Alan Fox, Ph.D., Senior Economist
Gretchen Greene, Ph.D., Senior Economist
Jeri A. Sawyer, M.S., Economist
Miriam Z. Hammer, M.S., Economist
Suzanne Rock , GIS Coordinator
Kyla Larson, Administrative/GIS Assistant
Shelly Christensen, Administrative Assistant
Jim Scovil, Accountant

Suzanne Rock , GIS Coordinator
Ms. Rock has over 25 years of experience collecting and analyzing data related to timber, wildlife and fisheries habitat, water rights, and land use planning. Since joining NEA in 1991, Ms. Rock has been responsible for data collection, verification, quality control, storage, and presentation of resource information in the ArcInfo™ GIS environment. These projects have been conducted for Indian tribes, federal agencies, and private firms. Many of these analyses have been used as support for litigation or negotiation and have required exacting accuracy and quality control.

Ms. Rock has extensive experience using ArcInfo™ software and performing GIS analysis. She has used GIS to analyze the economic feasibility of irrigation on agricultural lands on a number of Indian reservations, and has developed maps and databases for use in water rights adjudications and as support material for NEPA studies.

Since 1997, Ms. Rock has managed the GIS and field collection activities for a large research project for the National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. (NCASI). This has involved the coordination of GIS data from ten private timber companies and eight federal and state contributors. Vegetation and the movement activities of Northern spotted owls are modeled in GIS using telemetry and vegetation attributes to compute the habitat requirements before and after silvicultural modifications.

Prior to joining NEA, Ms. Rock held positions with the U.S. Forest Service, first as a fisheries specialist conducting surveys and computer analysis, then as a wildlife specialist, where she managed surveys and GIS mapping for threatened and endangered species. She also spent 12 years with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, conducting habitat and population surveys in anadromous fisheries, and served as the state data coordinator for the Pacific Coast Fisheries Information Network (PacFIN).