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Steve Kahl, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy

Center for the Environment, MSC 63
Plymouth State University
17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264

Office: 218 Boyd Science Center
Phone: 603.535.3154
Fax:603.535.3180
Email:jskahl@plymouth.edu

Education

• B.A., Zoology, University of Maine
• M.S., Geological Sciences, University of Maine
• Ph.D., Watershed Geochemistry, University of Maine

Professional Interests

Steve is a Professor in the new PSU Department of Environmental Science and Policy and serves as the chief scientist for the Center’s Environmental Research Laboratory. He was the founding director of the Center from 2004 -2008, after serving as the founder and long time director of the George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research at the University of Maine, where he also started the graduate program in Water Resources. He previously worked for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Maine Department of Marine Resources, and the National Park Service and taught high school chemistry in Connecticut. His research interests include acid rain, lake chemistry, mercury cycling, paleolimnology, and the intersection of science and public policy. He is active in translating science into policy using incentive-based mechanisms to change societal beliefs and behaviors. His long-term acid rain research on northeastern lakes has been used by the Environmental Protection Agency to report to Congress on the effectiveness of the federal Clean Air Act. 

Steve is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Lakes Association, the Hubbard Brook Committee of Scientists, and the Friends of Mirror Lake. He is the University System of New Hampshire’s appointee to the legislature’s Energy Policy Advisory Board, the Transportation and Land Use working group of the New Hampshire Climate Change Action Plan, and a number of committees with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.