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Get in touch with SECAS staff
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Get to know your SECAS staff, and get in touch!

Coordination

The SECAS Coordinator and Science Coordinator help keep the SECAS partnership and its products on track.

  • Rua Mordecai, Science Coordinator & Interim Coordinator

    Rua is based in Raleigh, NC. He coordinates the Southeast Conservation Blueprint and takes the lead on tracking progress toward the SECAS goal. He works closely with the SECAS Points of Contact, as well as all the staff and partners working on the Southeast Blueprint. While the SECAS Coordinator position is vacant, he also helps set the overall strategic direction for SECAS and clear barriers to landscape-scale collaboration, working closely with the SECAS Executive Steering Committee. Contact Rua at [email protected].

Blueprint User Support

Have a question about the Blueprint, or want to use it in your work to support a grant proposal or inform a conservation decision? User support staff are here to help (for free)! They also help incorporate your feedback into future Blueprint revisions and improve the online interfaces for accessing Blueprint data.

  • Alex Lamle, Blueprint User Support Specialist

    Alex is based in Atlanta, GA. She has experience helping with aquatic connectivity and river restoration, urban conservation, and prescribed fire. Contact Alex at [email protected].

    States/territories served: GA, AL, MS, TX, OK, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands

  • Hilary Morris, Blueprint User Support & Communications Specialist

    Hilary is based in Raleigh, NC. She coordinates communications for SECAS, which involves everything from managing the website and newsletter, to documenting Blueprint methods. On the user support side, she has experience helping with strengthening grant applications, public lands planning, conservation partnerships, and city/county planning. Contact Hilary at [email protected].

    States served: VA, NC, SC, GA

  • Louise Vaughn, Blueprint User Support Specialist

    Louise is based in Raleigh, NC. She has experience helping with facilitation, conservation planning, and conservation partnerships at regional, state, and local scales. Louise also works to integrate green assets and nature-based solutions to support community resiliency. Contact Louise at [email protected].

    States/territories served: NC, FL, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands

  • Emily Granstaff, Blueprint User Support Specialist

    Emily is based in Cookeville, TN. She has experience helping with aquatic species conservation, private lands habitat restoration, conservation partnerships, cartography and data management, and strengthening grant proposals. Contact Emily at [email protected].

    States served: KY, TN, VA, WV, AL

  • Chris DeVore, Blueprint User Support Specialist

    Chris is based in Cookeville, TN. He has experience helping with strengthening grant proposals, regulatory planning for federally listed and at-risk species, aquatic species conservation, coastal habitat evaluation and restoration, and conservation partnerships. Contact Chris at [email protected].

    States served: AR, MS, KY, TN, VA

  • Adam Malcomb, Blueprint User Support Specialist

    Adam is based in Lafayette, LA and is a great first stop if you're not sure who to talk to! He has experience in conservation planning for private land habitat restoration and enhancement, longleaf pine management, environmental evaluation, tribal communications, cartography, and conservation partnerships. Contact Adam at [email protected].

    States served: LA, AR, MO

  • Kayla Feist, Blueprint User Support Technician

    Kayla is based in Conway, AR. She helps promote the Blueprint and assists the team of user support specialists in various aspects of their work.

  • Wow, that's a lot of options. Not sure who to contact? Start with Adam at [email protected] and he'll put you in touch with the best person to help.

Blueprint GIS Staff

Blueprint GIS support staff work to improve the underlying spatial data and methods of the Southeast Blueprint. They develop and test indicators of ecosystem health, refine the Blueprint connectivity analysis, run the Blueprint prioritization models, and more.

  • Amy Keister, Blueprint GIS Specialist

    Amy is based in Raleigh, NC. She helps coordinate the underlying spatial data, modeling, and data management for the Southeast Blueprint, and works to develop and improve the underlying data and methods. She also assists with data anlaysis for Blueprint user support. Contact Amy at [email protected].

  • Blair Tirpak, Blueprint GIS Specialist

    Blair is based in Falls Church, VA. She works on developing and improving data for the Southeast Blueprint, with a focus on coastal resources in the Gulf of Mexico. She also helps with data analysis for user support. Contact Blair at [email protected].

  • Jose Barrios, Blueprint GIS Specialist

    Jose is based in Atlanta, GA. He works on developing and improving data for the Southeast Blueprint, with a focus on developing spatial tools and online viewers. Contact Jose at [email protected].

  • Yvonne Allen, Blueprint GIS Specialist

    Yvonne is based in Taos, NM. She works on developing and improving data for the Southeast Blueprint, with a focus on fisheries, aquatic conservation, and remote sensing. Contact Yvonne at [email protected].