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Ben serves in the Planning and Environmental Services Unit as a Resilience Professional focusing on coastal military installations and surrounding communities. He is primarily tasked with harnessing a broad array of resources aligned with the Network for Engineering with Nature, a partnership founded by UGA and the US Army Corps of Engineers, to advance infrastructure projects that support climate resilience and military readiness while generating social, environmental and economic co-benefits.

Prior to joining the Institute of Government in 2022, Ben established the Conservation Department at the Jekyll Island Authority and directed the program for over a decade. He also serves on the UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant Advisory Board and was a Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in 2011 supporting the NOAA Office of Response and Restoration.