Loving iNaturalist after being convinced by one of the Arlington Master Naturalist's to join the 2018 City Nature Challenge.

Registered Professional Forester and Certified Arborist. Trained in field botany with Tom Wieboldt during the summers of 1998 and 1999 as a technician. Woody plants with John Seiler and John Peterson at Virginia Tech. Graduate field studies in ecology with Steve Sheffield at Virginia Tech's Falls Church Center.