Section Officers
President: Megan A. Linske, Ph.D.
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Department of Entomology
Office: 203-974-8490
Email: Megan.Linske@ct.gov
President-elect: Budd Veverka, CWB®
Mianus River Gorge, Inc.
Email: budd@mianus.org
Secretary: Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker, Ph.D.
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Office: 315-470-6573
Email: amparker@esf.edu
Treasurer: Scott Williams
The Connecticut Agricultural Experimentation Station
Department of Forestry and Horticulture
Email: scott.williams@ct.gov
Members-at-Large
Emily Domoto, CWB® – Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry
Emily Boyd – Pennsylvania Game Commission
Section Representative: Duane Diefenbach, Ph.D.,CWB®
Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Email: DRD11@psu.edu
Historical List of Section Officers:
The Northeast Section of The Wildlife Society was founded in 1937 and, other than during the war years of the 1940s, has been led by an elected Executive Committee. The Section Archivist, James Cardoza, along with Jim Anderson and Scott Williams, compiled a complete list of Section Officers over the Section’s history.
Other Officers and Committees
Chapter Representatives
Maine Chapter
Caroline Byrne (President)
Maryland-Delaware Chapter
Eric Ness (President)
Email: mddechapter@gmail.com
New England Chapter
Susan McCarthy (President)
New Jersey Chapter
Brian Kirkpatrick (President)
Eric Schrading, CWB® (Chapter Rep.)
New York Chapter
Budd Veverka, CWB® (President)
Pennsylvania Chapter
Craig Hicks (President)
Emily Thomas (Chapter Rep.)
West Virginia Chapter
Mack Frantz (President)
Committee Contacts
Audit Committee
Mitch Hartley, Ph.D., Chair
Email: Mitch_hartley@fws.gov
Awards Committee
Budd Veverka, CWB®, Chair
Communications Committee
Tara McElhinney, Newsletter Editor (outgoing)
Nicole Lewis, Newsletter Editor (incoming)
Ken MacKenzie, Webmaster
Email: Ken.mackenzie@state.ma.us
Scott Williams, NE Representative to TWP
Email: scott.williams@ct.gov
Conservation Affairs Committee
Karen Stackpole, Chair
Operations Committee
Tim Green, CWB®, Chair
Email: tgreen@bnl.gov
Student Affairs Committee
Ross Conover, Ph.D., Chair
Laken Ganoe, Student Development Working Group Rep.
Email: lsganoe11@gmail.com
Bill Healy, Ph.D., CWB®, Field Course Representative
Email: healybg@hotmail.com
John McDonald, Ph.D., Field Course (Alternate)
Email: twsmcdonald@gmail.com
Wordshop (ad hoc) Committee
Megan Linske, Chair
Email: megan.linske@ct.gov