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> OFWIM 2008 Election of New Officers
Note: Online voting will close at the end of the day Tuesday, October 28th.
Vote below (at the bottom of this page) after reading the candidate bios.
Candidates for President-Elect
Jennifer Pollock
USGS NBII
 In her role as a Node Manager, she coordinates projects that provide access to natural resources data and information from partners across the country in support of managers and researchers. She manages 3 regional NBII Nodes in California, Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, and Washington), and Mountain Prairie (Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas) and the Wildlife Disease Information Node.
Ms. Pollock first started attending OFWIM annual meetings in 1999 in Stateline, NV. Since then, Ms. Pollock has provided metadata training and support to many of OFWIM's participating agencies and organizations. Throughout the years of involvement with OFWIM, Ms. Pollock has focused on enhancing communications between federal and state agencies by identifying and implementing activities that benefit both groups. She currently serves as the OFWIM Member at Large and participates in several OFWIM committees.
Mark Brunner
Missouri Department of Conservation
 Mark Brunner is the IT Architect for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He has a BS in Forest Management and an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Mark spent 16 years in Denver developing software for aerospace applications before returning home to Missouri to work with conservation in 1997.
At the Conservation Department he has been the head of the application development group developing technology solutions to assist in the management of Missouri's forest, fish, and wildlife resources. Mark has been involved in the development of such programs as the automation of deer and turkey harvest reporting, forest inventory and growth projection, fish scale analysis for age determination, and most recently the geospatial capture and reporting of department accomplishments. His current role with the Department of Conservation is IT Architect responsible for developing an enterprise architecture that provides common data reference measures to provide logical access of data to all personnel within the department.
Mark has been a part of with OFWIM for 3 years and is excited at the potential for communication and data sharing between state and federal agencies that OFWIM offers.
Candidates for Member-At-Large
Don Schrupp
Retired from the Colorado Division of Wildlife
 Don is a Wildlife Ecologist, retired from the Colorado Division
of Wildlife in October of 2006, after 32+ years with them. In
that 'past-life' he oversaw development of the Division's
Wildife Resource Information System (WRIS), that utilized
geographic information systems, remote sensing and relational
database technologies to protect the State's wildlife resources.
He was the Principal Investigator for Colorado's Gap Analysis
Project, and also the Principal Investigator for the 'Colorado
Ecogregional Component of the Southwest Regional Gap Analysis
Project.
His current pursuits involve exploration of the capabilities of
of Open Source geospatial programs and support for open data
standards. For fun he enjoys hiking, bicycling, skiing, hunting,
fishing, motorcycle touring and geo-caching and bluegrass music.
Don has held a number of positions with the Organization of
Fish and Wildlife Information Managers, and is currently the
Chair of the Training and Education Committee.
Keith Wethington
Kentucky Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources
 Oversee implementation of GIS and development of species distribution database for the Department. Co-PI for Kentucky GAP Analysis Project, published 2001. Co-author of Kentucky's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy. Published 2005.
Candidates for Secretary
Lisa Zolly
NBII
 Since 1999, Lisa Zolly has been the Knowledge Manager for the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), a broad, collaborative program managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, whose mission is to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. Her responsibilities include the development and oversight of content management standards and knowledge architectures for the Program; design and implementation of new tools and resources to integrate and manage biological content; and user-interface design.
Lisa has a BA and an MA in English from Virginia Tech, and an MS in Information Science from the University of Tennessee; she is currently completing an MS in Natural Resources Management and Policy from Virginia Tech.
Candidates for Treasurer
Kristin Rogers
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
 Kristin is currently working as a Scientific Data Manger for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWC / FWRI). She began her career with FWC in 2003 as fisheries biologist. Two-years later she joined the FWC Center for Biostatics and Modeling, where she now works with fish and wildlife biologists throughout the state to manage, store, and protect the integrity of the data they collect, while seeking solutions to maximize its usability.
Kristin holds a M.S. in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences with a Minor in Statistics from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Marine Biology from Long Island University / Southampton College. Kristin first started attending OFWIM conferences in 2005 in Tallahassee, FL. In 2007 she became a member of OFWIM and joined the Data Standards and Technology Trends Committee.
Michael Barbour
Alabama Natural Heritage Program
 Michael has worked for the Alabama Natural Heritage Program (ALNHP) as the GIS Analyst/Database Manager since May 2002. He manages ALNHP's Biotics Conservation Database, handles information requests, and provides GIS support to the program.
His responsibilities include the maintenance of the program's geospatial database, data entry and editing, providing support to other staff members in the use of the database and Heritage Methodology, collection and quality control of spatial and database data, metadata creation, assisting in the development of conservation plans, conducting GIS analyses and integrating GIS into ALNHP projects, computer maintenance, website design and maintenance, and coordinating graphic layout and design of program publications.
Michael conducted doctoral research with the Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale investigating metapopulation dynamics of swamp rabbits in southern Illinois. He received a MS in Wildlife Ecology from the University of New Hampshire in 1993, and BS degrees in Biology and Wildlife Management from Virginia Tech.
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