The EarthFit Board
Scooter Cheatham
President and Founder, Useful Wild Plants
Austin, TX
Scooter Cheatham founded the Useful Wild Plants project in 1971. He is a professional photographer, writer, and architect. As lead author of the encyclopedia he has written and supervised the writing of the economic treatments of the plants, and has photographed 80% of the species to be illustrated. He has planned and supervised experimental full-scale reconstructions of Native American dwellings for several organizations, and has designed and supervised the installation of native landscape projects. An architect and graphic designer, he developed the page layout and design of the encyclopedia, and has scheduled the components of the project and staff activities using critical path and PERT techniques.
Dr. Stanley J. Roux
Vice President
Dr. Stanley J. Roux is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and has been honored with the Regents Outstanding Teaching Award along with many other prestigious scientific and teaching awards throughout his career. Dr. Roux received his Ph. D. in Biology from Yale University in 1971 and was a Postdoctoral fellow in Biophysics there from 1971-1973. He joined the Useful Wild Plants Project in 1991 and has played an active role in exposing UT students to the work we do as well as working in his role as Vice President of the board of trustees.
Lynn Marshal
Secretary
Lynn Marshall received her B.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology from the University of Texas in 1975 and has been with Useful Wild Plants, inc. since 1977. She serves the project in the essential role of Research Coordinator and Supervisor, as well as writer. She oversees the procurement and processing of the bibliographical texts and has been involved in many of the tests and experiments performed. She is responsible for most of the extensive organization of the data, and directs other research staff in the preparation and organization of writing materials. In addition to writing and in-house editing, she has supervised preparation of the plant distribution maps, the interviewing of informants, and the extraction of data for database.
Martin Payne
Board Member
Martin Payne has been on the board of Useful Wild Plants since 2003. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, with honors, in Mechanical Engineering. Payne has served in various engineering and management positions in the upstream oil and gas industry, with involvement in drilling, completion, production, gas gathering, transmission and treating. In 2000, Payne was a co-founder of a Drilling Info, Inc., and served as Executive Vice President and on the Board of Directors there. He currently serves as General Manager of Anvil Energy LLC.
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