He is currently directing Battelle’s strategic development efforts for Environmental Research Infrastructures. Hank’s career has been at the nexus of science, engineering and project development of research facilities. He has a PhD and MSc is from the U Florida.  At Oregon State U, he administrated the DOE AmeriFlux program, a DOE research infrastructure that had over 120 observational sites spanning the entire US. He was the second hire for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), a first-of-its-kind continental-scale major research facility in ecology and has lead numerous NEON Science and Development Teams. He establishes international research opportunities for US scientists and facility collaborations, including training of underserved groups. For example, he develops synergistic and value-added activities onto and among user facilities that includes the federation of large-scale Research Infrastructures globally, i.e., the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI). He is an (current and past) Advisor for several national and international user facilities. Hank’s research interests include determining the biotic and abiotic controls on ecosystem-level carbon and energy balance across spatial and temporal scales, with >70 publications and he continues to be an active member in the global biogeochemistry research community and user-facility communities.

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