ANDREW JAY NOSS
1405 NW 38th Street
Gainesville, FL 32605
352-672-6422
Work Experience
Santa Fe College, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Geography. Room A-207i, 3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville, FL 32606-6210. July 2013-present.
University of Florida, Department of Geography, Courtesy Associate Professor, Turlington Hall, P.O. Box 117315, Gainesville FL 32611-7315, 352-392-0494. March 2012-present.
Paragon Philanthropy, Advisors in Global Giving, Senior Advisor, 701 Broderick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117; 415-670-9333. January 2012-present.
Advise Paragon Philanthropy clients including FUNDESNAP (Bolivia protected areas fund) on relations with donors in the United States.
Wildlife Conservation Society, Bata, Equatorial Guinea. Consultant—Coastal protected areas management plans. March-June 2012.
Advise and support INDEFOR-AP (National Parks Service, within the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests) in the implementation of the Río Campo Natural Reserve Management Plan. Prepare draft management plans for the Punta Llende Natural Reserve, the Playa Nendyi Scientific Reserve, and the Montes Temelón Natural Reserve.
Wildlife Conservation Society, Quito, Ecuador. Project Director—Integrated Management of Indigenous Lands Project. July 2007-December 2011.
Direct a 4-year, $6.095 million USAID-funded project to support consolidation and integrated management of Waorani, Kichwa, Cofán, Awá, Chachi, Secoya, Sápara and Pasto indigenous territories in Amazon and Chocó regions respectively. The support to the Awá and Cofán peoples extends into neighboring Colombia. Coordinate joint programs with indigenous organizations (FCAE, NAWE, AMWAE, FEINCE, FSC, FICCKAE, FECCHE, NASE, Mesa Permanente Cofán) and other partners (Fundación Altrópico, Fundación VIHOMA, Fundación Naturaleza & Cultura Internacional, FOCAO, FEPP, Ecodecisión, Geoplades, WWF, CI, TNC, Rainforest Alliance, CARE, DED). Supervise technical and administrative reporting to USAID.
Wildlife Conservation Society, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Coordinator—Santa Cruz. December 2002-June 2007.
Coordinate administration of WCS-Bolivia activities in Santa Cruz: Kaa-Iya Project in Chaco with Capitanía de Alto y Bajo Isoso (CABI), Program for the Conservation of the Chiquitano Forest with Fundación para la Conservación del Bosque Chiquitano, Confauna with Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum, Fundación DeSdelChaco (Paraguay).
Wildlife Conservation Society, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Conservation Zoologist. April 1996-June 2007.
Direct community wildlife management program of Kaa-Iya Project. Train and supervise field researchers: professional biologists, graduate and undergraduate thesis projects, undergraduate field and laboratory practicals, community para-professionals and volunteers, short courses. Direct socio-economic research on natural resource exploitation (subsistence hunting, fishing, commercial hunting) by indigenous groups, evaluation with respect to other economic activities. Direct biological research on game species, endangered species, landscape species, wildlife and livestock health. Develop long-term sustainable exploitation program with 24 Izoceño communities in Isoso Indigenous Territory. Direct complementary biodiversity research and monitoring in Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park.
World Bank, Washington, D.C. Consultant, Population and Human Resources Department. Nov. 1989-Aug. 1991.
Analyzed effects of structural adjustment lending on education and labor markets in developing countries. Authored review of the literature on education and structural adjustment.
Education
Ph.D., Geography and Tropical Conservation, Certificate in African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Dec. 1995.
M.A., International Economics/Social Change and Development, The Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Washington, D.C. May 1989.
B.A. (summa cum laude), International Relations, Carleton
College, Northfield, Minnesota. Jun. 1986.
Thesis advisor:
Becky Zug, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Underway 2010-present.
Verónica Quiroga, Ph.D. “Ecología y Conservación del Yaguareté (Panthera onca) y el Puma (Puma concolor) en el Chaco semiárido argentino: su relación con la disponibilidad de presas y la presencia humana en la región,” Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Underway 2007-present.
Reviewer for proposals to:
BP Conservation Leadership Programme
Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund-Conservation International
Earthwatch
Fundación BBVA
National Geographic Society
WCS Research Fellow Program
WCS Jaguar Small Grants Program
Publications:
Editorial Board of Mastozoología Neotropical, Sociedad Argentina para el estudio de los Mamíferos (SAREM), Mendoza, Argentina, 2010-present.
