Board, Affiliations & Organizational Structure

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Executive Officers:

Bill Dodge – President, Principal, Regional Excellence Consulting, Silverton, CO

Jonathan Overpeck, Ph.D. - Vice-President, Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth; Geosciences & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona

Charles Burnham, Ph.D. - Secretary, Professor of Mineralogy, Professor Emeritus,
Harvard University; Adjunct Professor of Geology, Fort Lewis College,
Durango, CO

Robert H. Delves - Treasurer, Executive Director, San Miguel Watershed Coalition; Mountain Village Town Council Member, Telluride Mountain Village, CO

Members:

Rob Blair, Ph.D., Consulting Geologist, Professor Emeritus,
Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

Gary Gianniny, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Geology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

Peter McKay, San Juan County Commissioner, artist, Silverton, CO

Ali Sabeti, retired World Bank Senior Staff, Small Business Development Center Advisor, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

Pat Swonger, Silverton Mayor Pro-Tem, Computer Consultant, Public Radio Personality, Silverton, CO

Mark Williams, Professor of Geography, Fellow of the Institute for Arctic, Alpine, and Antarctic Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

STAFF

Koren Nydick, Ph.D., Executive Director, (more about Koren)
koren@mountainstudies.org  

Bill Ball, Website & GIS Services, (more about Bill)
bill@mountainstudies.org

Charlie Smith , Finance & Operation Manager ,
finance@mountainstudies.org

Jeremy Yanko, Trails Project Coordinator,
jyanko@frontier.net

Ali Morse, Avon Hotel Caretaker

Kyle Skaggs, Research Assitant

 

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Jeffrey W. Brame
Owner, Chief Geoscientist, Brame Geoscience, Durango, CO
Alton Byers, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Education, The Mountain Institute, Washington, DC
Tom Casadevall, Ph.D
Central Regional Director, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO
 Professor of Geography, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Lee Dexter, Ph.D. 
Board of Directors, Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies; Associate Professor of Geography, Northern University, Flagstaff, AZ
Daniel B. Fagre, Ph.D.
Ecologist/Global Change Research Coordinator, USGS-NRMSC, West Glacier, MT
Brian K. Fowler
Engineering Geologist and President, North American Reserve; Past President, Mt. Washington Observatory, Laconia, NH
Ken Francis
Director, Office of Community Services, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Donald Friend, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Minnesota State University, Department of Geography; Director, Earth Sciences Program, Mankato, MN
Andy Gleason,
Ph.D Candidate (U of WY),  INSTAAR, U of CO
Andy Gulliford, Ph.D.
Department of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Jack Ives, Ph.D.
Honorary Research Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; Professor emeritus, UC-Davis; Senior Advisor, Mountain Ecology and Sustainable Development, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
David McGinnis, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies and Montana State Univ., Adjunct Faculty at Univ. of Iowa (Geography), Idaho State Univ. (Geosciences)
John Ninnemann, Ph.D.
Dean of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Biology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Mark Williams, Ph.D.
Fellow of INSTAAR; Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
Thurman Wilson
Assistant Center Manager, Planning and Public Services, San Juan Public Lands; USFS/BLM,
MSI founding Board Member, emeritus, Durango, CO
Mike Wireman, Ph.D.
Hydrologist, San Juan Initiative Lead, U.S. EPA Region VIII, Denver, CO

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies, Silverton, CO
San Juan Mountains Center (USFS-BLM), Silverton, CO
Fort Lewis College, Durango CO

University of Colorado, Boulder CO

Animas River Stakeholders Group, Durango, CO

San Juan County Historic Society, Silverton, CO

Town of Silverton

San Juan County

San Juan Fen Partnership