Our Team
LandWEB is led by a dedicated board composed of mission-aligned industry experts with backgrounds in land management, resource conservation and technical assistance, geospatial modeling, and accounting and finance. It is staffed by a skilled team of field scientists, and supported by a variety of affiliates and advising experts.
Board of Directors
Abe Collins
Board Chair
As a leading grazier and through collaboration and consulting with land stewards around the world, Abe has learned and honed lessons for rapidly growing topsoil, designing and and building sustaining infrastructure, providing critical landscape-feedback to stewards, and healing the whole of the land community. He has long worked to support communities as they organize themselves to heal their watershed homes, including through education, organizing, farm and watershed planning, environmental science, and developing community learning systems. Abe is also the Chair and President of Land Care Cooperative, a watershed contracting and data cooperative comprising leading Vermont graziers. As LandWEB Board Chair, Abe guides LandWEB scientific and other strategy, and bridges between the work of practical land-healing management and development of landscape-feedback science. He can usually be found in the field with Land Care farmers, with LandWEB staff harnessing data, or organizing with community members for a deep soil future.
Hayley Craddock
Board Director
Hayley Craddock is a Senior Accounting Associate at Furey Financial Services where she provides accounting services to high-growth startups as they scale. Before starting at Furey Financial Services, Hayley spent four years at a local mid-sized public accounting firm. In her personal time, Hayley enjoys mountain biking, snowboarding, and hiking. Hayley strives to utilize her knowledge and experience from the accounting industry to assist in the decision making of LandWEB.
Karen Walkerman
Board Director
Karen is an engineer, programmer and "Jill of all Trades." She loves building and creating, which she views as ways to shape the world to fit her, instead of the other way around. Karen has dedicated her career to greening the future. She's spent the last 18 years of her career writing software for, and participating in the energy efficiency sector, particularly energy simulations of buildings. She has been instrumental in building and refining three generations of LandStream measurement instruments, sensor networks and prototypical software used by LandWEB. She is a systems-thinker and likes to explore how connections can become a powerful force for positive change. She has played with regenerative agriculture techniques on a small-scale on a homestead in Vermont and is excited to be involved with a project that is truly transformative. She can often be found at the top of an airy mountain.
Harold Hubbard
Board Member
Harold Hubbard is a lifelong farmer at Wake Robin Farm in the North Hollow of Rochester Vermont. Long a small dairy until the 1950s, Wake Robin has carried on production through today with dairy replacement heifers, beef, potatoes, hay, logging and maple sugaring. The farm's maple sugaring operation currently runs 1,300 taps, with plans to expand to 2,000 taps this year.
Harold was educated at Rochester High, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Johnson State College, and has farmed continuously otherwise.
Harold has dedicated his life to agriculture, family and community, with an inordinate investment of time and effort in maintaining a fleet of "historically significant" equipment.
Photo by Julia Reed.
Diane Imrie
Board Member
Diane is a long time Vermont resident and manages her land for bird habitat and biodiversity while maintaining a lush and vigorous garden. She has been working in the UVM Health Network for 28 years and recently became the Network Director of Sustainability after many years as the Director of Nutrition Services at UVM Medical Center. She now oversees sustainability efforts across all six UVM Health Network hospitals. Diane is a founding member of the Land Care Cooperative and believes deeply that human health is intimately tied to the quality of the food that we produce and consume and to the overall health of our environment. She has supported local farmers and provided healthy, local food for many years through her role in the health system.
Eliza Letourneau
Board Secretary
Staff
Field Science Lead/Interim Executive Director/Board Secretary
Eliza leads the field science for LandWEB, working with scientists and modelers to design and implement field data collection for the landscape feedback systems. She holds a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from Duke University. She has worked in agricultural water quality, parks and recreation, land conservation, and stewardship. She is passionate about protecting the relationship between people and Vermont's natural resources, including open working land, forested land, wetlands, water bodies, and more. She views LandWEB as a key piece of the puzzle in providing land stewards and communities the information they need to heal watersheds to everyone’s benefit. She loves reading on her porch in the summer and cooking with friends, and occasionally leaving her winter hibernation to snowboard. Vermont is her home state.
Eliza Letourneau
Will Behm
GIS & Field Science Technician
Will holds a joint degree in Environmental Studies and Biology from Middlebury College. He is originally from Southwest Pennsylvania, where he began learning about environmental science and GIS while doing environmental justice work amongst the local coal and natural gas industries. In addition to his studies at Middlebury, Will has gained experience in GIS and field science via conservation and restoration work in the bluff country, tallgrass prairies, rice lakes, and peat bogs of Minnesota, as well as government research in Oregon's South Slough estuary. In his spare time, Will enjoys hiking, skiing, and plays in bluegrass band Otter Creek.
