Management Assistant

CURRICULUM VITAE December ****

PAUL C. WEST

University of Minnesota

Institute on the Environment

Global Landscapes Initiative

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St. Paul, MN 55108

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Professional preparation

Ph.D. Limnology and Marine Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010

M.S. Landscape Architecture Restoration Ecology, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1996

B.S. Soil Science Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1994

B.S. Landscape Architecture Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994

Certificate of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1994

Graduated with Distinction

Professional experience

Chief Collaboration Officer, University of Minnesota (January 2011present)

Develop and manage agricultural and environmental sustainability projects with

industry,

conservation groups, foundations, and academics.

Lead research efforts related to agriculture and the environment, emphasizing the

tradeoffs of crop

production, water availability, water qualit y, climate change, and biodiversity.

Senior Scientist, The Nature Conservancy (September 2010January 2011)

Led strategic planning for two landscape projects in Wisconsin.

Developed strategies and defined measurable outcomes for conserving forest biodiv

ersity within a

landscape managed forest resources, and conserving land and groundwater-dependent

biodiversity

within another landscape that is rapidly urbanizing.

Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (JuneAugust 2010)

Developed new methods for quantifying the tradeoffs among crop yields, water

availability,

excess nitrogen, and carbon storage.

Data analysis and computer modeling with large global data sets.

Technical Advisor River Basin Management, Global Freshwater Team, The Nature

Conservancy

(2007-April 2010)

Lead scientist in collaboration with the Conservancy, IBM, and several university and

agency

partners to develop a web-based application to help resource managers assess the effects

of land

use change on crop production, hydrology, sediment yield, carbon storage, and climate

regional.

Associate Science Director, Great Rivers Center for Conservation and Learning, The Nature

Conservancy (2005 - 2007).

Coordinated and supported science and conservation planning efforts for the Upp er

Mississippi

River, Upper Paraguay-ParanA River, and Upper Yangtze River basins.

Led team of scientists and practitioners to propose organization -wide strategies

related to

improving water quality in the world s rivers, lakes, and wetlands.

Supported Army Corps s Science Panel for the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability

Program,

focusing on goals and objectives, ecosystem services, and ecosystem report card

Director of Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin (2001 2005)

Directed science-related activities within Wisconsin

Helped launch the Conservancy s Upper Mississippi River program and allocated 50% time

to the

program

Led conservation planning efforts for conserving freshwater ecosystems of the Upper

Mississippi

River basin.

Represented UMR and WI program on several state and federal agency conservation

committees

Supported wetland and forest conservation in PerU and Mexico.

Stewardship Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin (1996-2001)

Led regional biodiversity assessments spanning the western Great Lakes states and

provinces.

Researched and monitored the effects of land management on species, communities, and

ecosystems

Natural areas management consultant.

(

1997-1999)

Wrote management plans, inventoried plant an d animal species and assessed sites, land

management, and applied for public funding on behalf of landowners.

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1995 - 1996)

Vegetation Management Workshop - taught approx 50% of classes; prescribed fire

training,

herbicide safety, experimental design and analysis, monitoring techniques

Design and Management of Native Plant Communities

Preserve Manager Assistant, The Nature Conservancy (1993 - 1995

)

Research Assistant, UW-Madison, Dept. of Landscape A rchitecture (1995

)

Project Assistant, UW-Madison, Dept. of Landscape Architecture (1994 - 1995

)

Laboratory and Field Assistant, UW-Madison, Dept. of Soil Science (1990 -1993

)

Science Service

River Alliance Invasive Species Advisory Group (2010 -2011)

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Co-chaired workshop Decision support systems for watershed management 8 Intecol

International

Wetlands Conference in CuiabA, Brazil (July 2008)

Advisory Committee Wisconsin Groundwater Advisory Committee (2004 -2005)

Advisory Committee Wisconsin Buffer Initiative (2004 2005)

Advisory Board Wisconsin s Citizen-based Monitoring Program (2004 2005)

Steering Committee Wisconsin Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan (2003 2005)

Chaired Big River Conservation session at Natural Areas Conference (2003 )

Advisory Group Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Land Legacy Planning (2001 -

2002)

Stewardship Committee Chair The Prairie Enthusiasts, Empire-Sauk Chapter (1993 2000)

Reviewer for technical journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien ce,

Ecological Applications,

Eckman B, PC West, C Barford, G Raber. 2010. Intuitive simulation, querying, and

visualization for river

basin policy and management. IBM Journal of Research and Development 53(3), Paper 7, 1-

18. 0018-

8646/09

Reuter M, K Lubinski, P West, D Blodgett, M Khour y. 2005. The Nature Conservancy s

approach to

conserving and rehabilitating biological diversity in the Upper Mississippi River System.

Arch. Hydrobiol.

Suppl.155/1-4. 549-560.

Peer reviewed reports and book chapters

West PC, R Biggs, BA McKenney, and C Monfreda. In review. Feeding the world and

protecting

nd

biodiversity in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 2 Edition (S Levin editor). Elsevier

Academic Press.

Publication scheduled for 2012.

Ranganathan J, K Bennett, C Raudsepp -Hearne, N Lucas, F Irwin, M Zurek, N Ash, and P

West (editors).

2008. Ecosystem Services: A guide for decision makers . World Resources Institute. 96 pg.

Unpublished reports (P. West was team leader and lead author on all mentioned)

The Nature Conservancy. 2004. Restoring the Upper Mississippi River and its network of

tributaries.

Unpublished report. http://conserveonline.org/library/UMR_Plan.pdf/view.html

The Nature Conservancy and Nature Conservancy of Canada. 2002. The Superior Mixed Forest

ecoregion: a conservation plan. Unpublished report.

http://conserveonline.org/library/SMF_Ecoregional_Plan.pdf

The Nature Conservancy. 2001. The Prairie -Forest Border ecoregion: a conservation plan.

Unpublished

report. http://conserveonline.org/library/PrairieForestBorder_FINA LREPORT_wExhibits.pdf

Presentations (* = invited)

* West, Paul C. 2011. Meeting future food needs while sustaining the planet. North

Central chapter of the

National Agri Marketing Association. Minneap olis, MN.

*West, Paul C. 2011. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Food, Sustainability &

Globalization conference for

educators. Milwaukee, WI.

*West, Paul C. 2010. Trading carbon for food: the carbon costs of clearing natural

ecosystems for new

croplands. Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting. August 19 -20. Sheboygan, WI.

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*West, Paul C. 2009. Panelist in Data for All session at the 5 World Water Forum. March

16 -21.

Istanbul, Turkey.

* West, Paul C. 2008. Managing basins to meet multiple social goals: a new tool for

quantifying the

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effects of land use change on ecosystem services. 8 Intecol International Wetlands

Conference. CuiabA,

Mato Grosso, Brazil. July 21 -25.

* Paul West, Carol Barford, Chris Kucharik, Holly Gibbs, Chad Monfreda, and Jon Foley.

2007.

Distribution of ecosystem services in lar ge river basins: applications to conservation

planning . Society for

Conservation Biology Annual Meeting. Port Elizabeth, South Africa. July 1 -5.

* Paul West, Carol Barford, Chris Kucharik, Holly Gibbs, Chad Monfreda, and Jon Foley.

2006.

Distribution of ecosystem services in large river basins. June 25 -28. International

Conference on Rivers

and Civilization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Major River Basins . LaCrosse, WI.

* West, Paul C. 2004. Adaptive management and the Upper Mississippi Rive r. Midwest Area

River

Coalition (MARC2000) Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. November 4 -5.

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* West, Paul. 2004. Recommendations for developing a state -wide citizen-based monitoring

program.

Citizen-based Monitoring Conference. Panelist. Madison, WI. August 20-21.

