Curriculum Vitae for Helen Regan

Assistant Professor
Biology Department
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4614
USA
Phone: +1 619 594 2738
Fax: +1 619 594 5252
Email: hregan@sciences.sdsu.edu 		University Education
Career History
Awards and Scholarships
Teaching
Professional Activities
Visiting Scholarships
Publications
Conference Presentations
Invited Seminars

University Education

2000. PhD in Applied Mathematics, The University of New England, New South Wales, Australia.
Topic: Symplectic integration of Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations.

1992. Bachelor of Science (Hons), LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Graduated with First Class Honours in Applied Mathematics.

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Career History

January 2003 - present. Assistant Professor,
Ecology Program, Biology Department, San Diego State University, USA

December 2000 - November 2002. Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, USA

June 1999 - November 2000. Research Scientist,
Applied Biomathematics, New York, USA

May 1997 - April 1999. Research Fellow,
School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

August 1996 - March 1997. Numerical Analyst,
Chemistry Department, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia

Feb 1992 - June 1996. Mathematics Tutor/Demonstrator,
The University of New England, New South Wales, and LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia

May 1984 - May 1986. Technical Assistant,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne. Radio-Immuno Assays for the In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) Program, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, and Gorilla Captive Breeding Program, Royal Melbourne Zoo, Australia.

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Awards and Scholarships

2006-2010. Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest. Technical assistance on the habitat fragmentation study in the vicinity of Naval Base Pt. Loma and MCAS Miramar. (PI)

2006-2008. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Decision making for complex environmental problems. (PI).

2006-2007. San Diego Foundation. Blasker Environment grants Program. Melding teaching and technology to study predator-prey interactions in San Diego’s seagrass habitat. (co-PI).

2005-2007. California Dept of Fish and Game. Assessing and improving the San Diego Multi-Species Conservation Plan Biological Monitoring Plan. (co-PI).

2005-2006. San Diego Tracking Team. SDTT Data Analysis Project. (PI).

2005. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Training Contract. Robust decision making under uncertainty for environmental management. (PI).

2005. SDSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Mini-Grant. Reaching consensus in conservation management decisions. (PI).

2005. SDSU Research Foundation Grant-in-Aid. From individuals to populations: how much detail is necessary in population models of threatened plants? (PI).

March 2003. Ecological Risk Assessment Paper of Year 2002 in Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment for “Analysis and portrayal of uncertainty in a food web exposure model” H.M. Regan, B.K. Hope and S. Ferson, 8(7):1757-1777, 2002.

1998. Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Australia. Multi-criteria decision analysis for project selection. (PI)

April 1997. Postdoctoral Fellowship Award at the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.(declined).

Jan 1993. Australian Postgraduate (Research) Award (with Stipend) for studies towards a PhD at the University of New England.

Dec 1991. Summer Vacation Scholarship in mathematics at Latrobe University.

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Teaching

Ecology and the Environment
(San Diego State University 2005, 2006) Coordinator and lecturer.
Topics covered: Dispersal; Habitat selection; Competition; Predation; Physical factors; Population growth; Life tables; Herbivory and mutualism; Disease and parasitism; Population regulation; Conservation ecology; Ecological communities; Succession; Biodiversity; Community stability; Disturbance; Ecosystem productivity; Nutrient, Nitrogen and Carbon cycles; Disturbance; Climate Change; Humans and land use change.

Biostatistics
(San Diego State University 2004-2006) Coordinator and lecturer.
Topics covered: Sampling; summarizing and graphing data; normal distributions; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; t-tests; Chi-square; ANOVA; regression.

Population Modeling
(San Diego State University 2003-2006; University of California Santa Barbara 2001 (guest); The University of Melbourne 1998, 1999) Lecturer and Coordinator
Topics covered: age/stage structured models, density dependence, uncertainty and variation, metapopulations, individual-based models, applications to endangered species, population management, decision making for conservation, predator/prey dynamics, epidemiology.

