Human-caused noise and light can threaten the ecological integrity of the natural environment and diminish our enjoyment of national parks and protected...
Christopher Monz is Associate Professor of Recreation Resources Management in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University. He has previously served as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at St. Lawrence University in New York, the Academic Dean of Sterling College in Vermont and the Research Director for the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming. He holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Management from Colorado State University and an MS in ecology and BA in biology. He has taught courses in outdoor recreation management, ecological impacts of recreation, public lands planning and conservation, nature-based tourism, interpretation and outdoor education. His research specialty is recreation ecology where he has worked extensively on recreation disturbance in arctic and alpine ecosystems. He has been the PI or Co-I on over $3.2M of grant funded research. Several of his current research projects examine the consequences of park transportation systems on ecological and visitor experience conditions. Dr. Monz has worked throughout the US and internationally in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Australia and was a Fulbright Scholar for the 2013- 2014 academic year in Norway. He is a co-author on the forthcoming textbook, Wildland Recreation: Ecology and Management to be published in March, 2015.
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