Reviewer for the following journals:
African Journal of Ecology Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Animal Biology Animal Conservation
Biodiversity and Conservation Biological Conservation
Biotropica Bird Conservation International
Caldasia Edentata Conservation Biology
Ecological Indicators Environmental Conservation
Human Ecology Journal of Zoology
International Journal of Tropical Biology
Journal of Biodiversity Management & Forestry
Mammalia Mammalian Biology
Mastozoología Neotropical Northeastern Naturalist
Oryx Science Southwestern Naturalist
Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment
Tropical Zoology Vida Silvestre Neotropical
Wildlife Biology Zoologia
In press
Koster, J. and A. Noss. In press. Hunting dogs and the extraction of wildlife as a resource. Pp. 265-285 in M.E. Gompper (ed.). Free-ranging dogs and wildlife conservation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Montaño, R.R., R.L. Cuéllar, L.A. Fitzgerald, F. Mendoza, F. Soria, C.V. Fiorello, S.L. Deem & A.J. Noss. In press 2013. Activity and ranging behavior of the red tegu lizard Tupinambis rufescens in the Bolivian Chaco. South American Journal of Herpetology 8(2):??-??.
2013
Montaño, R.R., E. Cuéllar, L.A. Fitzgerald, F. Soria, F. Mendoza, R. Peña, T. Dosapey, S.L. Deem & A.J. Noss. 2013. Ranging patterns by the red-footed tortoise - Geochelone carbonaria (Testudines: Testudinidae) - in the Bolivian Chaco. Ecología en Bolivia 48(1):17-30.
Noss, A.J. 2013. Seguimiento del corechi (Tolypeutes matacus) por medio de carreteles de hilo en el Chaco boliviano. Edentata 14:15-22.
Noss, A., J. Polisar, L. Maffei, R. García & S. Silver. 2013. Evaluating jaguar densities with camera traps / Evaluando la densidad de jaguares con trampas cámara. Jaguar Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York. 78 pp. http://www.wcsguatemala.org/en-us/wildlife/jaguar.aspx
Noss, A.J., R.R. Montaño F., F. Soria, C.V. Fiorello, S.L. Deem & L.A. Fitzgerald. 2013. Chelonoidis carbonaria (Testudines: Testudinidae) activity patterns and burrow use in the Bolivian Chaco. South American Journal of Herpetology 8(1):19-28.
Quiroga, V.A., G.I. Boaglio, A.J. Noss & M.S. di Bitetti. 2013. Critical population status of the jaguar in the Argentine Chaco: Camera trap surveys suggest recent collapse and imminent regional extinction. Oryx. doi:10.1017/S0030605312000944.
2012
Cuéllar, R.L., D. Alarcón, F. Peña, C. Méndez, A. Romero-Muñoz, L. Maffei, D. Rumiz & A. Noss. 2012. Kaaiyana: a jaguar with cubs in the Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park, Bolivia. Cat News 57:4-6.
Noss, A.J., B. Gardner, L. Maffei, E. Cuéllar, R. Montaño, A. Romero-Muñoz, R. Sollman & A.F. O’Connell Jr. 2012. Comparison of density estimation methods for mammal populations with camera traps in the Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco landscape. Animal Conservation.
Stocks, A., A. Noss, M. Bryja & S. Arce. 2012. Deforestation and Waodani lands in Ecuador: mapping and demarcation amidst shaky politics. Pp. 187-202 in P. Moutinho (ed.), Deforestation Around the World, ISBN: 978-953-51-0417-9, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/deforestation-around-the-world/deforestation-and-waorani-lands-in-ecuador-mapping-and-demarcation-amidst-shaky-politicsDeforestation. In Tech: Rijeka, Croatia.
2011
Bridges, A. & A.J. Noss. 2011. Behavior and activity. Pp. 57-69 in Camera Traps in Animal Ecology: Methods and Analyses. A.F. O’Connell, Jr., J.D. Nichols and U.K. Karanth (eds.). Springer Tokyo, Inc.
Huanca-Huarachi, G., J.C. Herrera & A.J. Noss. 2011. Densidad poblacional y uso del hábitat del jochi pintado (Cuniculus paca) en la zona norte de la Unidad de Conservación Amboró-Carrasco. Ecología en Bolivia 46(1):4-13.
Maffei, L., A.J. Noss, S. Silver & M.J. Kelly. 2011. Abundance/density case study: jaguars in the Americas. Pp. 119-144 in Camera Traps in Animal Ecology: Methods and Analyses. A.F. O’Connell, Jr., J.D. Nichols and U.K. Karanth (eds.). Springer Tokyo, Inc.
