About

Alani Taylor has had a career in environmental regulation and research in freshwater entomology that exposed her to intricacies of watershed dynamics. She contributes her ecology knowledge base to sound environmental management and planning. Alani is proud to be an environmental regulatory specialist since 2009, first with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement and now with the Army Corps of Engineers, in a way that effectively incorporates her science-based education and experience. She also applies her valuing of freshwater resources outside of the workplace, and has been thanked, as a member of Society of Wetland Scientists and as a volunteer in biomonitoring efforts for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the Allegheny Land Trust. She even donates her research mind to a professor at the local Chatham University as an adjunct researcher. As a member of three committees (and previous chair of one) with the Society of Wetland Scientists, she spearheaded initiatives to increase underrepresented membership by launching events like the “Value of Human and Cultural Diversity to Wetland Scientists” workshop (2021), speaks by invitation on topics such as “Outreach in the Community” (2020), and has mentored students.