Who teaches Master's of Environmental Management Online Courses?
Dr. Chadwick Rittenhouse, Assistant Professor in Residence in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
chadwick.rittenhouse@uconn.edu
Dr. Chadwick Rittenhouse is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at UConn’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) and Coordinator of UConn’s Sustainable Environmental Planning and Management Online Graduate Certificate. He is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Center and the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering at UConn. Dr. Rittenhouse is a Leadership Institute Fellow of The Wildlife Society. Dr. Rittenhouse earned a PhD and an MS in Wildlife Science at the University of Missouri – Columbia, and a BS in Wildlife Ecology and a Degree Certificate in Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, Dr. Rittenhouse worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His research addresses the ecology, management, and conservation of forested landscapes.
Courses taught: NRE 5200 Sustainable Natural Resources Management, NRE 5205 Decision Methods in Natural Resources and the Environment, NRE 5210 Communications for Environmental Decision Makers, NRE 5220 Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities and Regions.
Dr. Amy Cabaniss, Adjunct Faculty, University of Connecticut, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
amy.cabaniss@uconn.edu
Dr. Amy Cabaniss has an established career in environmental education and communication with applied research in conservation psychology. In addition to serving as adjunct faculty in the UConn Department of Natural Resources, Dr. Cabaniss teaches Persuasion in the URI Department of Communications. She also taught Business Ecology and Sustainability in the School of Business MBA Program at Southern Connecticut State University for over six years. Dr. Cabaniss has a PhD in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England, an MBA in Management and Organization from the University of New Haven, and a BS in Environmental Conservation from the University of New Hampshire. She is a former board member of the Social Marketing Association of North America (SMANA); multi-term board member of the North American Hazardous Materials Management Association and past-president of NAHMMA-Northeast; and editor of the Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste (Government Institutes Press, 2008; 2nd edition, Bernan Press, 2018); Perspectives on Product Stewardship by Scott Cassel (Bernan Press, forthcoming 2023); and Shared Resource Responsibility: A Decision Maker's Guide (working title; Bernan Press, forthcoming 2023).
Courses Taught: NRE 5210 Communications for Environmental Decision Makers, NRE 5225 Sustainable Use of Ocean Resources.
Dr. Lindsay Dreiss, Director of the Center for Conservation Innovation at Defenders of Wildlife
Dr. Lindsay Dreiss is the Director of the Center for Conservation Innovation at Defenders of Wildlife. She oversees staff in the Center's science, technology, and policy teams as they work together to find creative and practical solutions for better conservation. Prior to joining Defenders, Dr. Dreiss was faculty at Middlebury College where she taught applied courses in GIS and environmental management. She also served as a lead spatial data manager for the State of Vermont. Dr. Dreiss holds a Ph.D. and Masters degree in Natural Resources and the Environment from the University of Connecticut and Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Colby College. Her expertise lies in spatial ecology and biodiversity conservation.
Courses Taught: NRE 5200 Sustainable Natural Resources Management.
Dr. Marjorie 'Mauri' Liberati, Research Associate in the Fisheries & Wildlife Department at Michigan State University
majorie.liberati@uconn.edu
Dr. Marjorie ‘Mauri’ Liberati is a Research Associate in the Fisheries & Wildlife Department at Michigan State University (MSU). Dr. Liberati earned her PhD from the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at UConn where she was a USDA National Needs Fellow. She also received a Sustainable Environmental Planning and Management Graduate Certificate from UConn, an MS in Environment and Natural Resources from Ohio State, and a BS in Biology from Virginia Tech. Prior to joining MSU, she was the inaugural Bailey Conservation Fellow with the Michigan chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Dr. Liberati has taught courses in wildlife identification and management, habitat management, and technical writing. Her research addresses conservation planning and wildlife management in complex socio-ecological systems.
Courses Taught: NRE 5200 Sustainable Natural Resources Management.
Dr. David Rosa
Dr. David Rosa is a hydrologist with expertise in watershed modeling, non-point source pollution, and flood risk analysis. He currently coordinates strategic projects and research efforts to enable FEMA to more consistently provide comprehensive flood hazard and flood risk information for the nation. These efforts include graduated hazard and risk analyses, mixed population flood frequency resources, and improved hydrological modeling methodologies to address future climate scenarios. Dr. Rosa earned a PhD and MS in Natural Resources from the University of Connecticut and a BS in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. Prior to his current federal role, Dr. Rosa worked in the private industry as part of interdisciplinary teams of engineers, ecologists, planners, economist, and software developers working on complex watershed modeling efforts in the U.S, Canada, and New Zealand.
Courses taught: NRE 5205 Decision Methods in Natural Resources and the Environment.
