Sam works at Natural Channel Design Engineering, Inc. as a GIS Remote Sensing Specialist. He completed his Master’s of Science in Forestry at Northern Arizona University, studying relationships of fire and forest cover change in Vietnam, using satellite derived data. As an undergraduate he spent a year studying in Chile and working in Argentinean Patagonia. He holds a B.S. Forestry and B.A. Modern Languages (Spanish) from NAU and, worked four seasons as a wildland firefighter on the Coconino N.F. between undergraduate and graduate studies. Experience ranges from dendrochronology and GIS to field research with the Rocky Mountain Research Station, Navajo Nation, and Mescalero Apache Tribe.