Coordinating and advancing the City's climate actions and environmental sustainability goals including increasing the installation of City and community PV solar, EV charging stations, and energy efficiency and conservation measures. Implementing solid waste reduction measures through curbside food waste collection and improved recycling collection.

Professor of Environmental Science and Policy. Primary teaching duty focused on environmental science and policy courses. My research focus continues to be the identification, analysis, and potential application of model, innovative environmental policies that foster sustainable materials management through waste diversion, reduction, recycling, and material recovery.TOP PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES1. Policy instruments to reduce consumption of expanded polystyrene food service ware in the USA. 2. Assessing the use of default choice modification to reduce consumption of plastic straws 3. Reducing single-use plastic shopping bags in the USA. 4. Municipal approaches in Maine to reduce single-use consumer products5. The generation and cost of litter resulting from the curbside collection of recycling. 6. Landfill mining: Case study of a successful metals recovery project7. Increasing diversion of household hazardous wastes and materials through mandatory retail take-back. 8. Examining recycling container attributes and household recycling practices. 9. Examining the concept of convenient collection: An application to extended producer responsibility and product stewardship frameworks. 10. Compact fluorescent lights and the impact of convenience and knowledge on household recycling rates. 11. The influence of collection facility attributes on household collection rates of electronic waste12. Shared responsibility for managing electronic waste: A case study of Maine. 13. Case study: Examining the contribution of historical sources of lead in urban soils in Portland, Maine. 14. Reframing ecotage as ecoterrorism: News and the discourse of fear. 15. Reframing garbage: Solid waste policy formulation in Nova Scotia16. Hazardous waste: Evolution of a national environmental problem