Stew Diemont works with people to better understand how traditional knowledge can be part of ecosystem 
design. With his students and the people of communities in which he works, he has studied soil, plants, fungi, insects, and birds, as well as talked extensively with community members. Dr. Diemont has worked with a Zapotec community in Mexico; Mayan communities in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala; the Haudenosaunee of New York; and with traditional vineyard growers in Europe. His ecosystem design focuses on connecting people with place. He is particularly interested in how food can be a part of ecosystem restoration in rural and urban settings, and he examines how restoration can move forward in partnership with traditional knowledge for sustainable socioecological systems.
Dr. Diemont has appointments at SUNY-ESF with the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, Graduate Program in Environmental Science – Ecosystem Restoration, and the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
Associate Professor
State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF)