An ecologist specializing in marine wildlife and human epidemiology, ecosystem disturbance and applications of information technology to track mortality, new emergent, and resurgent diseases and harmful species. Focus on data collection, data reduction, data mining, monitoring. As director of the HEED MD research program, consults with a wide variety of public agencies and organizations involved in environmental inventory, assessment and monitoring of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems using biological indicators.
Main Institution / Organization: HEED MD Program - Health Ecological & Economic Dimensions of Major Disturbances
Education: B.S., M.S., Univ. of WI-Madison ’91,’94.
Harvard University Fellow: FAS ‘96, DEAS ’97, SPH ‘98, Medical School ‘99
Ph.D. Univ. of New Hampshire– Durham ’00.
Post doctoral Fellow Columbia University/NASA ‘01
Area of Expertise / Interest: Ecology, disturbance, ecological economics, ecosystem health, federated data Infrastructures, GIS, multiple marine ecological disturbances: MMEDs
