Management Project
Resume:
J. CAMPBELL PLOWDEN
Curriculum Vitae
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State College, PA 16803 ********@*************.***
CAREER OBJECTIVES:
Conduct research, advocacy, and teaching related to the ecology, conservation, and
management of tropical forests. Focus
on strengthening indigenous and other traditional communities in the Amazon and other
tropical forest regions by promoting
the understanding, sustainable harvest and marketing of non-timber forest products.
EDUCATION:
Penn State University, Ph.D. Ecology, 2001. Dissertation: The Ecology, Management and
Marketing of Non-timber Forest
Products in the Alto Rio Guama Indigenous Reserve (Eastern Brazilian Amazon)
University of Maryland, one year in Environmental Science Master s program, 1994; one
year graduate courses, 1993
University of Pennsylvania, BA Biology, 1975
WORK HISTORY:
2010: Non-Timber Forest Product Exchange Program, Manila, Philippines; Co-evaluator (9/10-
11/10)
- Member of two-person team contracted to evaluate organization and program effectiveness
in three year review.
Evaluation included field visits to project sites in Mindanao, Philippines and West
Kalimantan, Indonesia.
2009: Penn State University, University Park, PA
Engineering Leadership Development Program,
Instructor (1/096/09)
-Led student trip to Peruvian Amazon and coordinated service learning based project
course
2006: Center for Amazon Community Ecology, State College, PA
Founder/President/Executive Director (2/06present)
- Research on ecology, sustainable harvest and marketing of non-timber forest products in
the Peruvian Amazon
2005: Environmental Investigation Agency, Washington, DC; Special Investigator (2/05-
5/05)
- Investigated illegal logging in Honduras
2004: Amazon Watch, San Francisco, CA; Director of Research and Policy (3/0412/04)
- Research, policy analysis, and advocacy related to environmental and social impacts of
Peru s Camisea Gas Project
2003: Penn State University, University Park, PA
Forest Resources Cooperative Extension, Research Associate (9/039/05)
- Develop outreach materials related to forest ecology and management and community
forestry
Intercollege Graduate Program in Ecology, Acting Head
(
6/01-6/02); Research Assistant
;
(
9/00-6/01)
- Coordinated program, recruitment and administrative aspects of inter-college graduate
program in ecology
- Supervised administrative and graduate student research assistants
- Organized faculty and student seminars and fieldtrips, alumni survey, career panel, and
graduate student support.
Department of Biology, Teaching Assistant (8/00-12/00; 8/01-12/01)
- Instructor in upper-level field biology and applied ecology course
1995: Environmental Investigation Agency, Washington, DC; Special Investigator (3/95 -
7/95)
- Documented illegal sale of Sumatran tiger parts in Indonesia and surveyed tiger bone
medicines in Japan
1995: Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; Natural Resources Management Program
Graduate Teaching Assistant (1/94 - 1/95)
- Program assistant and resource person for senior natural resource management research
course
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1993: Greenpeace International,
Washington, DC
Tropical Forests Campaign, International Coordinator/Special Projects Manager (6/89 -
4/93)
- Supervised project to train Indonesian environmentalists to document violations of
forestry regulations (Jakarta)
- Supervised investigation of Japanese connections to deforestation in Brazil (Tokyo/Rio)
- Analyzed policies and managed database of US imports of tropical timber
- Hired and managed international staff of seven researchers and campaigners
- Documented logging in Brazil and Ivory Coast and supervised documentation of teak
logging in Burma
- Supervised lobbying for revision of forest policies of World Bank and Inter-American
Development Bank
- Lobbied for conservation initiatives at meetings of the International Tropical Timber
Organization (ITTO)
1989: Greenpeace International,
Washington, DC
Whale Campaign Coordinator (1/88 - 12/89)
- Coordinated citizen s campaign to halt Icelandic whaling
- Coordinated Greenpeace efforts to free gray whales trapped in ice in Alaska with Soviet
icebreakers
1987: The Humane Society of the US, Washington, DC; Whale Campaign Coordinator,