Environmental Risk Assessment
(The University of Melbourne 1998, 1999) Coordinator and lecturer.
Topics covered: risk perception; quantitative risk assessment; ecotoxicology; exposure pathways; fate and transport models; Monte Carlo methods; treatment of uncertainty in exposure models; and population modelling.

Decision Theory
(University of Tasmania 2000 (guest); The Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, India 1999; The University of Melbourne 1998 (guest)) Coordinator and lecturer.
Topics included: basic framework; decisions under certainty, ignorance and risk; Bayes's Theorem; utility theory; applications in conservation biology; paradoxes; fuzzy logic; fuzzy decision theory.

Mathematics
(Latrobe University and the University of New England 1992-1996) Tutor/Demonstrator for:

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Professional Activities

Scientific Community

2006-present. Member of the Standards and Petitions Working Group, Biodiversity Assessments Subcommitte of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.

2005. Invited Lecturer, CONS503/FRM521: Multi-stakeholder Land Use Planning for Conservation and Management. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

2005. Seminar Organizer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, San Diego State University.

2005-present. Steering committee member. National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network on Biodiversity Conservation in Dynamic Landscapes. NCEAS, University of California Santa Barbara.

2005. Member of the working group Decision making for complex problems in conservation at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia.

2004 - present. Editorial Board Member, Biological Conservation.

2003 - present. Member of the South-Central California Coast Technical Recovery Team for Steelhead trout. NOAA, National Marine and Fisheries Service.

2003. Invited participant for the Pellston workshop on Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment, sponsored by the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, held in Roskilde, Denmark.

2002-2004. Member of the working group Setting priorities and making decisions for conservation risk management at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.

2002. Seminar Organizer, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.

2002. Reviewer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Revised Proposal for Critical Habitat for 47 Plant Species on the Island of Hawaii; Federal Register Vol. 67, No. 102, pp. 36968-37106.

2001-2002. Member of the working group Systematic Conservation Planning and the California Legacy Project (CLP) at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.

2000-2002. Member of the working group Developing and testing methods for classifying species conservation status and estimating risk, at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.

2000-2001. Member of the working group Review of Forest Service species viability assessment processes, at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.

2000. Invited speaker: Workshop on Using the IUCN Red List as an Indicator of Biodiversity Trends in Port Jefferson, New York.

2000. Invited speaker at workshop: Improvements in Applications of Models in Ecological Risk Assessment: Workshop on Model Evaluations, sponsored by American Chemistry Council, in Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, Montana.

1999-2000. Consultant for the American Chemistry Council and Exponent. Review of Applications of Models in Ecological Risk Assessment.

1999. Invited speaker at workshop: Beyond Point Estimates: Risk Assessment Using Interval, Fuzzy and Probabilistic Arithmetic at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Assessment, in Atlanta, GA.

1999. Consultant for Forestry Tasmania, Australia. Model for timber harvest management and risk assessment of a rare land snail.

1998. Panelist for Industrial Risk Management seminar, Environmental Futures Forum, September 21 and 22, organised by the Victorian Environmental Protection Authority, held at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

1998. Consultant for the Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Australia. Multi-criteria decision analysis for project selection.

1998. Invited speaker at workshop: Tools for Population Viability Analysis at the Society for Conservation Biology Annual meeting in Sydney, Australia.


Student Supervision

PhD:
2005 - present. Katie Steele (Philosophy, U of QLD, Australia)
2004 - present. Dawn Lawson (Ecology, SDSU/UC Davis)

Masters:
2006 - present. Andrew Steyers (Ecology, SDSU)
2004 - present. John Crookston (Ecology, SDSU)
2004 - present. Lisa Markovchick-Nicholls (Ecology, SDSU)
2004 - present. Toni Mizerek (Ecology, SDSU)

Honours:
1998. Naomi Tootell, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne.
1997/1998. Andrew Bearlin, School of Botany, University of Melbourne.

