Maureen Wakefield
mwakefield@esf.edu

Maureen Wakefield is Continuing Education Coordinator for Outreach at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.  Wakefield reports directly to Dr. Charles M. Spuches, Associate Dean for Outreach, Instructional Quality and Technology

As Continuing Education Coordinator, she is responsible to coordinate SUNY-ESF conferences, workshops, meetings and seminars as well as to provide support to SUNY-ESF non-matriculated students.   Recent Outreach conferences include the 20^th Annual Symposium International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), the Tri-Society Meeting: Society of American Foresters, The Wilderness Society and the American Fisheries Society, the 19^th Annual Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium (NERR).  ESF Outreach recently launched a Stormwater curriculum series of fourteen courses taught by Don W. Lake, P.E. offering Professional Development Hours to Professional Engineers.  From January 2005 to date, these conferences, workshops and other events collectively, have registered a total of 1,452 people in a variety of professional development events at venues located throughout New York State.

As well as conferences, workshops, meetings and seminars, Wakefield oversees the development and implementation of a $1.2 million U.S. Department of Labor grant to develop post-baccalaureate certificates in the areas of Engineering, Biotechnology, Indoor Environmental Quality, and Renewable Energy.   

Wakefield earned a masters degree from Syracuse University in instructional design, development and evaluation from the School of Education in 1986 and her Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY College at Oswego’s School of Education in 1979.  Prior to joining ESF she was on the staff of the Syracuse University Continuing Education division where she provided leadership as an Instructional Designer and Project Manager.  Wakefield joined ESF Outreach on February 24, 2003.

While Wakefield is originally from Syracuse, she has had the good fortune to live in Chesapeake, Virginia and Rochester, New Hampshire.  She is often found kayaking in NYS area waterways including: Onondaga Lake, Erie Canal, Tuscarora Lake, Green Mountain Lake.