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APPENDIX C
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PANEL MEMBERS
RALPH W. PHILLIPS retired in 1982 from the post of deputy director
general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy, a post he held for four years. Among
his earlier posts were that of professor and head, Animal Husbandry
Department, Utah State University; senior animal husbandman in
charge, Genetic Investigations, United States Department of Agri-
culture (USDA); chief, Animal Production Branch and deputy
director, Agriculture Division, FAO; and executive director, Inter-
national Organization Affairs, USDA. Among his special assignments
were: serving as consultant on animal breeding to the governments
of China and India for the U.S. Department of State in 1943~4; and
as scientific secretary for agriculture of the United Nations Confer-
ence on Science and Technology for the Benefit of Developing
Countries, in Geneva, Switzerland, 1962-63. Dr. Phillips holds a
B.S. degree in agriculture from Berea College (1930), M.A. (1931)
and Ph.D. (1934) degrees from the University of Missouri, and
Honorary D.Sc. degrees from Berea College and West Virginia
University. He has been awarded the Berea College Distinguished
Alumnus Award and the USDA's Distinguished Service Award. He
is author or coauthor of some 240 scientific papers, review papers,
chapters in books, and books on various aspects of physiology of
reproduction, genetics, livestock production, and international ag-
riculture. In his research, writings, and international activities, Dr.
Phillips has given particular attention to breeding in relation to the
environment and to the identification and conservation of valuable
animal genetic resources. He is also the author of a definitive history
of FAO entitled FAO: Its Origins, Formation and Evolution, 1945-
1981 and an autobiography, The World Was My Barnyard.
EDWARD S. AYENSU is currently senior advisor to the president of the
African Development Bank. He is also president of ESA Associates,
Washington, D.C., and former director of the Office of Biological
Conservation, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. A citizen
of Ghana, he received his B.A. in 1961 from Miami University in
Ohio, M.Sc. from The George Washington University in 1963, and
his Ph.D. in 1966 from the University of London. His research
interests cover many areas of tropical biology. An internationally
recognized expert on topics relating to science, technology, and
development, especially in developing countries, he has also pub-
lished extensively on tropical plants. Dr. Ayensu chairs and serves
as a member of many international bodies.
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BONNIE V. BEAVER, professor of small animal medicine and surgery,
Texas A&M University, College Station, is a specialist in animal
behavior and problem behaviors, especially in domestic and labo-
ratory animals. She received her B.S. and D.V.M. from the Uni-
versity of Minnesota and her M.S. from Texas A&M. In addition
to being a popular speaker at scientific meetings, she is the author
of five books and numerous book chapters and articles.
KURT BENIRSCHKE, professor of pathology and reproductive medicine,
University of California at San Diego, received his M.D. from the
University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1948. He served on the faculties
of Harvard and Dartmouth medical schools before coming to San
Diego in 1970. At the San Diego Zoo he initiated a research
department to advance knowledge in endangered species and now
serves as a trustee of that organization. He has written on compar-
ative mammalian cytogenetics, vanishing species, and human repro-
ductive pathology.
ROY D. CRAWFORD is professor of animal and poultry genetics at the
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
He received his B.S.A. from the University of Saskatchewan in
1955, his M.S. in animal genetics from Cornell University in 1957,
and his Ph.D. in poultry genetics from the University of Massachu-
setts in 1963. He was employed as a scientist with the Research
Branch of Agriculture Canada from 1957 to 1964 in Prince Edward
Island and Nova Scotia. He joined the faculty of the University of
Saskatchewan in 1964. He was made a fellow of the Agricultural
Institute of Canada in 1986 in recognition of his teaching and research
work. His research interests include single gene genetics of poultry,
and conservation of genetic resources in poultry and livestock. He
has discovered and studied many mutants in chickens; some of them
have biomedical importance, including one shown to be an animal
genetic model of human grand mat epilepsy; some of them are
potentially useful in food production, including an albinism mutant
that is being developed for autosexing of commercial chicken broilers.
