Postdoctoral Research Fellow
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
1999. PhD in Applied Mathematics,
The University of New England, New South Wales, Australia.
Topic: Symplectic integration of Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations.
1992. Bachelor of Science (Hons), LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Graduated with First Class Honours in Applied Mathematics.
Starting January 2003. Assistant Professor,
Ecology Program, Biology Department,
San Diego State University, USA
December 2000 - present. Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis,
University of California Santa Barbara, USA
June 1999 - November 2000. Research Scientist,
Applied Biomathematics, New York, USA
May 1997 - April 1999. Research Fellow,
School of Botany,
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
August 1996 - March 1997. Numerical Analyst,
Chemistry Department,
Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia
Feb 1992 - June 1996. Mathematics Tutor/Demonstrator,
The University of New England, New South Wales, and LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia
May 1984 - May 1986. Technical Assistant,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne. Radio-Immuno Assays for the In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) Program, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, and Gorilla Captive Breeding Program, Royal Melbourne Zoo, Australia.
Environmental Risk Assessment
(The University of Melbourne 1998, 1999) Coordinator and lecturer.
Topics covered: risk perception; quantitative risk assessment; ecotoxicology;
exposure pathways; fate and transport models; Monte Carlo methods;
treatment of uncertainty in exposure models; and population modelling.
Decision Theory
( The Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies,
Sarnath, India 1999;
The University of Melbourne 1998; University of
Tasmania 2000) Coordinator and lecturer.
Topics included: basic framework; decisions under certainty, ignorance and risk;
Bayes's Theorem; utility theory; applications in conservation biology; paradoxes;
fuzzy logic; fuzzy decision theory.
Population Modeling
(The University of Melbourne 1998, 1999; University of California Santa Barbara 2001)
Lecturer for: Flora of Victoria; Landscape Ecology and Management; and Conservation Biology.
Topics covered: individual-based models, applications to endangered plant
species, population management.
Mathematics
(Latrobe University and the University of New England 1992-1996) Tutor/Demonstrator for:
Honours:
1997/1998. Andrew Bearlin, School of Botany, University of Melbourne.
1998. Naomi Tootell, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Melbourne.
2002. Reviewer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Revised Proposal for Critical Habitat for 47 Plant Species on the Island of Hawaii; Federal Register Vol. 67, No. 102, pp. 36968-37106.
2001-2002. Member of the working group Systematic Conservation Planning and the California Legacy Project (CLP) at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.
2000-2002. Member of the working group Developing and testing methods for classifying species conservation status and estimating risk, at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.
2000-2001. Member of the working group Review of Forest Service species viability assessment processes, at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, CA.
2000. Invited speaker: Workshop on Using the IUCN Red List as an Indicator of Biodiversity Trends in Port Jefferson, New York.
2000. Invited speaker at workshop: Improvements in Applications of Models in Ecological Risk Assessment: Workshop on Model Evaluations, sponsored by American Chemistry Council, in Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, Montana.
1999. Invited speaker at workshop: Beyond Point Estimates: Risk Assessment Using Interval, Fuzzy and Probabilistic Arithmetic at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Assessment, in Atlanta, GA.
1999. Consultant for Forestry Tasmania, Australia. Model for timber harvest management and risk assessment of a rare land snail.
1998. Panelist for Industrial Risk Management seminar, Environmental Futures Forum, September 21 and 22, organised by the Victorian Environmental Protection Authority, held at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
1998. Consultant for the Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Australia. Multi-criteria decision analysis for project selection.
1998. Invited speaker at workshop: Tools for Population Viability Analysis at the Society for Conservation Biology Annual meeting in Sydney, Australia.
September 2000. School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Australia. Guest lecturer
for the course Choice, Risk and Decision.
January 1999. Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India. Lectured a course on
decision theory and supervised students in the
Tibet-Tasmania Partnership Program.
2001. Visiting scientist for Kids Do Ecology program at UCSB. Taught grade 5 students conservation biology.
1999. Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India. Teacher and student supervisor.
1992-98. Volunteer mathematics tutor, Australia.
1992. St Vincent de Paul Society assistant to the elderly and disabled, Australia.
1992. Active member of Clean Land Air Water & Social Justice (CLAWS), Australia.
1989-92. St Vincent de Paul Society Soup Van for the Homeless, Australia.
1982-92. Victoria Netball Umpire, Australia.
