Chris Feurt
Period of Service
2002 to present
Contact Info
Email: cfeurt@wellsnerr.org
Phone: 207-646-1555 ext 111
Blog Posts
Associated Blog Posts
- Arendt Workshop Draws Folks from Midcoast, Keene, and Between
- Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative Honored with U.S. Water Prize
- Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative
- Watershed Restoration Field Trip
- Salmon Falls River Sunset Cruise
- Low Impact Development Field Trip
- Nitrogen: Too Much of a Good Thing
- Maine Beaches Conference 2011
- Watershed Hike
- Solstice at the Summit
- Do-It-Yourself Stormwater Management
- Coastal Training Program Field Trip
- Summer Events with the Coastal Training Program
- Saco River Estuary Project
- New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup
- CTP hosted Water Words That Work Workshop
- Coastal Training Program Workshops in the New Year
- CTP and The Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative
- New face in the Coastal Training Program
- Sustaining Coastal Landscapes and Community Benefits
- Salmon Falls River conservation boat tours
- Land Conservation Plan for Maine's Piscataqua Region Watersheds
- Headwaters: A Collaborative Conservation Plan for the Town of Sanford
- Using social science research to facilitate science translation
- WNERR at CZ09
- Sanford approaches crucial moment in conservation planning
- Social science tools for natural resource managers
- Watershed Council reconvenes
Bio
Dr. Christine B. Feurt is both the CTP Coordinator for the Reserve and the Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at the University of New England. Her work in the Gulf of Maine watershed focuses on community based ecosystem management.
Chris facilitates the creation of collaborative knowledge networks consisting of local, state, and federal government officials, community based conservation groups, non-profit environmental groups, and university students. These networks facilitate the dissemination of scientific information, the sharing of expertise, and the identification and prioritization of management actions directed at protecting water resources.
At the University of New England, Chris is adjunct faculty in the Department of Environmental Studies where she teaches Introduction to Environmental Issues and Environmental Communication. She links university students with local communities through participation in watershed surveys, water quality monitoring and the design of watershed based education programs.
Chris's Ph.D. in Environmental Studies is from Antioch University, New England, where her research examined the multiple ways people value water and how those values influence decision-making and action.
Chris worked for eleven years with the National Park Service in five coastal area parks, including two years as a ranger and biologist at Everglades National Park where she studied wading birds and aquatic food web relationships.
