Reese Goodlin joined the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) this summer in an effort to expand CBF's work with landowners, organizations, and partners in Adams and York counties to establish restoration projects and promote available funding to reduce polluted runoff into local waters. Goodlin's work is part of CBF's Watershed Resiliency Program in Pennsylvania.

As Pennsylvania watershed resiliency field specialist, Goodlin will conduct landowner outreach, partner with agencies and other organizations to connect landowners with Resiliency Program funding, and support the implementation of priority strategies, like riparian buffers, that reduce polluted runoff. He will also focus on sustainable farming practices.

Goodlin, 23, hails from Purcellville, Va. He received his Bachelor of Science in biology and environmental studies from Ursinus College with the goal of applying himself to sustainability and restoration.

While at Ursinus, he worked with the campus farm and the food forest, which is an ecological restoration and riparian forest buffer focused on native plants and alternative agriculture. After graduation, he accepted a position as the Sustainability Solutions Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship staff member at Ursinus, which included stewardship activities and expansion projects.

Goodlin traveled to Oklahoma to represent Ursinus College and its food forest to the Delaware Tribe of Indians. The trip was part of an effort to connect the tribe with its traditional homeland and to exchange ideas, information, and materials.