and at Sandy High School in Sandy, Ore., for three years. Jonathan earned his Ph.D. in agricultural education from Ohio State University in 2008 and joined the faculty in the Department of Agricultural Education and Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University as an assistant professor.

Jonathan was instrumental in the development of the College of Agricultural Sciences Leadership Academy and currently holds the endowed Bradshaw Leadership Academy Professorship position. In addition to his role with the Leadership Academy, Jonathan contributes to other leadership initiatives in the College of Agricultural Sciences.

Gregg Walker

Gregg B. Walker is a professor of communication, an adjunct professor in forest ecosystems and society, marine resource management and water conflict management, as well as a member of the environmental science faculty at Oregon State University in Corvallis. On campus Gregg teaches courses in conflict management, bargaining and negotiation, mediation, international negotiation, natural resources decision-making, environmental conflict resolution, science communication, and argumentation. Off campus he conducts training programs on collaborative conflict resolution, designs collaborative public participation processes, facilitates collaborative learning community workshops about natural resources and environmental policy issues, and researches community-level collaboration efforts. He is an adviser to the National Collaboration Cadre of the USDA-Forest Service and is co-director of the Climate Change Project for Mediators Beyond Borders International. In this latter role, he attends most of the United Nations climate change negotiation meetings and conducts research related to those negotiations.

Edward Weber

Edward (Ed) P. Weber is the Ulysses G. Dubach Professor of Political Science in Oregon State University's School of Public Policy. As a former business owner and leader of the Thomas S. Foley Public Policy Institute at Washington State University (WSU), Weber brings a wealth of real-world experience to his scholarship on natural resources policy. Specializing in innovative new approaches to resolving and managing difficult natural resource issues – whether in watershed management, pollution control, forestry or endangered species – he has advised governments and NGOs throughout the American West, Central Asia and New Zealand. In addition, Weber has conducted and presented research in the U.S. and around the world in places such as France, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Japan, Hungary, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.

Aaron Wolf

Aaron Wolf is a professor of geography in the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University. He has an M.S. in water resources management (1988, emphasizing hydrogeology) and a Ph.D. in environmental policy analysis (1992, emphasizing dispute resolution) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on issues relating transboundary water resources to political conflict and cooperation, where his training that combines environmental sciences with dispute resolution theory and practice have been particularly appropriate. Wolf has acted as consultant to the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank and several governments on various aspects of international water resources and dispute resolution. He has been involved in developing the strategies for resolving water aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict, including co-authoring a State Department reference text. Wolf, a trained mediator/facilitator, directs OSU's Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation.