Starting today, we are introducing the speakers of the Plenary sessions in IWMC2015, with their biographies and photos. On Sunday July 16, 2015, the first day of the Congress, we have a public plenary Urban and Suburban Wildlife Management -Common Trends and Issues of International Society- with four speakers: Daniel Decker, Rory Putman, Mayumi Yokoyama, Yoshikazu Sato. **************************************** Dan Decker is a professor and chair in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University and a director of the Human Dimensions Research Unit (HDRU), where he has been involved in studies of the human dimensions of wildlife management for 40 years. Dan served as President of The Wildlife Society (TWS) in 2003-04, and prior to that as Northeast Representative to TWS Council and President of the Northeast Section of TWS. He is an elected TWS Fellow and recipient of 2012 The Wildlife Society Aldo Leopold Memorial Award. Dan’s research and extension/outreach interests include discovery and integration of human dimensions insights to serve wildlife policy and management. The goal of this work is to contribute to improving the capacity of management professionals in public fish and wildlife agencies. Dan has served as consultant, advisor or research contractor to several state and federal agencies, including the National Park Service, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, NY Department of Environmental Conservation, CO Division of Wildlife, AK Department of Fish and Game, and FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. dnr.cals.cornell.edu/people/daniel-decker **************************************** Rory Putman worked for many years within the Biology Department of the University of Southampton, where he established and led the University’s highly-regarded Deer Management Research group; latterly he moved to become Research Professor of Behavioural and Environmental Biology at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He now works as a freelance environmental consultant and wildlife adviser based in Scotland. He has worked widely in the UK and overseas, with research efforts focused on the behaviour and ecology of ungulates - always with the applied focus of helping to develop more sensitive and more effective methods of managing ungulate populations and their impacts on agriculture, forestry or conservation interests. He holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and at the Institute of Biodiversity of the University of Glasgow, UK. He has written 13 books and over 100 technical articles on the biology and management of deer and other ungulates. **************************************** Yoshikazu Sato is a professor of wildlife ecology at Rakuno Gakuen University in Hokkaido, Japan, where he has studied brown bear ecology and management, with particular interest in ecological understanding of the cause of human-bear conflicts and its application for conservation and management. In 1991, when he first met a female brown bear with her cubs grazing on the subalpine grassland in the Daisetsuzan National Park in Hokkaido, he was overwhelmed by their beauty and strength. Since then, his interest has focused on all aspects of brown bears. He received a B.S. from Hokkaido University in 1996 and completed an M.S. and a Ph.D. in wildlife management at the University of Tokyo in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He has been an active member of the Wildlife Society, and International Association for Bear Biology and Management. He has also served as Secretary-General of the Mammal Society of Japan and Vice-President of Japan Bear Network since 2012. **************************************** The bio and photo of Dr Mayumi Yokoyama are in preparation and will be posted here later.
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