Maffei, L. , J. Polisar, A.J. Noss, R. García & J. Moreira. 2011. Perspectives from ten years of jaguar (Panthera onca) camera trapping in Mesoamerica / Perspectivas de diez años de estudios con trampas cámara de jaguares (Panthera onca) en Mesoamérica. Mesoamericana 15(1):49-59.
2010
Feinsinger, P., C. Pozzi, C. Trucco, R.L. Cuéllar, A. Laina, M. Cañizares & A. Noss. 2010. Investigación, conservación y los espacios protegidos de América latina: una historia incompleta. Ecosistemas 19(2). http://www.revistaecosistemas.net/. Photograph by Haldor Noss.
Feinsinger, P., S. Álvarez, G. Carreño, E. Rivera, R.L. Cuéllar, A. Noss, F. Daza, M. Figuera, E. Lanz, L. García, M. Cañizares, A. Alegre & A. Roldán. 2010. Local people, scientific inquiry, and the ecology and conservation of place in Latin America. Pp. 403-428 in I. Billick & M.V. Price (eds.), The ecology of place: contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Noss, A.J., R.L. Cuéllar, A. Arambiza & J. Barrientos. 2010. Sostenibilidad de la cacería en el Chaco: 12 años de manejo de fauna silvestre en la Tierra Comunitaria de Orígen Isoso. Pp. 1-36 en H. Gómez & A. Llobet (eds.). Experiencias de manejo de fauna silvestre en Bolivia. Santa Cruz: FAN.
Noss, A., E. Cuéllar, H. Gómez, T. Tarifa & E. Aliaga-Rossel. 2010. Dasypodidae. Pp. 173-212 en Distribución, ecología y conservación de los mamíferos medianos y grandes de Bolivia. R.B. Wallace, H. Gómez, Z.R. Porcel & D.I. Rumiz (eds.). Centro de Ecología Difusión Simón I. Patiño. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 906 pp.
Noss, A., L. Villalba & R. Arispe. 2010. Felidae. Pp. 401-444 en Distribución, ecología y conservación de los mamíferos medianos y grandes de Bolivia. R.B. Wallace, H. Gómez, Z.R. Porcel & D.I. Rumiz (eds.). Centro de Ecología Difusión Simón I. Patiño. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 906 pp.
Noss, A., E. Cuéllar, H. Gómez, T. Tarifa, J. Vargas & E. Aliaga. 2010. Myrmecophagidae • Ciclopedidae • Bradypodidae • Megalonychidae. Pp. 213-234 en Distribución, ecología y conservación de los mamíferos medianos y grandes de Bolivia. R.B. Wallace, H. Gómez, Z.R. Porcel & D.I. Rumiz (eds.). Centro de Ecología Difusión Simón I. Patiño. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 906 pp.
Romero-Muñoz, A., L. Maffei, E. Cuéllar & A.J. Noss. 2010. Temporal separation between jaguar and puma in the dry forests of southern Bolivia. Journal of Tropical Ecology 26:303-311.
Tarifa, T., E. Yensen, P. de la Torre, Z.R. Porcel & A. Noss. 2010. Caviidae. Pp. 763-804 en Distribución, ecología y conservación de los mamíferos medianos y grandes de Bolivia. R.B. Wallace, H. Gómez, Z.R. Porcel & D.I. Rumiz (eds.). Centro de Ecología Difusión Simón I. Patiño. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 906 pp.
Wallace, R.B., F. Alfaro, L. Sainz, B. Ríos-Uzeda & A. Noss. 2010. Canidae. Pp. 367-400 en Distribución, ecología y conservación de los mamíferos medianos y grandes de Bolivia. R.B. Wallace, H. Gómez, Z.R. Porcel & D.I. Rumiz (eds.). Centro de Ecología Difusión Simón I. Patiño. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 906 pp.
2009
Aliaga-Rossel, E., A.J. Noss & L. Maffei. 2009. Catagonus wagneri (Rusconi, 1930): Artiodactyla – Tayassuidae. Pp. 477-478 en L.F. Aguirre, R.Aguayo, J. Balderrama, C. Cortéz & T. Tarifa (eds). Libro Rojo de la fauna silvestre de vertebrados de Bolivia. La Paz, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua.
Arispe, R., D. Rumiz, C. Venegas & A. Noss. 2009. El conflicto de la depredación de ganado por el jaguar (Panthera onca) en Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Manejo de Fauna en Latinoamérica (revista electrónica) 2.
Cuéllar, R.L., A. Arambiza & A.J. Noss. 2009. Monitoreo de cacería en Isoso: Capturas Por Unidad de Esfuerzo. Manejo de Fauna en Latinoamérica (revista electrónica) 2.
