Processing ghost-faced bat outside the Zotz Na (Bat House), Actun Chapat (Centipede Cave), Belize, 2001




U.S. Geological Survey
Southwest Biological Science Center
Colorado Plateau
Field Station
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Tel: 928.523.7757
Fax: 928.556.7500
Email: J. Judson Wynne

Curriculum Vitae


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Education

2005-present, Ph.D. (student; emphasis: biodiversity and biogeography of cave-dwelling arthropods), Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University (NAU), Flagstaff

2003, M.S. (emphasis: wildlife ecology/ remote sensing), Environmental Science and Policy, Center for Environmental Sciences and Education, NAU, Flagstaff

1998, Certificate in Ecotechnie (Distinction: Magna cum laude), UNESCO/ Cousteau European Postgraduate Programme of Ecotechnie, Department of Human Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

1993, B.S., Major: Communications, Minor: Anthropology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro


Publications

Wynne, J.J., C.A. Drost, and K.D. Voyles  (In Review),  Ecological Inventory of Caves on Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument,  Arizona.  International Journal of Speleology.

Wynne, J.J., T.N. Titus, and G. Chong Diaz (2008), On Developing Thermal Cave Detection Techniques for Earth, the Moon and Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 272: 240–250

Wynne, J.J., C.A. Drost, N.S. Cobb and J.R. Rihs (2007), Cave-dwelling Invertebrate Fauna of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, University of Arizona Press, pp. 235-246.

Boykin, K., C.A. Drost and J.J. Wynne (2007), A gap analysis of terrestrial vertebrate species of the Colorado Plateau: assessment from the Southwest Gap Analysis Project, Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, University of Arizona Press, pp. 77-89.

Cushing, G.E., T.N. Titus, J.J. Wynne, P.R. Christensen (2007), THEMIS Observes Possible Cave Skylights on Mars. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L17201. 

Wynne, J.J. and W. Pleytez (2005), Sensitive Ecological Areas and Species Inventory of Actun Chapat, Vaca Plateau, Belize. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 67: 148-157. 

Jenness, J. and J.J. Wynne (2005), Cohen’s Kappa and Classification Table Derived Metrics: An ArcView 3x Extension for Accuracy Assessment of Spatially Explicit Models. USGS- Southwest Biological Science Center, Open-File Report OF 2005-1363, December 2005. 86pps. 

Wynne, J.J. (2003), Landscape-scale modeling of vegetation land cover and songbird habitat, Pinaleños Mountains, Arizona, unpublished M.S. thesis.  Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. Pps. 105. 

Published Abstracts

Wynne, J.J., T.N. Titus, C.A. Drost, R.S. Toomey III and K. Peterson (2008), Annual Thermal Amplitudes and Thermal Detection of Southwestern U.S. Caves: Additional Insights for Remote Sensing of Caves on Earth and Mars, Abstract #2459, LPSC XXXIX, Houston, TX.

Halliday, W.R. and J.J. Wynne (2008), Differentiating Lava Tube Skylights from Pit Craters: A Study of the Cave-Like Structures on Arsia Mons, Mars, Abstract # 133859, 104th Cordilleran Section and 60th Rocky Mountain Section Joint Meeting, Geological Society of America, Las Vegas, NV.

Voyles, K.D. and J.J. Wynne (2007), Systematic Inventory and Survey of the Caves in Grand Canyon-Parsashant National Monument, 2006 NSS Convention Abstracts, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 68: 167.

Wynne, J.J., M.G. Chapman, C.A. Drost, J.S. Kargel, J. Thompson, T.N. Titus, and R.S. Toomey III (2007), Cave Detection on Mars, 2006 NSS Convention Abstracts, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 68: 169.

Cushing, G.E., T.N. Titus, J.J. Wynne, P.R. Christensen (2007), THEMIS Observes Possible Cave Skylights on Mars. Abstract #1371, LPSC XXXVIII, Houston, TX. 

Wynne, J.J., T.N. Titus, M.G. Chapman, G. Chong, C.A. Drost, J.S. Kargel, and R.S. Toomey III (2007), Thermal behavior of Earth Caves: a Proxy for Gaining Inference into Martian Cave Detection.  Abstract #2378, LPSC XXXVIII, Houston, TX. 

