Tim holds not one, but two BS degrees in the same field of Bioresource Engineering from Rutgers University, and a PhD from Cornell University in Environmental Engineering where he was also an IGERT Fellow in the Biogeochemistry Program. Those five long years of biogeochemistry seminars engrained the ecosystem concepts necessary to focus his current research on coupled elemental cycles controlling metal and other contaminant fate in the environment. At home, he re-explores the world through the eyes of his two young kids.