Curriculum Vitae

Mark Nicholas Demitroff

EDUCATION

University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Ph.D. in Geography – Land-Surface Processes, anticipated 2011

Tuition Scholar. 2007-2008

(Frederick Nelson, co-advisor, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate)

(Hugh French, co-advisor, former Dean of Sciences, University of Ottawa,
past President of the International Permafrost Association)

University of Delaware, Newark, DE

M.S. in Geography, May 2007

M.S. Thesis: Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South
Jersey's Periglacial Legacy

Tuition Scholar. 2004-2006; 2007-2008; Competitive Fellow 2006-2007

(Frederick Nelson, advisor, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate)

Cook College of Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

B.S. Agricultural Science: Plant Emphasis (1982)

Research Assistant of:

Dr. Hugh French, Periglacial Geomorphologist

University of Ottawa, ON, Canada

University of Victoria, BC, Canada

University of Delaware, DE, USA (research associate)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

member, University of Delaware Permafrost Group

member, United States Permafrost Association

member, International Society for Aeolian Research

member, The Association of American Geographers

member, International Society of Arboriculture, NJ Chapter

associate member, Outer Coastal Plain Vineyard Association

member, Pinelands Preservation Alliance

member, Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association

member, New Jersey Farm Bureau

member, West Jersey Historical Roundtable

member, Buena Historical Society

member, Hamilton Township Historical Society

ACHIEVEMENTS

Buckhorn Garden Service, Proprietor,

01/79-08/82, 84-85.

Buckhorn Garden Service, Inc., President,

06/85 – present.

PREVIOUS TASKS:

Design-build gardens, general arboriculture

CURRENT TASKS:

Arboricultural consultation for municipalities, corporations, individuals, engineers, architects:

• design, use, selection and care of trees; inventorying,

• arboricultural training and education, care, hazard identification,

• tree appraisal and valuation,

• expert witnessing for court cases,

• grant writing.

Consultation on woody and herbaceous ornamentals for municipalities, corporations, individuals, engineers, architects:

• design, use, selection and care of ornamental (including edible and other specialties),

• training and education into ornamental appreciation, care,

• ornamental appraisal and valuation.

Consultation on Pinelands cultural geography:

• cultural resource inventories,

• cultural/environmental interactions for expert testimony in court cases,

• educational lectures, writings.

Consultation on Pinelands environmental geography:

• research via the Permafrost Studies Group, Department of Geography, University of
Delaware., and the USGS,

• dynamics of Pinelands landforms, wetlands, and watercourses,

• soils and regolith interactions.

OTHER ASSOCIATIONS:

United States Geological Survey, Volunteer for Science,

exploring NJ, DE, MD, and VA for evidence

of Pleistocene-aged past permafrost,

01/07 – present,

01/08 French HM, Demitroff M, internal report on Pleistocene permafrost investigations, 22 pp.

Earth Team Volunteer, setting the groundwork

for the Cape May Coastal Arboretum, USDA

Plant Materials Centers, Swainton, NJ,

elected President, insufficient funding,

02/01 – 03/04.

New Jersey State Certified Tree Expert #285,

08/86-present.

Mentor, MS thesis, Jennifer LaPoma, Montclair University, 2008

Sedimentological analysis of tentative wind streaks from the Pinelands National Reserve,
in southern New Jersey

Mentor, Honor’s thesis, Tonya Del Sontro, Stockton College, 2003,

Spungs of the Great Egg Harbor Watershed: mapping periglacial features using
Geographical Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) Methods

Trustee, Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association,

02/02-06/05.

Buena Vista Township Environmental Commission,

06/98-02/02.

Kornychuk Institute, University of Kiev

07/73-08/73, scholarship, Ukrainian Folk Choreography,

07/77-09/77, scholarship, Ukrainian Folk Choreography.

New Jersey Folk Festival

04/81 First Place, traditional dance category,

Zoria Ukrainian Dancers.

This Old House, Endless Pool educational project,

04/96.

Best Home Award, Atlantic Electric,

designed & built our current energy efficient home

– low carbon footprint, geothermal technology, radiant heat.

PRESENTATIONS AND FIELD TRIPS:

Demitroff M. (2009). “South Jersey’s Old Frozen Dirt is the Stuff Grapes Like.” 2009 Jersey Fresh Wine and Food Festival, Heritage Vineyards, Mullica Hill, NJ, August 8, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “How the Ice Age Shaped Our Landscape.” Senior Advanced Placement Science, Mainland High School, Linwood, NJ, May 20, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “How the Ice Age Shaped Our Landscape.” Special Guest Lecture Program, Jakes Branch County Park, Beachwood, NJ, April 17, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Lecture and Pine Barrens Field Trip for GEOG 06325, Geomorphology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, April 4, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “Wisconsinan Eolian Activity and Paleohydrology, New Jersey Pine Barrens (39ºN), eastern USA.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, March 25, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). Chair of Paper Session “Past, Present, and Future of Frozen Ground Environments II.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, March 25, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Emphasis on Union House Tract Dunefield, South Jersey Bayshore Coalition, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Building, Rosenhayn, NJ, March 20, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “Come Ernest Homeseekers: Ethnic Settlements in the Pines.” Pinelands Short Course, Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ, March 7, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “Come Ernest Homeseekers: Ethnic Settlements in the Pines.” Introduction to Archaeology: Methods & Theory, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ, March 4, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “Come Ernest Homeseekers: Ethnic Settlements in the Pines.” Buena Historical Society, Buena, NJ, February 18, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2009). “Periglacial New Jersey: Cryospheric Processes and Pinelands Landscapes. Lecture and Pine Barrens Field Trip for GEO 450, Earth Surface Processes, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February 25, 2009.

