J. CAMPBELL PLOWDEN

Curriculum Vitae

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State College, PA 16803 abo1tm@r.postjobfree.com

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.

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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

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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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