Forest-to-Faucet Partnership: University of Massachusetts Amherst/U.S. Forest Service

Paul GregoryPaul Gregory

pgregory@nrc.umass.edu

Paul Gregory is a Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He recently completed a M.S. in Forest Resources (2008) after working with Paul Barten as a research assistant on several US Forest Service-funded projects. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Mathematics, 1994). Paul worked the last several years as a survey technician for a north central Massachusetts civil engineering and land surveying company. He passed the S.I.T. (Surveyor-in-Training) certification exam in 2003. He worked on a wide range of property, topographic, and construction surveying projects.

Paul's M.S. project was the application, testing and validation of the Watershed Forest Management Information System (WFMIS) on the Barkhamsted Reservoir watershed (metro-Hartford water supply) in cooperation with the Metropolitan District Commission and MDC forestry and GIS staff. He also has been working on an update of the Forests, Water, and People Assessment (using the 2001 National Land Cover Data), a WFMIS application in the Sebago Lake watershed with the Portland Water District in Maine, and statistical analysis of drinking water treatment costs in conjunction with the Trust for Public Land.