David C. Anderson, MLS (rockydel@quiknet.com), after serving for many years as a librarian at the UC Davis Health Sciences Library, became librarian for the UC Center for Animal Alternatives and the Center for Animals in Society in 1992. He established the specialized library collections of these two centers and developed a series of bibliographic resources for dissemination on information related to human-animal interactions, animal welfare, and animal alternatives. He also founded and edited ten volumes of Interactions of Man & Animals, later known as Humans & Other Species (1990-1999), and continues as publisher of Rockydell Resources in Penryn, California.
 

Robert H. I. Dale, PhD (rdale@butler.edu), is a professor of psychology, and department head, at Butler University in Indianapolis. He has studied memory and social abilities in captive African elephants for about seven years, with most of his work done at the Indianapolis Zoo. His colleagues include Dr. Melissa Shyan at Butler University, and Ms. Deborah Olson, Mr. David Hagan, and Mr. Jeffrey Peterson at the Indianapolis Zoo. Previously he studied learning and memory for 15 years with rats, pigeons, mice and humans as subjects.
 

Karen Emanuelson, DVM (karen@oaklandzoo.org), graduated from UC Davis in 1986. She completed an internship at Whipsnade Zoo, Zoological Society of London. She also was co-owner of Cottage Veterinary Hospital, a mixed exotic practice in California, for 7 years. She has served as interim faculty clinician at the UC Davis Zoological Medicine Service while working concurrently with the Oakland Zoo. Currently she is the full-time, Senior Veterinarian at the Oakland Zoo.
 

Laurie J. Gage, DVM (Wetwildvet@aol.com), has been the chief veterinarian for Six Flags Marine World (formerly Marine World Africa USA) since 1980. She was the Director of Veterinary Services at the Marine Mammal Center from 1980 through 1994, and has been a veterinary consultant to the Coyote Point Museum and to Safari World in Bangkok, Thailand. She graduated from UC Davis in 1979, and is an associate clinical professor at UC Davis.
 

Thomas E. Goodwin (goodwin@hendrix.edu) received a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Arkansas. He then did research on a post-doctoral fellowship at Rice University and as a Research Scientist with Conoco Chemicals, and taught subsequently at Texas A & M University. He has been at Hendrix College since 1978, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Goodwin is a member of the American Chemical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Elephant Manager's Association. He is a former Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Heterocyclic Compounds, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Scholar, and President of the Council on Undergraduate Research. He is a Board Member of Riddle's Elephant Sanctuary in Greenbrier, Arkansas. In 1998, Dr. Goodwin received the Mellor Award in Chemical Education from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has been happily married to his wife, Cathy, for 30 years. They have two sons, Daniel and Matthew, a daughter-in-law, Mary, and a new grandson, Jackson.
 

Hank Hammatt obtained his degree in international trade and finance. After many years in business, he purchased 30 acres in the rainforest of southern Belize where he is establishing a botanical garden. He has been working with Dr. Mikota for the past 3 years and has been instrumental in helping to develop the program that they will discuss today.
 

Benjamin L. Hart, DVM, PhD (blhart@ucdavis.edu)., has been on the faculty at the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis since completing his degrees at the University of Minnesota. His clinical work on companion animal behavior emphasizes research on treating behavior problems and understanding cognitive impairment with aging in dogs. In more basic work he has developed laboratory and field methods to examine the behavioral defenses animals use against pathogens and parasites. Wood rats, various species of antelopes, and elephants are among the animals he has studied in the context of assessing their tactics for controlling parasites. The study of fly switching to control biting flies in elephants has led to his recent interest in tool use in elephants.
 

Lynette Hart (lahart@ucdavis.edu) completed an MA degree at UC Berkeley in educational psychology and a PhD at Rutgers University in zoology and animal behavior. At UC Davis she is in the Department of Population Health and Reproduction. She also has directed the Center for Animals in Society and currently directs the UC Center for Animal Alternatives. In addition to research involving elephants, her basic studies of animal behavior in African ungulates emphasize grooming behavior and chemosensory communication (flehmen behavior; vomeronasal organ function).
 

