Steering Committee

The ECODIVE Steering Committee includes the PI team, representatives from our partner organizations, and experts in conference planning and engagement. The Steering Committee will help to ensure that the outcomes of our evaluation are useful and applicable to to needs and concerns of professional societies in ecology and environmental science. In addition, members will share their practical, experiential knowledge about organizing conferences with different modalities and serving diverse memberships.

Beth Beard

Senior Communications Manager, American Fisheries Society

DaJoie Croslan

Chief Operations and Diversity Officer, American Institute of Biological Sciences

Megan Fork

ECODIVE PI 

Assistant Professor, West Chester University

Cameron Kovach, J.D., M.E.L.P., AWB®

Director of Operations, The Wildlife Society

Lauren Kuehne

ECODIVE PI

Omfishient Consulting, LLC

Bethany Laursen

ECODIVE Evaluator

Laursen Evaluation and Design (LEAD), LLC

Ashley Moerke

Past President, Society for Freshwater Science

Executive Director, Center for Freshwater Research and Education at Lake Superior State University

Jane Rogosch

ECODIVE PI

U.S. Geological Survey, Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit 

Texas Tech University

Adrienne Sponberg

ECODIVE PI

Society Programs Director, Ecological Society of America