Advisors and Affiliates
John Norman, Advisor
John is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential soil-plant-atmosphere scientists of our time. Over a 50-year career in academia he led in the field of environmental biophysics, an integrative approach to quantifying landscape-function spanning many scientific disciplines. John has led the development of dozens of environmental measurement systems, numerous breakthrough soil-plant-atmosphere models and major advances in satellite remote sensing. He has co-authored hundreds of papers and his revision of Gaylon Campbell’s text, Introduction to Environmental Biophysics, is the definitive text on the subject.
Shannon Gomes, Advisor
Shannon is the owner of Soil Investigative Services. He is a Certified Professional Soil Scientist and a certified crop advisor with the American Society of Agronomy. Between his experience with the NRCS as a soil scientist, and independent consultant, he has mapped the soils of over 135,000 acres of farmland. Shannon provides ongoing guidance to LandWEB for all matters related to soil mapping.
Shannon’s lifetime of work with soil science and soil mapping have made clear the need and value of harnessing science and technology to effectively map our soils for real-time feedback to farmers and ranchers as they work to heal the land.
Lori Pourier, Advisor
Lori Lea Pourier (Oglala Lakota), is a citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Lori’s early work began at the First Nations Development Institute and as the Executive Director of the International Indigenous Women’s Network (IWN). Lori served as the President of the First Peoples Fund (FPF) between 1993-2024, and today she is the Founder and Senior Fellow of First Peoples Fund.
In 2022, she received the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Sidney Yates Advocacy Award and the Kennedy Center Next 50 trailblazer leader. In 2023 she was awarded the International Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Lifetime Achievement Award for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums. In 2024 Lori was elected to the Academy of Arts & Science.
Lori is a 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a recipient of the 2013 Women’s World Summit Foundation Prize for Creativity in Rural Life, and a 2013 Louis T. Delgado Distinguished Grantmaker Awardee. As an alumni of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) American Indian Ambassadors Leadership Program, she stands with more than 300 Indigenous leaders.
Lori serves on the Board of Directors of the Jerome Foundation and the Library of Congress American Folklife Center Board of Trustees. She served two terms on the Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) board of directors and Native Americans in Philanthropy. Lori also contributed to the National Endowment for the Arts’ publication, How to Do Creative Placemaking and Future/Present, Arts in A Changing America.
Lori is a Core Partner with Arts in a Changing America, the Cultural New Deal and the Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI), between First Peoples Fund, Alternate ROOTS, the PA’I Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.a collaboration between First Peoples Fund, Alternate ROOTS, the PA’I Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.
Christine Molling, Advisor
Christine Molling, M.S. Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has over 30 years of experience answering questions in agriculture, atmospheric science, and oceanography with data analysis and scientific modeling at the University of Wisconsin, Gorst Valley Hops, and Molling Scientific Consulting. Her work includes the Precision Agricultural-Landscape Modeling System, several volumes of NOAA-NODC’s Atlas of Surface Marine Data, and a large satellite data set underlying NREL’s National Solar Radiation Database. Much of her scientific skill derives from being a keen observer while she works, hikes, gardens, hunts, and paddles in the outdoors near her home in southern Wisconsin. Christine serves as the lead modeler at LandWEB.
Jeannie Bartlett, Advisor
Jeannie Bartlett grew up among the rocky hill-farms of western Massachusetts, and she has always been grounded by the people and the land who grow her food. From 2016 to early 2021 she managed the Franklin County Conservation District, where she was honored to work with farmers to improve their environmental stewardship and their financial viability. Jeannie now lives in central Vermont and works propagating fruit trees, as well as planting and pruning them in peoples' backyards. She is working towards starting her own fruit farm.
Erica Campbell, Affiliate
Erica Campbell is co-founder of InCommon Group, and consulting strategic development manager for LandWEB. With 25 years of experience in strategic planning, community development, research, and policy in agriculture and food systems, Erica is passionate about building better food ways. From working for the U.S. Senate and guiding national coalitions, to leading local and community-based food system projects, her unique expertise across the food system – from conservation to nutrition – has been a catalyst for positive change. Erica holds a Master of Science in Community Development and Applied Economics from UVM, and is trained in the Foundations of Dialogue Education.
Ayesha Ali, Affiliate
Ayesha Ali is co-founder of InCommon Group, and consulting communications manager for LandWEB. A skilled climate & science communicator, Ayesha engages broad audiences in the collective development of resilient food and agriculture systems. She most recently led communications for a national regenerative agriculture coalition advocating for a better Farm Bill. She holds a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in Global Environmental History from Uppsala Universitet. Specializing in political ecology, she focuses on situating creative solutions within relevant social, political, and historical contexts.
Critical Supporters
Many thanks to these farmers, funders, and other deep allies for the critical support they provide to our organization.
The Founding Farmers of the Land Care Cooperative
Forrest C and Frances H Lattner Foundation
Senator Bernie Sanders - Congressionally Directed Spending via USDA NRCS
University of Vermont Medical Center - Nutrition Services
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Join Our Team
If you are passionate, dedicated and have a powerful skill set that you know could contribute to LandWEB's work of scientifically supporting land stewards to heal the land, please submit a statement of interest and your CV to info@landweb.org.
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