Pat Foster-Turley is a wildlife biologist and
biodiversity specialist with a PhD in zoology from the University
of Florida and a MA in marine biology from San Francisco State
University. For nearly a decade she led the IUCN Species Survival
Commission's Otter Specialist Group and was the principle editor
and architect of the Action Plan for Otter Survival that remains
in effect today. For her PhD, Pat conducted fieldwork on otters
and their fish and invertebrate prey in mangroves and rice
fields of Southeast Asia and in museum collections around the
world. Since 1993, Pat has worked with the United States Agency
for International Development, including two years in Washington
D.C., two years in Botswana and Tanzania, and a number of years
of short term consulting work for various USAID missions around
the world. Pat came to USAID from the zoo and aquarium profession,
where, for eighteen years, she developed and directed the education
and conservation departments of a large zoo and oceanarium,
Marine World-Africa USA in the San Francisco Bay Area. She
has also served as program officer for the White Oak Conservation
Center and as the Howard Gilman Foundation's liaison with the
foundation-based Consultative Group on Biological Diversity.
Today,
Pat is an adjunct faculty member of the Zoology Department
of the University of Florida and at the Florida Museum of
Natural History and works as an independent consultant for
various international and domestic natural resources projects
from her home in north Florida. Her assignments include design,
management and evaluation aspects of projects ranging from coastal and community-based
natural resources management, environmental education and communication,
and wildlife ecology. She is also a competent technical writer
and expert synthesizer of large amounts of natural resources
related material into readable reports and proposals for a variety
of audiences ranging from grant makers and government officials
to the general public. |
