Based in Australia, Brian is Honorary Post-retirement Fellow at CSIRO. He was born and raised in Zimbabwe, obtained his first degree in agriculture in South Africa, and his Ph.D. in ecology in Sakatchewan, Canada, in 1968. His interests are in ecosystem function and dynamics, particularly in regard to resilience of tropical savannas and rangelands. He lectured at the University of Zimbabwe for six years and was then Professor of Botany and Director of the Centre for Resource Ecology at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg until 1985, when he moved to Australia as Chief of the CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology. He stood down from that position in 1999. He was leader of the International Decade of the Tropics Program on Responses of Savannas to Stress and Disturbance from 1984 to 1990, and of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Project of the IGBP from 1989 to 1998, and is a past Chair of the Board of the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics in the Swedish Academy of Science. He has co-authored two books, edited 7, written over 150 scientific papers and is on the editorial boards of five international journals. He received the Ecological Society of Australia's Gold Medal for 1999. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Dr. Lance Gunderson
Vice-Chair Board of Members,
Editor-in-Chief Ecology and Society

Lance Gunderson was born and raised in southern Florida, USA. He attended the University of Florida, receiving B.S. (1975) and MS (1977) degrees in Botany. After graduation, he worked as a researcher for the National Audubon Society in the wetlands of southern Florida. He then took a position as a botanist with the US National Park Service, to do resource mapping and assessment in the Big Cypress National Preserve. He became vegetation program manager in Everglades National Park, working on plant-hydrology interactions. In 1988 he returned to graduate school at the University of Florida and received a Ph. D. (1992) in Environmental Engineering Sciences. He stayed on as a research scientist in the Dept. of Zoology until 1998. He was the founding chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University in Atlanta Georgia, USA from 1999-2005. From 1997-2000 he served as the executive director of the Resilience Network, a program of the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. He sits on the science advisory board for the Grand Canyon Research and Monitoring Center.

His ongoing research interests are in two major categories: 1) how scientific understanding influences resource policy and management and 2) understanding how ecosystem processes and structures interact across space and time scales. He has been involved in the in environmental assessment and management of large-scale ecosystems, including the Everglades, Florida Bay, Upper Mississippi River Basin, and the Grand Canyon. His interests are in the human and institutional dimensions to resource ecology, and to that end, has co-edited books entitled, "Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of Ecosystems and Institutions" that compares case histories of managing large, complex ecosystems and "Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Systems of Humans and Nature" that attempts to synthesize interdisciplinary concepts that underpin sustainable actions.

Stephen (Steve) Carpenter is the Stephen Alfred Forbes Professor of Zoology at the Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Director of the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research program (http://lter.limnology.wisc.edu). Currently Carpenter spends most of his time on large-scale experiments to understand long-term change in watersheds and lakes in Wisconsin. He has led scenario processes to address regional change in Wisconsin and elsewhere, and for global ecosystem services as co-chair of the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (http://www.MAweb.org). His field work is complemented by modeling studies, including traditional ecosystem modeling as well as individual-based models of people making economic and political choices about integrated social-ecological systems. Carpenter is best known for his theoretical and experimental research on trophic cascades, the process through which predator-prey cycles control production and nutrient cycles of aquatic ecosystems. He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal Ecosystems, former President of the Ecological Society of America, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and recipient of many awards for distinguished research. More information is available on his web site (http://limnology.wisc.edu/personnel/carpenter/).

Dr. Carl Folke
Editor-in-Chief Ecology and Society

Professor Carl Folke is the Director of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and also Science Director of the new Stockholm Resilience Centre: Research for Governance of Social-Ecological Systems, a joint program of the Beijer Institute, Stockholm Environment Institute and Stockholm University funded by Mistra: the Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research. He took on those positions in early 2007. Carl is currently on leave from his Chair in Natural Resource Management at the Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, a position he held since 1997. He served as Deputy Director of the Beijer Institute 1991-1996 and Director of Stockholm University's Center for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research (CTM) 1999-2006. He is among the founders of the Resilience Alliance and serves on the Steering Committee. He has been involved in the development of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE).

Carl has extensive experience in interdisciplinary collaboration between natural and social scientists, and has worked with ecosystem dynamics and services as well as the social and economic dimension of ecosystem management and proactive measures to avoid loss of resilience. The work of his research group in Stockholm emphasizes the role that living systems at different scales play in social and economic development and how to govern and manage for resilience in integrated social-ecological systems. In 1995 he received the Pew Scholar Award in Conservation and the Environment and in 2004 the sustainability science award of the Ecological Society of America. He has co-authored 2 books, edited 7, and written over 150 scientific papers, including 11 in Science and Nature. Carl serves on the editorial board of twelve international journals and shares the position as Editor in Chief of Ecology and Society with Lance Gunderson, since January 2002. He has among other things served as Secretary of ISEE for about 5 years, as adviser to the Swedish Government on environmental issues and collaborated with several UN organisations on issues like biodiversity, freshwater management, and sustainable cities. He is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2002 and serves on its Environment Committee. He is also on the Scientific Committee of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), the Board of Stockholm Environment Institute and has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, California. Carl has organized several major international conferences and workshops; is in charge of the Stockholm Seminar: Frontiers in Sustainability Science and Policy; has given numerous invited speaker presentations world wide; numerous public lectures, policy seminars and interviews in media. His research has been reported in many newspapers, radio and television, both in Sweden and internationally.

