Richard Borden rborden@coa.edu

B.A. University of Texas, 1968;                                                              
Ph.D. Psychology, Kent State University, 1972

Rich served as COA's Academic Dean for twenty years. He is past president of the international Society for Human Ecology and continues to serve as its Executive Director. Author of numerous publications, Rich has been a USIA academic consultant and an advisor to human ecology programs in China, Russia and elsewhere in Europe and in North and South America. Course areas: environmental psychology, community planning and decision making, personality and social development, contemporary psychology, and philosophy of human ecology

Kenneth Cline  ksc@coa.edu

B.A. Hiram College, 1980;                                                                
J.D. Law, Case Western Reserve University, 1983

Ken is the Director of the college's Watershed Initiative and works closely with the Watershed and Community Outreach Coordinator to integrate COA's curriculum with the issues and needs of surrounding communities. Through his positions on the boards of various national and local river protection and environmental organizations, Ken involves students in watershed and conservation issues at the local to the international level. Course areas: public policy and environmental law, with an emphasis on parks, wildlife, watershed and river conservation

Isabel Mancinelli  isabel@coa.edu

B.S. Catholic University of America, 1975;                                         
M.L.A. Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, 1981

Isabel has been a member of the faculty at COA since 1992. She and her students have worked extensively with local communities on comprehensive plans and with the grass roots community planning group, MDI Tomorrow. She worked for the North Atlantic Regional Office of the National Park Service for ten years as a park planner and was team captain of the planning team for the General Management Plan for Acadia National Park. Course areas: community and regional planning, landscape architecture

Davis F. Taylor dtaylor@coa.edu

B.S. United States Military Academy, 1985;                                         
M.S. University of Oregon, 1994;                                                       
Ph.D. Economics, University of Oregon, 1995

Davis joined the faculty of COA in 1995 and teaches courses in economics, forest policy, and sustainable community development. He also teaches in Yucatán, Mexico, as part of the college's International Studies program, where he developed an alternative to cost-benefit analysis for project assessment in developing regions. He is particularly interested in participatory community capacity-building, trans-national advocacy networks, and the roles of community-owned businesses. Course areas: ecological economics, community sustainability, alternative economic development

Gordon Longsworth glongsworth@coa.edu

B.A. College of the Atlantic, 1990;                                                 
M.R.P., Planning, University of Pennsylvania, 1992.

Gordon is Director of College of the Atlantic's Geographic Information Systems Lab. He has twenty years experience with planning and GIS, supervising projects spanning multiple disciplines while collaborating with outside organizations and communities. His advanced work focuses on developing GIS as a tool for ecological planning and design. Course areas: geographic information systems, land use planning

Ron Beard rbeard@umext.maine.edu

B.S. University of Maine, 1972;                                                        
M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1974

Ron is a member of COA's board of trustees and a member of the adjunct faculty. As an extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant, he has coordinated two rounds of the Mount Desert Island Tomorrow process and has served as lead facilitator for the Union River Watershed Coalition since the group's inception.

Ron is working with State Representative Ted Koffman and others as coordinator of Maine Solutions, a process for producing collaborative agreements around community issues in Maine. Ron also produces and hosts two hour-long monthly public affairs programs on community radio, which are archived at www.weru.org. Course areas: collaborative leadership, community planning and decision making, skills in community development and non-profit management