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Board of Directors
Amphibian
Conservation Alliance is governed by an eight member Board of Directors
(there is one vacancy currently). All are top scientists or policy
experts working in the area of amphibian conservation.
Paul S. Speck, Jr., Founder and President (ex
officio)
Dr. Andrew R. Blaustein
Dr. Marty L. Crump
George T. Frampton, Esq.
Dr. Tyrone B. Hayes
Richard N. Mott, Esq.
Dr. David B. Wake
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Paul
S. Speck, Jr. (ex officio),
Founder and President,
Amphibian Conservation Alliance
Mr. Speck founded Amphibian Conservation Alliance in Berkeley,
California in 1997 after working as an environmental advocate in
Washington, D.C. for several years and realizing that virtually none
of the major U.S. environmental groups was paying attention to the
amphibian decline and deformities problems. Prior to founding ACA,
Mr. Speck spent six years working for World Wildlife Fund (U.S.),
World Wildlife Fund-International, and National Wildlife Federation
(NWF) in Washington, D.C. and Geneva as a leader in the area of
"trade and environmental issues." In 1990, Mr. Speck
created the first program by any environmental organization in the
United States (NWF) to address environmental concerns raised by a
proposed U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement (soon to be called the
North American Free Trade Agreement). Toward that end, he wrote the
first testimony ever presented to the U.S. government regarding
trade and environmental issues, and he organized the coalition of
environmentalists, consumer representatives, and labor advocates who
ensured, via Members of Congress, that environmental concerns were
addressed as part of the NAFTA negotiations. In 1994, Mr. Speck
drafted legislation, subsequently enacted, providing billions of
dollars in new trade revenue (not aid) to the 35 poorest countries
in Africa. Mr. Speck has several graduate degrees in environmental
policy and economics. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area. |
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 Dr.
Andrew R. Blaustein,
Professor of Zoology,
Oregon State University
Dr. Blaustein is a leading researcher and spokesman on amphibian
declines and deformities. His rigorous and cutting-edge
investigations have provided insight into a diverse range of
potential amphibian threats, including ultraviolet radiation
(possibly resulting from stratospheric ozone depletion), fungus, and
parasites, and his regular appearances in popular radio and TV news
presentations have helped bring amphibian conservation issues to the
general public. Dr. Blaustein is on the editorial board of the
academic journal "Conservation Biology," he is a science
advisor to National Public Radio's program "Earth and
Sky," and he is a Contributing Scientist for
"Dragonfly," National Science Foundation's magazine for
kids. He also is a member of the Species Survival Commission (SSC)
of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and
Natural Resources (IUCN) and Co-Chair of SSC's Declining Amphibian
Populations Task Force, Pacific Northwest Section. He lives in
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 Dr.
Marty L. Crump,
Adjunct Professor of Biology,
Northern Arizona University
Dr. Crump is one of the sparks who first ignited global concern
about amphibian declines. In 1989, she was studying Costa Rica's
Golden Toad for National Geographic Society when the little creature
(now portrayed in ACA's
logo) apparently went extinct. Her reports about the
disappearance helped lead to widespread awareness that amphibians
might be vanishing mysteriously worldwide. Dr. Crump is a recipient
of the Distinguished Herpetologist Award of the Herpetologists'
League, she is a leading researcher in the area of tropical
amphibian biology, and she is the author of several books including
"In Search of the Golden Frog," "Amphibians,
Reptiles, and Their Conservation," and a college textbook on
herpetology. She studied at the University of Kansas under the
eminent William Duellman, one of the world's top experts on tree
frogs. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. |
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 George
T. Frampton, Jr., Esq.
Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, and
Former Director, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Mr. Frampton is one of the United States' most experienced and
hard-working environmental leaders. From 1998-2001, he was Chairman
of the White House Council on Environmental Quality where he served
as President Clinton’s principal advisor on environmental policy
matters. From 1993-1997, Mr. Frampton was Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks where he supervised the
National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. From
1986-1993, Mr. Frampton was President of the Wilderness Society, a
major environmental advocacy and research group whose membership
grew to 400,000 during Mr. Frampton’s tenure. Previously, Mr.
Frampton worked as an attorney in various notable private sector and
government positions. For instance, he was an Assistant Special
Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from
1973-1975. Currently, Mr. Frampton is a Partner in the law firm of
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where he oversees complex
litigation. He is a graduate of Yale College, the London School of
Economics, and Harvard Law School where he was managing editor of
the Harvard Law Review. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area. |
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 Tyrone
B. Hayes,
Associate Professor,
University of California, Berkeley
In 2002, Dr. Hayes gained an international reputation for reporting
that the world’s most common pesticide, “atrazine,” may be
causing male frogs to develop female traits. Inside of animals,
atrazine can act like the female hormone estrogen. Dr. Hayes’
research on atrazine could lead to greater understanding of many
mysterious amphibian declines and deformities. It also could bring
greater awareness of ways in which atrazine affects people as well
as frogs. Dr. Hayes is one of the small handful of scientists in the
world who are studying amphibians in Africa. His work has been
supported by World Wildlife Fund and by National Geographic Society
under a prestigious grant previously given to Jacque Coustea, Jane
Goodall and Dian Fossey, among others. He lives in Berkeley,
California. |
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 Richard
N. Mott, Esq.
Vice President for International Policy,
World Wildlife Fund
Mr. Mott is one of the most prominent environmental advocates
working on amphibian conservation issues today. Since 1993, he has
served as Vice President for World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the world's
largest privately supported conservation group, where he helps
oversee the organization's policy research and advocacy programs,
including much of WWF's amphibian conservation work. From 1990-1992,
Mr. Mott was a Treaties Officer at World Wildlife Fund-International
in Geneva, where he participated in the negotiation of international
conventions on biodiversity, forestry, and global change. Before
that, Mr. Mott was a Director at Environmental Law Institute. He is
a long-time amateur herpetologist. He lives in the Washington, D.C.
area. |
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 David
B. Wake,
Professor of Biology and Curator of Herpetology,
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Wake is the most prominent individual involved in amphibian
decline issues and one of the most respected amphibian biologists
ever. In 1989, he chaired the First World Congress of Herpetology,
and in his keynote address there (given after conversations with
Marty Crump regarding the Golden Toad, for instance -- see
above), he became the first scientist to officially declare that
a pattern of global amphibian declines might be emerging. In 1991,
Dr. Wake organized a meeting of the United States' National Research
Council to examine the legitimacy of amphibian decline concerns in
greater depth and issue recommendations, and he founded and served
as first Chair of the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force, a
global network of scientists continuing to study the amphibian
decline phenomenon. Dr. Wake is the John and Margaret Gompertz
Professor of Integrative Biology, a Curator of Herpetology, and
former Director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the
University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than
200 scientific papers, books, and articles. He has served as
President or Chairman of many scientific societies, including the
American Society of Zoologists, American Society of Naturalists, the
Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Vertebrate Morphology
Division of the American Society of Zoologists. He has edited
several prominent academic journals, including
"Evolution". He is the recipient of many honors, including
election to membership in the American Philosophical Society. He
lives in Berkeley, California. |
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