Carl joins the Highlands Council with a diverse skill set that encompasses natural resources management, ecology and wilderness education, computer systems administration, and Geographic Information Science (GIS).  He has worked for the National Parks Service, US Department of Defense and Rutgers University in field-based resource management capacities as a field botanist, forest biometrician and GIS data collection specialist.  Carl has lectured at Rutgers University for courses in Global Positioning Systems, forest ecology, biometrics, and GIS.  Most recently Carl comes from the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University where he worked as a GIS coordinator and specialist working on myriad land-use based regional development projects.  He also worked at the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Spatial Analysis, Rutgers University coordinating on-the-ground field data collection and computer-aided mapping projects for the Highlands Region. 

Carl received a B.S. in Natural Resource Management: Applied Ecology & Conservation from Rutgers University, Cook College as well as a certification in Environmental Geomatics from the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Spatial Analysis.  Carl is an avid outdoorsman and traveler.