• landscape analysis
• place-based education
• land conservation
• social-ecological systems science

Josh is a science writer who has published in outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Wild Earth. He helps students tackle a wide range of writing styles. His reporting has taken him from bat caves in Vermont to the ice sheet of...

Using a holistic bedrock-to-birds approach to reading the landscape, Alicia (FN '89) guides students in solving forest mysteries and cultivating an intimate understanding of the natural world. She is Director of the Vermont Master...

Cathy teaches Field Botany, a fast-paced course designed to acquaint FN students with the diversity of vascular plant species in Vermont and the organization of those species into natural communities. Since 1991, she has taught a variety of...

Ben has been drawn to trees ever since he started climbing them as a child growing up in southwestern Ohio. His fascination grew into a love of forests as he hiked throughout Maine and New Hampshire as a teenager. After studying forestry...

As an adolescent, Naya left suburban Maryland with her family to settle in New Delhi, India. In the midst of that immense city, she found herself in an oasis of wilderness as she rambled the thorny, dry, deciduous jungles of the Delhi...

Laura grew up in the woods and corn fields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She studied computer engineering in Boston and loved her career in software product management, but a chance encounter with a pink lady’s-slipper orchid threw...

Emily grew up in New Jersey and attended Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where she received a B.S. in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Tearing up the coast in search of cooler weather, she became an AmeriCorps intern in Vermont's...

Matthias is fascinated by the philosophical questions of science and humanity's place in the natural world. After earning a degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology from the University of Vermont with a focus in geospatial technologies,...