Focus area: ecosystem resilience, water quality, wetlands, freshwater ecology, plant ecology, watershed science, GIS, environmental justice, and community-based participatory research.
Steve Anderson (he/him) joined APNEP in April 2023. His role at APNEP is particularly focused on partnership building, community engagement, communications, spatial planning, and grant support.
Steve has 12 years of experience in ecosystem sciences specializing in plant ecology and biogeochemistry in coastal wetlands, urban streams, and longleaf pine savannas. Prior to joining the APNEP team, Steve was a researcher and lab manager in biogeochemistry at Duke University spending most of his time studying the impacts of salinization and flooding on wetland and floodplain plant communities. He has also worked on community-based participatory research efforts on pluvial flooding in urban ecosystems of the NC Piedmont. Steve has a M.Sc. degree in Forestry and Environmental Resources from N.C. State University (Raleigh, NC), and a B.Sc. degree in Conservation Biology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse, NC), and a A.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Tompkins Cortland Community College (Dryden, NY).
Steve is also a musician and loves cooking for his partner and two young children. He also enjoys photography, botanizing, and exploring the many wonders of North Carolina’s beauty from mountains to estuary.