Biographical Information about Peter Eldred

Peter Eldred has been the GIS coordinator for the Aquatic Riparian Effectiveness Monitoring team (AREMP) since 2002. In 1978 he received his BS from the University of New Hampshire in Forest Management, with a minor in Soil Science. In 1982 he completed a Computer certificate program from University of Massachusetts. He received his MS in Forest Planning from Oregon State University in 1988.

In 1981 he worked for a forestry consultant in western Massachusetts managing land for small private forestland owners. He was the forest analyst and economist for the Siuslaw National forest 1989 to 1991.

In 1992 and 1993 he was on an exchange program in Australia for 6 months with the department of Conservation and Environment. There he managed all the GIS activities in a 2.9 million acre region of Victoria that included all state and federal lands. He was the GIS coordinator on the Siuslaw National Forest 1995 to 2000.

Before joining the AREMP group he worked with the Natural Resource Information systems (NRIS) group to develop tools to assess the hydrologic condition of watersheds.