Purdue University

*Linda Prokopy

lprokopy@purdue.edu

Linda Prokopy is an Assistant Professor of Natural Resources Planning at Purdue University. She is the PI on this project and co-leads a related regional initiative to develop social indicators for EPA Region 5 states. She is committed to finding ways to improve water quality throughout the Midwest by determining what motivates different target audiences to change behaviors. At Purdue she teaches courses on Natural Resources Planning and Community Involvement in Natural Resource Management. She also works with watershed groups throughout Indiana helping them collect and use social information.

Alicia Haley

abhaley@purdue.edu

Alicia Haley is currently a Master's student at Purdue University in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. Her thesis research involves looking at how watershed groups in the Midwest currently make decisions on which educational interventions to pursue and hopes to be able to offer more effective ways of creating programs in the future to improve water quality. Alicia has been a member of this project since the Spring of 2007, and has assisted in collecting the data for the watersheds in Indiana and Illinois.

Eric Owiredu

eowiredu@purdue.edu

Eric is currently pursuing a PhD in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Management at Purdue University. His research focuses on the factors impacting farmers' willingness to adopt best management practices in the LaMoine River Watershed.

Eric holds a BS in Natural Resources Management from KNUST, Ghana. His senior thesis was on the factors impacting the growth of Teak plantations. He also has an MS in Forestry from Auburn University, Auburn, AL. His thesis focused on ascertaining the factors impacting farmers' willingness to preserve naturally regenerating indigenous economic timber trees on their farms and their willingness to establish forest plantations. In addition, Eric has an MA in Geography from Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL. His thesis focused on ascertaining the spatial variation in the support for the proposed Amendment One to Alabama's 1901 Constitution.

Joe Bonnell

bonnell.8@osu.edu

Joe Bonnell is Program Director for Watershed Management with Ohio State University Extension in the School of Environment and Natural Resources. Joe has been working with collaborative watershed protection groups in Ohio for more than ten years. He has a background in environmental science and adult education program planning and evaluation. He oversees the Ohio Watershed Academy professional development program. His research and writing has focused on social dynamics and collaborative learning in multi-stakeholder watershed groups. He has a masters degree in environmental science from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and a PhD in natural resources from The Ohio State University.

Joe Campbell

campbell.844@osu.edu

Joe Campbell is a Graduate Research Associate at The Ohio State University in the School of Environment and Natural Resources. His thesis research is looking at how collaborative watershed group efforts affect the adoption of agricultural best management practices. Joe has been involved in this project since January 2007, assisting the research efforts for the two Ohio watersheds.

Kenneth Genskow

kgenskow@wisc.edu

Ken Genskow, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ken holds a joint faculty appointment with UW-Madison and UW-Extension, where he serves as a specialist on water resources and directs Extension's statewide Basin Education Initiative. He is also affiliated with the UW-Madison/UW-Extension Environmental Resources Center and UW-Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Ken addresses issues of environmental planning and policy, watershed planning, and collaborative and participatory approaches to resource management. His research and applied work explore the evaluation and assessment of collaborative watershed management, watershed governance, and the effectiveness of educational and technical assistance programs on land management.

Asligul Göçmen

gocmen@wisc.edu

Asli Göçmen is an assistant professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She holds a joint appointment at UW Extension's Community, Natural Resources, and Economic Development Program as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist. Asli joined URPL in 2006, after receiving her PhD from the University of Michigan's Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning Program.

Asli's primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of urban environmental sustainability, the role of planners in promoting environmental stewardship, and the application of spatial analysis and GIS in urban, environmental and regional planning. At UW, she teaches a "GIS for Planners" course and an environmental planning course with GIS applications. Apart from this collaborative study, her current research includes an investigation of open space conservation subdivisions in Waukesha County in Southeastern Wisconsin and barriers to the effective use of GIS in planning among local and regional governments throughout Wisconsin.

Rebecca Power

rebecca.power@uwex.edu

Rebecca Power is the CSREES Regional Water Liaison to federal and state agencies, non-profit groups, and businesses working on water quality issues in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio as a part of the Great Lakes Regional Water Program. For this project, she is a co-investigator and participates in the project's outreach subcommittee. Prior to her Liaison position, Rebecca was a watershed educator with the University of Wisconsin-Extension, where she provided outreach and technical support on natural resource-related issues in Wisconsin's Upper Fox and Wolf basins, including shoreline restoration and management, stormwater, land use, and partnership development. She began her career with a private consulting firm working on prairie and wetland restorations, and continued with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, coordinating Refuge savanna restoration and strategic planning.

Jing Gao

jgao3@wisc.edu

Jing Gao is a graduate student at the Geography Department, UW-Madison. Majoring in GIS and Cartography, she holds strong interests in spatial analysis, GIS and RS applications, and web cartography. Jing has been a project assistant of the team since Spring 2007, working on GIS related research tasks.

Cornell University

Shorna Broussard

srb237@cornell.edu

Shorna R. Broussard is an Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in Forest Resources from Oregon State University, her M.S. degree in Forest Resources from Penn State University, and her B.S. degree in Environmental Resource Management from Penn State University. Her research and extension program at Cornell focuses on understanding human attitudes, motivations, and behavior related to resource conservation and management. The specific objectives of her research are to characterize the current attitudes, knowledge, opinions, and behavior of private landowners and other key stakeholder groups as it relates to natural resource management and natural resource conservation, identify and investigate innovative policy alternatives for natural resource conservation, and translate research findings into accessible outputs to aid landowners, citizens, and others in decision-making related to natural resource management.

Dr. Broussard serves on the outreach and curriculum subcommittees of the Social Indicators project and provides guidance on survey design, analysis, and interpretation.

*Principal Investigator