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2008 Environmental/Adirondack Studies Residency
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RESIDENCY SPEAKERS 2008

Our guest speakers at the 2008 residency will be Dr. William Ehmann, of Empire State College, and Neil Patterson.

Dr. William J. Ehmann
William J. Ehmann was drawn into environmental thinking through Ranger Rick magazine and family travels to all 50 states. He has a background in both geology (U. Notre Dame, Brown U., and the US Geological Survey) and ecology (Utah St.), with doctoral research on how natural communities are organized. While serving as a faculty member and administrator, he helped set up and refine several college environmental science and policy programs and led a non-profit organization focused on wilderness issues. He knows a few things about jumping spiders, a few more about birds, and quite a lot about terriers.

Worksheet for the moss field exercise (MS Word; 1.5 Mb)
Note: The handout is a MS Word file. If you are unable to open the files, please contact the residency coordinator at Adirondack.Residency@esc.edu to request a copy.


Neil Patterson
Neil Patterson Jr. is currently a National Science Foundation fellow in a M.S. program in Forest and Natural Resources Management at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He is founder and director of the Tuscarora Nation Environment Program and a member of the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force since 1992. Patterson has a B.S. in Environmental Forest Biology from SUNY-ESF (1996). His environmental research interests include the use of Geographic Information Systems for environmental decision making, utilizing indigenous knowledge, and community energy development. Neil was born and raised on the Tuscarora Nation, and is member of the Bear Clan. His personal interests include fishing, hunting and backpacking.

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