Grants & Research Projects |
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| Principal Investigator. Town of St. James Community Center Survey, St. James, NC |
| January 2008 - July 2008 |
| Project Description: The project surveyed all property owners and their spouses to gauge public opinion about building a community center on land owned by the Town. |
| Co-Principal Investigator. An assessment of Public Awareness of Rip Currents in New Hanover County, NC. (With Jim Herstine, Doug Gamble, Chris Dumas, Steven Meinhold) |
| August 2006 to September 2006 |
| Project Description: The project involved collecting and analyzing data on the public’s awareness and understanding of rip currents in New Hanover County, NC. |
| Principal Investigator. Developing a Water Use and Harbor Management Plan for Carolina Beach, NC. |
| November 2005 – January 2007 |
| Project Description: The project involved collecting and analyzing data, holding public meetings, and developing a water use and harbor management plan for the Carolina Beach, NC. |
| Co-Principal Investigator. The Economic Impacts of the Brunswick County, NC Community in Schools (CIS) Program. (with Chris Dumas). |
| May 2005 - August 2005 |
| Project Description: The project involved collecting quantitative and qualitative data to understand and assess the economic impacts of the Community in Schools Program (CIS) in Bruswick County, NC. |
| Co-Principal Investigator. Beach Survey for the Town of Wrightsville Beach (with Chris Dumas, Lloyd Jones, Jim Herstein, Steven Meinhold, Pete Schuhmann, John Whitehead) |
| June 1, 2003 – May 31, 2004. |
| Project Description: Surveyed beachgoers on a week day and weekend to gather information on beach use, behavior, and perceptions of town services. Prepared report describing the research design and summarizing the data. |
| Principal Investigator. Using Performance Measures to Improve Collaborative Processes: Lessons from Three Watershed Management Programs. Grant awarded by IBM Endowment for The Business of Government. |
| March 2003 - December 2003 |
| Project description: The project produced a research report examining how performance measures influence collaborative processes in watershed management programs. |
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Co-Principal Investigator. Burnt Mill Creek Outreach and Demonstration Project for the City of Wilmington, Stormwater Services. (With Lloyd Jones). |
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September 2002 to August 2005. |
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Project Description: Telephone surveys will be used to evaluate the City of Wilmington’s Burnt Mill Creek Outreach and Demonstration Project, which is funded pursuant to a Section 319 Nonpoint Source Program grant from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency. |
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Project Director. Environmental Governance in Watersheds. Independent subcontractor to the National Academy of Public Administration on their Learning from Innovations in Environmental Protection Project. (Timothy Hennessey was a Co-Principal Investigator) |
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February 1999 to September 2000 |
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Project Description: One of 17 research teams selected to examining innovations in environmental protection. This project examined the development and implementation of six watershed management programs for the: Delaware Inland Bays (DE), Lake Tahoe (CA, NV), Narragansett Bay (RI, MA), Salt Ponds (RI), Tampa Bay (FL), and Tillamook Bay (OR). Data was collected primarily from field interviews and archival records. The analysis of the case studies relied on evaluative criteria supplied by the Academy as well as derived from the literature. The project will result in a final report entitled Environmental Governance in Watersheds: The Importance of Collaboration to Institutional Performance that includes six detailed case studies, a main report consisting of the comparative cross-case analysis, and various appendices and supporting materials. |
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Research Associate. Institute for the Study of Government and the Nonprofit Sector. School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. |
| July 1998 – May 2000 |
| Project Description: The project, funded by the Grantmaker Forum Research Task Force, is designed to develop a database of previous research on service learning and volunteer public service programs in the United States. This research will then be examined in an attempt to better understand what is known and not known about the implementation of these programs. |
| Graduate Research Assistant. Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882. |
| December 1989 - November 1991 |
| Project Description: Worked on part of a five-year comparative estuaries project funded by Sea Grant. It focused on the examining the long-term management of five estuaries in the United States in order to better understand the governance of the estuarine systems and the outcomes of the management programs. |