He joined the faculty in the fall of 1999 and serves as the program contact for the Parks and Forest Resources major. A founder and life member of the National Association for Interpretation (NAI), he was awarded the Fellow Award by NAI in 2003 and received National Meritorious Service awards twice in the past. In 2013 he was awarded the Maine Campus Compact’s Faculty Award for Excellence for his work in service learning/community based learning.