1981. Track and Field Official, Victorian Little Athletics Association.
1981. Swim Instructor for disabled children. Yooralla Society of Victoria, Australia.
Refereed Papers
Pastorok, R.A., H.R. Akçakaya, H.M. Regan, S. Ferson, and S.M. Bartell. Role of ecological modeling in risk assessment. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, (in press).
Bartell, S.M., R.A. Pastorok, H.R. Akçakaya, H.M. Regan, S. Ferson and C. Mackay. Realism
and relevance of ecological models used in chemical risk assessment. Human and Ecological
Risk Assessment, (in press).
Regan, H.M., H.R. Akçakaya, S. Ferson, K.V. Root, S. Carroll and L.R. Ginzburg.
Treatments of uncertainty and variability in ecological risk assessment of single-species populations. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, (in press).
Regan, H.M. and T.D. Auld. Using Population Viability Analysis for Management of an Endangered Australian Shrub, Grevillea caleyi. In H.R. Akçakaya, M.A. Burgman, O. Kindvall, P. Sjogren-Gulve, J. Hatfield, and M. McCarthy (eds.), Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies, Oxford University Press, (in press).
Regan, H.M., B.K. Hope, and S. Ferson. Analysis and portrayal of uncertainty in a food web exposure
model. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, (in press).
Taylor, R.J., T.J. Regan, H.M. Regan, M.A. Burgman and K.Bonham. Impacts of plantation development, harvesting schedules and rotation lengths on the rare snail Tasmaphena lamproides in northwest Tasmania: a population viability analysis. Forest Ecology and Management (in press).
Regan, H.M., T.D. Auld, D. Keith and M.A. Burgman. The effects of fire and predators on the long-term persistence of an endangered shrub Grevillea caleyi. Biological Conservation 109(1):73-83, 2003.
Regan, H.M. Von Neumann stability analysis of symplectic integrators applied to Hamiltonian PDEs. Journal of Computational Mathematics, 20(6):pp, 2002.
Elith, J., M.A. Burgman and H.M. Regan. Mapping epistemic uncertainty and vague concepts
in predictions of species' distribution. Ecological Modelling, 157:313-329, 2002.
Regan, H.M., B.E. Sample, and S. Ferson. Deterministic and Probabilistic Ecological Soil
Screening Levels for Wildlife. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 21(4):882-890, 2002.
Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan, and M.A. Burgman. A taxonomy and treatment of uncertainty for
ecology and conservation biology. Ecological Applications, 12(2):618-628, 2002.
Regan H.M. Population Models: Individual-Based, in R.A. Pastorok, S.M. Bartell, S. Ferson, L.R. Ginzburg (eds.)
Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment: Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems and
Landscapes, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton FL., pp. 65-82, 2002.
Akcakaya, H.R. and H.M. Regan. Population Models: Metapopulations, in R.A. Pastorok,
S.M. Bartell, S. Ferson, L.R. Ginzburg (eds.) Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment:
Chemical Effects on Populations, Ecosystems and Landscapes, Lewis Publishers,
Boca Raton FL., pp. 83-95, 2002.
Colyvan, M., H.M. Regan, and S. Ferson. Is it a crime to belong to a reference class?, The Journal
of Political Philosophy, 9(2):168-181, 2001.
Also reprinted in H. Kyburg and M. Thalos (eds.)
Probability is the Very Guide of Life, Open Court, Chicago (in press).
Regan, T.J., H.M. Regan, K. Bonham, R.J. Taylor, and M.A. Burgman. Modelling the impact of
timber harvesting on a rare carnivorous land snail (Tasmaphena lamproides) in
northwest Tasmania, Australia. Ecological Modelling, 139:253-264, 2001.
Regan, H.M., R. Lupia, A.N. Drinnan and M.A. Burgman. The currency and tempo of extinction.
The American Naturalist, 157(1):1-10, January 2001.
Regan, H.M., and M. Colyvan. Fuzzy Sets and Threatened Species Classification,
Conservation Biology, 14(4):1197-1199, August 2000.
Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan and M.A. Burgman. A Proposal for Fuzzy IUCN Categories and Criteria,
Biological Conservation, 92(1):101-108, 2000.
Bearlin, A.R., M.A. Burgman, and H.M. Regan. A Stochastic Model for Seagrass (Zostera muelleri)
in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, Ecological Modelling, 118:131-148, 1999.
Stiles, P.J. and H.M. Regan. Transient Cellular Convection in Electrically Polarized Colloidal Suspensions,
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 202(2):562-565, 1998.
