Research team
This work is carried out by an interdisciplinary team from several different research organizations around the world.
Daniel Miller, Co-Lead Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jana Diesner, Co-Lead Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeremy Brooks, Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University
Sonam Wangyel Wang, Co-Principal Investigator
Director of the Bhutan Institute of Himalayan Studies
Aili Pyhälä, Co-Principal Investigator
Adjunct Professor, Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki
Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, Collaborator (former post-doctoral fellow)
Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University
Johanna Eklund, Post-doctoral fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki
Katia Nakamura, Post-doctoral fellow
Post-doctoral fellow, Conservation International/Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
Shadi Rezapour, Collaborator (former PhD student)
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science, Drexel University
Kanyao Han, PhD Student
PhD student, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ugyen Namgyel, Collaborator
Bhutan Institute of Himalayan Studies
James (J.T.) Erbaugh, Collaborator (former post-doctoral fellow)
The Nature Conservancy
Dikshya Devkota, Collaborator (former Master’s student)
Chieh-Li (Julian) Chin, Research Program Manager
Project Advisory Board
This project includes an external advisory board to vet and validate our approach and results. Beyond helping to make our work more effective and impactful, the advisory board helps mitigate a potential conflict of interest issue in that the primary research focus is on MacArthur’s historical conservation funding while this research project is itself funded by the foundation
Advisory board members include:
- Rebecca Gruby, Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy
Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
University of Miami - Richard Margoluis, Chief Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning Officer at Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- E.J. Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity and Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science at Oxford University;
- Percy Summers, Director of Director of the Sustainable Landscape Partnership, Conservation International and Conservation International-Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Professor of Practice, Arizona State University