Meg White

At Johns Hopkins, Meg White serves as a lecturer in the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy program where she draws on an innately interdisciplinary background.

White has worked in natural and physical sciences, conservation, and environmental policy for 28 years, focusing her technical expertise at the intersection of surface and groundwater hydrology, riparian ecosystems, systems thinking, science communication, data science, and urban & landscape ecology. Today, she leads a long-term monitoring science program in the federal government that employs hundreds of biologists, ecologists, and physical scientists delivering research for natural resource management and conservation across the United States.

Born and raised in rural western Michigan, White received a BA in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Michigan, an MS in Environmental Science and Planning from the University of California Berkeley, and a PhD in Biology from Arizona State University.

She lives in Colorado and enjoys running, hiking her pups, swimming, gardening, being in or on rivers, playing volleyball and tennis, cooking, volunteering, and attempting to knit.