Connie Campbell
Research Interests: Environmental governance, gender, development policy, environmental management and climate change, professional capacity-building.
Geographic Expertise: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.
Curriculum Vitae
Connie Campbell is an applied anthropologist with over 25 years of experience in tropical conservation and development programs. She has served as a strategic program leader, grantmaker, technical advisor and evaluator across varied experiences inequitable development, natural resource management and social justice with a particular emphasis on gender issues and indigenous rights. Connie’s experience focuses on the Andean Amazon region, having coordinated USAID’s multi-country biodiversity and climate change program over ten years and having lived and worked in Acre, Brazil for many years with the University of Florida. With The Nature Conservancy, Connie managed community conservation programs across Latin America and, with RARE, TNC, USAID and other organizations, has provided project management and technical advisory services in various Caribbean, Southeast Asia and East African countries. She currently resides in Peru and works independently on a variety of conservation and development projects. (BS Biology and Spanish, Virginia Tech. MA Latin American Studies with a concentration in Tropical Conservation and Development; Ph.D. Anthropology, both from the University of Florida).
Jennifer Moore
Research Interests: Quantitative ecology, wildlife population ecology, protected area management, illegal activity mitigation and the use of ranger patrols, wildlife monitoring techniques and arboreal camera trapping, decision analysis.
Geographic Expertise: Africa
Jennifer Moore is a quantitative ecologist with over 10 years of experience working in the wildlife conservation field in Africa. Jennifer is interested in how statistical models coupled with field data can be used to inform species conservation and protected area management. She focuses on the use of technology for effectively monitoring mammal species and the utility of ranger patrols in mitigating illegal activities. Many of her research projects have focused on combining arboreal and ground camera traps for inventorying entire mammalian communities within protected areas. Jennifer has worked in many countries across Africa including projects across East, Central, and West Africa in countries such as Rwanda, Uganda, Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Madagascar. She also has current projects in the United States and Central America. Her work has primarily focused on mammalian species including work on great apes, monkeys, pangolins, antelopes, elephants, large cats, and manatees. She has partnered with a number of government and non-governmental agencies including Wildlife Conservation Society, World Wide Fund for Nature, and Flora and Fauna International.
Jennifer is currently the lead consultant at Moore Ecological Analysis and Management, LLC. In addition, she is an associate editor for Animal Conservation. Jennifer received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, her Master of Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and her B.A. in Statistics and Geographic from Northwestern University.
Martha Cecilia Rosero-Peña
Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, governance, environmental policy, indigenous & African descent peoples and biodiversity and conservation, resilience and climate change, training to trainers education, intercultural dialog, and capacity-building.
Geographic Expertise: Latin America
Martha Cecilia Rosero-Peña is the Social Inclusion Director (Afro Descendants Fellow) at Conservation International. She is an Environmental Sociologist with more than 20 years of experience coordinating socio-environmental projects with universities and national and international NGOs in regions of high biocultural importance in Latin America. Martha has considerable experience in the design and implementation of proposals within the framework of the rights-based conservation approach and intercultural dialogue. Further, she has provided national and international advice on the design of informed environmental policies and participation in international environmental summits. Martha is a Member of the Science Panel for The Amazon-SPA presented at COP26 and Author of the Chapter on “African Presence in the Amazon”. Martha has also served as a participant in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services-IPBES and has been involved in the co-creation of pedagogical strategies for intercultural dialogue to work in regions of high biological and cultural diversity. Her research has focused on participatory research approaches on the indicators of socioeconomic and cultural resilience in the contexts of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples.
Galia Selaya
Research Interests: Impacts of global changes in tropical ecosystems, forest health, biodiversity and carbon fluxes. Landscape planning integrating field inventories, remote sensing and social data. Non-linearity, trade-offs, and uncertainties of development projects and mega infrastructures. Participatory modeling of resilient production systems. Adaptation to climate change.
Geographic Expertise: Peru, Bolivia.
Research and Outreach Interests: Impacts of global changes in tropical ecosystems, forest health, biodiversity and carbon fluxes; landscape planning integrating field inventories, remote sensing and social data; non-linearity, tradeoffs, and uncertainties of development and mega infrastructure projects; participatory modeling of resilient production systems; adaptation to climate change.
Galia Selaya became courtesy faculty at the Center of Latin American Studies and the Tropical Conservation and Development Program in January 2017. She obtained her PhD in Plant Ecology and Biodiversity from Utrecht University and her MSc in Ecological Agriculture from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. She is an interdisciplinary scientist working on coupled human and climate change impacts on tropical ecosystems. Her research portfolio spans from exploring vegetation dynamics after anthropogenic disturbance, to people’s engagement in natural resource management, landscape planning, and conservation initiatives. She is currently designing and implementing participatory methods for landscape planning and designation of production systems areas, special sites for biodiversity and ecosystems services conservation in collaboration with institutions and local communities in Bolivia and Peru.
From 2015-2016, Selaya was a postdoctoral research associate position in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) Department at University of Florida (UF), where she examined uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of forest biomass estimation in varying forest types of southwestern Amazonia (National Science Foundation grant, Coupled Natural and Human Systems Project). At ABE, she organized conferences for the Biocomplexity group, inviting scientists and practitioners engaged in environmental topics. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as an environmental social scientist at the Science and Action Center of the Field Museum of Chicago. She participated in a rapid inventory of Putumayo transboundary region of Peru and Colombia and designed participatory methods and use of media to support the quality of life plans and biodiversity conservation agreements of indigenous communities living around national parks of Loreto and Ucayali regions of the Peruvian Amazon (MacArthur grant, Sustainable Livelihood Strategies and Forest Stewardship: Empowering Local Communities). Between 2009 to 2011, Selaya held a postdoc associate researcher position at Universidad Autónoma de Pando, Bolivia, in partnership with UF as part of an environmental capacity building program. She implemented a remote sensing lab to monitor the impact of road building on forest cover and established a network of monitoring plots in preserved and burned forest to address degradation and species demography (ICAA II-USAID grant, Impact of the Trans-Amazonia Highway on Southwestern Amazonia). From 2009-2013, Selaya joined CIFOR, Global Comparative Study on REDD+ as a field researcher applying the BACI (Before and After Control Intervention) method to potential REDD+ projects. She implemented socio-economic surveys and workshops with local communities of the montane forest of Yungas, Bolivia and San Martin, Peru. Selaya’s previous experiences combined research and academic positions with development projects and consultancy, including certification standards evaluation of FSC, VCS and CCB in Latin America and Caribbean countries.
Selaya promotes scientific research outcomes as a foundation of a shared conservation agenda in the multi-stakeholders, social heterogeneity, and biophysical complexity of the tropical ecosystems.