Key Qualifications

Mr. Stancioff is a geologist, natural resource planner, analyst, and manager with 35 years of experience in geology, hydrology, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, climatology, and oceanography. He has 35 years of experience in developing countries and 30 in Africa. During the last ten years, Mr. Stancioff has worked to develop methods and models to monitor and evaluate vulnerability, poverty and conflict in areas under stress from overpopulation and overuse of natural resources and other forms of degradation. He has been involved in modeling, demographic health and environmental data in support of early warning systems. For six years, he mapped the geologic, mineral, hydraulic and natural resources of Zaire, Guinea, Central Africa, and Mauritania. Under contract to USAID, he develop the first integrated set of environmental degradation and resource potential maps for Senegal now being used by the World Bank and USGS to develop a national Geographic Information System (GIS). In 1990, he developed a proposal for the World Bank to assess the environmental impact and costs of government policies. From 1991‑96, he was the USAID "team leader" at the AGRHYMET Center. Most recently he has conducted short term mineral exploration work in Zaire in search of diamonds and gold and set up and managed an environmental monitoring system for the government of Morocco. Recently, Mr. Stancioff taught a course on Environment, Resources and Conflict at Georgetown University. Mr Stancioff has worked with the department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research to develop a method for assessing and locating populations at risk.

Education

M.S., Geomorphology, 1964, The George Washington University

B.S., Geology, Minor, Anthropology, 1962, The George Washington University

Relevant Experience in Africa

Stone Environmental, Inc.

Montpelier, Vermont, USA

Senior Associate, 1999 ‑ Present

Manager of activities in the Washington DC area. Responsible for developing GIS-based environmental analysis and modeling. Lead poverty mapping efforts in Africa.

Other previous consultancies:

Managed the USAID component of the AGRHYMET Project. Managed early warning modeling activities, famine indicator identification, information gathering for improved crop production, natural resource monitoring and evaluating the impact of environmental degradation, through the development of EIS and GIS methods and technology. Managed a remote sensing project to map 200,000 square kilometers in Senegal and The Gambia for geology, hydrology, vegetation, soils, minerals and environmental degradation (AID). Project Manager of a remote sensing program in the Shaba Province of Zaire to map and inventory agricultural, forest, and geologic resources in a 90,000 square km area (AID). Managed the African Grasshopper and Locust Control Project in Mali and Sudan for USAD/USAID/AFR/TR.

Developed the terms of reference for structuring a GIS to manage and analyze data on the degradation rate of the Congo Basin. Emphasis in this WWF/USAID project was developing the method for evaluating and monitoring CO² pollution in Global Warning.

Developed GIS terms of reference for CO² sequestration and emission in the Congo, evaluating AGRHYMET project for USAID, managing US effort at AGRHYMET. Managed OFDA Locust control project in Mauritania. Managed USAID Pesticide Testing Project in Mali and Sudan for.

Managed USAID emergency locust operations in Mauritania. Responsible for budgeting, purchasing, hiring and all liaison with donors and Mauritanian government officials. Built and supplied a camp for 30 people in Rkiz, Mauritania from which a spray plane operation was conducted.

Conducted Environmental Impact/ Assessment of a proposed titanium mining operation in Coastal Zone of Senegal. 

Managed USAID Pesticide Testing Project in Mali and Sudan. Managed personnel, administration, finances, negotiation with host countries, hiring of consultants and logistics for field activities including building and supporting two field camps as well as reporting on all activities.

Helped evaluate Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) in West Africa.  For the USGS/EROS Data Center he assisted in preparing, presenting and reporting on the Natural Resources/ Information Systems Workshop on Sudan; with the Sudanese Government, World Bank and USAID.

He provided technical assistance on preparation of terms of reference for use of natural resources in economic planning and environmental impact assessment for the UNDP/World Bank. Mr. Stancioff evaluated the USAID funded Regional Remote Sensing Center at Ouagadougou. Ten countries were visited and over 100 people interviewed in francophone Africa.

Managed Remote Sensing Program. Mapped and inventoried agricultural, forestry and geologic resources of 90,000 sq. km areas of Zaire. 

Languages

Fluent in French and Spanish

Professional Affiliations

Society of Economic Geologists

Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 

Member of the NAS/NRC Committee on the Geographic Foundation for Agenda 21.