Rural System's
About Us - Advisors and Participants
From conversations with students and faculty at Virginia Tech beginning in 1980, there have been many advisors for Rural System and its parts. All have been interested in the objectives communicated and have helped in many ways. Their patience and assistance have been essential and appreciated.
The list of advisors continues to grow and, with their permission, we have added names of those with whom we now actively correspond and seek other advice, insights, and leads to how we may achieve our multiple objectives for rural people, their environment and resources, ... and the rest of us. We invite your participation.
Alphabetical
Bhaskar Sen Now of West Bengal, India, Bhaskar has been developing javascript educational units for Capper 2 and actively corresponding with ideas, making local contacts, and seeking alternative applications of the Rural System concepts in parks and wildlife areas throughout India.
He has a B.Sc. (Biological Sciences) from Calcutta University in 1991, diverse computer skills, GIS experience and certification, and wildlife transect Sampling for large herbivore Populations inside Bhadra Tiger Reserve, Karnataka. He has worked with the Vasundhara Foundation,
an Environmental NGO, in the capacity of Research Associate(Wildlife Ecology).(bhaskarwl@yahoo.com).
Dale Black Blacksburg, Virginia. Treasured general advisor; LandCare expert; participant in Grayson Land Care; chairman of Grayson Land Care watershed committee.
Britt Boucher M.S., Forest Economist, President of Foresters, Inc., Blacksburg, national leader in developing modern approaches to forest inventory and management including the "Two Dog" forest inventory system; Smartwood certified; participant in internation Forest Stewardship efforts; member,New River Land Trust board of directors.
Marie Cirillo Following requests from Dr. Charles Buffington, formerly of TVA, Project Pivotal Rig was suggested to Ms. Cirillo. Over many years we have attempted to get that project and concept started. Ms. Cirillo has been a loyal correspondent and advisor as we worked to find the economic base for the people of the Clearfork.
In the early 1960s, while living in Cincinnati as a member of the Glenmary Sisters, Marie Cirillo witnessed the consequences of the migration of people leaving Appalachia for the promise of city jobs. She decided to relocate to a rural community where she could help address the underlying causes of the migration.
In 1967 Ms. Cirillo moved to her present home of Clairfield, Tennessee, (Woodland Community Land Trust, 281 Roses Creek Road, Clairfield, TN 37715) where absentee owners had stripped the land of its best resources to sell in the global marketplace and then abandoned the local people and the land. There she co-founded Woodland Community Land Trust, which has acquired 400 acres, which support human settlement and forest restoration. To encourage further regional self-sufficiency and land reclamation work she founded the Woodland Community Development Corporation, the Mountain Women's Exchange, and Appalachian-Based Community Development Education , ABCDE. She has served as executive director of Rural American Women and has been a founding member of other national and regional organizations (e.g., Just Connections) working to give voice to the people and concerns of small rural communities.
Hollister A. Hartman, Ph.D. Principal Systems Engineer, Tactical Systems and Solutions, SAIC, Science Applications International Corporation, 7990 Science Applications Circle, MS CV-61, Vienna, VA 22182-3925.
Kieran J. Lindsey, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor, Faculty of the Northern Virginia Graduate Program of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, College of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech, Arlington, Virginia (klindsey@vt.edu)
Coauthor of Urban Wildlife Management, Dr. Lindsey has degrees in wildlife and fisheries sciences from Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas. She was director of a non-profit urban wildlife shelter and education center in Houston. She has done TV and newspaper work and headed a radio program in New Mexico. She's a member of the Urban Wildlife Management Working Group of The Wildlife Society.
Russell Gregory Philosophy department, Radford University.
Lance Morrow Owner of Mills Arborists, Blacksburg, Virginia - advisor.
Mr. Charley Patterson Entrepreneur with
Proprietary Media Management, (1458 Brawley School Road, Mooresville, NC 28117), Charley was quick to see the Rural System potentials and has been helpful by being encouraging and suggesting contacts. (charleyp@proprietarymediamanagement.com).
William Sanders, Ph.D. .....university position....is involved with advanced topics of the Internet. Involved with the well-known Blacksburg Electronic Village, he works toward eCommunity concepts within the university. He has shared ideas and approaches, especially related to the catalog of Rural System.
Col. Hayward B. Shepherd Organized and then commanded the US Air Force's Space Systems School, a consortium of leading aerospace companies. The school standardized the language and concepts of the emerging science of aerospace engineering. The accomplishments of this school paved the technical road for the "man on the moon" project. His later career included being the CEO of one of the leading institutional furniture manufacturing firms, Director of Engineering of Arabian Polyfab, an Arab-owned construction and building materials manufacturing company which, at the time, was the largest of the Widdle-East oil infrastructure contractors, Director of Engineering for Timberland Industries, a major wood building materials manufacturer and now a part of Weyerhaeuser Corporation, and today, President of Shepherd Media Engineering, 111 Pheasant Lane, Summerville, SC 29485, specializing in graphic design, ebook publishing, dynamic content web sites, engineering drafting, and producing brochures and textbooks. Col. Shepherd developed one of the first ebooks in natural resource management and has contributed much time, energy, and thought to ever-changing Rural System concepts and hopes to tell the story with interactive media. He has Masters Degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy.
Mrs. Alinda T. Uzel Alinda T. Uzel, Unit Coordinator, Extension Agent, Virginia Cooperative Extension, King and Queen County Office,
2nd Floor - Courts and Administration Building, P. O. Box 68, King and Queen Courthouse, VA 23085
Mr. Charles Putnam Retired US Forest employee, fire control officer, involved in land use planning (moputnam@AOL.com 540-382-3051)
Dr. Andrew Dolloff U.S. Forest Service cold water fishery and watershed advisor.
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