Cortex-Team

Team

Melissa Hadley is a certified project management professional, trained facilitator, registered professional forester, certified teacher, and adult educator with a broad understanding of forest science and forest sector issues. Her recent projects include tenure policy analysis, management of multi-stakeholder processes, scientific and technical communications, and instructional design.

Doug Williams has acted as a consultant to private industry, governments and international agencies on issues of the forest sector and forest products trade. He has presented workshops and training courses on forest sector planning and trade modeling, and has taught university courses in mathematical programming, and multivariate statistical analysis.

Andrew Howard is a senior partner with extensive experience in analytical methods, program review, and project management.He practices in the areas of forest economics and taxation, forest policy, plantation and natural forest management, growth and yield modeling, resource valuation, timber harvesting, wood processing, community forestry, tropical forest management and silviculture, forest certification, environmental due diligence, greenhouse gas accounting and emissions verification, and sustainability reporting and verification.

Michael Buell is a information technology specialist and professional forester with expertise in aspatial and spatial timber supply modeling, geographic information systems (GIS), and relational database management systems (RDBMS). His recent projects include aspatial and spatial modeling using FSSIM, Woodstock, Stanley, and SELES to support the Coast Information Team and British Columbia’s Central Coast and Haida Gwaii/ Queen Charlotte Islands land-use planning processes.

Edward Gin is a systems analyst with a forestry degree and information technology diploma. His recent projects include financial systems and contract monitoring support to two multi-stakeholder processes; Website support for the Forest Science Board and Forest Genetics Council; and GIS analysis of spotted owl habitat, Vancouver Island ecological representation, and the Haida Gwaii/ Queen Charlotte Islands draft land-use plan.

Mark Hafer is a natural resource analyst with a Masters degree in Forest Resources Management, and a Bachelors degree in Systems and Computer Engineering. He is registered as a Professional Engineer in the province of British Columbia. Mark has over twelve years of experience applying advanced technologies to modeling, analysis, and application development in the British Columbia natural resource sector. His background includes timber supply analysis and modeling in both the spatial and aspatial domains, advanced GIS analysis and application development.

Sharon Heidt is the Cortex company administrator. Her professional experience includes office management, administrative support, and personnel training. Ongoing projects include accounts management, office personnel assistance, client communications, and event coordination.

Richard Rawling is a graphic designer with training in engineering and visual arts. He is experienced with a variety of computer-based design, illustration, and image processing systems. His recent projects include art direction and design for institutional Websites, software user interfaces, promotional brochures, and even children's educational games. He is also experienced in thematic mapping and information graphics illustration.

Jason Smith is a landscape ecologist with expertise in quantitative analysis of ecological datasets and spatial modeling of landscape processes. His recent projects include identifying understory plant species associated with late-successional forests of coastal B.C. and explaining their distribution among sites and seral stages, assessing existing resource inventory datasets and remote-sensing data for their potential to predict the occurrence of stand attributes important to Northern Spotted Owl, and developing spatially explicit habitat and territory models for Northern Goshawk on Haida Gwaii.

Glenn Sutherland is a systems ecologist with extensive experience in spatial modeling and habitat analysis, endangered species conservation, and forest management issues. His recent projects include developing a spatially explicit habitat management and population modeling framework for the Northern Spotted Owl in B.C., population modeling and risk assessments for Marbled Murrelets in B.C., developing a landscape-level snag and CWD dynamics model, coarse-filter risk assessments for coastal multi-stakeholder land-use planning tables, and ecological representation analyses.