Wildlife Investigator (1/85 - 12/87)
- Coordinated citizen s campaign to oppose Icelandic and Japanese research whaling in
violation of International
Whaling Commission (IWC) commercial whaling moratorium
- Documented wild bird trade in Peru, Argentina, and Brazil under contract with TERRA
International
Greenpeace USA, Seattle, WA and Boston, MA; National Wildlife Coordinator,
Whale Campaign Coordinator (1/82 - 12/84)
- Coordinated educational and lobbying effort for reauthorization of the Endangered
Species Act
- Coordinated MV Rainbow Warrior expedition to Peru to secure compliance with IWC whaling
moratorium
- Coordinated citizen s campaign to stop Norwegian whaling in violation of IWC whaling
moratorium
- Documented pirate whaling operation in the Philippines
1981: Greenpeace International, Tokyo and Seattle; Japan Project Coordinator (5/79 -
5/80; 9/80 - 12/81)
- Documented activities and violations at whaling stations and whale meat markets in
Japan and South Korea
- Documented pirate whaling in Taiwan and smuggling of whale meat through Korea to Japan
- Coordinated outreach to environmental groups and land-based direct action against
coastal whaling in Japan
1979: Greenpeace Northwest, Seattle, WA; Fundraiser, Media Coordinator,
Crewmember (3/77 -
4/79)
- Coordinator of Seattle walkathon and consultant on two walkathons in Denver
- Coordinated media relations in activities related to whaling, sealing, oil tankers,
nuclear power and weapons
- Crewmember M.V. James Bay: medic, and photographer during 1977 encounter with Soviet
whaling fleet
- Activist and reporter at anti-nuclear demonstrations
1976: Camp Dudley, Westport, NY; Camp counselor/Nature program director (7/75 - 8/75
;
7/76 - 8/76)
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
Plowden, C. (in press). The sustainable harvest of copaiba oleoresin. In M. Guariguata
and M. Stockdale (eds.). Manejo
sostenible de productos forestales no maderables: un manual practico. CIFOR, Bogor,
Indonesia.
(in press). The sustainable harvest of titica vine roots. In M. Guariguata and M.
Stockdale (eds.). Manejo
sostenible de productos forestales no maderables: un manual practico. CIFOR, Bogor,
Indonesia.
(in press). The sustainable harvest of copal resin. In M. Guariguata and M.
Stockdale (eds.). Manejo sostenible
de productos forestales no maderables: un manual practico. CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia.
Wallace, R., L. Pereira, and C. Plowden (in press). Titica: Heteropsis Spp. in P. Shanley
and G. Medina (eds.). Fruit
trees and Useful Plants in Amazon Life. CIFOR, Bogor.
Galuppo, S., C. Plowden and M. Serra (in press). Amapa: Amazonian invigorator in P.
Shanley and G. Medina (eds.).
Fruit trees and Useful Plants in Amazon Life. CIFOR, Bogor.
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Plowden, C. 2008. Challenges and lessons studying non-timber forest products with
traditional communities in the
Amazon. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 6:23-28.
Wallace, R., L. Pereira, and C. Plowden 2005. Cipo-Titica: Heteropsis Spp. Pp. 75-83 in
P. Shanley and G. Medina
(eds.). Frutiferas e Plantas Uteis na Vida Amazonica. CIFOR/IMAZON, Belem, Brazil.
Plowden, C. 2004. The ecology and harvest of andiroba seeds for oil production in the
eastern Brazilian Amazon.
Conservation and Society 2 (2): 251-272.
2004. The ethnobotany of copaiba (Copaifera) in the Amazon. Economic Botany
58(4):729-733., C. Uhl and F. de Assis Oliveira 2004. Alipumilio (Diptera: Syrphidae) fly
association with Burseraceae tree
resins in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Natural History 38(15):1941-1947.
2003. Production ecology of copaiba (Copaifera spp.) oleoresin in the eastern
Brazilian Amazon. Economic
Botany 57(4):491-501., C. Uhl and F. de A. Oliveira. 2003. The ecology and harvest potential of titica
vine roots (Heteropsis flexuosa:
Araceae) in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management 182(1-3):59-73.
2002. Breu resin (Protium spp.), Titica vine (Heteropsis spp.), Amapa
(Parahancornia spp.), Copaiba
(Copaifera spp.). Pp. 110-115, 116-122, 123-125, 126-135 in P. Shanley, A. Pierce, S.
Laird and A. Guillen (eds.)
Tapping the Green Markets: Certification and Management of Non-timber Forest Products.
