My Education

University and real life offer complementary and mostly non-overlapping skills, necessary for a professional career. University is also a financial sink (investment) while real life is a financial source. (But my wife has been my best investment of all.)

New Haven, Connecticut. Masters of Environmental Management. 1997.

I combined studies of biodiversity conservation, community development, and environmental education. My masters thesis project was the use of a type of participatory rural appraisal to evaluate the potential of a rural farming community in the highlands of Ecuador for possible ecotourism development. My major advisors were Professor Bill Burch and Steve Kellert. See the classes I took and research papers I wrote. One major research project accomplish is the team report on communication flow problems around West Rock Park in New Haven for Burch’s famed ecosystem management class. See his comments on our report..

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Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire. Bachelors in Ecology and Political Science, modified with environmental studies. 1992. I studied tropical terrestrial ecology in Costa Rica and tropical marine ecology in Jamaica. See a list of all the research papers I wrote.

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Foxborough High School

Foxborough, Massachusetts. Diploma. 1988. I graduated 4th of 242.

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Doctoral Programs

I was accepted into PhD programs with Sam Ham (University of Idaho) and Susan Jacobson (University of Florida) in 2001 but decided to stay with RARE Center rather than pursue further study.

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