Mary Khoury, Paul West, Michael Reuter, Ken Lubinski, Catherine McCalvin, Douglas

Blodgett, David

Braun, Blane Heumann, David DeGeus, and Larry Clemens. 2004. Designing conservation

strategies for

the Upper Mississippi River: what is a reserve and does the reserve design apply?.

Society for

Conservation Biology Annual Meeting. New York, NY. July 30 August 2.

West, Paul C., Mary Khoury, David Braun, Michael Reuter, Ken Lubinksi, Catherine

McCalvin. 2004.

Freshwater biodiversity conservation in an agricultural river basin: strategies for the

Upper Mississippi

River. American Fisheries Society annual conference. Madison, WI.

* West, Paul C. 2003. Designing conservation strategies to implement regional

biodiversity assessments:

examples from the Upper Mississippi River basin. Midwest Region Natural Heritage

Conference.

LaCrosse, WI. March 28-31.

Michael Reuter, David Braun, Mary Khoury, Ken Lubinski, and Paul West. 2003. The Nature

Conservancy s Upper Mississippi River Ecologi cal Restoration Project. Lowland River

Rehabilitation

Conference. Wageringen, Netherlands. September 29 -October 3.

* West, Paul C. 2003. Ecoregion biodiversity assessment and implementation: examples from

the Upper

Midwest. Natural Areas Conference. Madison, WI.

Stackpoole, Sarah M., John A. Harrington, and Paul C. West. 2003. Effects of burning and

thinning on

groundlayer vegetation in a dry-mesic and dry oak forest in southern Wisconsin. Natural

Areas

Conference. Madison, WI.

Braun, David, Larry Clemens, and Paul West. 2003. Challenges to conserving native

freshwater

biodiversity in agricultural watersheds. AWRA Spring Specialty Conference: Agricultural

hydrology and

water quality. Kansas City, MO.

*West, Paul C. 2002. Conservation planning and action for conserving Wisconsin s aquatic

biodiversity.

Waters of Wisconsin Conference. Madison, WI. October 21 -22.

West, Paul C. 2002. Short -comings of ecoregions as planning units. The Nature

Conservancy s All

Science Conference. Albuquerque, NM. May.

West, Paul C. and Shannon Horn (presenter). 2000. The Upper Mississippi River Ecosystem:

An Action

Plan. Natural Areas Conference.

West, Paul C. 1998. Monitoring Biodiversity panelist. Natural Areas Management Planning

Conference.

Carroll College. Waukesha, WI.

West, Paul C. and Jim Welsh. 1997. A comparison of fire, thinning and fire/thinning in

oak woodlands.

Poster Presentation at the Fourth Midwest Oak Savanna and Woodlands Conference. Madison,

WI.

West, Paul C. 1997. The Significance of the Kettle Moraine and the Nature Conservancy s

at Lulu Lake.

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters: Kettle Moraine Symposium. Whitewater,

WI.

West, Paul C. and John A. Harrington. 1996. Comparison of short -term impacts of spring,

early-summer,

and late-summer fires on a Wisconsin prairie. Natural Areas and North American Prairie

Conference.

Geneva, IL.

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Posters

West, Paul C., N.D. Mueller, James S. Gerber, and J.A. Foley. 2011. Opportunities to

decease excess

nitrogen while maintaining current crop yields. American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting.

San Francisco,

CA.

West, Paul C. and John Wagner. 2003. Assessing ecological integrity of northern

hardwoods. Sustainable

Forest Roundtable in Partnership with the Upper Mississippi River Forest Partnership.

LaCrosse, WI.

March 23-24.

Honors

2009 Dr. Laurel Salton Clark Memorial Graduate Fellowship, NASA and Wisconsin Space Grant

Consortium

2009 Sponsored University Research Award, IBM

1996 Outstanding Community Service Award - UW-Madison Dept. of Landscape Architecture

Graduated with Distinction

Dean s Honor List every semester at UW -Madison

Gamma Sigma Delta, Honor Society of Agriculture

1989 UW-Madison Alumni of Northern Illinois Scholarship

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