Earthscan, London., C. Uhl and F. de Assis Oliveira. 2002. The harvest and sale of breu resi n from
Burseraceae trees in the
eastern Brazilian Amazon. Forest Chemicals Review 112(4):10-15., and . 2002. Breu resin harvest by Tembe Indians and its dependence
on a bark-boring beetle.
Pp. 365-380 in J. Stepp, F. Wyndham, and R. Zarger (eds.). Ethnobiology and Biocultural
Diversity, University of
Georgia Press, Athens.
Plowden, C. 2001. Politics and progress: challenges to sustainable harvest of forest
products by Tembe Indians in the
Brazilian Amazon - Response to editorial by Cunningham and Shanley. People and Plants
Handbook Special Issue,
Managing Resources: Conservation and Community Development, WWF/UNESCO/RBG, Kew. 6:2-4.
2001. The Ecology, Management, and Marketing of Non-timber Forest Products in the
Alto Rio Guama
Indigenous Reserve. Ph.D. Dissertation. Penn State University, University Park.
and D. Bowles. 1997. The illegal market in tiger parts in northern Sumatra,
Indonesia. Oryx 31(1): 59 -66.
and Y. Kusuda. 1988. Logging in the Brazilian rainforest. Proceedings of
Rainforest Alliance Symposium on the
international tropical timber trade.
SUBMISSIONS TO PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
Plowden,C., C. Uhl and F. de Assis Oliveira. The harvest and marketing of titica vine
roots (Heteropsis spp.: Araceae)
in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. Submitted to: Human Ecology.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Plowden, C. 2004. Diverse plants and people at the mouth of the world s greatest river.
Review of Amazon Sweet
Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River s Mouth (by N.J.H. Smith, U. of Texas,
Austin). Tropinet 15(4).
2004. Plant resins: old friends of people, new frontiers for tropical biologists.
Review of Plant Resins:
Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology and Ethnobotany (by J. Langenheim, Timber Press,
Portland). Tropine t 15(1).
2004. Review of Developing Ecological Consciousness: Path to a Sustainable World
(by By C. Uhl, Rowman
and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Lanham, MD). Friends Journal, September.
2004. Plant resins brought to life. Review of Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution,
Ecology and Ethnobotany (by
J. Langenheim, Timber Press, Portland). Journal of Ethnobiology, March 26.
2003. New classic about plant resins. Review of Plant Resins: Chemistry,
Evolution, Ecology and Ethnobotany
(by J. Langenheim, Timber Press, Portland). BioScience 53(12):1233-1235.
1990. A sea of sorrow. Review of The Last Whales (by L. Abbey, Grove Weidenfeld,
New York). Los
Angeles Times Book Review, Feb. 25, 1990: 3, 9.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Plowden, C. 2011. Campbell s Amazon Journal. Web blog at:
http://amazonecology.wordpress.com/category/campbells-
amazon-journal/.
Plowden, C. 2007. Center for Amazon Community Ecology website: www.amazonecology.org.
Principal author and
webmaster
Plowden, C. 2007. Campbell s Amazon Journal. Web blog at:
http://www.amazonecologycp.blogspot.com/
2007. New center opens. Amazon Connections 1(1):1,5
2006. The Center for Amazon Community Ecology. 2 page brochure.
Plowden, C. 1990. Testimony for Greenpeace on U.S. policy toward the International
Whaling Commission and other
marine mammal issues. Pp. 92-98 in Hearing before the subcommittee on human rights and
international
organizations of Comm. of Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, 9/28/89. U.S. GPO,
Washington, D.C.
1989. Japanese whaling. Greenpeace USA, Washington, D.C., 2 pp.
1988. ITTO launches timber trade projects. TERRA Newsletter Liana 3(1):1,6-7.
and Y. Kusuda. 1988. MDBs and U.S. get tougher on lending. TERRA Newsletter Liana
3(2):3
Plowden, C. 1987. The battle for the Shiraho coral reef. TERRA Newsletter Liana 2(1/2):6.
1988. Icelandic whaling. Greenpeace USA, Washington, D.C., 2 pp.
1987. Whaling nations circumvent regulations. The Animals' Agenda (March).
Plowden, C. and Y. Kusuda. 1987. Small-Type Commericial Whaling in Japan. Humane Society
of the United States
(HSUS), Washington, D.C., pp. 22.
