He is also the founder of Sassafras Consulting, an organization that works to characterize and analyze environmental change in both the spatial and temporal dimensions by using a combination of ground, satellite, and airborne based monitoring techniques and hydrological and biogeochemical principles to infer the dominant controls behind environmental change. He has been involved in multiple projects investigating hydrological, ecological and biogeochemical change in boreal, agricultural, and urban landscapes during a 15-year career.