Andrew Mack

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Board director

Andrew Mack is a conservation biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Miami.  He has worked for Conservation International, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Academy of Natural Sciences and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.  Currently he works for Pennsylvania State University-Altoona.  He has also taught at several other US universities.  His research has spanned many topics, but with an emphasis on birds, especially cassowaries, and tropical rainforest ecology, especially in Papua New Guinea. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and a book.  Over roughly two decades with 15 years in PNG, he developed a major conservation program focused on training national biologists and mentoring future conservation leaders. He built a field research station in PNG where he studied cassowaries and expanded to many topics collaborating with his PNG students.  He now lives in Pennsylvania, USA where he also manages an 85-acre property and serves on the board of the Westmoreland Land Trust.