Plowden, C. 1987. Research loophole tightens for whalers. The HSUS News (Fall): 8-9.
1987. Animal groups unite to oppose driftnet permit. The HSUS News (Fall):24-25.
1987. Whaling nations circumvent regulations. The Animals Agenda (March).
1986. Around the Amazon in 80 days. TERRA newsletter Liana 1(1/2):1-2.
1986. Environmental politics advances in Brazil. TERRA newsletter Liana 1(1/2):2-
4.
1986. The bird trade: where it all starts. The Humane Society News 32(4):35.
1986. U.S. scientist backs away from Icelandic whaling research. The HSUS News
(Winter) 31(1):26-27.
1986. Studying whales to death. The Humane Society News (Fall) 31(4):20 -21.
1986. Supreme Court favors Japanese whaling; moratorium unravels. The Animals'
Agenda (Sept.):20-21.
1986. No, no, Norway. The HSUS News (Summer):33.
1985. Testimony for the HSUS for hearing on U.S. Government Whaling Policy.
Presented to House
Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations, 5/8/85. Pp. 6.
1985. Analysis of Icelandic research whaling proposal. Institute for Study of
Animal Problems. International
Whaling Commission Annual Meeting (1985), IWC/37/OS ISAP.
1985. Whaling moratorium: an agonizing step away. The HSUS News (Fall):12.
1985. Pilot whale hunt attacked. The HSUS News (Fall):13.
Thornton, A. and C. Plowden. 1984. Outlaw Whalers: Special Report 1984 (Whaling in the
Philippines). Greenpeace
International (GPI), Lewes, U.K., pp. 8.
Plowden, C. 1983. Peru pressed to retract IWC objection. Greenpeace Examiner (Winter):12-
13.
1982. Japanese factory ship still operating. Pp. 11 in J. Frizzell (ed.) Outlaw
Whalers 1982, GPI, Lewes.
Frizzell, J. and C. Plowden. 1981. Japan defies factory ship ban. Update in J. Frizzell
(ed.) Outlaw Whalers 1981, GPI,
Lewes.
Frizzell, J. and C. Plowden. 1981. The cold harpoon vs. humane killing. Pp. 22-23 in J.
Frizzell (ed.) Outlaw Whalers
1981 Update, GPI, Lewes.
Plowden, C. and R. Clark. 1980. The Taiwanese pirate whalers. In C. Plowden and J.
Frizzell (eds.) Outlaw Whalers
1980. GPI, Lewes.
980. Japan's small-scale coastal whaling: the unregulated minke hunters. Pp. 12-14
in C. Plowden and J.
Frizzell (eds.) Outlaw Whalers 1980, GPI, Lewes.
1979. On board Brazilian whaling. Greenpeace Chronicles (Summer)
1979. Eye-witness account of Chilean whaling. Greenpeace Chronicles (March):4-5.
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PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS:
Photographs related to environmental themes have appeared in various periodicals, books,
calendars, compact disks,
websites and exhibitions including: Time Magazine; Seattle Times; The Ecologist; Denver
Botanical Garden
Conservatory; U.S. State Dept. Forest Biodiversity brochure; The Animal s Voice; Museum
and Arts; Architecture; The
Record; The Crafts Report; Breakthroughs in Health and Science; Rainforests; The
Rainforests; The Study of
Economics; Physical Science; Highlights - the Fun Zone; Gallery; Outlaw Whalers;
Unregulated Whaling 1983; Pirate
Whaling; Greenpeace Chronicles; Greenpeace Examiner; Greenpeace Magazine; The Greenpeace
Calendar; The
Humane Society News; Animals Agenda; Animal Welfare Institute brochure; Defenders o f
Wildlife Magazine; Weekly
Reader; Earth-the Science of Our Planet; De Basis Agenda; Plant Resins: Chemistry,
Ecology, Evolution and
Ethnobotany; Addressing the Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation:
Case Studies, Analysis and
Policy Recommendations; Buying Destruction: A Greenpeace Report for Corporate Consumers
of Forest Products;
Orangutan Foundation International website; Rainforest Alliance website; Greenpeace
Africa Photo and Video website;
A Friendly Voice; Amazon Connections; Center for Amazon Community Ecology website
EXHIBITIONS
2011: Intimate views of Amazonia: an exhibition of Amazon portraits and nature
photographs. Schlow Public Library,
State College, PA, Sept. 1 30.
