Biographical Information about Ellen Donoghue

Ellen Donoghue is a research social scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station in Portland, Oregon. She is a member of the Human and Natural Resources Interactions program, which is comprised of social scientists, economists, ecologists, and wood technologists.

Prior to receiving her PhD in Forestry from North Carolina State University, Ellen earned a M.P.P. in Public Policy from Rutgers University, and a B.S. in Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley. Ellen conducts research on the institutional dimensions of collaborative resource management, and the interactions betweencommunities and the management of public forestlands. Recent work includes understanding socioeconomic change of communities in the Northwest Forest Plan region.

Ellen has been conducting research and working in the area of community-based resource management in Central America, the Philippines, and the Pacific Northwest of the United States since the late 1980s.