He is also the Associate Director of the National Center for Digital Government , and an affilated researcher with the Science, Technology, and Society Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Professor Schweik’s research focuses on environmental management and policy, public-sector information technology, and the intersection of those domains. His overall interest is to improve the way environmental policy makers, natural resource managers, and citizens understand the effects of their actions and policies, collaborate, and share information about lessons learned through innovative applications of information technology.