A course on global environmental change in his freshman year, taught by Dr. Cameron Wake, got Corey Johnson interested in climate change and environmental sustainability. He subsequently worked with Dr. Wake on the Small Town Carbon Calculator and says the most satisfactory aspect of his summer project “was implementing a tool I had helped develop.” Although working with towns to gather data took longer than expected, he found it a valuable experience in developing useful skills for the future. From Amherst, New Hampshire, Corey expects to graduate in May 2011 with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration, information systems management, and is enrolled in the Honors in Major program of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. After graduation he hopes to work for a few years in Boston before going on for a Master’s in Business Administration.
Cameron P. Wake is a research associate professor in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, and the Department of Earth Sciences, at the University of New Hampshire as well as the director of Carbon Solutions New England. He has been on the UNH faculty for fourteen years and has been chair of the Planning Committee of the Undergraduate Research Conference for the past five years. In his teaching and research he specializes in paleoclimatology, regional climate change, engaged scholarship, and sustainability. Corey joined him in his research on tracking carbon emissions for UNH and the state of New Hampshire. Dr. Wake has long believed in mentoring student research and has found this mentoring experience rewarding. He praises Corey’s work and notes that “his project has developed an important tool for tracking energy use, costs and greenhouse gas emissions for communities around New England.”
Read Corey Johnson’s research article “Taking STOCC”: Tracking Environmental and Financial Footprints Associated with Municipal Energy Use >>
