Retired from NJ Dept of Agriculture Farmland Preservation Program, seeking part time employment in office administration, afterschool student services, childcare, horticulure, environmental education. I am focused on Ecopsychology, Environmental Ethics & Aesthetics, Environmental Education and Curriculum Development for Environmental Literacy.

20 years in the field as an ecologist doing site assessments for environmental regulatory compliance and environmental impact statements, resource inventories, habitat assessments, mitigation and mitigation monitoring, etc.
Identification of flora, fauna and geologic features in wide variety of geographic locations to assess the resource value of particular ecosystems and environmental impacts of proposed projects. My work specialized in freshwater & coastal wetlands, tidewater marshes.

However, after so many years of aiding/abetting engineers and developers who only sought to disturb and destroy otherwise balanced and pristine natural areas, I turned to restoration ecology. I'd like to think that my formal education only enhanced what was already learned during my feral childhood and what I hope to impart to young minds on the verge of this epidemic “Nature Deficit Disorder.”

I chaired my town's environmental commission & sat on the Planning Board where I commented on the site and landscape plans.

Specialties: Biophilia/Ecopsychology (the "Mind/Nature" connection); Nature Study Movement; Environmental Ethics, Aesthetics of Natural Environments; Human evolution and adaptability, Evolution of Human Consciousness, Indigenous Cultures;
Soil & Water Resources, Wetlands Ecology, Natural Systems for Water Quality; Habitat Destruction and Deforestion, Factory Farm Animal Rights
Freelance/Outdoor Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Ecocriticism.