Peter Kallin

Peter is the Chair of the Maine Lakes Society Advisory Board and retired Executive Director of the Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance (now 7-Lakes Alliance). He continues to serve on the 7-Lakes Alliance Board. He earned two masters from the Naval Postgraduate School (Physical Oceanography and Systems Technology) and a master’s and doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton. Peter is a retired U.S. Naval Officer, where he did a real-life “Hunt for Red October” from P-3 aircraft, as well as a retired environmental consultant, Professional Wetlands Scientist, university water resources extension specialist, and land trust executive director. He is a member of the Maine Land Trust Network Steering Committee and serves on several Maine DEP stakeholder groups involving water quality, camp roads, and shoreland zoning. Additionally, he is a Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (VLMP) certified water quality monitor and invasive plant patroller and an Atlantic Salmon Federation “Fish Friends” volunteer mentor.  He lives on Long Pond in Rome, Maine, and spends a lot of time fishing, hunting, skiing, and hiking on the thousands of acres he helped conserve while he was a land trust executive director.