Karen Bennett, Program Manager
302-739-9912 karen.bennett@state.de.us
Karen Bennett is the Program Manager for the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program and the Private Lands Assistance Program.
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Robert Coxe, Ecologist
302-735-8672 robert.coxe@state.de.us
Robert Coxe manages vegetation community mapping throughout the state and conducts site visits, mapping and reports for environmental reviews. He monitors changes in vegetation communities and has written, and continues to update, the Guide to Delaware Vegetation Communities and the online Vegetation Community Mapping Database.
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Holly Niederriter, Non-game Wildlife Biologist
302-735-8670 holly.niederriter@state.de.us
Holly Niederriter oversees the Bat Program which conducts research and monitoring, including volunteer emergence counts and acoustic surveys. She also manages bog turtle research and surveys, the Delmarva fox squirrel management plan and the Delaware Amphibian Monitoring Program.
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Kevin Kalasz, Non-game Wildlife Biologist
302-735-8667 kevin.kalasz@state.de.us
Kevin Kalasz manages the Delaware Shorebird Project which focuses on protecting migratory and nesting shorebirds through the implementation of the Delaware Shorebird Conservation Plan. He also conducts research and surveys for shorebirds, marshbirds and non-game freshwater aquatic species.
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Matthew Bailey, Non-game Wildlife Biologist
302-735-8677 matthew.bailey@state.de.us
Matt Bailey manages the Piping Plover Program which monitors and protects breeding areas of piping plovers in Delaware. He also monitors beach nesting birds (piping plovers, American oystercatchers, least terns) and colonial waterbirds (gulls, terns, herons, egrets).
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William A. McAvoy, Botanist
302-735-8668 william.mcavoy@state.de.us
Bill McAvoy is responsible for documenting the status and distribution of the flora of Delaware, with an emphasis on rare and uncommon species. He is the primary author of The Flora of Delaware: An Annotated Checklist, and maintains the Flora of Delaware Online Database.
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Anthony Gonzon, Non-game Wildlife Biologist
302-735-8673 anthony.gonzon@state.de.us
Anthony Gonzon is responsible for the management and monitoring of raptors (eagles, hawks, falcons, owls), nesting birds, terrestrial songbirds, pelagic birds, terrestrial and aquatic insects. As a primary responsibility, Anthony manages the 2nd Delaware Breeding Bird Atlas - a five-year survey of all nesting birds in Delaware. He also manages the Citizen Osprey Monitoring Program and bald eagle monitoring throughout the Delaware.
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Edna Stetzar, Non-game Wildlife Biologist
302-735-8654 edna.stetzar@state.de.us
Edna Stetzar coordinates Environmental Reviews, providing technical assistance to internal and external agencies by reviewing projects for the potential to impact species or habitats of conservation concern. She is also the program manager for the Sturgeons in the Mid-Atlantic Region Project - a multistate collaboration for sturgeon research and conservation. This project focuses on providing state, federal and regional management authorities with information necessary to successfully conserve and ultimate restore populations of Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) and shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) in the mid-Atlantic Region.