He maintains a very large conservation collection of poultry genetic
resources at the University of Saskatchewan and has prepared an
inventory and assessment of Canada's poultry and livestock genetic
resources. Dr. Crawford is a member of the Expert Panel on Animal
Genetic Resources Conservation and Management, FAO/UNEP,
Rome, and is a member of the Animal Resources Committee,
Canadian Council on Animal Care, Ottawa. He serves on the
International Scientific Committee for the French journal Genetique,
Selection, Evolution. He is a member of the Rare Breeds Survival
Trust (UK) and is a board member of the American Minor Breeds
Conservancy (USA).
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TONY J. CUNHA, distinguished service professor emeritus, University
of Florida, Gainesville, and dean emeritus, California State Poly-
technic University, Pomona, received his Ph.D. at the University
of Wisconsin in 1944. He has given more than 100 lectures in
livestock feeding and nutrition in 40 foreign countries. He served as
chairman of the Animal Nutrition Committee of the National Acad
emy of Sciences and as a member of the NAS-NRC Board of
Agriculture and Renewable Resources, Latin American Science
Board, and as chairman of the livestock committee of two world
food studies by NAS-NRC. He served as a member of the organizing
committee for the first two World Conferences on Animal Production
in Rome (1963) and Washington, D.C. (19681. He served as a member
of the Title XII Board of International Food and Agricultural Joint
Committee on Research and as chairman of its research priorities
committee 1977-1981. He is author, editor, coeditor, or contributor
to 30 books and author of more than 1,423 scientific and professional
articles. He is a winner of 42 campus, state, national, and international
honors and awards.
DAVID E. DEPPNER, director of Trees for the Future in Silver Spring,
Maryland, has been a consultant for international development proj-
ects involving livestock and poultry management and marketing for
the past 14 years. He has served in 17 countries of Asia, Africa, and
Central America. He has written on processing livestock rations under
tropical conditions and about the Madurese breed of cattle found in
East Java, Indonesia, where he spent two years studying this ancient
breed. He is currently providing technical assistance to projects in
several countries for the development of improved forage production
as an answer to destruction of natural resources of tropical uplands
caused by overgrazing. He received his B.Sc. in animal science from
Ohio State University in 1954 and M.Sc. in livestock economics from
Araneta University, the Philippines, in 1977.
ELIZABETH L. HENSON is the director of the American Minor Breeds
Conservancy, based in Pittsboro, North Carolina. She received an
M.A. in zoology from Oxford University in 1980 and an M.Sc. in
domestic animal breeding from Edinburgh University in 1981. Her
primary interests are in the conservation of rare and endangered
breeds and varieties of domestic livestock as a genetic resource for
changing agricultural needs. She represented Britain at the first
international conference on domestic animal conservation in Hungary
in 1982, and was a member of the Office of Technology Assessment
Committee on grassroots strategies to maintain genetic diversity in
1985. She is executive secretary for four British breed associations
and is a member of the British Rare Breeds Survival Trust Technical
Panel.
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DONALD L. HUSS was regional animal production officer of the FAO
Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago,
Chile, before his retirement. He received a B.S. in 1949, an M.A.
in 1954, and a Ph.D. in 1959, all at Texas A&M University. He was
assistant professor of range management at Texas A&M before
joining the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) in 1967. He founded the FAO Regional Office's Small Animals
for Small Farms programme in 1980. Professional assignments and
travels in Latin America, the Caribbean. Near and Middle East, and
Africa have contributed to his knowledge and experience in micro-
livestock development. Dr. Huss was recognized by Texas A&M
University by being chosen as the recipient of the Memorial Student
Center Appreciation and Distinguished Service Awards in 1958 and
1960, respectively, and Honour Professor in the College of Agricul-
ture in 196~67. He also received the Society for Range Manage-
ment's Outstanding Service and Achievement Award in 1975 and
its Fellow Award in 1978.
