Research focus on an integration of environmental, social, and economic research to address sustainability challenges.Emphasis on environmental and ecological economics and the evaluation of environmental services, geospatial analysis, energy policy, and natural resource management. Dissertation: The Composition and Distribution of Stream Restoration Activity: An Analysis of Implementation at Multiple ScalesInvestigation of the distribution and composition of water quality restoration activitythrough geospatial analysis of projects relative to key environmental and socioeconomic factors: engaged in data collection from diverse sources, database design, spatial cluster, outlier analysis, and regression modelling to understand restoration activity

Performed market analysis and researched energy manufacturing capacity, economic development potential, and distribution of carbon-intensive industries in economically distressed Appalachian counties.Teaching Assistant, 2008-2011Applied GIS and Mapping (online), 2010-2011: Focused on foundational concepts of GIS, GPS, remote sensing, and cartography within the context of environmental and social challenges.Cultural Geography, 2009: Focused on the location-based analysis of changes in non-Western cultures with special consideration for settlement, economic development, plural societies, and population growth.Physical Geography/Climatology, 2008: Taught laboratory section focused on the fundamentals of climatology and the global climatic system and their variation over space and time.

Researched climate change policy and renewable energy production and job creation potentials. Drafted op-eds, outreach materials and researched and prepared reports and presented findings. Coordinated outreach efforts for renewable energy program with a focus on coalition building and public speaking. Performed energy policy analysis, development and implementation through direct stakeholder negotiations, regulatory and legislative action. Provided administrative support for a collaborative organization of seven membership organizations. Assisted in the development of budgets, programs goals, and grant writing. Agricultural and Forestry Technical Working Group, 2005-2006Appointed by the Governor of New Mexico to a panel of experts developing policy papers on cellulosic alternatives to fossil fuels and the impacts of forest and agricultural management on greenhouse gas projections and emissions inventories.Utility Energy Efficiency Task Force, 2004Appointed by the Governor of New Mexico to a panel of experts tasked with the writing and passage of the Efficient Use of Energy Act of 2004.

Directed a state-based, public clean energy and climate change campaign in New Mexico.

Laboratory and field researcher, Department of Biology: Researched the impact of herbivory on biofuel resource Salix sericea.