Chad Freed

Chad Freed, PhD, is a tenured Professor of Environmental Science at Widener University and serves as Director of the Geographic Information Systems and Engineering and Environmental Geosciences Laboratories. His research focuses on the three-dimensional spatial characterization and visualization of geographic, hydrologic, and geophysical data.

• Key research areas include natural gas mining landscape disturbances
• Climate change and conservation biology projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Costa Rica, Peru's Amazon rainforest, and China's Tibetan Plateau
• Funded by Harford Foundation and Pennsylvania Sea Grant program
• Contributed to ecosystem services assessment in Chester's DeShong Park and SC2 program initiatives