Human-environment interactions, land conservation and sustainability; land use and cover change and Geographic Information Science (GIS); political ecology, working landscapes and land-based livelihoods; community forestry, participatory research mixing quantitative and qualitative methods, Mexican migrants working in U.S. dairy agriculture; Vermont, Costa Rica, North and Latin America.

I'm particularly interested in the hydrology of glaciers and the resulting erosional and depositional processes occurring in both bedrock and surficial materials at the base of glaciers. I also enjoy deciphering glaciotectonic structures in materials overridden by the last ice sheet.