Select Professional Experience

2007-present, Principal Investigator/ Cave Research Scientist, Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, NAU, Flagstaff

2005-present, Project Leader, Phase 1: Earth-Mars Cave Detection Program, U.S. Geological Survey-SBSC, Colorado Plateau Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ

2007 (Fall Semester), Instructor, Environmental Ecology (ENV 326), Center for Environmental Science and Education, NAU, Flagstaff

2003-2005, SWReGAP Lead Vertebrate-Habitat Modeler (Arizona Project), U.S. Geological Survey-SBSC, Colorado Plateau Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ

2000-2003, Project Coordinator, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ

1998-2000, Project Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey-SBSC, Colorado Plateau Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ


Meritoria

2007 Chair, Special Session Cave Science in the Western U.S., 9th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Flagstaff, AZ

2007-2008, Marquis Who’s Who in America

2007, Instructor, NASA Spaceward Bound!, Mojave Desert, California

2006, Fellow National, The Explorers Club

2006-present, Director at Large, Cave Conservation and Management Section, National Speleological Society

2006, Contributing Scientist, NASA Spaceward Bound!, Atacama Desert, Chile

2005, Chair, Special Session on Cave Resource Management, 8th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Flagstaff, AZ

2005-present, Associate Curator, Colorado Plateau Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity, NAU, Flagstaff


Outreach

2007, NAU Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Series, Flagstaff, AZ.  Presentation: Astrobiological Implications for Detecting Caves on Mars.

2007, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ.  Presentation: If there’s life, it’s underground!  The search for caves on Mars.

2007, NAU Department of Biological Sciences, NAU, Guest lecturer for Biology 101 Classes.  Presentation:  Cave invertebrates of Arizona and Belize (students instructed: 40).

2006, Needlewood Middle School, Brunswick, GA.   Gave lecture to 6th graders on astrobiology, Mars and searching for life underground (students instructed: 60).

2006, DeMiguel Elementary School, Flagstaff, AZ.  Taught 6th graders about bat ecology and conservation (students taught: 26).    

2006, The Mission Gallery and Coffee House, Grants, NM.  Presentation:  Astrobiology and the Search for Martian Cave Life (audience size: 10). 

2006, Flagstaff Festival of Science Twilight Talk Series, AZ.  Presentation:  Astrobiology and the Search for Martian Cave Life (audience size: ~45). 

2006, Flagstaff Cultural Partners Annual Fundraiser, AZ.  2006.  Presentation:  Cave-adaptation and cave-dwelling animals of Arizona and Belize (audience size: ~55).

2006, NAU Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Series, Flagstaff, AZ.  Presentation: Sensitive Ecological Areas and Species Inventory of Actun Chapat, Vaca Plateau, Belize.

2006, USGS-Flagstaff Field Center Monthly Lecture Series.  Presentation: Sensitive Ecological Areas and Species Inventory of Actun Chapat, Vaca Plateau, Belize (audience size: ~30).

2005, Three Rivers Regional Library Lecture Series, Brunswick, GA.  2005.  Presentation:  Bats and beasties of arid and tropical caves (audience size: ~20).

2005, USGS Open House Lecture Series, Flagstaff, AZ.  Presentation:  Caves Ecology of Actun Chapat, Belize.

2005, Flagstaff Festival of Science Lecture Series, AZ.  Presentation:  Cave-dwelling Fauna of Arizona and Belize.

2003-04, Flagstaff Festival of Science In-Classroom Lecture Series.  Developed curricula and taught 1st through 10th graders regarding the importance of bats and caves (students instructed: ~100).


Relevant Research Experience

Instructor/ Contributing Scientist.  NASA Spaceward Bound Expedition, Mojave Desert, California.   Worked with a multidisciplinary team led by NASA-Ames researchers. My primary purpose of this expedition was to assist in teaching K-12 science teachers how scientists search for life on other planets. In particular, we collected a combination of ground-based temperature data and thermal images. We also used a hot air balloon platform in a predictive capacity where we searched the landscape for cave entrances.

Principal Investigator.  Phase 2: Earth-Mars Cave Detection Program.  Project will be executed and administered through NASA-Ames/ SETI in conjunction with NASA-Goddard, USGS, Mammoth Caves International Center for Science and Learning.  Caves at two Mars-analog sites will be investigated, several areas on the Martian surface will be evaluated for caves and cave-bearing geology, and payload concepts for a cave explorer robot will be developed and tested.

Project Leader/ Concept Developer.  Ongoing.  A Strategy to Identify Instrumentation and Mission Requirements for Finding Subterranean Areas to Investigate for Evidence of Martian Life – Pilot Study.  Funded by NASA Exobiology program, this project used a combination of ground-based measurements and remote sensing of terrestrial caves to develop a strategy to identify instrumentation and mission requirements to search for evidence of Martian cave life. We are currently preparing several products, including manuscritps, related to this work.

Contributing Scientist.  NASA Spaceward Bound Expedition, Atacama Desert, Chile.  Worked with a multidisciplinary team led by NASA-Ames researchers.  My primary purpose of participating in this expedition was reconnaissance of caves and cave information related to the Atacama Desert.  Four caves were investigated and contacts were established for Phase 2 of the Earth-Mars Cave Detection Program.

Co-Principal Investigator.  2005.  Baseline Ecological Inventories of Known Caves on the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.   We sampled 24 caves within this monument for biological resources, map all features, and identify caves for testing and refinement of rapid ecological inventory protocols of caves. 

