David Cherney, M.E.M.
David Cherney is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado’s Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and is a research associate with the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative in Jackson, WY. He holds a master's degree in environmental management from Yale University and a bachelor's degree in environment, economics, and politics from Claremont McKenna College. David’s primary areas of research include environmental policy, nonprofits, and science and technology policy.
His dissertation research uses the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as a case study to appraise the effectiveness of conservation non-governmental organizations. In 2006, David helped found the Greater Yellowstone Conservation Organizational Inventory. This program documented, for the first time, the scope of conservation nonprofits working around Yellowstone. His published research includes large mammal migration policy in Greater Yellowstone, national park management in southern Ecuador, and water management in the Connecticut River Watershed.
David serves on the executive council for the Society of Policy Scientists and on the program committee for the Society of Conservation Biology's Social Science Working Group. He was awarded the 2008-2009 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Graduate Research Fellowship and the 2008-2009 Center for Humanities and the Arts Fellowship.