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Following my graduation from Edmonds-Woodway High School in 2001, I left the Pacific Northwest to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its was an amazing four years. Specializing in Environmental and Resource Economics has allowed me to take a diverse array of courses from field ecology to green cities and entrepreneurship to environmental education. I spent my Spring Semester of Junior Year at Lincoln University in New Zealand.
At Cornell, I spent the last three years working for Cornell Outdoor Education in the office and out in the field as an instructor in backpacking, snowshoeing, and climbing. I worked for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise during my senior year and spent most of my summers in Washington working at Feathered Friends and interning at Cascade Land Conservancy.
I recently moved back home and started working full-time at Cascade Land Conservancy as Project Associate. It's a great land trust that uses market-based strategies (conservation development, conservation investment funds, transfer of development rights, mitigation banking, conservation easements, etc) to make conservation pay for itself. Some of their latest work has been implementation of the Cascade Agenda—a 100 year plan to conserve over 1.25 million acres in the Cascade Foothills and make our cities more sustainable.
I am experimenting as an "amateur professional photographer," check out my Shutterpoint Gallery!
I included some of my work from University that you may find interesting (PDFs):
The Environmental Economist, An Internal Newsletter for the Office of Senator Maria Cantwell: Issue 1, Issue 2, and Issue 3
FSE Consulting Business Plan: A full 62-page business plan for a consulting company for sustainable enterprise.
The AAA System: What SMEs might learn from keeping their own houses in order. The paper integrates environmental management systems and triple bottom line reporting. This provided the basis for FSE Consulting (Environmental Management Systems, Lincoln).
Sustainability @ Cornell: A guide to courses, programs, and organizations related to the multidisciplinary topic of Sustainability created as a project for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise.
A Bioeconomic Analysis of a Spiny Lobster Fishery: I applied a nonlinear model to estimate carrying capacity, catchability coefficient, and intrinsic growth rate from catch and effort data (Econometrics).
Coastal Fisheries Management: This paper takes a sociological analysis of co-management in the Philippines (International Dimension of Environmental Planning).
Redefining Risk: A critical analysis of Cornell Outdoor Education: This paper rethinks the way outdoor education programs think of risk and risk management (Environmental and Outdoor Education, Lincoln).