DAVID RICHARD LINCICOME has been a guest scientist with the Animal
Parasitology Institute, United States Department of Agriculture
Experiment Station, Beltsville, Maryland, since 1978, having retired
as professor of parasitology, Howard University, Washington, D.C.,
in 1970. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees cum laude simul-
taneously in 1937 from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in
tropical medicine from the Tulane Medical School, New Orleans,
Louisiana, in 1941. His principal research interests have centered
around morphologic studies on Acanthocephala, molecular ex-
changes of dependent cells and their environments, and diagnosis
of parasitic diseases. He has been a breeder of Nubian and American
pygmy goats for the past 20 years. Dr. Lincicome is currently a
member of the Board of Directors of the American Dairy Goat
Association and is past president of the National Pygmy Goat
Association. He was founder and long time trustee of the American
Dairy Goat Association Research Foundation. He is also past
president of the Helminthological Society and currently serves the
society as archivist. He received the Helminthological Society's
Anniversary Award in 1975. He was founder and, for 27 years,
editor of the journal Experimental Parasitology, and is the author
and editor of more than 180 scientific contributions.
THOMAS E. LOVEJOY is a tropical biologist and ornithologist. He is
assistant secretary for external affairs, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. He was formerly executive vice president for the
World Wildlife Fund-U.S., chairman of the Wildlife Preservation
Trust International, and a member of two commissions of the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural
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Resources. At present, Dr. Lovejoy is a principal investigator of
the world's largest controlled ecological experiment, which is at-
tempting to determine the optimum size for parks and reserves. This
project, conceived and designed by Dr. Lovejoy, is called "the
Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems" and is a joint program of
World Wildlife Fund-U.S. and Brazil's National Institute for Amazon
Research. Dr. Lovejoy is also the principal advisor for NATURE
(WNET/THIRTEEN, New York), a series that he started in 1980.
As principal advisor, he recommends program content and oversees
the factual accuracy of the program scripts. A member of 11 scientific
societies, Dr. Lovejoy has received grants from 16 foundations and
institutions and written more than 100 articles for various national
and International publications. He has published three books, Key
Environments, Pergamon Press, Oxford; Nearctic Avian Migrants
in the Neotropics, a Department of the Interior publication; and
Conservation of Tropical Forest Birds, an ICPB publication. He is
currently working on The Magnificent Exception, a book on people
and the biosphere.
ARNE W. NORDSKOG is professor emeritus, Department of Animal
Science, Iowa State University. He received his B.S., M.S., and
Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota between 1937 and
1943. His training and principal area of research has been in
quantitative genetics, but by about 1960 his interests shifted to
immunogenetics and more recently to molecular genetics. He has
traveled widely, spending two years as an instructor in agriculture
at the University of Alaska (1937-39), and has been an NSF Research
Fellow at Cal Tech (1960), a visiting professor at the University of
Minnesota (1966), an FAO lecturer at the Indian Veterinary Institute
(1973), and an FAO-sponsored lecturer on poultry breeding in China
(19791. He has acted as a consultant to a commercial breeder in
Japan for 20 years. He has been the major professor at Iowa State
for more than 60 M.S. and Ph.D. candidates and has published more
than 150 scientific papers. Dr. Nordskog is an honorary member of
the Norwegian Poultry Breeding Association, a fellow of the Poultry
Science Association, and a fellow of the AAAS. In 1972, he was
the recipient of the Poultry Science Distinguished Service Research
Award.
LINDA M. PANEPINTO, swine research consultant, was director of the
Colorado State University Swine Laboratory through 1988. She
earned her B.S. in animal sciences at Colorado State University in
1972. In 1973 she joined the research team developing Yucatan
miniature swine at Colorado State University, where she was given
primary responsibility for colony management, protocol develop-
ment, and genetic selection programs. In 1977, she designed an
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experimental research program for the development of a line of
Yucatan pigs with a genetic propensity for exceptionally small size.
She has continued her work in that area and has developed the
Yucatan Micropig@, described elsewhere in this publication. Her
other major professional area of interest has been the design of
facilities and equipment for swine with emphasis on animal comfort
and minimizing stress. Her invention, known as the Panepinto Sling,
has been widely adopted as the primary restraint method for
numerous medical schools and research facilities using swine in the
laboratory. She has published extensively in the field.