Undergraduate:
2005-2006. Astrid Widyanata, Biology Department SDSU
2005. Mariah Freese, Biology Department SDSU

Thesis Committees:
2006. Tom Anderson, Kate Newman (Ecology SDSU); Scott Valentine (Geography SDSU)
2004. Robin Clark (Geography SDSU); Catherine Yamada (Ecology SDSU)


Peer Review
Biological Conservation; Conservation Biology; Diversity and Distribution; Ecological Applications; Ecological Modelling; Ecological Monographs; Ecology; Ecology Letters; Journal of Environmental Management; Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; Human and Ecological Risk Assessment; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management; Natural Resource Modeling; Oikos; Risk Analysis; Soil and Sediment Contamination; Urban Ecosystems; Blackwell Publishers; Columbia University Press; National Science Foundation; Netherlands Research Council


Membership in Professional Societies
Society for Conservation Biology
Ecological Society of America
Australian Mathematical Society
Association for Environmental Health and Sciences
Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

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Visiting Scholarships

September 2000. School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Australia. Guest lecturer for the course Choice, Risk and Decision.

January 1999. Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India. Lectured a course on decision theory and supervised students in the Tibet-Tasmania Partnership Program.

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Publications

Refereed Papers

Regan, H.M., F.W. Davis, S.J. Andelman, A. Widyanata and M. Freese. Comprehensive criteria for biodiversity evaluation in conservation planning. Biodiversity and Conservation, (in press).

Keith, D.A., M.G. Tozer, T.J. Regan and H.M. Regan. The persistence niche: what makes it and what breaks it for two fire-prone plant species from south-eastern Australia. Advances in Plant Conservation Special Issue. Australian Journal of Botany, (in press).

Gervais J and Regan HM. What conservation biology and natural resource management can offer population-level ecological risk assessment. In: Barnthouse LW, Munns WRM, and Sorensen MT (editors). Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment. Pensacola, FL, USA. SETAC Press, (in press).

Menzie, C., N. Bettinger, A. Fritz, L. Kapustka, H.M. Regan, V. Mĝller, H. Noel. Protecting populations: the ecological risk assessment problem formulation phase. In: Barnthouse LW, Munns WRM, and Sorensen MT (editors). Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment. Pensacola, FL, USA. SETAC Press, (in press).

Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan and L. Markovchick-Nicolls. A formal model for consensus and negotiation in environmental management. Journal of Environmental Management 80:167-176, 2006.

Halpern B.S., H.M. Regan, H.P. Possingham, M.A. McCarthy. Accounting for uncertainty in marine reserve design. Ecology Letters, 9:2-11, 2006.

Halpern B.S., H.M. Regan, H.P. Possingham, M.A. McCarthy. Rejoinder: uncertainty and decision making. Ecology Letters, 9(1):13-14, 2006.

Regan, H.M., Y. Ben-Haim, B. Langford, W.G. Wilson, P. Lundberg, S.J. Andelman, and M.A. Burgman. Robust decision making under severe uncertainty for conservation management. Ecological Applications, 15(4):1471-1477, 2005.

D.A. Keith, M.A. McCarthy, H.M. Regan, T.J. Regan, C. Bowles, C. Drill, C. Craig, B. Pellow, M.A. Burgman, L.L. Master, M. Ruckelshaus, B. McKenzie, S.J. Andelman, P.R. Wade. Protocols for listing threatened species can forecast extinction. Ecology Letters 7:1101-1108, 2004.

Regan, H.M. and T.D. Auld. Australian shrub Grevillea caleyi: Recovery through management of fire and predation. In H.R. Akçakaya, M.A. Burgman, O. Kindvall, C.C. Wood, P. Sjogren-Gulve, J. Hatfield, and M. McCarthy (eds.), Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies, Oxford University Press, pp. 23-35, 2004.

Andelman, S.J., C. Groves, and H.M. Regan. A review of the U.S. Forest Service's selection process of species at risk for viability assessments. Acta Oecologica, 26:75-83, 2004.

