Paul has been involved with TWS and the North Carolina chapter ever since he started graduate school at NC State University back in 2011. His early work was focused on topics of disturbance ecology and spatial ecology primarily in upland environments, but he later began applying these concepts to wetlands as part of his dissertation research. He joined the Wetlands Working Group in 2017, when he applied for the student travel award to cover costs associated with attending the national meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the past few years, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at UNC Chapel Hill, where his research aims to integrate field ecology and remote sensing to understand global change and conservation of various wildlife taxa across broad spatial and temporal scales, with a particular focus on wetlands and coasts. He also teaches several undergraduate classes related to environmental conservation, global change, and spatial data science.
