Managed and developed resources for the Lake Champlain Sea Grant program (LCSG), whose mission is the develop and use knowledge to improve the environment and the economy of the Lake Champlain region. The LCSG is part of the National Sea Grant College Program funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As Director I represented the Lake Champlain Sea Grant program on the Lake Champlain Basin Program Steering Committee. Learn more about the LCSG…
Managed and developed resources for the Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center (VWRLSC). The VWRLSC is part of the National Institutes for Water Research funded by the US Geological Survey. The VWRLSC research on major water resource issues of concern to the state, disseminates results from that research, and helps to educate students about the nature and value of water resources. Learn more about the VWRLSC…
Managed and developed resources for the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC), a competitive grant program funded by the USDA Forest Service to support cross-disciplinary, collaborative research on the integration of resource management and socioeconomic concerns in the northern forests of the New England region. Learn more about the NSRC…
Over the course of my career I managed several large, interdisciplinary, and multi-institutional research projects in the Arctic, primarily at the Toolik Field Station on the North Slope of Alaska and operated by the University of Alaska – Fairbanks. From 2010 to 2023 I coordinated the Streams Research component the NSF-funded Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research (ArcLTER) project. This collaborative and integrated research project served as a springboard for multiple research projects on permafrost, thermokarst, and Arctic surface waters. Learn more about the ArcLTER and related projects…
As Programme Leader for Catchment and Biospheric Proceses at Manaaki Whenua/Landcare Research in New Zealand I led a group of collaborators from research organizations; universities; local, regional, and national government; NGOs; and leaders in the indigenous Māori community to found the Motueka Integrated Catchment Management program. The goal of this program was to conduct multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder research to provide information and knowledge to improve the management of land, freshwater, and near-coastal environments in catchments with multiple, interacting, and potentially conflicting land uses. Learn more about the Motueka ICM project…