KURT J. PETERS is professor of animal breeding and husbandry in the
tropics and subtropics, University of Gottingen, and is currently
director of research at the International Livestock Centre for Africa.
He received his Dr. Agr. degree from the Technical University of
Berlin in 1975. He has undertaken research in livestock production
development in Southeast Asia and Africa. The major focus of his
research has been small animals, with special attention given to the
potential of unconventional animals. Early in 1985 he assumed his
present position directing research at the International Livestock
Centre for Africa.
JOHN A. PINO is a senior fellow of the National Research Council,
Board on Agriculture, and is currently the project director of the
study "Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Impera-
tives." He received his B.S. in agriculture in 1944 47 and Ph.D. in
zoology in 1951 from Rutgers University. As an associate professor
he taught and did research in the Department of Poultry Science at
Rutgers until 1955 when he accepted a position with the Rockefeller
Foundation as animal scientist with the Mexican Agricultural Pro-
gram, becoming the associate director of that program in 1960. In
1965 he was transferred to the Rockefeller headquarters in New
York and became director of the Agricultural Science Program in
1970. Most of his career has been in international agricultural
development. He retired from the Foundation in 1983 and went to
Washington to become agricultural science advisor at the Inter-
American Development Bank until July 1986 when he accepted his
present position. Dr. Pino has been a member of the Board on
Agriculture since 1983 and previously from 1973 to 1977.
HUGH POPENOE is professor of soils, agronomy, botany, and geography,
and director of the Center for Tropical Agriculture and International
Programs (Agriculture) at the University of Florida. He received his
B.S. from the University of California at Davis in 1951 and his Ph.D.
in soils from the University of Florida in 1960. His principal research
interest has been in the area of tropical agriculture and land use.
His early work on shifting cultivation is one of the major contributions
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to this system. He has traveled and worked in most of the countries
in the tropical areas of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. His current
interests include improving indigenous agricultural systems of small
landholders, particularly with the integration of livestock and crops.
He was chairman of the Advisory Committee on Technology Inno-
vation and a member of the Board on Science and Technology for
International Development (under whose aegis this report is pre-
sented). He chaired the BOSTID report panels on water buffalo and
little-known Asian animals. Currently, he is on the International
Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation and serves
as U.S. Board Member for the International Foundation of Science.
MICHAEL HILL ROBINSON, director of the Smithsonian Institution's
National Zoological Park, is an animal behaviorist and a tropical
biologist. Before his appointment to the National Zoo, Dr. Robinson
served as deputy director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute in Panama, which he joined in 1966 as a tropical biologist.
He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University after being awarded
his B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Wales. His
scientific interests include predator-prey interactions, evolution of
adaptations, tropical biology, courtship and mating behavior, phen-
ology of arthropods, and freshwater biology. In the course of his
studies, Dr. Robinson has done research in the United States and
throughout the developing world. Recent publications include articles
on predator-prey interactions, tropical forest conservation, repro-
ductive behavior in spiders, and the function and purpose of zoos
in relation to education and conservation. Dr. Robinson's favorite
animals are cats, of all kinds.
KNUT SCHMIDT-NIELSON, J.B. Duke Professor of Physiology in the
Department of Zoology at Duke University, has studied animal
responses to extreme environmental conditions. His major emphasis
has been on life in hot deserts, and he is widely recognized for his
studies of camels and other desert animals. His research has involved
field studies in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Dr. Schmidt-Nielson has written several books, which have been
translated into more than a dozen languages, and he has published
several hundred research papers. He has been elected to the National
Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, the French Academic des
Sciences, and several other academies.
ALBERT E. SOLLOD, is associate professor and head of the international
veterinary medicine section at Tufts University School of Veterinary
Medicine. He is currently stationed in Niger as chief of party of the
integrated livestock project and policy advisor in the Ministry of
Animal Resources. He has consulted in 15 countries in Africa and
Asia, and his research interests include interdisciplinary systems
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analysis, indigenous pastoral technologies, monitoring change in
agricultural production systems, and monitoring and assessing drought
impact.
