Board of Directors

A 501c(3) nonprofit organization, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory is governed by a Board of Directors who donate their time, treasure and enthusiasm for birds and conservation to help achieve our mission. Directors serve three-year terms, elect their own leadership annually, serve on various committees and help with events and projects. The Board of Directors guides and supports RMBO through strategic planning, financial oversight, and fund-raising.

Warren Taylor, Ph.D., Secretary
Warren retired from a career in academic library administration. He serves on the North Metro Community Services board of directors and the Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. board of directors, and is president of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Adams County, Colo.
E-mail: taylorwg[at]comcast.net

Stephen L. Bloom, Ph.D., ABPP
Steve brings to the organization over 45 years as a professional psychologist and organizational consultant. His commitment to the environment began at the knee of his science-teacher father and continued through to this day. After helping to form and develop the Audubon Colorado Board, he is enthusiastic about furthering the mission of RMBO.
E-mail: steve.bloom[at]gmail.com

Steve W. Deitemeyer, C.F.
Steve is a Certified Forester and owner of Wildland Resources, a natural resources consulting firm in Wheat Ridge, Colo. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service for 36 years in positions that included: Pikes Peak district ranger, deputy forest supervisor of the Bridger-Teton National Forest, supervisor of the Rogue River National Forest in Oregon, and director/assistant director of recreation at the Rocky Mountain Region and the Office of the Chief in Washington D.C. He serves on several boards, including the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation. He has been a birding enthusiast since 1965.
E-mail: sdeitemeyer[at]msn.com

Grady Grissom, Ph.D.
Grady has been a manager/partner at Rancho Largo Cattle Co. east of Walsenburg, Colo., since 1995. Rancho Largo is a 14,000-acre ranch where the fundamental philosophy is: maximum ecosystem health equals maximum ranching profit. Strategic time-controlled grazing allows cattle to fill the ecological niche as the primary large grazing ruminant. Grady received a bachelor’s in geology from Princeton University in 1984. Subsequently he worked on ranches in eastern Colorado until 1987 when he returned to graduate school. He finished a PhD. in geology at Stanford University in 1991 and worked as a farrier in the Bay area until 1995.
E-mail: gradyg10[at]gmail.com

Charles Hundertmark, M.A., A.P.R., A.T.M.
Chuck is a retired public relations counselor and university educator with more than 25 years of experience in journalism, public relations, communication and training development. He served as vice chairman of the Senior Faculty of the University of Phoenix and has taught public relations, organizational communication, marketing and business research at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He held state and national leadership roles in the Public Relations Society of America. He is a consultant with The Human Factor Research and Consulting, Inc., and a past president of the New Mexico Ornithological Society and the Central New Mexico Audubon Society. He founded Rio Grande Bird Research Inc., a banding research organization in central New Mexico with a 31-year history of collecting ornithological data.  A birder since 1964, he has numerous publications in public relations, environmental communication and ornithology, and his travel writings and photographs have appeared in newspapers around the country. He particularly enjoys combining his passions for birding and photography. His wife and business partner, Marjorie Jannotta, Ph.D., is a fiber artist and art quilter.
E-mail: chundertmark8[at]gmail.com

Shawn Nowlan, J.D. 
Shawn is an attorney with a practice focusing on tax issues involving exempt organizations and employee benefits/ERISA. Shawn served the Nebraska Legislature from 1996 through 1999 as a legislative counsel, and he served from 1999 through 2003 as Legal Counsel to the Nebraska Public Employees Retirement Systems. He is a native of Boulder, Colorado.
E-mail: snowlan[at]yahoo.com

Joe Roller, M.D.
Joe retired from the practice of gastroenterology in Denver in March 2010 after a 34-year career. He has been an avid birder since childhood and has served on the boards of the Denver Field Ornithologists and Colorado Field Ornithologists. He served as a district chairman in the Denver Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America for three years.
E-mail: jroller9[at]gmail.com

D. Jean Tate, Ph.D.
Jean is an ecologist with more than 33 years of applied experience in the consulting world. Her academic work focused on birds including "Morphometric age and sex variation in the Whistling Swan" and "Habitat usage by the Chipping Sparrow in northern Lower Michigan.” Her consulting career has focused on diverse studies responsive to the NEPA and CERCLA/SARA/RCRA for land management, military, transportation and other agencies. Jean is also on the board of Friends of the Front Range Wildlife Refuges. Her passions are preserving habitat, ecological health, and species diversity for avian and other wildlife populations, and promoting appreciation of the natural world for its intrinsic worth and its value to the human mind, body and spirit.
E-mail: jeantate[at]enviro-support.com

Tiffany Watts
Tiffany is an audit senior manager in the Denver office of Grant Thornton LLP. She manages financial statement audits of public and private companies, ranging in size from start-ups to hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. She has served several industries, including the nonprofit sector and has been with Grant Thornton since 2002. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver, teaching courses in financial accounting. She has a personal interest in conservation and restoration of native habitat and species. Tiffany and her husband enjoy hiking, birding, snowboarding, and adventure races involving mountain biking and running.
E-mail: tiffanyLwatts[at]yahoo.com