ISSE Staff
John Peine
Research Sociologist, Leetown Science Center, Southern Appalachian Field Laboratory
Office Phone: (865) 974-4056
Email: jpeine@utk.edu
Ph.D., Watershed Management, University of Arizona
M.S., Watershed Management, University of Arizona
B.S., Forestry, Purdue University
Dr. Peine has served as a Research Sociologist for the Southern Appalachian Field Laboratory since 1992. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Arizona, he became an Outdoor Recreation Planner for the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1972 and 1978. In 1982, Dr. Peine took on the role as Outdoor Recreation Planner for the Heritage, Conservation, and Recreation Service in Ann Arbor, Michigan until 1993. Also in 1982, he started his work with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as Research Administrator and Director of Uplands Research Laboratory. Dr. Peine is a member of the World Conservation Union, Protected Areas Program and the George Wright Society, Society of Conservation Biology.
Over the past 15 years, Dr. Peine has been involved in several international environmental activities. Starting in 1989, he represented the USNPA International Affairs Office in devising technical assistance projects in Belize and Guatemala. Between 1988 and 1989, he represented the USNPS studied science activities on the New Zealand National Park System. Dr. Peine participated in an exchange of scientists and environmental educators from USNPS in the USSR in 1991 and the following year, represented USNPS by presenting a paper on utilizing ecotourism to finance national parks at the II International Seminar on ecology, Tourism and county Governments in San Jose, Costa Rica. Then in 1995, he participated in an international training course on management of biosphere reserves which was held in Czech Republic. In 1999, he presented a paper on the North American case study for the U.S. State Department at an international meeting on forested protected areas held in Puerto Rico. In 2003, Dr. Peine became a member of IUCN, in which he made a presentation on the App Trial environmental monitoring initiative at the Mountain Protected Areas Workshop as part of the World Parks Congress in South Africa.
Dr. Peine’s research interests and specialties include human dimensions of ecosystems, environmental sustainability practices, ecosystem management and survey research. His current projects include creating a mega-transect via the Appalachian Trail for environmental monitoring, creating a data management system for the Roan Mountain biome, and managing a web site on the Best Sustainability Practices in the Southern Appalachians.