Dr. Phil Taylor
Treasurer and Executive Director

Phil Taylor holds an Industrial Research Chair in the Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network, at Acadia University, in the beautiful Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, Canada. He completed his Ph.D. in 1993 at Carleton University under the supervision of Gray Merriam, working on how damselflies move through landscapes. He completed a Post Doc at University of Alberta in 1994 before moving to his present position. He still explores how damselflies and dragonflies move through landscapes, but has expanded those explorations to other taxa such as frogs, salamanders and birds. He has been involved in the Resilience Alliance since before its inception. He is one of the four founders of the journal Conservation Ecology and is now the Executive Director of the RA.

Ann Kinzig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Arizona State University. She received her B.A. in Physics from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1986), her M.A. in Physics from University of California at Berkeley (1989), and her PhD in Energy and Resources from Berkeley (1994). Before arriving at ASU, Ann was a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at Princeton University (1994-98), and worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (98-99).

Ann’s research interests focus broadly on urban ecology, the resilience of human-environment interactions across long time scales, and science policy. Much of her research is carried out under the auspices of the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research program (CAP LTER) at the Global Institute of Sustainability and GIOS at Arizona State University.

Ann is currently involved in 3 major research projects, including: (1) Perceptions of, and response to, changes in water availability in the Phoenix basin from pre-history (circa 500 A.D.) to the present day; (2) the influence of agricultural transformations on ecological patterns, and vice versa; and (3) social and ecological features of small urban parks.

Ann serves on the Editorial Boards of Ecosystems, Environmental Conservation, Issues in Ecology, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. She is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of The Resilience Alliance, and the Science Committee of the Ecological Society of America. She is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, and was selected as the first AAAS Roger Revelle Fellow.

Allyson Quinlan
Communications Director

Allyson Quinlan has held the position of Communications Director for the Resilience Alliance since February 2002. She is Editor of the RA's website and monthly newsletter and is also responsible for developing and implementing communication and outreach programs, coordinating a variety of web-based projects, and writing and editing articles for a range of audiences. Previously, she has worked as the Managing Editor of Ecology & Society (formerly Conservation Ecology), an online peer-reviewed science journal published by the RA. Allyson holds a Bachelor of Science (highest honours) in Environmental Science from Carleton University and a Masters of Science in Environmental Biology and Ecology from the University of Alberta. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Geography department at Carleton University. She is a member of the Canadian Science Writer’s Association and an alumnus of The Banff Center’s Science Communication program.

Dr. C. S. (Buzz) Holling
Founding Director &
Founding Editor-in-Chief Ecology and Society

Crawford (Buzz) Holling is currently Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. His early work established major contributions that are still linchpins of modern predator-prey theory. He was among the first ecologists to recognize the importance of bifurcation theory (including ideas of stability, multiple stable states, strange attractors, and chaos). His 1973 paper on resilience of nonlinear ecological systems still stands as a major landmark. More recently, he has introduced the hypothesis that body size distributions of animals are clumped and that the clump structure is related to a hierarchy of controlling processes including those that regulate biodiversity.

Besides these contributions to basic ecological research, Professor Holling has introduced important ideas in the application of ecology and evolution, including adaptive ecosystem management, the Adaptive Cycle, and the recognition that evolution was the best model for the origins of novelty in management crises. He has, throughout his career, sought to bring abstract science to the real temporal and spatial scales of resource management and this has led to his continuing involvement with social science.

Holling has also led extensive international programs of research. The most recent, "Resilience of Ecological, Economic and Institutional Systems" was jointly sponsored by the University of Florida and the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics. Its purpose was to develop a theory of change in complex systems that integrates ecological, economic and social science theory and examples. It has led to the publication of over 150 papers in different disciplinary journals by the collaborators and to the publication of a synthesis volume that presents the foundations for integrative theory (Gunderson and Holling, 2002. Panarchy. Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. Island Press).

He has been responsible for establishing an international consortium of 15 international groups, the Resilience Alliance, and a program to develop solutions that focus on regional experiments in sustainability. The groups have active programs in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. These latter projects have led to the development of novel uses for the Internet for research, communication, and policy dialogues. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the electronic journal Ecology and Society (formerly Conservation Ecology).

Holling received his B.A. and M.Sc. at the University of Toronto (1952), his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia (1957) and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Guelph (1998). From 1952 to 1968, Holling worked in the laboratories of the Department of the Environment, Government of Canada. Between 1967 and 1988 he became Professor and, for a period, Director of the Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He took leave to become Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria, between 1981 and 1984. During these years, his research emphasized theoretical and applied aspects of ecological systems, ecological policy and adaptive environmental assessment and management. In 1988 he became the first occupant of the Arthur R. Marshall Eminent Scholar Chair in Ecological Sciences, University of Florida, Department of Zoology, continuing until his retirement in 1999. Throughout his research, his goal has been to blend concepts of stability theory and ecology with modeling and policy analysis and to develop integrative theories of change that have practical utility.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a foreign Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Among other awards, he has received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Arts and Science, the Eminent Ecologist Award of the Ecological Society of America, 1999 and Kenneth Boulding Memorial Prize, International Society for Ecological Economics, 2000.