McCarthy, M.A., D.A. Keith, J. Tietjen, M.A. Burgman, M. Maunder, L. Master, B.W. Brook, G. Mace, H.P. Possingham, R. Medellin, S.J. Andelman, H.M. Regan, T.J. Regan, and M. Ruckleshaus. Comparing predictions of extinction risk using models and subjective judgement. Acta Oecologica, 26:67-74, 2004.

Regan, H.M., S. Ferson and D. Berleant. Equivalence of methods for uncertainty propagation of real-valued random variables. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 36(1):1-30, 2004.

Pastorok, R.A., H.R. Akçakaya, H.M. Regan, S. Ferson, and S.M. Bartell. Role of ecological modeling in risk assessment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 9(4):939-972, 2003.

Bartell, S.M., R.A. Pastorok, H.R. Akçakaya, H.M. Regan, S. Ferson and C. Mackay. Realism and relevance of ecological models used in chemical risk assessment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 9(4):907-938, 2003.

Regan, H.M., H.R. Akçakaya, S. Ferson, K.V. Root, S. Carroll and L.R. Ginzburg. Treatments of uncertainty and variability in ecological risk assessment of single-species populations. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 9(4):889-906, 2003.

Taylor, R.J., T.J. Regan, H.M. Regan, M.A. Burgman and K.Bonham. Impacts of plantation development, harvesting schedules and rotation lengths on the rare snail Tasmaphena lamproides in northwest Tasmania: a population viability analysis. Forest Ecology and Management 175:455-466, 2003.

Regan, H.M., T.D. Auld, D. Keith and M.A. Burgman. The effects of fire and predators on the long-term persistence of an endangered shrub Grevillea caleyi. Biological Conservation 109(1):73-83, 2003.

Regan, H.M., B.K. Hope, and S. Ferson. Analysis and portrayal of uncertainty in a food web exposure model. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 8(7):1757-1777, 2002.
Awarded Ecological Risk Assessment Paper of Year 2002 in Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Regan, H.M. Von Neumann stability analysis of symplectic integrators applied to Hamiltonian PDEs. Journal of Computational Mathematics, 20(6):611-618, 2002.

Elith, J., M.A. Burgman and H.M. Regan. Mapping epistemic uncertainty and vague concepts in predictions of species' distribution. Ecological Modelling, 157:313-329, 2002.

Regan, H.M., B.E. Sample, and S. Ferson. Deterministic and Probabilistic Ecological Soil Screening Levels for Wildlife. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 21(4):882-890, 2002.

Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan, and M.A. Burgman. A taxonomy and treatment of uncertainty for ecology and conservation biology. Ecological Applications, 12(2):618-628, 2002.

Regan, H.M. Population Models: Individual-Based, in R.A. Pastorok, S.M. Bartell, S. Ferson, L.R. Ginzburg (eds.) Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems and Landscapes, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton FL., pp. 65-82, 2002.

Akcakaya, H.R. and H.M. Regan. Population Models: Metapopulations, in R.A. Pastorok, S.M. Bartell, S. Ferson, L.R. Ginzburg (eds.) Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems and Landscapes, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton FL., pp. 83-95, 2002.

Colyvan, M., H.M. Regan, and S. Ferson. Is it a crime to belong to a reference class?, The Journal of Political Philosophy, 9(2):168-181, 2001.
Also reprinted in H. Kyburg and M. Thalos (eds.) Probability is the Very Guide in Life, Open Court, Chicago, pp. 331-347, 2003.

Regan, T.J., H.M. Regan, K. Bonham, R.J. Taylor, and M.A. Burgman. Modelling the impact of timber harvesting on a rare carnivorous land snail (Tasmaphena lamproides) in northwest Tasmania, Australia. Ecological Modelling, 139:253-264, 2001.

Regan, H.M., R. Lupia, A.N. Drinnan and M.A. Burgman. The currency and tempo of extinction. The American Naturalist, 157(1):1-10, January 2001.
Highlighted in Scientific American, 285(5):40-49 Nov 2001 and The Age, 10th Oct 1998.

