The National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation

October 22 - 24, 2014

John Seidel

Washington College
Chestertown, MD
USA

Biographical Sketch: Dr. John L. Seidel is the Director of the Center for Environment & Society at Washington College, in Chestertown, Maryland. He has taught at Rutgers University and the University of Maryland College Park and has worked in natural and cultural resource consulting in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Seidel joined the Environmental Studies and Anthropology faculty at Washington College in 1998. In 2007, he became Director of Washington College’s Center for Environment Society (CES). CES supports the integration of ecological and social values, managing several research vessels, the Chester River Field Research Station on a 5,000 acre farm, a bird-banding station, laboratories for Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Archaeology, and an integrated watershed monitoring system for the Chester River. CES also develops outreach and consultation with government agencies and municipalities, and programs in habitat and shoreline restoration, urban greening, climate action, community visioning, teacher training, and historic preservation. Seidel also directs the College’s Chesapeake Semester, an interdisciplinary and experiential program that studies the nation’s largest estuary (http://chesapeake-semester.washcoll.edu/).

Papers:
060 Geospatial Approaches to Resource Management & Large Landscape Conservation at Washington College