Dr. Shannon Rogers is an experienced environmental policy & sustainability researcher, educator, and consultant.  In September 2011 she received her doctorate degree from the University of New Hampshire in Natural Resources & Environmental Studies with a focus on Sustainability Science and a minor in College Teaching.  During her graduate program, she was selected as a U.S. EPA Science to Achieve Results Fellow and conducted engaged scholarship on environmental policy issues, such as measuring sustainability.  Prior to pursuing graduate work, she worked for Industrial Economics, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, where she assisted with the project management of EPA’s Performance Track, a voluntary program that helped businesses assess and report on their environmental outcomes.  She also conducted ability to pay analyses for Superfund violators. She graduated cum luade with honors in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College.

After working with the United States Army Corps of Engineer's Institute of Water Resources (through their global change sustainability program) on a post doctoral research project, she began a tenure track position at Plymouth State University.  As an assistant professor of environmental science and policy and ecological economist within the Center for the Environment, she teaches, mentors undergraduate and graduate students, and conducts community relevant research all while bringing environmental policy and social science expertise to a developing and evolving program at Plymouth.