Regan, H.M., and M. Colyvan. Fuzzy Sets and Threatened Species Classification, Conservation Biology, 14(4):1197-1199, August 2000.

Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan and M.A. Burgman. A Proposal for Fuzzy IUCN Categories and Criteria, Biological Conservation, 92(1):101-108, 2000.

Bearlin, A.R., M.A. Burgman, and H.M. Regan. A Stochastic Model for Seagrass (Zostera muelleri) in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, Ecological Modelling, 118:131-148, 1999.

Stiles, P.J. and H.M. Regan. Transient Cellular Convection in Electrically Polarized Colloidal Suspensions, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 202(2):562-565, 1998.


Submitted Manuscripts

Hayes, K., H.M. Regan, M.A. Burgman, and S. Ferson. Uncertainty Analysis. In A. Kapuscinski, L. Sifa, K. Hayes (eds.) Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms, Volume 3: Building Scientific Capacity for Transgenic Fish in Developing Countries. (In review)

Steele, K.S., H.M. Regan, M. Colyvan and M.A. Burgman. Right decisions or happy decision makers. (In review)

Hovel, K.A., H.M. Regan. Predator-prey relationships in seagrass landscapes: using an individually based model to examine the roles of habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, and prey and predator behavior on prey population size. (In review)


Manuscripts in Preparation

H.M. Regan, D.A. Keith, M. Tozer, T.J. Regan and N. Tootell. Dynamics of disease and fire: an individual-based model of the grass tree, Xanthorrhoea resinifera. (in prep.)

H.M. Regan, T.J. Regan, and T. Mizerek. Are we collecting the right data to predict extinction risk? (in prep.)

H.M. Regan, T.J. Regan and D.A. Keith. From individuals to populations: how much detail is necessary in population viability analysis of threatened plants? (in prep.)

H.M. Regan, T. Mizerek, M. Colyvan and M.A. Burgman. Uncertainty analysis of multi-criteria decision trees. (in prep)


Book Reviews

Regan, H.M. Population ecology: a truly dynamic perspective. Ecology, 84(12):3406-3407, 2003.
(Review of Population ecology: first principles by J.H. Vandermeer and D.E. Goldberg.)


Technical Reports and Conference Proceedings

Regan, H.M., L. Hierl, J. Franklin and D. Deutschman. 2006. Grouping and Prioritizing the MSCP Covered Species. . Report to California Department of Fish and Game NCCP Local Assistance Grant #P0450009. San Diego State University, San Diego. 109 pp.

Hierl L., H.M. Regan, J. Franklin and D. Deutschman. 2005. Assessment of the Biological Monitoring Plan for San Diego’s Multiple Species Conservation Program. Report to California Department of Fish and Game NCCP Local Assistance Grant #P0450009. San Diego State University, San Diego. 83 pp.

Burgman, M.A., H. Regan, and Y. Ben-Haim. 2004. Population viability analysis and robust decisions for management: combining population models with decision theory, In, Sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity - a challenge for society. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Berlin, 1-4 December 2003. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn, Germany. Pp. 64-65. ISBN:3-00-013641-X.

Davis, F.W., D.M. Stoms, C.J. Costello, E.A. Machado, J. Metz, R. Gerrard, S. Andelman, H. Regan, and R. Church 2003. A framework for setting land conservation priorities using multi-criteria scoring and an optimal fund allocation strategy. Report to the Resources Agency of California. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara. 72 pp.

Regan, H.M., M. Glickfeld, H. Barnett, J. Loux, P. McCarty, R. Doyle, P. Edelman, D. Kamradt, P. Beier, C. Luke, S. Denzler, J. Woodbury, C. Miller, R. Dinno, P. Dangermond, J. Metz, M. Angle, G. Greenwood, T. Scott, F. Davis, M. Beyeler, R. Rayburn. Report of NCEAS/CLP Workshop on Urban Open Space Conservation Criteria. A report to The Resources Agency of California and the California Legacy Project. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara. 2002.

