The National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation

October 22 - 24, 2014

John Tirpak

US Fish and Wildlife Service
Lafayette, LA
USA

Biographical Sketch: John Tirpak is the Science Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Gulf Restoration Program, having previously served as Science Coordinator for the Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative and the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture - both formal conservation partnerships comprised of state, federal, and private agencies and organizations dedicated to collaborative conservation of natural and cultural resources. John operates at the nexus of scientific rigor and operational reality, continually working to apply adaptive management principles at a landscape scale and to ensure conservation decisions are informed by and inform scientific processes. John earned his PhD at Fordham University working on spatially explicit population models for ruffed grouse across the central and southern Appalachians. John lives and works in Lafayette, LA

Papers:
001 Tracking Net Landscape Change: Needs, Opportunities, and Challenges from Joint Venture and Landscape Conservation Cooperative Perspectives 053 The Ozark Highlands Comprehensive Conservation Strategy: Coordinating the Identification of Conservation Opportunity Areas through Partnership 110 Modeling Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Landscapes and Populations P29 Assessing the State of Priority Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks LCC