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The following scientists are the Edge of Existence research team and Edge of Existence collaborators. These are the individuals that are involved in implementing the EDGE conservation projects and or undertaking the EDGE research expeditions.
Dr Jonathan Baillie
 
jonathan.baillie@ioz.ac.uk
Jonathan is a global authority on the status and trends of threatened species.  He is head of the Zoological Society of London’s Indicators and Assessments Unit and works with a large number of projects which focus on monitoring that status of rare and threatened species.  He has authored highly influential papers and books defining the current conservation status of species including the IUCN Global Species Assessment, the most authoritative document on threatened species.

His extensive fieldwork experience includes research and monitoring of western lowland gorillas in Gabon, Central Africa, developing ecotourism sites in Central Africa, monitoring rare endemic birds in the gulf of guinea, behavioural studies of desert baboons in Namibia, and conducting conservation assessments of rare and threatened species in Mongolia.

Dr Sam Turvey
 
samuel.turvey@ioz.ac.uk
Sam is an expert on past and present mammal extinctions. His research addresses historical and prehistoric human impacts on global ecosystems and the magnitude of human-driven extinctions over time, and how to develop conservation strategies for today’s endangered mammal species.

Sam is already heavily involved with active conservation projects for top EDGE species. He is co-ordinating the recovery programme for the critically endangered Yangtze river dolphin, and is conducting long-term field surveys for the Hispaniolan solenodon. He has also carried out extensive conservation work in Fiji and New Caledonia, Belize, and Russia, and has substantial additional palaeontological fieldwork experience in Puerto Rico, Egypt, New Zealand and China.

Dr Nick Isaac
 
nick.isaac@ioz.ac.uk
Nick is a recognised authority on abundance and rarity in the world’s ecosystems. He investigates patterns of global biodiversity, focusing on primates and other mammals, to address how extinction risk varies between different species and how threatened animals can survive into the future. This research is both theoretical and applied, producing ecological models of land-use and climate change in order to develop practical conservation recommendations.

His extensive fieldwork experience in tropical ecology has taken him to many of the world’s threatened ecological hotspots, including Panama, Uganda and Indonesia.

Dr Ben Collen
 
ben.collen@ioz.ac.uk
Ben’s research has provided valuable insights into extinction processes and conservation decision-making. He is currently developing species-based biodiversity indicators to enable conservationists and policy-makers to determine whether we can achieve a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss.

Ben’s broad fieldwork experience includes developing and implementing new techniques for large mammal assessment in the Masai Mara National Park, Kenya, wild dog research in the Kenyan rangelands, Bushmeat research in Equatorial Guinea, and conservation assessments of rare and threatened Mongolian mammals. 

Carly Waterman
 
carly.waterman@ioz.ac.uk
Carly is the EDGE project co-ordinator. She has researched life history traits, threats and conservation requirements of the top 100 EDGE mammals. She is responsible for developing and maintaining the EDGE website and for overseeing all EDGE research and conservation activities..

Carly has travelled extensively throughout South and Central America, Australasia and Indonesia. Her fieldwork has focussed on the ecology and conservation of orangutans in Borneo.