Renee Thompson

Renee is a Geographer for the USGS, Lower-Mississippi Gulf Water Science Center and is based at the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) office in Annapolis, Maryland. She is the coordinator of the Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team at CBP and maintains the CBP Protected Lands dataset. She has a Masters in Community Planning (MCP) from the Urban Studies and Planning (URSP) Program at the University of Maryland where she focused on land use and environmental planning. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Global Environmental Science (B.S.). In her spare time Renee can be found on her stand up paddle board exploring the tributaries around the region, skiing in the winter and enjoying downtime with her family.