Deem, S.L., A.J. Noss & C.V. Fiorello. 2009. Biólogos y veterinarios de la conservación que trabajan en beneficio de los animales, las personas y el medio ambiente: una asociación en el Gran Chaco, Bolivia. FaunaVet-Perú 2(4):5-10. www.faunavet-peru.com
Deem, S.L., A.J. Noss, C.V. Fiorello, A.L. Manharth, R.G. Robbins and W.B. Karesh. 2009. Health assessment of free-ranging three-banded (Tolypeutes matacus) and nine-banded (Dasypus novemcinctus) armadillos in the Gran Chaco, Bolivia. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 40(2):245-256.
Noss, A. with A. Burbano, O. Castillo, P. Franco, M. Painter, A. Stocks, M. Varese, R. Victurine & G. Zapata. 2009. Sustainable financing of indigenous organizations and indigenous territories. Technical Report #11. Quito, WCS-Ecuador.
2008
Altrichter, M., Taber, A., Noss, A. & Maffei, L. 2008. Catagonus wagneri. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 September 2010.
Kelly, M.J., A.J. Noss, M.S. di Bitetti, L. Maffei, R. Arispe L., A. Paviolo, C.D. de Angelo & Y.E. di Blanco. 2008. Estimating puma densities from camera trapping across three study sites: Bolivia, Argentina, and Belize. Journal of Mammalogy 89(2):408-418.
Maffei, L. and A.J. Noss. 2008. How small is too small? Camera trap survey areas and density estimates for ocelots in the Bolivian Chaco. Biotropica 40(1):71-75.
Noss, A.J. & R.L. Cuéllar. 2008. La sostenibilidad de la cacería de Tapirus terrestris y de Tayassu pecari en la Tierra Comunitaria de Orígen Isoso: el modelo de cosecha unificado. Mastozoología Neotropical 15(2):241-252.
Noss, A.J., R.L. Cuéllar and E. Cuéllar. 2008. Exploitation of xenarthrans by the Guaraní-Isoseño indigenous people of the Bolivian Chaco: comparisons with hunting by other indigenous groups in Latin America, and implications for conservation. Pp. 244-254 in S.F. Vizcaino and W.J. Loughry (eds.). The biology of the Xenarthra. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Painter, M., A.R. Alves, C. Bertsch, R. Bodmer, O. Castillo, A. Chicchón, F. Daza, F. Marques, A. Noss, L. Painter, C. Pereira de Deus, P. Puertas, H. Lima de Queiroz, E. Suárez, M. Varese, E.M. Venticinque & R. Wallace. 2008. Landscape conservation in the Amazon region: progress and lessons. Working Paper No. 34. New York: WCS.
Painter, M., O. Castillo, A. Noss, L. Painter & R. Wallace. 2008. Consolidating protected areas as part of a strategy for landscape and species conservation: lessons from Bolivia. Pp. 73-82. WCS Working Paper No. 36. Protected areas, governance, and scale. K.H. Redford & C. Grippo (eds.).
Taber, A., S.C. Chalukian, M. Altrichter, K. Minkowski, L. Lizárraga, E. Sanderson, D. Rumiz, E. Ventincinque, E.A. Moraes, Jr, C. de Angelo, M. Antúnez, G. Ayala, H. Beck, R. Bodmer, S. Boher B., J.L. Cartes, S. de Bustos, D. Eaton, L. Emmons, N. Estrada, L.F. de Oliveira, J. Fragoso, R. Garcia, C. Gomez, H. Gómez, A. Keuroghlian, K. Ledesma, D. Lizcano, C. Lozano, O. Montenegro, N. Neris, A. Noss, J.A. Palacio Vieira, A. Paviolo, P. Perovic, H. Portillo, J. Radachowsky, R. Reyna-Hurtado, J. Rodriguez Ortiz, L. Salas, A. Sarmiento Duenas, J.A. Sarria Perea, K. Schiaffino, B. de Thoisy, M. Tobler, V. Utreras, D. Varela, R.B. Wallace & G. Zapata Rios. 2008. El destino de los arquitectos de los bosques neotropicales: evaluación de la distribución y el estado de conservación de los pecaríes labiados y los tapires de tierras bajas. Grupo de Especialistas en Cerdos, Pecaríes e Hipopótamos (PPHSG), Grupo de Especialistas el los Tapires (TSG), Comisión para la Supervivencia de Especies (SSC), Unión Mundial para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN), Wildlife Conservation Society, Wildlife Trust, New York.