Wendy Koch, DVM ( V.W.Koch@usda.gov) received a BA in liberal arts/zoology (behavior) from the University of Texas at Austin and then graduated from veterinary school at Texas A&M University in 1981. She spent 7 years in the Army at various posts, including Turkey, and then joined the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service as a Veterinary Medical Officer in Oklahoma. In 1990, she became an Animal Care Specialist in the Western Regional Office in Sacramento where she provides technical, administrative and supervisory support for the professional and lay personnel who inspect research facilities, exhibitors, dealers, carriers etc., in California and Nevada.
 

Ramesh Krishnamurthy, PhD (rkrishna@uop.edu), completed undergraduate degrees at both Oregon State University and Bangalore University, India. He then completed advanced degrees in wildlife science and anthropology at Oregon State, focusing on vocalization patterns and habitat in Francois' langurs and lion-tail macaques in Karnataka, India. In 1995 he began research in medical informatics and physical anthropology, and developed technology facilitating web access to the scientific archives of Linus Pauling. He has continued providing leadership in information technology since joining the University of the Pacific in 1999, where he is Assistant Dean of the School of International Studies.
 

Kim Luikart (kagubanich@ucdavis.edu) received her BS in Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno. She has worked for 4 years as an elephant trainer with Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, CA and John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks, NV. She is currently a veterinary student at UC Davis pursuing zoological and wildlife medicine. She is working on this project under the sponsorship of Dr. Susan M. Stover, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology at UC Davis.
 

Brenda McCowan (bmccowan@ucdavis.edu) received her PhD in Biological Anthropology from Harvard University in 1994. She is currently Assistant Research Professor of Animal Behavior with the Department of Population Health & Reproduction and the Veterinary Medicine Teaching & Research Center of UC Davis. She has investigated the structure, organization and functions of vocal communication in a wide variety of mammalian species and developed new quantitative bioacoustic techniques that are being applied to the calls of several mammalian species. Her research focuses on the behavioral ecology and evolution of vocal communication in mammals and the development of noninvasive bioacoustic technologies that will enhance wildlife conservation, captive wild animal well-being, and domesticated animal health, production and welfare.
 

Mike McCoy (mcmccoy@ucdavis.edu) is Co-Director of the Information Center for the Environment at UC Davis, one of the largest public natural resource information providers in the United States. He has developed over 400 short courses and conferences on contemporary issues in environmental assessment, including programs on endangered species, watershed assessment, water quality control, land use planning, fire ecology and environmental economics. For the past 5 years he has served as Principal investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or Academic Administrator for $7 million in contracts and grants awarded to projects involving the collection, aggregation, interpretation and dissemination of environmental information via the Internet.
 

Susan Mikota (smikota@acres.org) obtained her DVM from the University of Illinois. She has spent most of her career at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, first as the staff veterinarian, and then as Director of Veterinary Services. Dr. Mikota is the clinical veterinary advisor to the Elephant Species Survival Plan, a program of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association. She recently resigned her position as the Director of Veterinary Research and Animal Health at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species to move to Sumatra to initiate a healthcare and conservation program for Sumatran elephants.
 

Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell (oconnell@bing.Stanford.edu) completed an MS at the University of Hawaii and obtained her PhD in Ecology at the University of California, Davis under Dr. Lynette Hart and Dr. William J. Hamilton. Her dissertation focused on elephant ecology and behavior and elephant/human conflict dynamics. Two key papers resulting from these studies include:

O'Connell-Rodwell, C. E., Arnason, B., Hart, L. A. Seismic properties of elephant
    vocalizations and locomotion. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 108(6)(2000, in press).
O'Connell-Rodwell, C. E., Rodwell, T., Rice, M. & Hart, L. The modern conservation
    paradigm: Can agricultural communities co-exist with elephants? (Five-year case study
    in East Caprivi, Namibia). Biol. Conserv. 93:381-391 (2000).

Dr. L.E.L. (Bets) Rasmussen, Ph.D. (betsr@bmb.ogi.edu), has centered her research on conspecific mammalian chemocommunication, especially on the elucidation of structures of compounds functioning as pheromones in Asian elephants. As a neurochemist utilizing trace analytical analyses adapted from the insect pheromone and plant volatile fields, she has published 30 papers in refereed journals on the linkage between chemical signals and specific behaviors in elephants.
 

