Science Advisory Board

By John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis

The Powell Center Science Advisory Board (SAB) reviews incoming proposals and makes recommendations to the Directors, who then make the final decisions about which proposals to support. SAB members may not be subject matter experts, so prospective proposals should be written in ways that are understandable and compelling to non-specialists.

2019 Powell Center Science Advisory Board

Science Advisory board member group photo

Proposal Resources

Leslie Hsu Physical Scientist Powell Center Interim Director U.S. Geological Survey Dr. Hsu is physical scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey in the Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) Program. Her interests include geomorphology, active tectonics, sediment experiment data, geoinformatics and data science, and virtual communities of practice. She is interim director of the John Wesley Powell Center for Earth System Science Analysis and Synthesis, and coordinator of the USGS Community for Data Integration.	Media Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media Details
Media Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media Details	Jill Baron Ecosystem Ecologist Powell Center Past Director U.S. Geological Survey Dr. Baron is an ecosystem ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and a Senior Research Ecologist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. Her interests include applying ecosystem concepts to management of human-dominated regions, and understanding the biogeochemical and ecological effects of climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition to mountain ecosystems. She is past director of the John Wesley Powell Center for Earth System Science Analysis and Synthesis.
Marty Goldhaber Senior Scientist Emeritus Powell Center Science Advisor U.S. Geological Survey Dr. Goldhaber is geochemist and an Emeritus Senior Scientist at the USGS where he received the Department of the Interior Meritorious Service and Presidential Rank Awards. He has served a rotation as the Chief Scientist for Geology and has also served as co-chair of the USGS Science Strategy Team which was charged with defining key strategic directions for the USGS. His current research is on the evolution of the broad ‘geochemical landscapes’ resulting from the interplay of geologic, geomorphologic, hydrologic, and biologic processes. Geochemical landscape studies are underway in the Sacramento Valley of California, and the Prairie Pothole region of the north central U.S. and southern Canada.	Media Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media Details
Media Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media Details	Charles Yackulic Research Statistician U.S. Geological Survey Dr. Yackulic is a research statistician with the US Geological Survey’s Southwest Biological Science and Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Centers in Flagstaff, AZ. His research primarily focuses on developing and fitting statistical models that integrate multiple data sources, link environmental drivers and management actions to population and ecosystem processes, and can be used to make near and long term forecasting of system dynamics under different management alternatives. Areas of particular interest include species distribution dynamics, population dynamics, interspecific interactions, animal movement, food web dynamics and river metabolism.
Toni Lyn Morelli Research Ecologist U.S. Geological Survey Dr. Morelli is a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey, based at the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center. She earned her B.S. in Zoology at Michigan State University and her Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolution at Stony Brook University. She has been studying the impacts of global change in the U.S. and Africa for over 20 years. She is the co-founder and lead of the Refugia Research Coalition (climaterefugia.org) and the international Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Management Network (risccnetwork.org), and is a pioneer in the field of Translational Ecology, which was developed to improve the impact of scientific research in addressing environmental problems. She spends any spare time taking care of a relentless 10-year-old and helping lead 7 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility committees.	Media Sources/Usage: Some content may have restrictions. View Media Details
Media Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media Details	Kate Campbell Research Chemist U.S. Geological Survey Dr. Campbell is a research chemist at the USGS in the Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center in Denver, CO. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with a focus in biogeochemistry from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Her research focuses on the geochemistry, mineralogy, and microbiology of metals during mineral resource activities, including (bio)remediation and novel methods for metal recovery from mine waste. She also builds geochemical reactive transport models that incorporate microbial processes relevant to active and legacy mine sites.