Regan, H.M., M. Glickfeld, H. Barnett, J. Loux, P. McCarty, P. Dangermond, J. Metz, R. Rayburn, J. Yandoh, J. Faridi, B. Collett, R. Gerrard, K. Demetrak, D. Duran, E. Haok, R. Murray, D. North. Report of NCEAS/CLP Workshop on Conservation Criteria for Destination Type Recreation in Rural California. A report to The Resources Agency of California and the California Legacy Project. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara. 2002.

Regan, H.M., F. Davis, S.J. Andelman, G. Greenwood, M. Beyeler, P. Dangermond, D. Hickson, M. Hoshovsky. Report of NCEAS/CLP Workshop on Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation Criteria. A report to The Resources Agency of California and the California Legacy Project. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara. 2001.

Regan, H.M., F. Davis, S.J. Andelman, G. Greenwood, P. Dangermond, D. Kelley, J. Loux, W. Rash, R. Standiford, B. Stewart, E. Vink. Report of NCEAS/CLP Workshop on Agricultural Lands Conservation Criteria. A report to The Resources Agency of California and the California Legacy Project. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara. 2001.

Regan, H.M., F. Davis, S.J. Andelman, P. Dangermond, S. Gergel, M. Glickfeld, E. Pert, P. Stine, D. Stoms. Report of NCEAS/CLP Workshop on Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation Criteria. A report to The Resources Agency of California and the California Legacy Project. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara. 2001.

Regan, H.M., Rash, W., Loux, J., Frost, W., Greenwood, G., Jolley, L., Standiford, R., Rayburn, R., Keithley, C., Vink, E., Saving, S., Stewart, W. Report of NCEAS/CLP Workshop on Forest Lands Conservation Criteria. A report to The Resources Agency of California and the California Legacy Project. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara. 2001.

Andelman, S.J., S. Beissinger, J. Cochrane, L. Gerber, P. Gomez-Priego, C. Groves, J. Haufler, R. Holthausen, D. Lee, L. Maguire, B. Noon, K. Ralls, and H.M. Regan. Scientific Standards for Conducting Viability Assessments Under the National Forest Management Act: Report and Recommendations of the NCEAS Working Group. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara. 2001.

Regan, H.M. Individual-based models, in Improvements in Applications of Models in Ecological Risk Assessment: Evaluation of Ecological-Effects Models. Report by Exponent, Applied Biomathematics, and The Cadmus Group Inc. to the American Chemistry Council, Arlington, Virginia, 2000.

Regan, T.J., K. Bonham, H.M. Regan, R. Taylor, D. Tuson and M.A. Burgman. Forest Management and Conservation of Tasmaphena lamproides in North West Tasmania: Use of Population Viability Analysis to Evaluate Management Options, 52pp. Report to Forestry Tasmania, July 1999.

Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan and M.A. Burgman. Dealing with Vagueness in Threatened Species Classification, in R. N. Dave and T. Sudkamp (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society: Real World Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 685-694, 1999.

Regan, H.M., A. Rawlinson, D.A. Keith, T.D. Auld and M.A. Burgman. Population viability analysis for Grevillea caleyi, Epacris stuartii and E. barbata. Pages 53-71 in Plant Population Viability Analysis Case Studies for Environment Australia. Project FN-37. Report by the School of Botany, University of Melbourne, to Environment Australia. 1998.

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Conference Presentations

Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan and L. Markovchick-Nicholls. A formal model for consensus and negotiation in land-use planning. (Abstract of paper) in 21st Annual Symposium of the United States Regional Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Volume of Abstracts, San Diego, USA, March 2006.

Crookston J., H.M. Regan, J. Franklin. The effects of fragmentation and an altered fire regime on Ceanothus greggii: a modeling approach. (Abstract of paper) in 21st Annual Symposium of the United States Regional Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Volume of Abstracts, San Diego, USA, March 2006.

Hovel, K.A. and H.M. Regan. Marine habitat structure and predator-prey interactions: integrating effects of landscape structure and structural complexity using an individual-based spatially explicit model. (Abstract of paper) in 21st Annual Symposium of the United States Regional Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Volume of Abstracts, San Diego, USA, March 2006.

