Overview
The APNEP Terrestrial Resources Monitoring & Assessment Team provides the partnership with technical guidance for monitoring and assessing a subsystem of the regional ecosystem: upland vegetation and associated fauna. Teams for Phases 1-3 were established in 2009, 2017, and 2024 respectively.
APNEP staff support:
- Dean Carpenter (primary)
- Tim Ellis
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Terrestrial Resources Members
- Jon Blanchard (NC Division of Parks and Recreation)
- Johnny Boggs (US Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center)
- Reide Corbett (East Carolina University, Dept. of Geological Science, Institute of Science and Coastal Policy)
- Samir Dumpor (NC Division of Energy, Mineral, and Land Resources)
- David Hallac (STAC, US National Park Service, Outer Banks Complex)
- John Iiames (US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development)
- Elizabeth Kalies (The Nature Conservancy)
- A.J. Lang (NC Forest Service)
- Rua Mordecai (STAC, South Atlantic Blueprint)
- Jonathan Phillips (STAC, University of Kentucky, Earth Surface Systems, Emeritus)
- Michael Schafale (NC Natural Heritage Program)
- Kelly Somers (US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 3)
- Wendy Stanton (US Fish and Wildlife Service, South Atlantic Refuges Inventory and Monitoring Network)
- Hope Sutton (NC Wildlife Resources Commission)
- John Taggart (University of North Carolina, Wilmington, ret.)
- Greg Taylor (STAC, US Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil & Plant Science Division)
- Rich Whittecar (STAC, Old Dominion University, Dept. of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)