2010: Intimate views of Amazonia: an exhibition of Amazon portraits and nature
photographs. Elk Creek Cafe, Milheim,
PA, Jan. 5 Feb. 2.
PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS (Since 1996):
2012: Community building and conflict resolution. Sandy Spring Friends School, Sandy
Spring, MD, Jan. 17.
2011: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities. Altrusa
International of Centre County,
State College, PA, Nov. 16
2011: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon communities. Arts Monongahela, Morgantown,
WV, Oct. 9
2011: Communication skills in caring for the earth experiential workshop. West Virginia
Friends Fall Gathering,
Morgantown, WV, Oct. 8.
2011: Water quality, Amazon deforestation and opportunities for community based
conservation. United Nations
Association of Centre County Fall Social, State College, PA, Sept. 14
2011: A Friend s challenge working with Amazon forest-based communities. Baltimore Yearly
Meeting Annual
Session, Frostburg, MD, Aug. 4
2011: Community building through techniques of the Alternatives to Violence Project
experiential workshop.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Annual Session, Frostburg, MD, Aug.3
2011: Blending science, traditional knowledge and creative design. Interinstitutional
Consortium for Indigenous
Knowledge (ICIK) and University Libraries seminar, University Park, PA, Feb. 23.
2010: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities. The Public
Library for Union County,
Lewisburg, PA., August 11.
2010: Making perfume with breu resin weevils and snake belts with palm fiber: creative
approaches to ecology,
conservation and supporting communities in the Amazon (in Spanish). Ethnobiology Forum,
National Agricultural
University at La Molina, Lima, Peru, August 2.
2010: Turning tree resin into perfume and spiny palms into snake belts: creative
approaches to ecology, conservation
and supporting native communities in the Peruvian Amazon, Penn State Univ. School of
Forestry Research Seminar
Series, April 23.
2010: Making perfume with breu resin weevils and snake belts with palm fiber: creative
approaches to ecology,
conservation and supporting communities in the Amazon (in Portuguese). National Institute
for Amazon Research
(INPA), Seminario da Amazonia (lecture), Manaus, Brazil, April 15.
2010: The ecology, sustainable harvest and marketing of non-timber forest products in the
Alto Rio Guama Indigenous
Reserve (in Portuguese). Tekohaw Village, Gurupi River, Brazil, March 29.
2010: The insect ecology and sustainable harvest of copal resin and non-timber forest
products in the Amazon. Lectures
and lab. The Hotchkiss School A.P. Environmental Science and Biology classes, Lakeville,
CT. Feb. 22-23.
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2010: The Center for Amazon Community Ecology: working for conservation with traditional
communities in the
Amazon rainforest, Elk Creek Cafe, Milheim, PA, Jan. 10.
2009: The ecology, sustainable harvest, and marketing of non-timber forest products with
traditional communities in the
Peruvian Amazon (in Spanish). Congress of Maijuna Native Association, Sucusari Village,
Peru. July 18.
2009: The challenges for sustainable harvest of non-timber forest products in the Amazon.
Lectures and lab. The
Hotchkiss School A.P. Environmental Science and Biology classes, Lakeville, CT. Feb. 23-
24.
2008: Boats, bats and forest communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Friendly Forum of State
College Friends Meeting,
State College, PA. Dec. 14
2008: Keeping the Amazon Amazon: the Triple Bottom Line. Sponsored by Sierra Club
Moshannon Group, State
College, PA. Sept. 18.
2008: The insect ecology and sustainable harvest of copal resin at Jenaro Herrera (in
Spanish). Tropical botany field
course, Instituto de Investigacion de la Amazonia Peruana, Jenaro Herrera, Loreto, Peru.
July 21.
2008: The ecology and sustainable harvest of copal resin in northeastern Peru. Grand
Valley State University Amazon
field course, Iquitos, Peru. July 5.
2008: The insect ecology and sustainable harvest of copal resin at Jenaro Herrera (in
Spanish). Tropical forestry field
course, La Molina National Agrarian University, Jenaro Herrera, Loreto, Peru. June 21.
