Manage a portfolio of ~200 active Land conservation and research grants awarded to Explorers from around the globe. Define the strategic research priorities for the Land focus area portfolio of science grants. Led the design and management of the call for proposals for the Freshwater Conservation Projects.

Designed & managed the Microfiber Innovation Challengehttps://www.microfiberinnovation.org/The Microfiber Innovation Challenge was sponsored by the Flotilla Foundation and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. View the semi-finalists, finalists, and prize winning teams: https://www.microfiberinnovation.org/Designed and managed The Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge https://www.artisanalminingchallenge.com/Managed Oceans X Labs - a digital accelerator to develop scalable innovations for ocean conservation. http://www.oceansxlabs.org/Managed The Blue Economy Challenge to reengineer aquaculture for developing countries in the Indian Ocean region. www.theblueeconomychallenge.orgOrganized & ran Make for the Planet @ IMCC5 and Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit. https://www.makefortheplanet.com/

Office of the Science Advisor: Evaluation of EPA's Scientific Integrity Policy; participation and organization of a multi-agency research collaboration on unconventional oil and gas development; ecological assessments. Office of Research and Development Innovation Team: lead the development of citizen science and crowd-sourcing research activities in the agency.

Assisted the Science Advisor to the Administrator of EPA on the relevancy of scientific data and reports on ecological effects of hydraulic fracturing; ecosystem services; ecological risk assessments; and water reuse in the energy and agriculture sectors. Project manager and liaison between the Army and the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD). Coordinated research demonstrations on Army installations to attain Net Zero water goals.

Liaison between USGS scientists and inter-agency committees & other stakeholders; Wildlife Task Force of the Sub-committee on Foreign Animal Disease Threats; Communication of USGS science in environmental health--including endocrine disruptors, zoonotic and non-zoonotic wildlife diseases, and pharmaceuticals; database creation.

Post-doc with large interdisciplinary project; effects of harvesting prairie grasses for bioenergy on wildlife populations in Minnesota; effects of estrogen-mimics on behavior of Prairie voles