Dr. Thomas H. Meyer, Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
thomas.meyer@uconn.edu
Dr. Thomas H. Meyer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at UConn’s College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR). Dr. Meyer is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Association for Geodetic Surveying (Fellow and Director), and the American Geophysical Union. He is a past president (2006-2007) of the Geomatics Society of New England (was the New England Section ACSM) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Surveying Engineering. Dr. Meyer earned his PhD from Texas A&M University (College Station, 1998) where he was a research associate in the Mapping Sciences Laboratory. During his tenure at UConn, he has taught geomatics courses in geographic information science, geodesy, digital terrain modeling, global navigation satellite system surveying at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Meyer has authored an undergraduate-level geodesy textbook, numerous peer-reviewed papers about surveying and mapping, and teaches professional education seminars for surveyors throughout New England and the United States.
Courses taught: NRE 5585 Geospatial Data Processing Techniques.
Environmental Law Faculty
Peter Lindseth, J.D.
Peter Lindseth is a legal scholar and historian with strong interests in the comparative origins and evolution of governance structures and public law. His books include a reinterpretation of the history of European integration, Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (OUP), as well as three co-edited volumes on comparative administrative law (from Elgar and OUP), which have redefined that field. His research develops new insights into the boundary between administrative and constitutional law, historical institutionalism, principal-agent theory, as well as supranational organizations in Europe and beyond.
Courses taught: LAW 7554 Compliance Law.
Joseph MacDougald, J.D.
Joseph A. MacDougald, professor-in-residence, Strasser fellow in environmental law, is the executive director of UConn Law’s Center for Energy & Environmental Law (CEEL), the director of the LLM in Energy & Environmental Law, and the faculty advisor to the Energy & Environmental Law Society. Professor MacDougald teaches and researches many aspects of environmental and energy law with a primary emphasis on climate change and its interaction with different levels of government. As an Executive Board member and director of applied research at the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, he has helped guide research projects exploring policy responses to sea level rise at a state and municipal level. He has published works and given presentations on topics ranging from resilience policy and national security, sea level rise, climate change and insurance, the Clean Air Act and automobile emissions, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s environmental legacy.
Courses taught: LAW 7568 Climate Law; LAW 7650 Environmental Law, LAW 7812 Energy Regulation and Policy.
Kirt Mayland, J.D.
Kirt Mayland is the President of Reservoir Road Holdings, a renewable energy development and consulting firm. He was formerly the business development director and in-house counsel at Barron Partners and Soltas Energy, and in-house counsel at Penn Energy Trust and Penn Energy Renewables. Prior to his time at Penn, Mr. Mayland was an environmental attorney at Trout Unlimited and also the founder and Director of its Eastern Water Project. He has also worked at Sidley, Austin Brown & Wood and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1994, was a Fulbright Scholar in Monterrey, Mexico where he received a Masters in Finance, from the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores, received a JD from the University of Connecticut, where he was a member of the Connecticut Law Review, and received an LLM in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School.
Courses taught: LAW 7812 Energy Regulation and Policy.
Vincent Pace, J.D.
Vincent Pace is an assistant general counsel for Eversource Energy. He has been with Eversource, formerly known as Northeast Utilities, since 2003, and previously worked in the utility practice group at Day, Berry & Howard LLP (now DayPitney LLP). He received a BA, summa cum laude, from Fairfield University, and a JD, with high honors, LLM and SJD from UConn School of Law. He was a president of the UConn Law School Alumni Association from 2015 to 2016 and serves as a director on the association’s board. He was also a former treasurer and member of the board of governors of the Connecticut Bar Association.
Courses taught: LAW 7600 Administrative Law; LAW 7805 International Environmental Law.
Geographic Information Systems Faculty
Ken Foote, Professor and Head of the Department of Geography
ken.foote@uconn.edu
Ken Foote has been involved in GIScience for over three decades at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado Boulder, and now at the University of Connecticut. He has served as president of both the American Association of Geographers and the National Council for Geographic Education. His current research involves cartographic and data visualization, including WebGIS and multimedia cartography. He is head of the Geography Department at UConn.
Courses taught: GEOG 5500 Fundamentals of GIS.
Richard Mrozinski, GIS Certificate Program Coordinator
mrozinski@uconn.edu
Rich Mrozinski has been teaching GIS courses at the University of Connecticut since fall 1998. Rich undertook his graduate studies at the University of Connecticut, where he actually earned the GIS Certificate in 1997. At UConn, Rich currently teaches GEOG 2500 – Introduction to GIS and GEOG 5510 – Applications Issues in GIS, along with managing the two computer labs and various computer resources in the Geography Department. Rich also serves as the site license administrator for the GIS software license between UConn and Esri. In Rich’s free time he enjoys fishing and woodworking.
Courses taught: GEOG 5510 Application Issues of GIS.