Appendix B Biographical Sketches of the Committee's Members
John E. Hobbie earned his Ph.D. in zoology from Indiana University. Dr. Hobbie is a senior scientist at the Marine biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and is co-director of its Ecosystem Center. Dr. Hobbie leads the Land-Margin Ecosystem Research program of the National Science Foundation. His research interests include arctic and antarctic limnology, estuarine ecology, and the global carbon cycle. Dr. Hobbie has been a member of the Ocean Studies Board since 1995.
Daniel W. Bromley earned his Ph.D. in natural resource economics from Oregon State University. Dr. Bromley is Anderson-Bascom Professor and Chair, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research interests include institutional economics, political economy, natural resource economics, and the environmental implications of economic development. He has a specific interest in common property resource management—he was the chair of the NRC Panel on Common Property Resource Management, and he served as president of the International Association for the Study of Common Property.
Paul K. Dayton earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Dayton has been a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, since 1982. His major research interest is in the field of marine ecology.
Daniel D. Huppert earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Dr. Huppert was an economist and program leader for the National Marine Fisheries
Service in San Diego, and then became an associate professor at the University of Washington's School of Marine Affairs in 1989. Dr. Huppert served on Scientific and Statistical Committees for the Pacific and North Pacific Fishery Management Councils for 15 years, and he is currently on the Independent Economic Analysis Board for the Northwest Power Planning Council. His research interests include endangered species planning, commercial fishery regulation, coastal ecosystems conservation and planning, and international management of Pacific salmon.
Stephen J. Langdon earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University. Dr. Langdon has been a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, since 1987. His research interests include ecological and economic anthropology. His research focuses on the maritime societies of the Northwest coast of the United States.
Seth Macinko earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Macinko has been a social and economic policy analyst at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game since 1993. His research focuses on institutional analysis of natural resource use and management. He fished commercially off Alaska from 1979 to 1983.
Marshall D. Sahlins earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. Dr. Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His research interests include the cultural processes of historical change. Dr. Sahlins is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Craig J. Severance earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Oregon. Dr. Severance is a professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, with expertise in maritime cultures of the Western Pacific. He is a member of the Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and a part-time recreational/commercial fisherman.
Ronald L. Trosper earned his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Dr. Trosper has been the Director of the Native American Forestry Program at Northern Arizona University since 1989. His research focuses on issues of economic development and ecosystem management by Native American peoples. He is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.
Miranda Wright earned her Master's degree in anthropology from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Ms. Wright serves as Executive Director of the Doyon Foundation, a non-profit organization which focuses on education and professional opportunities for Alaska Natives. She is an anthropologist with research interests in the areas of social and economic pressures on the indigenous peoples of the Alaskan subarctic.