Alison Lipman

Alison Lipman is an ecologist who has worked in the conservation field for 20 years. She is co-founder and president of SELVA International, a locally based conservation non-profit run by Ph.D. ecologists. She has worked under contract with UCLA, the University of Georgia, the U.S. National Park Service, the California Dept. of Fish & Game, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Bolivian National Park Service, various NGOs in the U.S. and South America, and as a private consultant.

In addition to publishing in scientific journals, she is currently writing a popular-science conservation book. Dr. Lipman earned her Ph.D. in ecology in 2008 at the Odum School of Ecology, at the University of Georgia.