Howard Quigley is Executive Director and Senior Ecologist at Beringia South, a non-profit science and education non-profit in Kelly, Wyoming. He obtained his B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.S. from the University of Tennessee, and his Ph.D. from the University of Idaho.

After graduation from the University of Idaho, he worked for three years in the University of Maryland system as an assistant professor at Frostburg State University before returning to Idaho as President of the Hornocker Wildlife Institute, a position he held until 2000 when HWI became a program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. He was Director of the Global Carnivore Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society from 2000 to 2002, before taking the position with Beringia South. Howard’s research and field experiences have focused primarily on mammalian carnivores. He has conducted black bear research in Tennessee, helped initiate the giant panda project in China in 1980, and conducted a 3-year intensive examination of jaguar ecology in Brazil. Howard completed a 5-year study of wildlife populations in northern Guatemala in 1997 and a 4-year study of black bears in western Maryland, both begun while employed by the University of Maryland system. After returning to the Hornocker Wildlife Institute in 1994, Howard provided oversight of the day-to-day operations of the Institute, including five cougar field studies, a study of black bear populations in New Mexico and a wilderness research site in central Idaho. In addition, along with Maurice Hornocker, Howard initiated and co-directed the Siberian Tiger Project in Far Eastern Russia for nearly ten years. He is the author of nearly thirty scientific publications and several popular articles.

Along with his oversight of science and field studies (including cougar and raven research) at Beringia South with Derek Craighead, he coordinates the activities of carnivore working groups in both the northern and southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in an attempt to bring together field research and conservation activities in the area. This work will be formulated into conservation plans based on carnivore ecology.