His teaching and research interests include landscape performance, specifically watershed stewardship through operative landscapes and low impact planning, design and development. He has published two books: Low Impact Development: Opportunities for the PlanET Region, and HydroLIT: Southeast Tennessee Water Quality Improvement Playbook, and was a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia’s Department of Landscape Architecture in spring of 2016 as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar. In partnership with the College of Architecture and Design’s Governor’s Chair for Energy and Urbanism, he is Director of The Tennessee River Project, a multi-year, watershed-based teaching, research, and outreach initiative that launched in Fall 2016.