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Michael F. Tillman, Ph.D.
Email: mftillman@mac.com
Office: Encinitas, California
Phone: 760-652-1093 Michael Tillman is a non-resident Research Associate working on marine wildlife conservation issues. He is a former career senior executive at the National Marine Fisheries Service, having served in Washington, DC as the agency’s first Chief Scientist and its Deputy Director, and finishing his federal career as Director of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, CA. His extensive experience in international marine conservation includes Presidential appointments as the Deputy U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission and U.S. Commissioner to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. He has received numerous awards during his career, including the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Service for sustained excellence in supporting U.S. goals of protecting whales internationally and recovering protected species domestically, the prestigious Animal Welfare Institute’s Albert Schweitzer Medal for whale conservation efforts and three Department of Commerce Bronze Medals for outstanding contributions to international marine resource management.
His current marine wildlife research interests include the conservation and management of marine mammals generally, the whaling issue specifically and the subsistence use of marine wildlife resources.
A Viet Nam era veteran and Alaskan Native, he received his Ph.D. in fisheries science with a minor in natural resource economics from the University of Washington in 1972.
Selected publications:
Clapham, P., S. Childerhouse, N. Gales, L. Rojas, M. Tillman and R. Brownell. 2007. The whaling issue: Conservation, confusion and casuistry. Marine Policy 31(3): 314-19.
Tillman, M.F. 2008. The international management of aboriginal whaling. Reviews in Fisheries Science 16(4): 437-44.
Contributions:
As the Conference Chair, planned and convened the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s 16th Biennial Conference, in San Diego, CA, in 2005.
Presented an invited paper to the Pew Symposium on the Conservation of Whales in the 21st Century, New York, NY, in 2007.
Has served on the U.S. delegation participating in two special and three annual meetings of the IWC in 2007-09.
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