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Dr. Gregory B. Greenwood
Executive Director
Mountain Research Initiative
Erlachstrasse 9A, Trakt 3
3012 Bern
Switzerland
mobile telephone: +41 79 776 82 77 (Swiss number)
residence (Montreux, CH) +1 617 848 8159 (USA number)
Experience:
June 2004 to present: Executive Director, Mountain Research Initiative
(http://mri.scnatweb.ch). In collaboration with MRI Principal Investigators, develop strategy to
promote and coordinate interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary global change research in
mountain regions through the world as part of IHDP and IGBP programs.. Manage MRI
Coordination Office and staff in Bern. Maintain program funding through grant proposals to
the Swiss National Science Foundation and the EU Research Directorate's Seventh
Framework Programme. Develop worldwide database of global change mountain
researchers. Maintain and enhance program website, newsletters, bulletins, webcasts and
other informational products. Organize conferences and workshops to highlight and explore
scientific topics related to global change in mountains. Collaborate with consortia of
researchers and research institutions on different continents to develop and implement
appropriate global change research. Develop project proposals to national and international
scientific funding agencies. Develop budgets for program activities. Maintain and update all
financial accounts. Develop reports and manage relations with all funding and oversight
agencies. Manage relationships with key scientific advisors worldwide and with other related
international program offices.
January, 2004 to May, 2004: Bioenergy and Climate Science Advisor, California Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection, Sacramento, California. Develop a $40 million program to
reduce wildland fuel hazards in key watersheds and near settlements in the Sierra Nevada as
part of the Proposition 40 watershed protection bond. Develop GIS data needed to prioritize
sites. Organize discussions with field staff to assess personnel and program program
requirements. Initiate discussions with field staff on Environmental Impact Report for fuels
management programs. Provide testimony and information to legislative staff.
September 2000 to December 2003: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resources/Science
Advisor, California Resources Agency, Sacramento. Advise the Resources Secretary of the
scientific dimensions of resources policy issues. Chair the Joint Agency Climate Team
(consisting of representatives from Resources Agency, Cal Environmental Protection Agency,
Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, State and Consumer Services Agency,
Department of Food and Agriculture and the Governor's Office of Planning and Research)
and lead the development of proposed climate change policy for the state, including both
mitigation and adaptation options. Ensure consideration of climate change in state
transportation, land use and energy planning. Maintain relations with major academic and
federal climate and global change research agencies, especially on the development of
guidance to the federal Climate Change Science Program. Lead technical evaluation of
federal and state forest policy, particularly related to timber, fire and fuels management.
Assist the Secretary in the design and implementation of the California Legacy Program,
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particularly in the oversight of development of conservation investment methodology by the
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
January, 1990 to August 2000: Research Manager, Assessment and Evaluation, Fire and
Resource Assessment Program, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection,
Sacramento, California. Manage Assessment and Evaluation program staff to achieve the
Program's mandate for a periodic assessment of the condition and trends of California's 35
million hectares of wildland, the nature and scale of benefits produced by these lands and the
efficacy and cost of programs aimed at their management. Plan and execute an on-going
assessment that surfaces key strategic questions facing the Department and its sister
Departments within the California Resources Agency, gathers or develops data pertinent to
those questions, analyzes and interprets the data and proposes strategic options for
executive managers. Develop modeling approaches for assessment of forest management,
development patterns and associated impacts on habitat.
August 1986 to December 1989: Staff Ecologist, Development Alternatives, Inc. Bethesda,
Maryland. Scope natural resources projects in Africa and Asia, Develop proposals and
assemble implementation teams. Compile existing environmental data on rained agricultural
areas, model mixed farming systems, and assess feasibility of forestry and forage initiatives
in different sub-regions of the Punjab for the Master Plan Design for Barani Area
Development in Punjab, Pakistan for UNDP and the Asian Development Bank.
July 1980 to December 1982: Natural Resources Specialist, Guidimakha Integrated Rural
Development Project, Mauritania. Assess existing livestock production systems, establish
resource inventory, design and execute grazing and forage trials, develop agro forestry and
water management demonstration sites.
July 1973 to June 1978. Peace Corps Volunteer and USAID Project Assistant, Chad. Project
design, implementation and administration of potable water well installation project and
livestock training center.
Education:
1989 Ph.D. in Ecology from University of California, Davis. Areas of concentration:
agricultural ecology, population ecology, ruminant nutrition.
1980 M.S. in Range Science from Colorado State University. Areas of concentration: range
economics and resources planning.
1973 A.B. in Geography from Middlebury College. Areas of concentration: physical and urban
geography, operations research.
Publications:
Greenwood, G., 2007. The Third Pole of the Planet: the Mountain Research Initiative. In:
Schroder, J. (ed.), Mountains, Witness of Global Change. Elsevier, 275-280.
Knubel, D., Greenwood, G., 2007. The Organizational Matrix of Glacier Research and Policy.
In: Orlove, B., E. Weigandt, B. Luckman (eds.), Darkening Peaks. University of California
Press, in press.
Delmas, R., Wagnon, P., Greenwood, G., Brun, E., 2006. Table ronde sur l'impact de
changement climatique en montagne. In: Rapport de l’Assemblée Nationale no. 3021.