LEE M. TALBOT received his Ph.D. in geography and ecology from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1963 and has worked on
environmental and natural resource ecology and management in
over 110 countries. At present he is visiting fellow at the World
Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., and senior environmental
consultant to the World Bank. He carried out pioneering research
in Africa and elsewhere on the use of wild animals for food
production. He has written more than 180 scientific and technical
publications, including ten books and monographs.
CLAIR E. TERRILL, animal scientist, collaborator, Agricultural Research
Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Belts-
ville, Maryland, received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri
in 1936, served briefly at the Georgia Agricultural Experiment
Station, and joined the USDA at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station,
Dubois, Idaho, in the same year. His research concerned genetics
and reproduction of sheep, leading to national and international
responsibility regarding research and production of sheep, goats,
and other animals, with primary emphasis on increasing efficiency
of production of meat, wool, and other products.
CHRISTIAN M. WEMMER is assistant director for conservation and captive
breeding programs at the National Zoological Park and is also in
charge of the zoo's 3,100 acre Conservation and Research Center
in Front Royal, Virginia. He is vice chairman of the IUCN Deer
Specialist Group and a member of the Mustelid and Viverrid
Specialist Group of the same organization. His interest in evolution-
ary and conservation biology has been motivated by frequent travel
to South Asia and his role as scientific coordinator of the Smithsonian-
Nepal Terai Ecology Project. For the past 12 years he has coordinated
the development of facilities and programs at the Conservation and
Research Center and with Dr. R. Rudran has promoted conservation
training and wildlife research in developing nations. He has published
over 50 papers on various aspects of mammalian biology and
conservation and has co-edited with Benjamin Beck one book on
Pere David's deer. His edited volume "The Biology and Management
of the Cervidae" was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press.
DANNY C. WHARTON is associate curator, Animal Departments, at New
York Zoological Park, Bronx, New York. He received a B.S. from
the College of Idaho and an M.Sc. in 1975 from the School for
International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. His Ph.D. in biology
was earned at Fordham University. Dr. Wharton was a Peace Corps
.
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volunteer to Ecuador 1969-71 and a Fulbright scholar to Germany
197~77. His research interests have been in the genetic and de-
mographic management of small populations. He works on several
committees including the IUCN/SSC Captive Breeding Specialist
Group, Species Survival Plan Committee of the American Associ-
ation of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, and is species chairman
for the North American Propagation Group for the Snow Leopard.
CHARLES A. WOODS is curator of mammals at the Florida State Museum
and a professor of zoology at the University of Florida. He received
his B.S. in zoology from the University of Denver and his Ph.D. in
zoology from the University of Massachusetts. He worked at the
University of Vermont from 1970 to 1979 when he assumed his
present position at the University of Florida. His principle research
interests have been in the areas of mammalian ecology (Rodentia)
and systematics and evolution and he is especially concerned with
island biology. He has spent many years working in the West Indies
on a variety of projects and has worked closely with the government
of Haiti in establishing a plan for the National Parks of Haiti and in
completing a biogeophysical inventory of the natural resources of
Hispaniola. He is the ecological consultant for the Institut de
Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National in Haiti. He is the author of a
number of scientific articles on the fauna of the Antilles including a
multivolume series on the fauna of the mountains of Haiti.
THOMAS M. YUILL is associate dean for research and graduate training
of the School of Veterinary Medicine, assistant director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station, and professor of pathobiology and
of veterinary science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He
received his B.S. in wildlife management from Utah State University
in 1959 and his Ph.D. jointly in veterinary science and wildlife
ecology in 1964 from the University of Wisconsin. His principal
research interests are animal health and diseases of wildlife, including
those transmissible to domestic animals and to man. He worked in
Thailand for two years and has had active research programs in
Colombia for 17 years, and Costa Rica for 5 years. He has recently
become involved in animal health and production development in
the Gambia, West Africa. Dr. Yuill is an executive committee
member and immediate past president of the Organization for
Tropical Studies and currently serves as president of the Wildlife
Disease Association. He completed a five-year term as Chairman of
the U. S. Virus Diseases Panel of the U. S .-Japan Cooperative
Biomedical Sciences Program.
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