George Wittemyer

George Wittemyer is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University and serves as the Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Kenya based organization Save the Elephants. His research group focuses on biodiversity conservation issues, with an emphasis on determining how landscape, human, and climate impact demography, distribution, behavior and movement of at risk wildlife populations. He completed his PhD in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005 focusing on elephant ecology and conservation. He joined the IUCN's African Elephants Specialist Group in 2008 and currently serves as a technical advisor on elephants to the Kenya Wildlife Service. He and his students work on a diversity of systems in North America, Africa, and Asia.