Barbara Dugelby, Conservation Scientist,Director Latin America Program. Barbara has a MS in resource economics and policy and a Ph.D. in ecology and anthropology from Duke University. From 1995 to 1998 she served as Human Ecologist for The Nature Conservancy and from 1998 to 2002 the Wildlands Ecologist for The Wildlands Project. Dr. Dugelby’s research and work has focused on tropical forest ecology and conservation, protected area design and management and community-based resource management. She has conducted worked in North America, Indonesia, and throughout Latin America

Bryan Evans, Conservation Associate.
Bryan has BA in Commerce and Finance from the University of British Columbia, 1984 and a MS in Natural Resource and Environmental Management from Simon Fraser University, 1997. He has been a consultant in natural resource management and environmental policy for 10 years, focusing on land use planning, protected areas and ecological forestry.

Chris Fagan, Conservation Scientist.

Chris holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College     and a Masters in Environmental Management from Duke University. His work focuses on conservation threats, protected area effectiveness and community development. Chris is currently working in the Peruvian Amazon.

Christopher Filardi, Conservation Associate.
At Yale University, Christopher completed his MS in the School of Forestry and his PhD. in Zoology at the University of Washington. Christopher, whose research activities have centered upon avian ecology in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.  Christopher currently works for the American Natural History Museum.  He remains involved with Round River student programs and research activities on the coast of British Columbia.

Julian Griggs, Conservation Associate.
Julian has a MSc in Resource Management from the University of British Columbia in 1990, and work experience from North America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Julian has been working as a planner and facilitator for the last 16 years, focusing particularly on multi-stakeholder land use planning processes and conservation initiatives. Julian is also a well-known trainer and has led strategic planning processes for a range of organizations and coalitions in the US and Canada.

Kimberly Heinemeyer, Lead Conservation Scientist.
Kim graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1988 with a BS in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology. She completed her MS in Wildlife Biology at the University of Montana in 1993. Kim completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2002 focusing on carnivore ecology and conservation.

Jennifer Lalley, Conservation Associate.

Jennifer received an MSc in conservation biology from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (University of Kent), and a PhD in biogeography and conservation (University of Oxford).  She has worked in African conservation and ecotourism development at the grassroots level since 1995.  Her research and publications have focused on biodiversity and ecosystem management issues, and her current work includes focal species habitat assessment and ecosystem-based land use analyses in northwest Namibia.

Heidi T. Larsen, Director of Administration. 

Heidi received her BA degree in English with a writing emphasis from the University of Utah. Her work experience includes: being the Director of Finance and Administration fort the National Multiple Sclerosis Society-Utah Chapter; Office Manager and Nutrition Advocate for Utahns Against Hunger, where she not only helped educate and bring awareness about hunger issues and hunger programs to Utahns, but developed and ran hunger programs for seniors in the State of Utah; she served as the Fundraising Chair for the Taste of the Nation-Salt Lake City Event for 4 years; and is currently the Board Chair for the Utah Great Dane Rescue, which she helped organize into a 501(c)(3). She also holds a Paralegal Degree and worked as an Office Manager and Paralegal for various law firms in Salt Lake City for several years before joining the non-profit arena.

Chris Lockhart, Conservation Scientist.
Chris received his PhD. from the University of California (Berkeley and San Francisco) in Cultural and Medical Anthropology. He has worked, taught, and published on issues surrounding community development, social health, and capacity building in indigenous and rural/remote communities in East and Central Africa, North America, and Western Australia.

Michael Magee, Senior Conservationist.

Michael has over 18 years experience in government strategy, political campaigns and campaign financing. Political clients have included the government of Ontario, the New Democratic Party of Ontario, and the Federal Liberal Party of Canada. His civil society clients have included Oxfam Canada, The African Nation Congress, Ontario Coalition for Social Justice, the Lubicon Cree, Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace Canada, and the Tides Canada Foundation. Michael is the former Director of Development and Public Affairs for the Sierra Legal Defense Fund.

