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Thomas C. Barr AB Harvard, MA Columbia, PhD Vanderbilt Studies of cave fauna and its ecology, KY, TN, AL, GA, TX, NM, Mexico, especially carabid beetles; diversity and ecological studies of mountain beetle fauna, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, TN-NC-VA Studies of Mammoth Cave National Park ecology and fauna, 1955 Author, Caves of Tennessee, TN Div. Geol., bull. 64, 1961, and over 100 papers in refereed journals Leslie E. Barras Ms. Barras is a +20-year experienced environmental attorney who works in the non-profit and citizen advocacy areas. Her areas of regulatory expertise are in the National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Open Records Act, Freedom of Information Act, and clean air, water, and land. She received an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University, a law degree and masters in public affairs degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and a masters in teaching degree from Bellarmine University in Louisville. Before joining the non-profit and public interest advocacy areas, she had a 15-year career in environmental consulting and law working for the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, oil and gas industry, power industry, and manufacturing industry in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. She and her spouse are avid backpackers and campers, locally enjoying Mammoth Cave National Park and the Red River Gorge. She has volunteered for service projects for the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service in Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. Her backpacking and hiking trips outside the continential U.S. have included the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Scotland, Romania, Slovenia, Iceland, and the Canadian Rockies. Roger W. Brucker Roger Brucker is one of the world's most respected figures in the field of speleology. As a principal explorer of Mammoth Cave for more than 50 years, he has been responsible for helping to expand the world's longest cave to its present known length of 365 miles. Mr. Brucker is co-founder and past president of the Cave Research Foundation (CRF), an internationally known organization of scientists dedicated to the study and protection of caves on federal lands. He is a Fellow of the National Speleological Society, and has taught a speleology course at Mammoth Cave National Park for Western Kentucky University's Center for Cave and Karst Studies for more than 20 years. Mr. Brucker has co-authored four critically-acclaimed books on caves: "The Longest Cave," "The Caves Beyond," "Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins," and "Beyond Mammoth Cave: A Tale of Obsession in the World's Longest Cave." He has consulted for the National Geographic Society, and has written and published many scientific papers related to speleology. Mr. Brucker is active in Karst Environmental Education and Protection (KEEP) because he is convinced that the Kentucky TriModal Transpark poses an environmental threat to Mammoth Cave. Mr. Brucker holds a BA in the Practice of Art from Oberlin College. He served in the U.S. Air Force, and is a retired marketing consultant. He resides in Beavercreek, Ohio. Hilary A.B. Lambert, Ph.D. Dr. Hilary Lambert has a Master's Degree from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University. She has worked as a research scientist for the Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies at Rutgers University, where she taught and wrote articles about natural resources and environmental hazards. She has also taught various aspects of geography at Rutgers University, Miami University of Ohio, the University of Kentucky and Lexington Community College. Dr. Lambert has written scientific articles for several publications, in addition to co-authoring a college textbook on the geography of natural resource use. She has served as editor of FOCUS, the quarterly magazine of The American Geographical Society. Dr. Lambert has been involved in cave study and exploration for more than 20 years. She is a founding member of the Sloan's Valley Conservation Task Force of the National Speleological Society (NSS). She is also active with the Cumberland Chapter of the Sierra Club. She works full time as Associate Director of the Kentucky Waterways Alliance. Tom Poulson Dr. Tom Poulson is Emeritus Professor in the Ecology and Evolution section of Biological Sciences at U. Illinois-Chicago and occasional Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University’s Honors College, Institute for Environmental Studies, and Lifelong Learning Society. Though an exceptional natural history generalist, his special expertise is in caves, old-growth forests, dunes succession, and biological integrity of streams, ponds, and wetlands. Most recently he has become the Senior Scientist for the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation and Florida Environmental Institute and serves on their Advisory Board (their over-arching mission is restoration of the Everglades). |