Ben is the Monitoring Coordinator for Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC). He oversees the forest health monitoring program, maintains environmental sensors, and works with monitoring data to help our partners assess long-term changes in our forested ecosystems.

He comes to the program from the USDA Agricultural Research Service where he served as a Research Ecologist based in Boise, Idaho.  He has a background in post-fire restoration, invasive and rare plant ecology, continuous forest inventory and monitoring, remote sensing, and data management. He has worked in a variety of environments ranging from northeastern forests of New York and Vermont, riparian and montane forests of Colorado, and throughout the Great Basin. Outside of work, he enjoys traditional woodworking, telemark skiing, biking, and gardening.