Bob Van Riper is a biologist with a specialization in aquatic and wetland habitats. Bob began his career teaching entomology to undergraduates at UMO. He then worked for Maine Department of Transportation's Environmental Office. There, in addition to working with engineers to reduce and minimize project impacts, he was the Office's special projects biologist. In that role, he led an interagency work group on large wildlife and motor vehicle collisions (you may have seen the posters!), integrated GPS collected natural resource information into MDOT process', and performed investigations into transportation structures as barriers to stream functions and animal movements. In 2003, Bob moved into the role of Regional Fisheries Biologist for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. He served in the Belgrade Lakes and the Rangeley Lakes Regions until retiring in 2017. He now works part-time for the town of Temple, when not out traipsing around the puckerbrush.
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