Thomas O'Neil
Tom has been actively involved with habitat/wildlife programs and projects for over 28 years. His current and past responsibilities have included the supervision of a staff of professionals actively involved in the analysis of biotic resources; design and implementation of vegetation/wildlife ecology field studies; design, development, and the maintenance of a computer information system. Tom recently co-lead and advised the development of the book, Wildlife-Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington as well as co-authored the Atlas of Oregon Wildlife with NHI. His latest endeavor is the development of a management tool that uses Species, Habitats, and Functions to calculate the intrinsic value of any wildlife-habitat type. This tool is being used by several resource agencies and is the foundation for the accounting of debits and credits for a Statewide Mitigation Banking Program.

Chris Kiilsgaard
Chris has a MS in Biogeography from Oregon State University and a BS in Botany from Montana State University. At OSU he studied remote sensing/GIS analysis, plant ecology and biogeography. Chris was a recipient of a NASA Graduate Fellowship Award.

Chris has been mapping vegetation in the Pacific Northwest for 23 years. Since 1982 he has been involved with analysis and classification of remote sensing imagery. Prior to co-founding the Northwest Habitat Institute, Chris has been a research associate with Oregon State University, a contracting biogeographer to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and president and owner of a natural resources consulting company. From 1994-1998 Chris was on retainer to the Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife-Ecological Analysis Center (ODFW-EAC). During that time he was principally involved with the classification, development, and analysis of an Oregon state-wide vegetation map with the National Biological Service. Other projects have included: mapping vegetation and concomitant change in the Coast Range of Oregon for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Coastal Change and Analysis Program; definition, description, and range extent mapping for vertebrate species within Oregon; and detailed land use-land cover mapping in the Klamath Basin. With NHI, Chris has produced the Oregon Vegetation: Landscape Level Cover Types map. Presently, Chris is coordinating native habitat restoration projects in the Willamette Valley.

Cory Langhoff
Cory has over 12 years of experience in geospatial technologies. He holds an MS in Forest Resources from Oregon State University and a BS in Forestry from Michigan Technological University. While at OSU Cory worked on an accuracy assessment of remotely sensed forest maps of Oregon. His primary focus today is on GIS and Remote Sensing technologies and their application to natural resource and wildlife issues. At NHI Cory works with spatial data of all kinds to help bring current knowledge of wildlife and habitat processes to resource managers across the region.

Candace Russo
Candace earned an MS in Soil Science from Oregon State University, a BS in Biological Sciences from Michigan Technological University, and a teaching certificate in Biological and Physical Sciences from Michigan Technological University. Her experience in the educational arena currently includes instructing at Linn Benton Community College, with past work as an NSF Graduate Teaching Fellow, a Teaching Assistant in OSU’s Soil Science Department, Student Teacher, Youth Coordinator, Wildlife-Habitat Instructor, and Science Educator at a day-camp, in addition to volunteering for numerous science outreach activities in the community. She has also worked in the professional science arena for Dynamac Corporation on a contract for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Western Ecology Division in Corvallis, Oregon. Currently Candace is the Information and Education Specialist at NHI where she works on various projects gathering and organizing information about wildlife- and habitat-related issues, as well as developing and conducting outreach activities.

W. Daniel Edge, Ph.D
Dan Edge is the Department Head in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University and Commissioner for the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. Dan currently teaches Specialization Development and a graduate student orientation class. Dan?s research has focused on the effects of forest and agricultural practices on wildlife habitat and population dynamics.

Sarah Greene
Sarah Greene is a forest ecologist and has worked for the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis, OR for the last 20 years. She manages Experimental Forests in Oregon and Washington, and directs the Research Natural Area program for Region 6 of the Forest Service. She has interests in long-term research and forest history.

Rosemary O'Neil
Rosemary O'Neil has been a teacher in public schools for 30 years where she has taught Humanities and/or Journalism in grades 3rd to Junior College. Rosemary is currently a principal and oversees two elementary schools on the Oregon Coast. She also gives workshops and instructs students, teachers, and parents on the implementation of the new state standards. Until recently, she also worked as an instructional facilitator.

Meg Shaughnessy
Meg was born in Wisconsin, but has thoroughly enjoyed living in the Pacific Northwest for the past ten years. She enjoys gardening and eating, and tries to balance those activities off with hikes in Oregon?s beautiful forests and mountains. Professionally, Meg is interested in Wildlife Ecology, and has been involved in projects with the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; the Oregon Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit; the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ecological Analysis Center; and the Northwest Habitat Institute. Recently, she found it very gratifying to see her work published in ?The Atlas of Oregon Wildlife?, a cooperative effort of several state, federal, and private organizations.

Jeff Waldon
Jeff Waldon has been involved in database, information system, geographic information systems, remote sensing, planning, and research projects related to information technology and biodiversity conservation since 1985. Projects span state and federal government, academic, and nongovernmental institutions throughout North America.

Todd Bastion
Todd Bastian is the Director of Development for the College of Agricultural Sciences at the Oregon State University Foundation. He is a native Oregonian, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Science, from Oregon State University. After graduation he was employed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. He also spent five years as the Oregon Regional Director for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a hunter-based conservation organization. His passions in life include traveling abroad with his wife and two sons, enjoying Oregon’s diverse culinary offerings, and spending autumn traipsing the Northwest’s wild places in search of big-game.