Co-Principal Investigator.  2005.  Wildlife Use of Select Caves on the Arizona Strip.  Ten caves were surveyed on BLM-Arizona Strip District lands to obtain a baseline knowledge of wildlife use.   

Principal Investigator.  2004.  Cathedral Caves Speleological Park.   Responsible for coordinating biological research activities at two privately owned caves in northern Arizona.  Research to date includes conducting baseline biological inventory including trapping and collecting of invertebrates, and documentation of a seasonal Townsend’s big-eared bat colony, tiger salamanders, and potentially a new species of troglobitic millipede. 

Principal Investigator. 2001.  An ecological inventory of Actun Chapat: A pilot study of Faunal Resources, west-central Belize.  Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Tourism and the Environment, Belmopan, Belize, Central America.  Conducted an inventory of invertebrates and vertebrates within Chapat cave.  Bats were captured, invertebrates collected, and reptiles and amphibians identified. 


Professional Meetings

Presenter. 2007 National Speleological Society Convention, Marengo, IN. Wynne, J.J., G.E. Cushing, T.N. Titus, M.G. Chapman, C.A. Drost, R.S. Toomey III, M.D. Jhabvala, P.J. Boston, G. Chong Diaz, K. Peterson, J.E. Moresch, J. Thompson and R. Harter. Oral: Thermal Behavior of Earth Caves and Possible Cave-like Structures on Mars.

Presenter. National Speleological Society Convention, Marengo, IN. Wynne, J.J. N.A. Cabrol, P.J. Boston, G.E. Cushing, T.N. Titus, C.A. Drost, R.S. Toomey III and R. Harter. Oral: Mars Analogue Sites and Their Importance in the Search for Caves on Mars. 2007.

Presenter. 38th Annual Lunar Planetary and Science Conference, League City, TX. Wynne, J.J., T.N. Titus, M.G. Chapman, G. Chong, C.A. Drost, J.S. Kargel, and R.S. Toomey III. Poster: Thermal behavior of Earth Caves: a Proxy for Gaining Inference into Martian Cave Detection. 2007.

Co-author. 38th Annual Lunar Planetary and Science Conference, League City, TX. Cushing, G.E., T.N. Titus, J.J. Wynne, P.R. Christensen. Poster: THEMIS Observes Possible Cave Skylights on Mars. 2007.

Co-author.  National Speleological Society - Southwest Regional Technical Meeting, Socorro, NM. Boston, P.J., S. Dubowsky, J. S. Plante, J.J. Wynne, J. Thompson, and F. Prinz.  Oral: The search for caves on other planets: new technologies from hot holes in the ground to hopping microbots.

Presenter.  2006 National Speleological Society Annual Convention, Bellingham Washington.  Wynne, J.J., K.D. Voyles and C.A. Drost.  Oral: Cave Ecological Inventory and Species Discoveries, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Arizona. 

Presenter.  2006 National Speleological Society Annual Convention, Bellingham Washington.  Wynne, J.J., M.G. Chapman, C.A. Drost, J.S. Kargel, J. Thompson, T.N. Titus, and R.S. Toomey, III.  Oral: Cave Detection on Mars- Astrobiology and the Search for Life. 

Presenter.  2006 National Speleological Society Annual Convention, Bellingham Washington.  Wynne, J.J. and W. Pleytez.  Oral:  Species Inventory and Sensitive Ecological Areas of Actun Chapat Cave, Vaca Plateau, Belize. 

Presenter.   2006 Natural Areas Conference, Flagstaff, AZ.   Wynne, J.J. K.D. Voyles and C.A. Drost.  Oral:  Cave Ecological Inventory and Species Discoveries, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Arizona. 

Presenter.  8th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Flagstaff, AZ.  2005.  Wynne, J. J., K. Voyles,  C. Drost, B. Solvesky, M. Herder and J. Prather.  Oral:  Cave ecology of northwestern Arizona.

Presenter.  8th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Flagstaff, AZ.  2005.  Wynne, J.J.  Oral:  Cave Systems- A proposal for a regional ecological network on the Colorado Plateau.

Co-author.  8th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Flagstaff, AZ.  2005.   Prather, J.W., J.T. Briggler and J.J. Wynne.  Oral:  Caves as refugia for non-troglobitic organisms during periods of drought, implications for the southwest.

Co-author.  25th Annual ESRI International Conference, Software Fair, San Diego, CA.  2005.  Jenness, J. and J.J. Wynne.  Poster:  Cohen’s Kappa, classification tables and multi-criteria model selection process: an ArcView 3x extension to verify and select spatially explicit predictive models.


Professional Societies

2006-present      The Mars Society
2005-present      Western Bat Working Group
2005-present      The Karst Conservancy
2004-present      National Speleological Society
2004-present      Arizona Bat Resource Group
1998-present      Bat Conservation International