Professional Goals

I’ve worked as a stream ecologist for over 40 years and find that the science still fascinates me.  I learn something about every stream or river that I work in.  My professional goals primarily are about advancing the science of stream ecology, whether that’s as a contractor working on a restoration project or teaching aquatic insect taxonomy or ecology to students.  

Prior to starting Penrose Environmental I worked with Watershed Science and prior to that in the NCSU Water Quality Group.

Professional Activities

• Council of Scientific Society Presidents – 2016 Executive Board Chair
• Society for Freshwater Science – President 2012/13
• Special Master for Ecology – mountain-top mining litigation.
• Fulbright Scholarship – Kathmandu University, Nepal 2015
• University of North Carolina at Asheville – Adjunct position to teach Aquatic Insect Ecology
• Ecosystem Enhancement Program – Science Advisory Board.

Awards

• State of North Carolina – Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
• Society for Freshwater Science – Distinguished Service and Environmental Stewardship Awards

Non-professional Interests

• Avid Reader and book collector
• Bird watching
• Hiking
• Fly-fishing
• Gardening