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Research/Professional
Interests
My primary research interests are environmental
planning, urban and regional sustainability, and citizen participation in
environmental policymaking. As a geographer, I am interested in patterns of
land use and how human social, political, and economic processes shape the
built forms of cities and regions. As an environmental planner, I am
particularly interested in how these human processes work with--or
against--the natural ecological processes over which they are superimposed.
My environmental planning research and
practice--as well as my personal community activism-- has focused on
developing watershed-based policy approaches to managing the competing
interests among multiple users of limited water resources, and educating
local policymakers about stormwater management options.
Education
1998 Ph.D. City & Regional Planning /Ohio State
1992 Master of Applied Geography/ Southwest Texas State
1986 Bachelor of Journalism /University of Texas at Austin
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Recent Activities
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EKU students help plant trees along the
Muddy Creek during
Earth Days, 2004
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EARTH DAYS IN THE CUMBERLANDS 2005
Click here for
the 2005 Earth Days calendar
An annual month-long long celebration of the
natural environment in Eastern and Central Kentucky
featuring lectures, activities, films and fun
Reforest Richmond
– April 15 & 16 2005
A Stream restoration and riparian buffer planting
project along Silver Creek in Madison
County.
Collaboration of the City of Richmond and the Center for Appalachian
Studies. A $5,550 Bluegrass
PRIDE Community Grant was used to fund the planting of native trees
for a mile-long riparian corridor along Silver Creek to prevent erosion
and reduce sediment pollution downstream of the Silver Creek wastewater
treatment plant.
Over the past four years, we’ve planted more
than 25,000 trees over about 3 miles of riparian buffer with the help of
more than 500 volunteers from elementary school to college.
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Kentucky Riverkeeper, charter member. (since 2002) The Kentucky
Riverkeeper is a local member of the international
Waterkeeper
Alliance--a network of community-based nonprofits committed to the
notion that clean water makes strong communities. The Kentucky
Riverkeeper seeks to protect, conserve, and restore the Kentucky
River and its tributaries through education and advocacy.
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Escorting Robert Kennedy Jr, Kyra Kennedy,
& Kevin Richardson to
the Kentucky
Riverkeeper
launch event, May
2002
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OUT-STANDING IN THEIR FIELD
Students in the Environmental Land Use Planning
class (Spring 2002)
participate in the Muddy Creek
Project by mapping stands
of native prairie grasses
found on the Bluegrass Army Depot. The data is
being used to document
how changes in land
management affect the
health of the prairie remnants
and, in turn, how the
health of the prairie affects
water quality in the
Muddy Creek.
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“Linking Land Use
to Water Quality in the Muddy Creek subbasin, Kentucky River Watershed” March 2002-March 2003. A project
funded through the Kentucky
Water Resources Institute /National
Institutes for Water Research and featuring a unique partnership
between Danita LaSage (Earth Science), Diane Vance (Chemistry), Mark Wiljanen (GIS), and Tom Edwards of the Kentucky Dept of Fish & Wildlife
/Nature Conservancy
Central Kentucky
Grasslands Team member. Spring
2002 Kentucky
Chapter of the Nature Conservancy's Efroymson
Fellowship Program for Landscape-Scale Conservation Planning.
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Kentucky
River Watershed Watch, Volunteer Water Tester and local area coordinator
for Madison/Clark/Estill Counties (since 2001) KRWW is a network of more than
200 volunteers who take water samples several times a year throughout the
Kentucky
River Basin.
(That's me in the Richmond
Register June21, 2002 passing out Watershed Watch information at the Boonesborough Boat Club's Kentucky
River Fest.)
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