Team Impact Award 2022

Jon Calabria is an associate professor in the College of Environment and Design. His experience includes directing projects and plans that integrate conservation, restoration and mitigation within the human context. For more than three decades, he has completed award-winning projects across the various ecoregions (mountains to the sea) in the southeastern U.S. to improve environmental quality. As a practitioner and academic, his interdisciplinary approach has informed several of the team’s projects, including the Peacock Creek project implementation with Pippin. Calabria has contributed to the team’s development of the NSF’s coastlines and people proposal to develop a resilience hub using the military-community interface as study areas. He also is a key faculty member for a recently funded Research and Development Cooperative Agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers.