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Dr. Shawn DaltonPrincipal and Senior ConsultantDr. Shawn Dalton is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (Biology, 1988), the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Masters of Environmental Studies, 1992), and The Johns Hopkins University (Doctorate, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Engineering, 2002). For the past two decades, she has worked in the areas of integrated and community-based urban resource management, watershed management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and the application of social ecological models to a variety of human ecosystems. She has led collaborative research teams conducting applied research in urban and rural communities, and uses an interest-based approach to the application of social sciences in resource management. Dr. Dalton has been Director of the Environment and Sustainable Development Research Centre at the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, NB, Canada; is a member of the US Department of Interior’s Strategic Sciences Working Group, which applies integrated sciences to the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico; and is the Executive Director of the Canaan-Washademoak Watershed Association. In addition, Dr. Dalton serves as the Chair of the Fredericton Area Watersheds Association Steering Committee, and is a Co-Principal Investigator of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a National Science Foundation-funded Long-Term Ecological Research site; and an Associate of the Canadian Rivers Institute at UNB. |