2008: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities. Ahimsa Village
Sustainability Seminar
Series, Julian, PA. February 15.
2007: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities. Elmcroft
Retirement Community, State
College, PA. November 27.
2007: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities. Clinton Friends
Meeting, Clinton, NY.
October 27.
2007: Personal paths to environmental activism. Environmental Studies 499, Univ. of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
October 24.
2007: Amazon rainforest ecology and communities. Fairways at Brookline, State College,
PA. October 16.
2007: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities. The Inn at
Brookline, State College, PA.
October 5.
2007: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities. Earth House
invited speaker, Penn State
University, University Park, PA. Sept. 26.
2007: Conservation and community: development in the Amazon rainforest. Upper Susquehana
Friends Quarterly
Meeting, Hughesville, PA. Sept. 15.
2007: Introduction to the insect ecology and sustainable harvest of copal resin at Jenaro
Herrera (in Spanish), Science
Friday seminar, Institute for Investigation of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP), Iquitos, Peru.
2007: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities (in Spanish),
Jenaro Herrera Investigation
Center (IIAP), Jenaro Herrera, Peru. July 25, 2007.
2007: Community life and conservation in a Peruvian Amazon river town. State College
Friends Meeting Friendly
Forum, State College, PA. June 10. Co-presenter: Marissa Plowden.
2007: Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest communities. Foxdale Village, State
College, PA. May 22.
2007: Strategies for saving the Amazon rainforest. State College Area High School. Co-
sponsored by Technology
Student Association, State College, PA. May 1.
th
2007: The Ecology and sustainable harvest of non-timber forest products in the Amazon. 6
grade science class, State
College Friends School, State College, PA. Feb. 16.
2007: The challenges for sustainable harvest of non-timber forest products in the Amazon.
Lecture and lab. The
Hotchkiss School Environmental Science class, Lakeville, CT. April 2.
2007: Coming of age festival with the Tembe Indians. Video presentation and talk at State
College Friends School,
State College, PA. February 6.
2007. Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities.
Interinstitutional Consortium for Indigenous
Knowledge (ICIK) Seminar, Penn State University. January 31.
2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001. Estimating the sustainable harvest of an Amazon tree
resin. Laboratory in A.P.
Environmental Science classes, the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. 4/11-12/05; 5/17-
18/2004; 3/31-4/1/2003; 3/25-
27/2002; 2/18-20/2001
2006. Community ecology in the Amazon rainforest. Lecture at The Seabrook of Hilton Head,
S.C. December 27.
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2006. Threats to tropical rainforests and opportunities for sustainable development of
Amazon communities. Guest
lecture at Juniata College class in Sociology. April 27 & December 7.
2006. Challenges and opportunities for Amazon forest-based communities to sustainably
harvest and market non-timber
th
forest products. Paper presented at 29 Ann. Conference of the Soc. of Ethnobiology, State
College, PA, March 10.
2004. Production ecology of andiroba, copaiba, and titica. Seminars hosted by IPAM
(Amazon Research Institute) at
Sao Domingos, Nazare, Pini, Prainha communities in Tapajos National Forest. 12/14-22
2003. The production ecology and harvesting economics of copaiba (Copaifera) oleoresin in
the eastern Brazilian
Amazon. Paper presented at 44th annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany,
Tucson, June 4.
2002. The role of non-timber forest product harvest in Amazon indigenous agroforestry.
Guest lecture at Penn State
Univ. class in Agroforestry: Science, Design, and Practice (Forestry 497B), Oct. 30.
2002. Amazon indigenous community development and its challenges for maintaining tropical
forest resources. Guest
lecture at Penn State Univ. class on Human Dimensions of Natural Resources (Rural Soc.
555), Oct. 23.
2002. Plant herbivory and its effects on human collection of non-timber forest products.
Guest lectures in Penn State
Univ. class on Plant Ecology (Horticulture 445), Oct. 9 & 11.
2002. The ecology and harvest potential of titica vine roots (Heteropsis spp.) in intact,
burned and logged forests in the
rd
eastern Brazilian Amazon. Paper and poster presented at 43 annual meeting of The Society
for Economic Botany,
Bronx, NY, June 26. Co-authors: C. Uhl and F. de Assis Oliveira.
