He received his doctorate in Wildlife Ecology and Forest Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. His recent publications on human-wildlife interactions in Tibet include Tibetan Antelope Traditional Hunting, Its Relation to Antelope Migration, and its Rapid Transformation in the Western Chang Tang Nature Reserve (Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, in press) and Biodiversity Conservation and Natural Resource Exploitation on Tibet’s Northwestern Chang Tang Highlands (2005). His research interests include large mammal ecology, human-wildlife interaction, and biodiversity conservation in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau region. Joseph has co-authored an article in Issue 4.