Brief Biography

I am currently an associate professor in both the School of Environmental and Forest Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington.  I received my Ph.D. in Forestry and Environmental Studies from Yale University, a masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from Connecticut College. I arrived at the University of Washington from the U.S. Geological Survey and Yale University where I was a postdoctoral associate involved in a national assessment of carbon sequestration potential within natural ecosystems.  My focus is on freshwater environments.

I study the influence of humans and climate on carbon cycling at the intersection of terrestrial and aquatic systems.  Through the use of satellite remote sensing, targeted field campaigns, and watershed modeling, I quantify the capacity of natural ecosystems to change as a result of anthropogenic carbon emissions; human landscape alteration, like logging or development; and the effects of climate change, in order to identify environmental stressors within watersheds and mitigate long term resource degradation.  I received the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, The Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research Scholarship, The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Research Initiative Fellowship, and was invited as a Climate Change Scholar at the DISCCRS VII symposium in 2012. 

My wife, Becca, and I happily convinced my two children, Oliver and Sydney to make the move from the east coast to the pacific northwest.  We are now home here in Seattle, taking time to travel the west coast. We would love anyone that is willing to visit, we can host, and we love to talk science, fishing, hiking, how to raise kids (?), and in the end, how to try and enjoy every moment we have.