Submitted Papers
Regan, H.M., S. Ferson, and D. Berleant. Equivalence of five methods for bounding uncertainty.
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, (in revision).
Manuscripts in Preparation
Tootell, N., H.M. Regan, D.A. Keith, and M. Tozer. Dynamics of disease and fire: an
individual-based model of the grass tree Xanthorrhoea resinifera. Ecological Applications
(in prep.)
Mace, G., M.A. Burgman, M. Ruckleshaus, D.A. Keith, H.M. Regan. Setting priorities for
recovery: a framework for environmental decisions (in prep.)
Regan, H.M., et al. A guide to setting bounds on parameters for threatened species
classification. (in prep.)
Technical Reports and Conference Proceedings
Regan, H.M. Individual-based models, in
Improvements in Applications of Models in Ecological Risk Assessment:
Evaluation of Ecological-Effects
Models. Report by Exponent, Applied Biomathematics, and The Cadmus Group Inc. to the
American Chemistry Council, Arlington, Virginia, 2000.
Regan, T.J., K. Bonham, H.M. Regan, R. Taylor, D. Tuson and M.A. Burgman.
Forest Management and Conservation of Tasmaphena lamproides in North West Tasmania:
Use of Population Viability Analysis to Evaluate Management Options, 52pp.
Report to Forestry Tasmania, July 1999.
Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan and M.A. Burgman. Dealing with Vagueness in Threatened Species
Classification, in R. N. Dave and T. Sudkamp (eds.),
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy
Information Processing Society: Real World Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing,
IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 685-694, 1999.
Regan, H.M., A. Rawlinson, D.A. Keith, T.D. Auld and M.A. Burgman.
Population viability analysis for Grevillea caleyi, Epacris stuartii and E. barbata.
Pages 53-71 in Plant Population Viability Analysis Case Studies for Environment Australia. Project FN-37.
Report by the School of Botany, University of Melbourne, to Environment Australia. 1998.
Andelman, S.J., S. Beissinger, J. Cochrane, L. Gerber, P. Gomez-Priego, C. Groves, J. Haufler, R. Holthausen, D. Lee, L. Maguire, B. Noon, K. Ralls, and H.M. Regan. Scientific Standards for Conducting Viability Assessments Under the National Forest Management Act: Report and Recommendations of the NCEAS Working Group. 2001.
Regan, H.M., F. Davis, S.J. Andelman, G. Greenwood, M. Beyeler, P. Dangermond, D. Hickson,
M. Hoshovsky. Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation
Criteria. 2001.
Regan, H.M., F. Davis, S.J. Andelman, G. Greenwood, P. Dangermond, D. Kelley, J. Loux,
W. Rash, R. Standiford, B. Stewart, E. Vink. Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Agricultural
Lands Conservation Criteria. 2001.
Regan, H.M., F. Davis, S.J. Andelman, P. Dangermond, S. Gergel, M. Glickfeld, E. Pert, P. Stine, D. Stoms. Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation Criteria. A report to The Resources Agency of California and CCRISP. 2001.
Regan, H.M., Rash, W., Loux, J., Frost, W., Greenwood, G., Jolley, L., Standiford, R., Rayburn, R., Keithley, C., Vink, E., Saving, S., Stewart, W. Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Forest Lands Conservation Criteria. A report to The Resources Agency of California and CCRISP. 2001.
Regan, H.M., M. Glickfeld, H. Barnett, J. Loux, P. McCarty, R. Doyle, P. Edelman, D. Kamradt, P. Beier, C. Luke, S. Denzler, J. Woodbury, C. Miller, R. Dinno, P. Dangermond, J. Metz, M. Angle, G. Greenwood, T. Scott, F. Davis, M. Beyeler, R. Rayburn. Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Urban Open Space Conservation Criteria. A report to The Resources Agency of California and CCRISP. 2002.
Regan, H.M., M. Glickfeld, H. Barnett, J. Loux, P. McCarty, P. Dangermond, J. Metz, R. Rayburn, J. Yandoh, J. Faridi, B. Collett, R. Gerrard, K. Demetrak, D. Duran, E. Haok, R. Murray, D. North. Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Conservation Criteria for Destination Type Recreation in Rural California. A report to The Resources Agency of California and CCRISP. 2002.
Regan, H.M., B.K. Hope, and S. Ferson. Treatment of uncertainty in ecological screening levels for wildlife, (abstract) in The Ecological Society of America 87th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Tucson, AZ, USA, August 2002.
