My knowledge & experience with river systems & watersheds of the American West serve as content & context for interdisciplinary teaching, research & publications in the fields of environmental, experiential, and sustainability education; bioregional & place-based studies; water resource management; river & watershed ecology, conservation & restoration; adventure education & wilderness leadership; whitewater rafting & river guides training.For nearly four decades, I've been engaged in higher education teaching, research & administration. From 2017-2020 I served as a high school administrator and teacher. One central theme of my career path has been the seamless integration of environmental studies, sustainability, and adventure-based experiential education in the context of place-based studies. The longest stretch of my career has been at Prescott College as professor & administrator in their undergraduate, masters, and doctorate programs. During my tenure there I served as Director of two programs, the Graduate Teaching Assistant Program & the Grand Canyon Semester. After receiving Professor Emeritus status in 2017, I crafted a new chapter in my career as the Director of Sustainability and Experiential Education at Wasatch Academy, a private international boarding high school in central Utah, where I worked closely with the faculty and administration to integrate experiential education and embed academic standards for Education for Sustainability (from the Cloud Institute) into course curricula, program assessments, and Project-Based Learning across campus. Through the newly created Sustainability Council, I established a campus-wide recycling program, secured funding for a "Ban the Bottle" campaign that installed water bottle filling stations across campus, and obtained designation for the Academy as a Utah Green School from the Utah Society for Environmental Education. I also held a leadership role in the Net Zero Energy Initiative that is strategically transforming Wasatch Academy into a Net Zero Energy Campus through innovative building design, renewable energy production, and student-driven project based learning. In 2020 I returned to my Professor Emeritus position at Prescott College to continue my teaching & research. I've picked up the pace with my consulting business, RIPARIA (est. 2012), working with local and regional non-profits to advance holistic watershed health through in ecological restoration & education. Project sites include the Granite Creek Watershed in central Arizona & Grand Canyon’s portion of the Colorado River Watershed.