Jo-Ann Shelton, PhD (jshelton@humanitas.ucsb.edu), is a Professor of Classics and Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has been a faculty member since 1972. Since 1997, she has been Chair of the Environmental Studies Program. Dr. Shelton is a social and cultural historian with a particular interest in the human use of and attitudes toward animals in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. One focus of her research is the investigation of when, why, and how humans grant moral consideration to other species. Articles include: "Elephants, Pompeii, and the Reports of Popular Displeasure in 55 B. C." (1999), "The Contributions of Ancient Greek Philosophy to the Modern Debate about Animal Use"(1998), "Contracts with Animals in Lucretius' *De Rerum Natura*" (1995).
 

Patricia Simonet, PhD (psimonet@sierranevada.edu), has research interests in animal behavior and animal cognition. Recent and current research includes studies of self-recognition in Asian elephants using the mirror-mark test, cultural transmission of a problem solving behavior in golden hamsters, reconciliation in captive chimpanzees, sharing in captive chimpanzees, and the significance of vocalizations during play in domestic dogs.

Raman Sukumar, PhD (rsuku@ces.iisc.ernet.in), serves as a faculty member at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India, and is Chair of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group and Honarary Director of the Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre. He is well known for his classic work protrayed in, "The Asian Elephant: Ecology and Management"(1989, Cambridge Press), a book that heralded the looming crisis in habitat for Asian elephants, provided the basic data on behavior, and documented the extent and sources of human-elephant conflict. Since then his interests have broadened to some larger ecological questions on the dynamics of tropical forests and the impacts of climate change on the forests.
 

Karen (Beardsley) Willett (kbwillett@ucdavis.edu) received a BS in applied mathematics from UC Davis before joining the Peace Corps and teaching math and science at a Kenyan secondary school for two years. She then worked in Nairobi with Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton to update the GIS-based African Elephant Database just prior to the 1989 CITES meeting (when the African elephant was placed on Appendix I). After returning to the US and working for the US Bureau of Reclamation as a GIS specialist for a year, she returned to graduate school at UC Santa Barbara, where she received a masters degree in Geography. Karen then returned to Kenya in 1993 for 2 months as a consultant and made recommendations to the African Elephant Specialist Group on ways to enhance the African Elephant Database. Since late 1993, Karen has worked for the Information Center for the Environment at UC Davis as a GIS analyst and manager. For one year during 1999-2000, Karen worked as GIS specialist for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo in New York.
 

Lisa Wingate (lwingate@ix.netcom.com) completed a BSc in psychology from University of Toronto in 1988 and later completed a DVM at Cornell University. Since 1999 she has been enrolled in a PhD program in reproductive physiology, working with Bill Lasley, and focusing on the behavioral endocrinology of musth in elephants.
 

George Wittemyer (georgew@nature.berkeley.edu) is a second year graduate student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. During the past four years, he has been involved with elephant conservation in Africa and established the Samburu Elephant Research Project in northern Kenya. He is conducting his graduate research on the social structure and motivation for movements of the Samburu population, in affiliation with Save the Elephants and the Kenya Wildlife Service.
 

Mary W. Wood, MLS (mwwood@ucdavis.edu), completed her library studies at UC Berkeley and has worked in scientific libraries for over twenty years, particularly at UC Davis. Since 1997 she has overseen the special collection at the UC Center for Animal Alternatives. She develops efficient bibliographic resources relating to animal care and welfare, animal alternatives, and human relationships with animals. By creating search templates on these topics, and presenting them in a web gateway to the information, she demonstrates that resources can be user-friendly. She has established and maintains a web-based gateway on laboratory animal alternatives that emphasizes environmental enrichment and refinement for mice. She recently created two gateways on companion animals, one addressing their welfare and another on animal-assisted therapy. Each gateway features search templates, stored and embedded search instructions that are employed by all subsequent users of the website to automate a new, up-to-date search on the particular topic.