October 03, 2006
About...
W.J. "Rocky" Rohwedder is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Planning at Sonoma State University. His primary teaching and research areas are environmental science education, outdoor leadership, environmental technology, and computer-aided communications. Rocky has a B.A. in Social Ecology (UC Irvine), an M.S. in Resource Policy and Management (University of Michigan), and a Ph.D. in Environmental Planning (UC Berkeley). In the Spring of 2007 Rocky taught for the University of Virginia on a round-the-world voyage with Semester at Sea.
He has been an educational consultant for numerous organizations, including the World Resources Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Peace Corps, President's Council on Sustainable Development, The Energy Foundation, and the California Department of Education. Rocky was a facilitator in the Middle East Peace Process as well as a Visiting Scholar at the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
He was a co-founder of EcoNet, the first faculty Director of the Fairfield Osborn Preserve, and co-founder of the Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University. He is currently a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Applied Environmental Education and Communication.
When I'm not teaching or consulting, I enjoy whitewater kayaking as well as playing guitar and harmonia with my friend and musical partner, Jay Field. Here's a streaming video of a performance we did for Schulz Unplugged at Sonoma State University.
In the Spring of 2006 I did some teaching in New Zealand at Lincoln University on the south island in Christchurch. I also took the opportunity to kayak of course! Here's a 10 minute video (my first and only movie) on Kayaking in the South Pacific.
Posted by mooreb at October 3, 2006 02:48 PM