Andy Whitman

Director, Natural Capital Initiative

awhitman@manomet.org

Andy Whitman is the Director of Manomet's Natural Capital Initiative.

He has worked in the field of sustainable forestry in tropical and temperate forests since 1993, studying a wide range of species and other key ecological elements including old growth forests.

He has provided training for hundreds of foresters and land managers on ecological forestry, and he has served as a forest certification auditor.

Andy has worked coast to coast leading community-based workshops on selecting indicators for forest sustainability. Currently, he is focusing on the sustainability of working landscapes, including forestry, agriculture and recreation.

He has served on sustainability panels for state government and businesses and has published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Andy holds an M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Maine, and he lives in mid-coast Maine with his wife, Cammy, and three children.