Peter Morgan is the first recipient of the IPER Joint MS in Environment and Resources degree, which he earned in conjunction with a JD from the Stanford Law School in December 2006.
Peter is interested in the intersection between science and law, and the ways in which these elements inform land conservation decisions. While at Stanford Peter worked with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Center for Science Policy on an interdisciplinary project exploring and integrating the science and policy of sage-grouse conservation by public and private landowners in California. He also collaborated with a number of IPER faculty and students on a project that looks at incentives for private conservation and restoration of native hardwood forests in the Kona region of Hawaii. Before beginning a clerkship with the Supreme Court of Alaska in August 2007, he was a post-doc at Stanford with the Natural Capital Project.
Before coming to Stanford, Peter worked as Program Manager for The Nature Conservancy’s Massachusetts Islands Program where he managed community based conservation projects including land protection, ecological research and restoration, natural community mapping, and stewardship. Peter has also worked for the Forest Service as a Backcountry Ranger in Alaska and as a Wildlands Firefighter in Montana.
Peter received his BA in American Literature from Middlebury College in 2001. His honors thesis was an ecocritical exploration of the relationship between wilderness and morality in the novels of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy.
Peter was the 2005 recipient of the Gloria Barron Wilderness Scholarship.
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The Masters in Environment and Resources offered me the flexibility to pursue the tools I need to be an effective practitioner, and provided the support of a community of accomplished and dedicated peers, and opportunities to collaborate with leading thinkers and environmental problem solvers.