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- Patrick Campbell
Network Coordinator - John Paul Schmit
Network Ecologist - Geoff Sanders
Data Manager - Marian Norris
Water Resources Specialist - Mark Lehman
GIS Specialist - Jim Pieper
Hydrologic Technician - Tom Paradis
Photographer/Image Management Specialist
Pat is the network coordinator for the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Program. He has been coordinating multi-taxa inventory and monitoring projects for 14 years. His interests and expertise include forest ecology and the conservation of large mammals. Pat's work with the Smithsonian Institution as well as other natural resource agencies and NGOs has taken him to tropical forests and deserts and he is now focusing his efforts on the eastern deciduous forests of North America.
Education: BS - Wildlife Science, the Pennsylvania State University; MS - Wildlife Conservation, the University of Minnesota.
E-Mail: Patrick
Campbell
Phone: 202-342-1443 x229
John Paul is the Quantitative Ecologist for the Inventory and Monitoring Program. He assists with the development of the sampling design for the monitoring plan. He also analyzes monitoring data to detect long term trends in the network parks. His research interests have focused on biodiversity, biogeography and competition of fungi.
Education: BA – Biology, Grinnell College; MS and PhD. – Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago
E-Mail: John
Paul Schmit
Phone: 202-342-1443 x221
As data manager, Geoff provides database and GIS support for the I & M Program as well as for Network parks. He is also responsible for establishing and implementing guidelines to ensure that data collected and maintained by the program is done so in a manner that is consistent with National program standards. Prior to joining the National Park Service, Geoff was a Biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center where he supported research efforts focused primarily on coastal ecosystems.
Education: BS - Biology, University of Scranton; MS Environmental Policy, Johns Hopkins University.
E-Mail: Geoff
Sanders
Phone: 202-342-1443 x230
Marian is in charge of the regional water monitoring program. She began monitoring as a volunteer in high school. Since then she has worked in systems ranging from agricultural headwater streams to urban estuaries, and from freshwater riparian zones to tidal saltmarshes. Before joining the Park Service, she developed several Hydrogeomorphic Functional Assessment models for urban wetlands in New Jersey, and researched and developed environmental education curricula.
Education: BS – Biology and Environmental Science, Allegheny College; MS – Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University
E-Mail: Marian
Norris
Phone: 202-342-1443 x206
Mark is the GIS Specialist for the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Program. He is responsible for the implementation of the remote sensing based aspects of the vital signs monitoring program, and acts as a data management and GIS liaison to the Regional parks. He has worked on projects for the Indiana Clean Lakes Program and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Other interests include aquatic ecology.
Education: MS - Information Science, University of Pittsburgh; Certificate - GIS, University of California, Riverside; MS - Environmental Science, Indiana University.
E-Mail: Mark
Lehman
Phone: 202-342-1443 x221
Jim is the Hydrologic Technician for the NCRN I&M program. He is primarily responsible for collecting samples, conducting laboratory analysis, and coordinating the initial aspects of data management under the guidance of the Water Resource Specialist. Before joining the I&M program, Jim managed the Water Quality Monitoring program at Prince William Forest Park where he conducted physical channel assessments, macro-invertebrate sampling, bacterial quantification, and chemical analysis. His other interests include Potomac freshwater ichthyofauna and Eastern carnivores.
Education: BS - Biology (Pre-Medicine), University of Virginia's College at Wise; Current Graduate-level Coursework - Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University
E-Mail: Jim Pieper
Phone: 202-342-1443 x206
Tom is the visual photographer/information specialist for the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Program. His photographs document and help communicate the network’s science activities via NPS publications, fact sheets, reports and the I&M website. Tom is also a graduate student, completing his Master of Fine Arts in photography.
E-Mail: Tom
Paradis
Phone: 202-342-1443 x238