Demitroff M. (2008). “Come Ernest Homeseekers: Ethnic Settlements in the Pines.” Cedarville Historical Society, Cedarville, NJ, November 18, 2008.

Demitroff M. (2008). “Come Ernest Homeseekers: Ethnic Settlements in the Pines.” Pinelands Preservation Alliance – Pinelands Heritage Series, Bishop Farm, Southampton, NJ, November 12, 2008.

Demitroff M, Streletskiy D. (2008). “Periglacial New Jersey: Cryospheric Processes and Pinelands Landscapes. Seminar – Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, National Mall Building, Washington, DC, October 29, 2008.

Demitroff M, Nelson FE. (2008). “The periglacial legacy of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, USA: climate history and geomorphic heritage as a land-use management tool.” Tough Choices – Land-Use Under a Changing Climate. A Joint German (DFG) – US (NSF) Conference. poster session, October 02, 2008.

Demitroff M. (2008). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Lecture and field visit to Wolfe’s Spung, Invited Speaker for Pinelands Graduate Class, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Drexel University, at Brendan T. Byrne State Forest Field Station, August 29, 2008.

Demitroff M. (2008). “Use of ground-penetrating radar to characterize cryogenic macrostructures in southern New Jersey, USA.” Poster Session 1P-13, Geophysical Methods in Frozen Ground, Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, AK, June 30, 2008.

Demitroff M. (2008). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Banquet Talk, The NJ Pine Barrens: A Biosphere Preserve, A Joint Botanical Meeting of the Botanical Society of America, the Torrey Botanical Society, and the Philadelphia Botanical Club, Captain’s Inn, Forked River, NJ, June 4, 2008.

Demitroff M. (2008). “The Periglacial Realm: Cryogenic Processes and Pinelands Landscapes.” Geology Club, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ, March 28, 2008.

Demitroff M. (2007). “The Periglacial Realm: Cryospheric Processes and Pinelands Landscapes.” Holiday Talk, Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension, Jenkins, NJ, December 14, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “The Periglacial Realm: Cryogenic Processes and Pinelands Landscapes.” Brown Bag Luncheon Seminar, The New Jersey Geological Survey, Trenton, NJ, November 28, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “The Periglacial Realm: Cryogenic Processes and Weathering During the Late Pleistocene” Guest Lecturer, GEOL 667, Weathering Systems, Department of Geology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, November 19, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Guest Lecturer and Field Trip Leader, Department of Geography, Montclair University, Mt. Laurel, Vincentown, Four Mile, and Chatsworth, NJ, November 10, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Frozen Ground, Wetlands in the Pines, and the Jersey Devil.” Speakers' Program, Gloucester County Nature Club, Mantua, NJ, November 8, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “South Jersey's Cold, Dry, and Windy Past.” Guest Speaker, New Jersey Audubon Society Field Trip, trip leader Rick Radis, The Pine Barrens, Warren Grove, NJ, October 6, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Periglacial Pinelands: a Brief Ice Age Geography, Dunes as Geotopes.” Pinelands Commission Guest Speaker Invitation, Pinelands Permanent Land Preservation Committee, Sullivan Center, New Lisbon, NJ, September 28, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” A private tour of periglacial wetlands and dunes for ecologists Ery Largay (NatureServe), Linda Kelly (NJDEP), and Kathleen Walz (NJDEP, Nature Conservancy), August 23, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Possible Evidence for Episodes of Late-Pleistocene Cryogenic Weathering, southern New Jersey, Eastern USA.” Cryogenic and Physico-Geological Processes, Section 3, Cryogenic Resources of Polar Regions, an International Conference, Salekhard City, Polar Cycle, West Siberia, June 19, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Newtonville: An Ice Age Geography, Dunes as Geotopes.” Pinelands Preservation Alliance Alert Presentation, African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, Newtonville, NJ. Followed by field trip to the relict dune field, May 20, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Buena: an Ice Age Laboratory.” Career Day, Dr. J.P. Cleary Middle School, Minotola, NJ, May 17, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Buena: an Ethnic Archipelago.” Monthly Meeting, Buena Historical Society, Buena, NJ, April 18, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” A Meadowview Institute Event: Bogs, Caroline County Community Service Center, Milford, VA, March 31, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Guest Lecturer, GEOG 682, Physical Geography of Cold Environments,

Department of Geography, Newark, DE, March 13, 2007. Followed up by a Pine Barrens Field Trip, April 24, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Keynote Speaker, Inauguration Ceremony, the Institute for Urban Ecosystem Studies Kean University, Union, NJ, March 5, 2007.

Demitroff, M. (2007). “Frozen Ground, Wetlands in the Pines, and the Jersey Devil.” Pinelands Short Course, 18^th Annual Pinelands Short Course, Burlington County College, New Lisbon, NJ, March 3, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Geography Seminar, Department of Geology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, February 9, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy.” Geological Sciences Seminar, Department of Geology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, February 8, 2007.

Demitroff M. (2007). “Spungs of South Jersey and Their Cold-Climate Origin.” The Rotary Bridgeton Breakfast, Golden Pigeon, Bridgeton, NJ, January 31, 2007.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS AND FIELD TRIPS (2006 – 2002)

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