Doug Milek, Director of Programs.
Doug received a BA from the University of Wyoming, and has since been involved with numerous wildlife research projects throughout the Western United States. Doug is presently pursuing a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana.

Jeff Muntifering, Conservation Scientist.
Jeff received a BA in biology from St. John’s University in 1999 and a MS in Conservation Biology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2003. He has assisted and led field projects in Minnesota, Alaska, Namibia, South Africa, Honduras, Ecuador, and China specializing in carnivore conservation.

Gavin Noyes, Colorado Plateau Program Director
Gavin earned a BA in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan. Gavin is a Utah native who has been active in land conservation issues for more than a decade. Before coming to Round River he served as Executive Director of two non-profit organizations, Save Our Canyons, aimed at protecting the beauty and wildness of the Wasatch mountains, and Local First Utah, focused on strengthening communities and local economies in Utah. Gavin also operates a small business, creating wood fired ceramic art.

Anna Noson, Conservation Scientist.
Anna holds a BA in Biology from Colorado College and a MS in Wildlife Science from Oregon State University. Her research focuses on avian conservation and fire ecology. She is involved in Round River’s research on the British Columbia Coast and Taku River and assists with student programs in Namibia and Ecuador.

Jean Polfus, Conservation Assistant.

Jean received her BA in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology from Dartmouth College in 2006. She is presently perusing her MS in Wildlife Biology at the University of Montana and as a research assistant with Round River. Her research focuses on cumulative effects associated with woodland caribou in northern British Columbia in partnership with Round River and the Taku River Tlingit First Nation. Jean's research builds on her experience as a Round River student on the Taku Program in 2006.

Diego Shoobridge, Alto Purús Project Coordinator

Diego has a Masters in Environmental Policy from Tufts University. His extensive experience in Amazon conservation includes projects related to environmental education, rural health care, and protected area creation and management. With over five years of work experience in the Alto Purús, Diego played an integral role in the creation of the Alto Purús National Park and Purús Communal Reserve, acting as a close advisor to Peru’s park service, Inrena. As part of Round River’s Alto Purús project, Diego is responsible for supervising our Park consolidation and capacity building activities. Diego splits his time between Lima and Round River’s field office in the Alto Purús.

Dennis Sizemore, Executive Director.
Dennis holds a BS from New Mexico State University and a MS from the University of Montana in Wildlife Ecology. His 30 years of conservation work experience includes law enforcement, management, education, and research. Dennis serves as a board member of the Taku-Atlen Conservancy and with The Wildlands Project board as its President.

Jerry Scoville, Naturalist.

Jerry holds a BS in biology from The Evergreen State College, an MS in communications from the University of Utah, and a MS in biology from Utah State University.  Most recently he has been investigating the life-history traits of frogs in the Solomon Islands, Melanesia, and assisting in setting up monitoring protocols in mid-coast British Columbia, Canada.  He has been affiliated with Round River for thirteen years. 

Rick Tingey, GIS Specialist.
Rick holds a BS degree from the University of Utah in Geography. Rick is the principal GIS analyst for Round River. He has contributed to the BC Central Coast, Coastal Mountains and Forest, Taku River and the Muskwa-Kechika conservation area designs. Rick also assists with field research activities in the Taku BC Coast, Namibia and Muskwa-Kechika. In 2005, Rick was awarded the Special Achievement Award in Conservation from ESRI.

Jose Borgo Vasquez, Alto Purús Field Coordinator

Jose has over 20 years of experience in the Alto Purús leading outreach projects in the indigenous communities. He was the chief of the Agrarian Agency, a branch of the Ministry of Agriculture, working to integrate new crops into community gardens. As a member of the Alto Purús reforestation committee, he led efforts to establish nurseries for mahogany and Spanish cedar trees. Jose is based at the Round River field office in the Alto Purús. He is responsible for carrying out capacity building activities in the local communities, and to maintain close contact with Park managers, other NGO’s, and local indigenous federations and community leaders.