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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Raising awareness and advancing the use of wood fuels for heating, hot water and process heat applications in Virginia.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Charlottesville, Virginia

Program manager for the Community Power Initiative, an effort to promote small‐scale, distributed combined heat and power to create demand for locally produced biomass feedstocks. Activities included grant writing and management, managing contracts for services, business plan development, workshop organization, information synthesis and distribution.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Conducting GIS-based carbon inventories, advising clients on forestry carbon sequestration projects and developing and delivering courses on greenhouse gas accounting and carbon sequestration for agriculture and forestry practitioners.

Gainesville, Florida

Managing Short‐Rotation Woody Crops and Phytoremedation Program emphasizing silviculture of Eucalyptus, Populus, Salix and Taxodium species for bioenergy, wood products and phytoremedation of brownfields and minelands. Supervising nursery production of research plants, establishing research sites, supervising planting and data collection field crews.

Gainesville, Florida

Instructing, supervising and grading laboratory and field exercises for undergraduate courses in Natural Resource Sampling, Dendrology and Mensuration.

Gainesville, Florida

Designing, fundraising for, implementing, analyzing and publishing results of field research trials testing yield increases from intercropping Morinda citrifolia and Moringa oliefera with locally marketable medicinal plants in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Forestry, Specialization Agroforestry

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Anthropology & Wildlife Biology

Professional Continuing Education, Biomass