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Diaz, H., Villalba, R., Greenwood, G., Bradley, R., 2006. The Impact of Climate Change in the
American Cordillera. EOS 87(32): 315
Greenwood, Gregory B. 2006. What are the important global change issues in mountain
Biosphere Reserves? In: Proceeding of GLOCHAMORE Workshop on Sustainable Land Use
and Natural Resource Management in Mountain Regions, 14-17 March 2005, Granada.
UNESCO.
Greenwood, G., Drexler, C., 2006. Promoting Global Change Research in the American
Cordillera. Mountain Research and Development 26: 276-277 (MRI Newsletter no. 7).
Björnsen, A., Drexler, C., Greenwood, G., Price, M., 2005. GLOCHAMORE Update. Mountain
Research and Development 25: 282-283 (MRI Newsletter no. 5).
Bugmann, H. , Visconti, G., Tomassetti, B., Haeberli, W., Mandalia, L., Greenwood, G.,
Büchler, B., Björnsen Gurung, A., 2005. Projecting Global Change Impacts in Mountain
Regions. Thematic Workshop Report. MRI, Bern, 34 pp.
Ewert, Frank, Andrew Hansen and Greg Greenwood. (2005). Projecting land use and land
cover change relevant to mountain biosphere reserves. In: Workshop Report of
GLOCHAMORE Workshop on Projecting Global Change Impacts
In Mountain Biosphere Reserves, 29 November- 2 December 2004, L'Aquila.
Greenwood, G., 2005. Climate Science in the American West. Mountain Research and
Development 25: 80-81 (MRI Newsletter no. 4).
Greenwood, G., 2004. Coping with climate change in the mountains. In: Price, M. (ed.),
Conservation and Sustainable Development in Mountain Areas. IUCN, Switzerland and UK,
published for the World Conservation Forum at the 3rd World Conservation Congress, Nov.
2004, 29 pp.
California Resources Agency. 2003. Comments of the California Resources Agency on the
Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.
Sacramento: California Resources Agency. 20 p.
(see SN-1187 at http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/snfpa/final-seis/vol2/letters/ )
Saving, Shawn and Greg Greenwood. 2002. The potential impacts of development on
wildlands in El Dorado County, California. Pp. 443-461 In: Proceedings of the Fifth
Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Oaks in California's Changing Landscape. USDA Forest
Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-184.
(see http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/projects/eldo_buildout/abstractframes.html)
Greenwood, Gregory and Mark Nechodom. 2000. Institutional options for adaptive
management and post-Record of Decision analysis for the Sierra Nevada Framework.
Sacramento: California Resources Agency and USDA Forest Service. 8 p.
Greenwood, Greg and Shawn Saving. 1999. Current and future patterns of development in El
Dorado County: a case study. Sacramento: Fire and Resource Assessment Program. 27 p.
(see http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/projects/eldo_buildout/eldo_buildout.pdf).
Sapsis, David, Bernie Bahro, James Spero, John Gabriel, Russell Jones and Greg
Greenwood. 1996. An assessment of the current risks, fuels and potential fire behavior in the
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Sierra Nevada. Pp. 759-786. In: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final Report to Congress,
Vol. III, Assessments, commissioned reports and background information. Davis: University of
California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources.
Fire and Resources Assessment Program. 1995. Fire management for California
ecosystems. Sacramento: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. 24 p.
(see http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=1721).
Greenwood, Gregory B. 1995. Managing wildlands for biodiversity: paradigms and spatial
tools. Pp. 92-108. In: West, N. (ed.) Biodiversity on rangelands. Natural resources and
environmental issues, Vol. IV. Logan: Utah State University.
( see http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=1722)
Greenwood, Gregory and Robin Marose. 1993. GIS tools for the assessment of land use
impacts on biodiversity. Pp. 61-68. In: Keeley,J. Interface between ecology and land
development in California. Los Angeles: Southern California Academy of Sciences.
Greenwood, Gregory, Robin Marose and Janine Stenback. 1993. Extent and ownership of
California's hardwood rangeland. Sacramento: Forest and Range Resource Assessment
Program. 122 p.
(see http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=1764).
Greenwood, Greg, Helge Eng, Bob Motroni, Clay Brandow, Andy Richardson and Diane
Schallert. 1993. Vegetation projection and analysis of the cumulative effects of timber
harvest. Sacramento: Strategic Planning Program. 62 p.
(see http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=2196).
Rowntree, Rowan, Gregory Greenwood and Robin Marose. 1993. Land use development and
forest ecosystems: linking research and management in the Central Sierra. Pp. 389-398. In:
Ewert, Alan W., Deborah J. Chavez and Arthur W. Magill (eds.). Culture, conflict and
communication in the wildland-urban interface. Boulder: Westview Press.
M. Demment and G. Greenwood. 1988. Forage Ingestion: effect of sward characteristics and
body size. Journal of Animal Science 66:2380-2392.
G.B. Greenwood and M. W. Demment. 1988. The effect of fasting on short-term cattle grazing
behavior. Journal of Grass and Forage Science, 43(4): 377-386.
M.W. Demment, E.A. Laca and G.B. Greenwood. 1987. Intake in grazing ruminants: a
conceptual framework. Annual Report-Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station. 121:208225.
M.W. Demment and G. B. Greenwood. 1987. The use of a portable computer for real-time
recording of observations of grazing behavior in the field. Journal of Range Management
40(3):284-285.
Greenwood, G.B. 1986. Does Sahelian pastoral development include range managements?
Rangelands. 8(6):259-264.
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