Markovchick-Nicholls L., H.M. Regan, P.H. Zedler, D. Duetschman. Impacts of geographic correlation of fire frequency on landscape mosaics of Tecate cypress (Cupressus forbesii). (Abstract of paper) in 21st Annual Symposium of the United States Regional Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Volume of Abstracts, San Diego, USA, March 2006.

Mizerek, T., H.M. Regan and K. Hovel. The effects of habitat fragmentation and harvesting on blue crab population dynamics in Chesapeake Bay. (Abstract of paper) in 21st Annual Symposium of the United States Regional Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Volume of Abstracts, San Diego, USA, March 2006.

Regan H.M., M.A. Burgman and Y. Ben-Haim. Robust decision making under severe uncertainty for conservation management. (Abstract of paper) in Society for Conservation Biology, 19th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Brasilia, Brazil, July 2005.

Mizerek, T., H.M. Regan and K. Hovel. The effects of density dependence and habitat fragmentation on blue crab populations. (Abstract of poster) in Society for Conservation Biology, 19th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Brasilia, Brazil, July 2005.

Markovchick-Nicholls L., H.M. Regan, P.H. Zedler, D. Duetschman. Building management capacity for Tecate cypress (Cupressus forbesii) using risk assessment. (Abstract of poster) in Society for Conservation Biology, 19th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Brasilia, Brazil, July 2005.

Regan H.M., Y. Ben-Haim, B. Langford, W.G. Wilson, P. Lundberg, S.J. Andelman, M.A. Burgman. Robustness and risk trade-offs in management decisions for endangered species. (Paper at workshop) Eighteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver and Whistler, BC, Canada. 18 December 2004.

Menzie, C., N. Bettinger, A. Fritz, L. Kapustka, H. Regan, V. Moller, H L Noel. Population-level ecological risk assessment: A Pellston workshop overview. Ecological protection goals for populations. (Absract of poster) in SETAC Europe 14th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2004.

Burgman, M.A., H.M. Regan, and Y. Ben-Haim. Population viability analyses and robust decisions for management: combining population models with decision theory. (Abstract) in International Symposium on Sustainable Use and Conservation of Biological Diversity: A Challenge for Society, Berlin, Germany, December 2003.

Menzie, C., N. Bettinger, A. Fritz, L. Kapustka, H. Regan, V. Mĝller, H. Noel. Ecological Protection Goals for Populations. (Abstract of poster) in Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 24th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Austin, Texas, November 2003.

Regan, H.M., D.A. Keith, and M. Tozer. A population model of a perennial shrub threatened by disease and adverse fire regime. (Abstract of paper) in The Ecological Society of America 88th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Savannah, GA, USA, August 2003.

Regan, H.M., D.A. Keith, and M. Tozer. Population dynamics of a long lived perennial, Xanthorrhoea resinifera. (Abstract of paper) in Society for Conservation Biology, 17th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Duluth, MN, USA, June-July 2003.

Davis, F., C. Costello, D. Stoms, S.J. Andelman, H.M. Regan, E. Machado, and J. Metz. A new synthetic approach to conservation planning. (Abstract of paper) in Society for Conservation Biology, 17th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Duluth, Minnesota, July 2003.

Regan, H.M., B.K. Hope, and S. Ferson. Treatment of uncertainty in ecological screening levels for wildlife. (Abstract of paper) in The Ecological Society of America 87th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Tucson, AZ, USA, August 2002.

Regan, H.M., F. Davis, S.J. Andelman, and D. Stoms. The use of decision-making tools in systematic conservation planning. (Abstract of paper) in Society for Conservation Biology, 16th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Canterbury, U.K., July 2002.

Regan, H.M., T.D. Auld, D.A. Keith, and M.A. Burgman, Using population models for conservation management of an endangered Australian plant, Grevillea caleyi. (Abstract of paper) in Science for Plant Conservation: An International Conference for Botanic Gardens, Volume of Abstracts, Dublin, Ireland, July 2002.

