Lawrence Niles Ph.D., Niles Associates
Lawrence Niles, Ph.D., received a B.S. degree and an M.S.
degree at Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. from
the Rutgers University Program in Ecology and Evolution,
with a dissertation focused on migratory raptors.
He began his 40-year career as a regional game biologist
in the Okefenokee region of Georgia, but spent 25 years
working as an endangered species biologist and then as chief
of the Endangered and Nongame Species Program.
In 2006, Dr. Niles retired from the State and started
his own company to pursue independent research and
management projects on shorebird ecology and conservation
and habitat conservation through planning and restoration.
Currently he is working in Delaware Bay, Cape Cod, the
Canadian Arctic, the northern coast of Brazil, Tierra del
Fuego, Chile, and is soon to start on the coast of Cuba.
He spends considerable time and effort restoring shorebird
habitat on Delaware Bay with a $5 million grant from
the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Dr. Niles is
a member of the National Shorebird Council and the
Executive Board of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird
Reserve Network. He has many peer-reviewed scientific
articles, has published a monograph on shorebirds and
two books, one on NJ Endangered Species and a second on
Shorebirds of Delaware Bay. He and his wife Amanda Dey
were part of the PBS Nature documentary “Crash: A Tale
of Two Species.”
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