The 2008 AIBS Public Policy Review Committee

The AIBS Public Policy Review Committee, whose membership includes representatives from AIBS societies and organizations that are funding the AIBS Public Policy Office (PPO) at the Participant level or above serves in an advisory capacity. The committee is asked to (1) provide the PPO with guidance in identifying experts to serve as witnesses in Congressional testimony, and as participants in Congressional briefings and similar activities; (2) assist the PPO in crafting public policy/position statements that reflect the concerns of the biological sciences community and current scientific knowledge; (3) serve as a communication conduit for public policy matters between AIBS and the society or organization that the member represents on the committee; and (4) work with the PPO in preparing periodic reports to the AIBS Board.

Committee Chair

American Ornithologists' Union

Joel Cracraft, Department of Ornithology, AMNH, NY

Committee Members

Biological Sciences Curriculum Study

Janet Carlson Powell

Society of Wetland Scientists

Dennis F. Whigham

Society of Systematic Biologists

Keith Crandall, Brigham Young University

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Peter DeFur, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA

Society for the Study of Evolution

Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut

Organization of Biological Field Stations

Brian D Kloeppel, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia

American Society of Mammalogists

Alicia Linzey

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Alan H. Savitzky, Old Dominion University

Association of Ecosystem Research Centers

Thomas Jordan, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Botanical Society of America

William Dahl, Botanical Society of America

Cornell Center for the Environment

Temporary liaison, Paula Euvard

Long Term Ecological Research Network

Dr. Robert "Bob" B. Waide, Long Term Ecological Research - Network Office, University of New Mexico

Committees

• The AIBS Awards Committee
• The AIBS Education Committee
• The AIBS Finance Committee
• The AIBS Diversity Affairs Committee
• The AIBS Long-Range Planning Committee
• The AIBS Nominating Committee
• The AIBS Public Policy Review Committee
• The AIBS Publications Committee

Special Committees

• Public Understanding of Science Committee