Selected project experience
- UT Ornithological Research, Big Sandy, TN. Commissioned by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, UT's crew initiated a five-year research project
studying the effects of habitat manipulation on nesting forest interior
birds in the Big Sandy unit of the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge.
- Williams Creek Restoration, TN. As part of a TN EPA 319, non-point source
grant funding, conducted research to help develop project scoping and
worked as part of initiation team to address trash, debris and other impacts.
- Fort Loudoun Shoreline Restoration Project, TN.The project focuses on
the use of biostabilization methods to harden shoreline for landowners in
living on the Fort Loudoun Reservoir.
- No Trash Zone, TN. In cooperation with the City Of Knoxville the league
maintains the riverfront from the South Knoxville Bridge/James White Pkwy,
down river to the Alcoa Bridge. The fulltime effort has been responsible
for over one thousand bags of trash collect from the river.
- Turkey Creek Wetland Park, TN. As part of the league's responsibility holding the conservation easement, Mr. Campen is to make sure impacts to the wetland, and therefore the watersehed above, are monitored and kept to a minimum. Conducting meetings witht he Turkey Creek Wetland Advisory Committee ensures public participation and input from the local science community. Leading wetland walking tours, bird watching field trips and invasive plant removal activities are continual.
Expertise
Wildlife Management Planning
Identifying invasive, nonnative flora (Eastern US)
Riparian Zone Assessment and Stabilization
Wildlife and Nature Photography
Training and Certificates
TVA University, Certified Sawyer
TDEC Fundamentals of Erosion Prevention and Sediment Control, May 2002
Land, Air, Water Task Force Member, Nine Counties One Vision and the French Broad Conservation Corridor Study
City of Knoxville Greenways Committee Associate
Conservation Committee Chair and member, Knoxville Chapeter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society
Fish and Wildlife Resource Committee and Life Member, Izaak Walton League of America
Education
AS, Agricultural Sciences, Pellissippi State Technical Community College
BS, Wildlife and Fisheries; minor in Forestry, University of Tennessee
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