Joshua joins OES after 15 years in independent school education teaching science, coaching sports, and chairing curricular development. Joshua has a deep interest in furthering student inquiry practices and has helped students engage in a variety of real-world scientific efforts including decade-long field research to monitor the health of watersheds, student laboratory research to discover new antibiotics, and the use of DNA analysis to contribute to biodiversity research on marine ecosystems. He has also worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and with a number of social and environmental non-profits in poverty, housing, endangered species protection, hazardous waste remediation, and in the implementation of federal clean air and water laws. Joshua has a passion for the outdoors and has taught over a dozen wilderness-guide schools for youth and outdoor professionals. His hobbies include whitewater kayaking, rafting, sailing, woodworking, and mushroom hunting.