Regan, T.J., D.A. Keith, H.M. Regan, and M. Tozer, A population viability vnalysis for a long lived perennial: Xanthorrhoea resinifera. (Abstract of paper) in Science for Plant Conservation: An International Conference for Botanic Gardens, Volume of Abstracts, Dublin, Ireland, July 2002.

Ferson, S., H.M. Regan and D.S. Myers. Reconstructing scattergram data from regression statistics. (Abstract of paper) in Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting Volume of Abstracts. Seattle, Washington, 2001.

Regan, H.M., S.J. Andelman, M.A. McCarthy, and M.A. Burgman. How precautionary are we? The impact of uncertainty on threatened species classifications. (Abstract of paper) in Society for Conservation Biology, 15th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Hilo, Hawaii, 2001.

Regan, H.M., B.K. Hope, and S. Ferson. Small chances and fat chances: setting the context for probabilistic analysis of a food-web model. (Abstract of paper) in Risk Analysis in Industry and Government: Volume of Abstracts of the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 2000.

Keith, D.A., M. Tozer, N. Tootell, and H.M. Regan. Population change in long-lived plants: a 10-year demography of Xanthorrhoea resinifera. (Abstract of paper) in ESA99: Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia, Volume of Abstracts, Fremantle, Western Australia, 1999.

Sample, B.E., H.M. Regan, S. Ferson, R. Pastorok, M. Butcher, P. Rury, A.D. Little, R. Ryti, J. Bascietto, and S. Ells. Ecological Soil Screening Levels for wildlife: development and comparison of deterministic and probabilistic approaches. (Abstract of poster) in Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 20th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Philadelphia, 1999.

Ferson, S., J.A. Cooper, H.M. Regan and M. Butcher. Beyond point estimates: risk assessment using interval, fuzzy and probabilistic arithmetic. (Abstract of paper) in The Future of Risk in the 21st Century: Volume of Abstracts of the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1999.

Regan, H.M., R. Lupia, A.N. Drinnan, and M.A. Burgman. Mass extinction or mass hysteria: dealing with uncertainty in the past and present. (Abstract of paper) in The Future of Risk in the 21st Century: Volume of Abstracts of the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1999.

Regan, H.M. and S. Ferson. Measurement Error and Threshold Uncertainty in Classifying Biological Species for Conservation. (Abstract of paper) in The Future of Risk in the 21st Century: Volume of Abstracts of the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1999.

Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan and M.A. Burgman. Dealing with Vagueness in Threatened Species Classification. (Abstract of paper) in 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society: Real World Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing, New York, 1999.

Regan, H.M., D.A. Keith, T.D. Auld and M.A. Burgman. Population Viability Analysis of Grevillea caleyi. (Abstract of paper) in 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Volume of Abstracts, Macquarie University, Sydney, 1998.

Colyvan, M. and H.M. Regan. A Proposal for Fuzzy IUCN Categories and Criteria. (Abstract of paper) in 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Volume of Abstracts, Macquarie University, Sydney, 1998.

Regan, H.M., M.A. Burgman, T.D. Auld and D.A. Keith. Population models of even-aged plant cohorts. (Abstract of paper) in 1998 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling, Volume of Abstracts , Hobart, 1998.

Regan, H.M. and M.A. Burgman. Extinction rates: a fuzzy approach. (Abstract of paper) in ESA97: Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia, Volume of Abstracts , Charles Sturt University, Albury, 1997.

Regan, H.M. Symplectic Integration of Hamiltonian PDEs: An Alternative Approach. (Abstract of paper) in ANZIAM96: 32nd Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference, Volume of Abstracts, Masterton, New Zealand, 1996.

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2005 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2005 California Native Plant Society, San Diego Chapter, CA, USA
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2003 Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series, San Diego State University, CA, USA
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2002 New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstbridge, NSW, Australia
2002 National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA, USA
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2000 University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
1999 University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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