Staff

Mark Damian Duda is the founder and executive director of Responsive Management. He has led Responsive Management since the firm’s inception in 1990. Mark holds a master’s degree with an emphasis on natural resource policy and planning from Yale University, where he attended on two academic scholarships. Mark has conducted more than 1,000 studies on how people relate to the outdoors. He is the author of four books on wildlife and outdoor recreation, including The Sportsman’s Voice: Hunting and Fishing in America and Watching Wildlife.

Mark is a Certified Wildlife Biologist® whose research has been upheld in U.S. District Courts, used in peer-reviewed journals, and presented at major natural resource and outdoor recreation conferences around the world. His work has been featured in many of the nation’s top media, including NPR’s Morning Edition, CNN, The New York Times, Newsweek, and the front pages of The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today. For seven years, Mark served as a columnist for North American Hunter and North American Fisherman magazines.

Mark has been named Conservation Educator of the Year by the Florida Wildlife Federation and National Wildlife Federation, was a recipient of the Conservation Achievement Award from the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and was named Wildlife Professional of the Year by the Virginia Wildlife Society. He also received the Conservation Achievement Award in Communications from Ducks Unlimited and an award from the Potomac Ducks Unlimited Chapter for his contributions as a researcher and writer. Mark was also honored as Qualitative Researcher of the Year by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and received the 2016 Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Rifle Association. Mark is an avid hunter, sport shooter, angler, boater, and birdwatcher.

Marty Jones is a senior quantitative research associate with Responsive Management. He has been with Responsive Management for 17 years. Marty serves as Responsive Management’s lead technical report writer and is credited with writing more than 300 reports of survey findings. He also helps manage Responsive Management’s quantitative data analysis. Prior to joining Responsive Management, Marty headed the technical writing department for a major engineering firm specializing in wetlands and land-use research. Marty’s recent projects include a study for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to determine participation in and attitudes toward recycling; a trend study for the Arizona Game and Fish Department examining attitudes toward the agency and participation in outdoor recreation; and a study for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission that looked at attitudes toward migratory bird hunting on Sunday in the state. He also co-authored The Sportsman’s Voice: Hunting and Fishing in America. Marty holds a master’s degree from the University of Vermont.

Andrea Criscione is a senior research associate with Responsive Management. She has been with Responsive Management for 14 years and is a leader in survey design, having developed more than 200 survey instruments for an array of studies. In addition to managing projects and designing survey instruments, Andrea writes reports and moderates focus groups. Andrea was recently the project manager for a watershed-literacy survey of Carson River Watershed residents, a survey for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration’s National Hurricane Center to examine public understanding of tropical-storm-force wind graphics, and a survey of Maine residents, hunters, and landowners to assess their attitudes toward the management of deer, bear, moose, and turkey in the state. She is also a co-author of The Sportsman’s Voice: Hunting and Fishing in America. Andrea holds a master’s degree from Virginia Tech.

Tom Beppler is a senior research associate with Responsive Management. He has been with Responsive Management for 12 years. Tom manages projects, writes proposals, moderates focus groups, facilitates meetings, and writes and edits final reports. He was recently the project manager for a strategic direction planning study for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, as well as for a needs assessment of the State of Connecticut’s Conservation Education and Firearms Safety Program. Tom also recently conducted focus groups as part of a project for the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission to determine residents’ knowledge of air quality issues and their opinions on air quality campaign messages. Tom received his bachelor’s degree from James Madison University.

Amanda Center is a research associate with Responsive Management. She has been with Responsive Management for five years. Amanda’s responsibilities include coordination and supervision of mail and online survey data collection, design and management of online public input forums, and proofreading of final reports and other documents. She also helps manage Responsive Management’s marketing efforts. Amanda recently worked on a survey for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to measure residents’ participation in outdoor recreation, an email marketing campaign for the Archery Trade Association to encourage license purchases and bowhunting participation among lapsed participants, and a survey for the County of Henrico, Virginia, to determine residents’ awareness and use of County communications. Amanda holds a master’s degree from Walden University.

Patrick Doherty is a research associate statistician with Responsive Management. He has been with Responsive Management for seven years. Patrick is primarily responsible for data analysis and the coding of survey instruments. Patrick recently managed the data analysis for a study for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Conservation Program to determine U.S. Virgin Islands residents’ attitudes toward coral reef management. His other recent projects include a longitudinal assessment of hunting, fishing, and sport shooting recruitment and retention programs, as well as a study for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to determine attitudes toward deer management in each of the Commonwealth’s 22 Wildlife Management Units. He has analyzed survey data for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, among many others. Patrick received his bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary.

Greg Hughes is a research associate statistician with Responsive Management. He has been with Responsive Management for five years. Greg’s responsibilities include both statistical data analysis and technical writing for survey projects. Greg recently helped manage an evaluation of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s Private Land Open To Sportsmen Program, a study for the Delaware Coastal Programs Office to explore decision-makers’ needs regarding a variety of coastal management issues, and a survey for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission to determine state residents’ participation in outdoor recreation. Greg received his bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University.

Alison Lanier is Responsive Management’s business manager. She has been with Responsive Management for 20 years. Alison performs all of Responsive Management’s administrative duties; maintains databases, accounts, and payroll; conducts business planning and development; and coordinates focus group logistics and recruitment. She recently managed focus groups of recreational boaters and commercial fishermen for a project for the BoatU.S. Foundation to reduce collisions with fixed commercial fishing gear, as well as focus groups with firearm owners who are infrequent or inactive shooters as part of research for the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Alison received her bachelor’s degree from James Madison University.

Jeremiah Morris is Responsive Management’s survey center manager. Jeremiah has been with Responsive Management for three years and is responsible for survey implementation and management, including direct supervision of 75 professional interviewers. He previously worked for the U.S. Census Bureau as a Census Field Supervisor. Jeremiah conducts in-depth project briefings with assistant managers and interviewing staff prior to their work on each study and monitors interviewers to provide strict control over the data collection process. Since joining Responsive Management, Jeremiah has managed the data collection for numerous survey research projects, supervising interviewer staff and tracking completed surveys to ensure proper demographic and geographic representation.

Responsive Management also maintains a full-service, state-of-the-art computer-assisted telephone survey center with 75 professional interviewers. To ensure that the data collected are of the highest quality, Responsive Management’s interviewers are trained through lectures, role-playing, and video instruction, according to the standards established by the Council of American Survey Research Organizations.