Staff

John S. Rozum, Connecticut NEMO Program Director
john.rozum@uconn.edu

John Rozum is the director of the Connecticut NEMO program. As director, he delivers workshops and training to Connecticut's 169 towns, assisting them to implement land use practices that protect water resources.

John is a certified planner (AICP) with a M.S. in Land Use Planning and a M.S. in Ecology both from the University of Arizona. He has professional experience in land use planning, scientific research, and ecological field science. As a planning consultant, he prepared land use and watershed plans, wrote regulations, and completed technical reports for numerous municipalities. John served on his town's planning and zoning commission and the board of directors of the East Haddam Land Trust.

Emily Wilson, Geospatial Educator
emily.wilson@uconn.edu

Emily Wilson is the Geospatial Technology Specialist for the NEMO program. Since joining UConn in 2000, her role has been to provide GIS remote sensing information and support to the NEMO project, the Geospatial Technology program and other related research and outreach efforts. She also does a significant amount of web work with the goal of providing easy access to geospatial information and maps. 

Emily is a graduate of Connecticut College with a BA in environmental science and botany. She received her M.S. in forestry and remote sensing from the University of Maine.

Juliana Barrett, Assistant Educator
juliana.barrett@uconn.edu

Juliana Barrett became a member of the NEMO Team in 2006. She is an Assistant Educator in Residence with Connecticut Sea Grant and the NEMO program. As an ecologist, her focus is the coastal habitats of Connecticut. She works with the towns and groups working on the conservation, restoration and enhancement of coastal areas. Juliana is developing programs to assist coastal community leaders with technical matters related to the impact of land use on coastal habitats, riparian buffers, habitat management and restoration of coastal habitats.

Juliana is the co-author of The Vegetation of Connecticut, a Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection publication. Previously, Juliana was the Geoffrey C. Hughes Tidelands Program Director with the Nature Conservancy in Connecticut, and also did private consulting. Juliana has a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, a M.A. from the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor’s degree from Smith College in Biology.

Kate Woodruff, Geospatial Technology Specialist
kathryn.woodruff@uconn.edu

Kate Woodruff became a member of the NEMO team in 2007. As a Geospatial and Land Use Specialist, she contributes to the GIS remote sensing information and support of various NEMO projects. Her work supports various Low Impact Development (LID), land use management, and web endeavors. Kate’s role is to help continue to provide effective and useful technical information to Connecticut’s 169 towns.

Kate is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Political Science, International Relations, focused on transboundary water management, with minors in Environmental Studies and Anthropology. She also has a M.E.M. in Water Management, Law and Policy from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Chester L. Arnold, Jr., NEMO Program Co-Founder
CLEAR Program Co-Director
Water Quality Educator
chester.arnold@uconn.edu

Chester Arnold is a Water Quality Educator for the University of Connecticut Department of Extension, and the Associate Director of UConn’s Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR), established in 2002. Since 1991, Mr. Arnold has been Co-Director of the NEMO Program, a national award-winning effort that uses remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technology to educate local land use decision makers about the relationship between land use and water resource protection.

From 1987 to 1994, Chester led the public outreach program of the Long Island Sound Study National Estuary Program. He has authored numerous publications, including national award-winning journal articles and a newspaper column entitled On Long Island Sound. Chester has a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from Wesleyan University and a M.S. in Oceanography from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

David W. Dickson, National NEMO Network Coordinator
david.dickson@uconn.edu

Dave Dickson is the coordinator of the National NEMO Network. As coordinator, he works with each of the NEMO Network programs nationwide and strives to facilitate the open exchange of resources, expertise, educational materials and war stories between the programs. He also assists non-member states seeking to start a NEMO program and join the Network.

Dave has both a J.D. and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Colorado, where he served as a notes and comments editor of the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy. Dave is also a UCONN alum, with a BA in Anthropology and Political Science. His pre-NEMO professional experience includes: coordinating environmental policy and education projects for the National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals (NALGEP), representing municipalities before Congress and federal agencies, serving as a liaison between the University of Colorado and both the state legislature and Congress and coordinating an international project that sought to uncover unethical marketing practices in developing countries.

Kara M. Bonsack, National NEMO Network Communicator
kara.bonsack@uconn.edu

As the NEMO National Network Communicator, Kara Bonsack's responsibilities include the design and production of new websites and publications including fact sheets, brochures, posters and flyers. Kara is responsible for maintaining and updating the NEMO and National NEMO websites. She also designs and distributes electronic publications and communications including presentations, logos, multimedia CDs and e-news updates via email. Kara assists the National Coordinator with yearly conferences and training sessions, the CT NEMO Coordinator with program marketing and communications and the Geospatial Technologies Program Coordinator with website and materials design. Kara is also considered the primary designer for the Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR).

Kara is a graduate of the University of Connecticut with a bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in graphic design.

Sandy Prisloe, Geospatial Technology Specialist
michael.prisloe@uconn.edu

Sandy Prisloe, CT's Geospatial Extension Specialist, is responsible for the development of the Cooperative Extension System's Geospatial Technology Program. It is designed to serve two target audiences, National NEMO Network partners and local CT land use decision makers. The program provides hands-on classroom training on geographic information system, remote sensing, and global positioning system technologies and researches and publishes on the Internet information about public domain spatial data.

Sandy has an extensive background in geospatial technologies. He managed the initial deployment of GIS for the Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection, founded and operated a GIS consulting firm and has designed and taught a number of graduate-level GIS courses at the Universities of Connecticut and New Haven. He holds a BA in Biology from Colby College and an MS in Environmental Science from the University of New Haven.

Cary B. Chadwick, Geospatial Technology Analyst  
cary.chadwick@uconn.edu

Cary Chadwick joined the UConn team in 2006 as a member of the Geospatial Technology Program. As the Geospatial Technology Analyst, her role is to contribute to the hands-on technical training classes offered by the program on the use of geographic information systems and global positioning systems. Cary is also actively involved in a number of collaborative research projects that integrate geospatial technologies to better manage and understand natural resource systems.

Cary is a graduate of Gettysburg College with a B.S. in Environmental Studies. She also holds a M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of New Haven.