Regan, H.M., F. Davis, S.J. Andelman, and D. Stoms. The use of decision-making tools in systematic conservation planning, (abstract) in Society for Conservation Biology, 16th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Canterbury, U.K., July 2002.
Regan, H.M., T.D. Auld, D.A. Keith, and M.A. Burgman, Using population models for conservation management of an endangered Australian plant, Grevillea caleyi, (abstract) in Science for Plant Conservation: An International Conference for Botanic Gardens, Volume of Abstracts, Dublin, Ireland, July 2002.
Regan, T.J., D.A. Keith, H.M. Regan, and M. Tozer, A population viability vnalysis for a long lived perennial: Xanthorrhoea resinifera, (abstract of poster) in Science for Plant Conservation: An International Conference for Botanic Gardens, Volume of Abstracts, Dublin, Ireland, July 2002.
Stoms, D., F. Davis, C. Costello, S. Andelman, and H.M. Regan. A methodological framework for the California Legacy Project, (abstract) in International Association for Landscape Ecology, 17th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2002.
Regan, H.M., S.J. Andelman, M.A. McCarthy, and M.A. Burgman. How precautionary are we? The impact of uncertainty on threatened species classifications, (abstract) in Society for Conservation Biology, 15th Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Hilo, Hawaii, 2001.
Regan, H.M., B.K. Hope, and S. Ferson.
Small chances and fat chances: setting the context for probabilistic analysis of a food-web
model, (abstract) in Risk Analysis in Industry and Government: Volume of Abstracts of
the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 2000.
Keith, D.A., M. Tozer, N. Tootell, and H.M. Regan. Population change in long-lived plants:
a 10-year demography of Xanthorrhoea resinifera, (abstract) in
ESA99: Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia, Volume of Abstracts,
Fremantle, Western Australia, 1999.
Sample, B.E., H.M. Regan, S. Ferson, R. Pastorok, M. Butcher, P. Rury, A.D. Little,
R. Ryti, J. Bascietto, and S. Ells. Ecological Soil Screening Levels for wildlife:
development and comparison of deterministic and probabilistic approaches,
(abstract of poster) in Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 20th
Annual Meeting, Volume of Abstracts, Philadelphia, 1999.
Ferson, S., J.A. Cooper, H.M. Regan and M. Butcher. Beyond point estimates: risk assessment
using interval, fuzzy and probabilistic arithmetic, (abstract) in The Future of Risk in
the 21st Century: Volume of Abstracts of the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, 1999.
Regan, H.M., R. Lupia, A.N. Drinnan, and M.A. Burgman. Mass extinction or mass hysteria:
dealing with uncertainty in the past and present, (abstract of paper) in The Future of
Risk in the 21st Century: Volume of Abstracts of the Society for Risk Analysis Annual
Meeting, Atlanta, 1999.
Regan, H.M. and S. Ferson. Measurement Error and Threshold Uncertainty in Classifying
Biological Species for Conservation, (abstract of paper) in The Future of Risk in the
21st Century: Volume of Abstracts of the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, 1999.
Regan, H.M., M. Colyvan and M.A. Burgman. Dealing with Vagueness in Threatened Species
Classification, (paper) in
18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy
Information Processing Society: Real World Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing,
New York, 1999.
Regan, H.M., D.A. Keith, T.D. Auld and M.A. Burgman. Population Viability Analysis of
Grevillea caleyi, (abstract of paper) in 12th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Conservation Biology, Volume of Abstracts, Macquarie University,
Sydney, 1998.
Colyvan, M. and H.M. Regan. A Proposal for Fuzzy IUCN Categories and Criteria,
(abstract of paper) in 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation
Biology, Volume of Abstracts, Macquarie University, Sydney, 1998.
Regan, H.M., M.A. Burgman, T.D. Auld and D.A. Keith. Population models of even-aged plant
cohorts, (abstract of paper) in 1998 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling,
Volume of Abstracts , Hobart, 1998.
Regan, H.M. and M.A. Burgman. Extinction rates: a fuzzy approach, (abstract of paper)
in ESA97: Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia, Volume of Abstracts ,
Charles Sturt University, Albury, 1997.
Regan, H.M. Symplectic Integration of Hamiltonian PDEs: An Alternative Approach, (abstract of paper)
in ANZIAM96: 32nd Australasian Applied Mathematics Conference, Volume of Abstracts,
Masterton, New Zealand, 1996.