2002. Ecology and harvest of breu resin (Burseraceae) and titica vines ( Heteropsis
spp.). Bambi Seminar lecture,
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Barro Colorado Island, Panama, June 7.
2002. Ecologia, colecao e comercializacao da resina breu (Burseraceae) e o cipo titica
(Heteropsis spp.) na Reserva
Indigena Alto Rio Guama, Para (in Portuguese). INPA Seminario da Amazonia (lecture),
Manaus, Brazil, May 29.
2002. The commercial harvest of breu resin from Burseraceae trees in the eastern
Brazilian Amazon and the role of
Sternocoelus weevils in its formation. Poster presented at the Working Forests in the
Tropics conference at the Univ.
of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Feb. 26. Co-authors: C. Uhl and F. de Assis Oliveira.
2002. Marine mammal and tropical forest conservation: international environmental problem
case studies. Guest lecture
at Penn State Univ. class in Ecology and Environmental Problem Solving (Biology 597D),
Feb. 4.
2001. History of environmental activism with marine mammals and the rainforests. Guest
lecture at Penn State Univ.
class in Literature and the Natural World (English 180), April 20.
2000. Tropical deforestation: causes, consequences and alternatives. Guest lecture at
Penn State Univ. class Introducti on
to International Agriculture (Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, I. A.100), Nov.
10.
2000. Breu resin harvest by Tembe Indians and its dependence on a bark-boring beetle.
Paper presented at 7th
International Congress of Ethnobiology, Athens, GA, Oct. 26. Co-authors: C. Uhl and F. de
Assis Oliveira.
2000. Breu resin harvest in the eastern Brazilian Amazon and its link to a bark-boring
beetle. Paper presented at
meeting of Society for Economic Botany, Columbia, SC, June 21. Co-authors: C. Uhl and F.
de Assis Oliveira.
2000. Studying sustainable harvest of non-timber forest products in the Alto Rio Guama
Indigenous Reserve: scientific
and social challenges. Seminar at Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Belem,
March 20.
2000. The quest for sustainable living in a tropical forest: modern challenges for a
traditional people in the Brazilian
Amazon. Earth Day keynote address at Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT, April 18.
1996. Indigenous land rights and forest management in the eastern Brazilian Amazon: the
case of the Alto Rio Guama
Indigenous Reserve. Presentations given at Baltimore Yearly Meeting Friends in Unity with
Nature Earth Day 9
program, Sandy Spring, MD (4/20), Bethesda Friends Meeting (4/21), The Hotchkiss School
Earth Day keynote
presentation, (4/24), State College Friends Meeting (4/28). Co-presenter: Muxi Tembe.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2011: Rufford Small Grants for Conservation second grant (CACE grant)
2011: Marjorie Grant Whiting Center for Humanity, Arts and the Environment (CACE grant)
2010: Marjorie Grant Whiting Center for Humanity, Arts and the Environment (CACE grant)
2009: Rufford Small Grants for Conservation grantee (CACE grant)
2009: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, International Outreach Granting Group grantee
2009: State College Friends Meeting, Walker-Spanier Fund grantee
2008: Lyman Fund grantee
2002: Society for Economic Botany. Honorable Mention for best paper presented by a young
scientist at annual meeting
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2001: Penn State Univ. J. Brian Horton Award in Ecology
2001: Penn State Univ. Ecology Program Research Assistantship
2000: Penn State Univ. Biology Department Honorable Mention for Best Teaching Assistant
Award
2000: Penn State Univ. Ecology Program Professional Meeting Travel Award
2000/2001: Penn State Univ. Dept. of Biology Teaching Assistantship
1997: Rainforest Alliance Kleinhans Fellowship (2 years)
1997: Food, Conservation and Health Foundation Grant
1995: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (3 years)
1993: The Hotchkiss School Alumni Association Community Service Award
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND CERTIFICATES:
2012: Official reviewer for manuscript Spatial, temporal and economic constraints to the
commercial extraction of a
nontimber forest product: copaiba (Copaifera spp.) oleoresin in Amazonian reserves
submitted to Economic Botany.
2011: Official reviewer for manuscripts Multiple Use or Conflict of Use? Forest
Management Innovations by
Smallholders in Amazonian Logging Frontiers submitted to Forest Ecology and Management.
2010: Official reviewer for manuscript Determinants of yield in a non-timber forest
product: Copaifera oleoresin in
Amazonian extractive reserves submitted to Forest Ecology and Management.
2009: Master s thesis referee for Caroline de Oliveira Silva at INPA, Production of breu
resin (Burseraceae) in the
rural settlement of Cristo Rei do Uatuma-Amazonas.
2009: Official reviewer for manuscript How do nontimber forest product harvest and
ecological v ariation affect the
demography of African Mahogany Khaya senegalensis? submitted to Conservation Biology.
2008: Official reviewer for manuscript Bridging the gap: Can conservation biologists
and developing country
practitioners better communicate for improved biodiversity conservation? submitted to
Biotropica.
2007: Penn State Small Business Development Center Seminar: Tax and accounting for small
businesses
2006: Official reviewer for manuscript How to conciliate environment and development: an
ethnobotanical approach
on the use of non wood forest products by the bordering households of the Parc National
Kabore Tambi, Burkina
Faso submitted to The Journal of Transdisciplinary Environmental Studies.
2006: Member, Society for Ethnobiology
2006: Penn State Small Business Development Center: First Step Seminar: Starting a
Business; Second Step
Seminar: Preparing a Business Plan
2006: Reviewer of Amazonas state (Brazil) Department of Environment and Sustainable
Development draft
rules for regulating the harvest of titica vine roots.
2005: Master s thesis referee for Juliana Menegassi Leoni at INPA, Ecology and
sustainable harvest of plants
used by Baniwa Indians for making handicrafts in the upper Rio Negro region, Amazonas,
Brazil
2004: Official reviewer for manuscript Effect of shading trap nests on colonization by
cavity -nesting bees and
wasps submitted to The Canadian Entomologist.
2003: Scientific reviewer for P. Johansson. Tropical rainforests. Enslow Publishers,
Berkeley Hts., NJ.
2002: Continuing education course in Game of Logging 1. Sustainable Forestry Initiative
of Pennsylvania.
2000: Official reviewer for C. Shakleton. 2001. Re-examining local and market orientated
use of wild species
for the conservation of biodiversity. Environmental Conservation 28(3):270-278.
1995 2006: Member, Society for Economic Botany
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES:
2007 Present: Alternatives to Violence Project USA Committee on Local and Regional
Groups, Co-representative for
PA & NJ region.
2006 - Present: Center for Amazon Community Ecology - Founder/President/Executive
Director
2003 - 2009: State College Friends School Board of Trustees (served as Co-clerk, member
of Executive Committee,
Finance Committee, ad-hoc Marketing and Enrollment Committee, Building and Grounds
Committee)
2003 - 2008: International Friendship House Member Board of Trustees
2002 - 2003: State College Peace Center Media skills workshop facilitator
Campbell Plowden Page 9
2002 - Present: Central Pennsylvania Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) Co-
coordinator/Treasurer and conflict
resolution workshop facilitator at Huntingdon State Prison and community groups
2002: Mueller Building Environmental Impact Reduction Committee Penn State Biology
Dept. comm. Member
1999-2001: Ecology Graduate Student Organization (of Penn State) - Co-founder and
President
2000: Producer of Cantigas em Tembe (collection of Tembe Indian chants), Belem, Brazil.
1995 - Present: State College Friends Meeting, State College, PA
Member Care and
Concern Committee, Religious
Education Committee (
1995-1997; 2011 to present), Tembe Indian Support Committee (1998-
2004
)
1993 -1995: Bethesda Friends Meeting, Bethesda, MD Junior high school
Sunday school
teacher
1985 -1993: Tropical Ecosystem Research and Rescue Alliance International, Washington,
D.C. - Founder/President
1976 -1978: Open Door Clinic, Seattle, WA. - Crisis intervention counselor and first aid
worker
1974 -1976: Men Organized Against Rape, Philadelphia, PA - Co-founder/Peer counselor
FOREIGN TRAVEL EXPERIENCE AND LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Lived in Australia, Brazil and India as a child. As an adult have spent one to two years
each in Brazil, Japan and Peru.
Have also spent several weeks to several months in Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Taiwan,
South Korea, Indonesia, the
Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Cote D Ivoire, South Africa, Iceland,
United Kingdom, Germany,
France, and the Netherlands. Have working knowledge of Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese.
Studied French in high
school and college.
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