James Tait, with his colleage Vince Breslin, authored the SENCER Model course Science on the Connecticut Coast: Investigations of an Urbanized Shoreline.  During their respective fellowships, they plan to work together to continue to refine the course and to support the infusion of the SENCER ideals in all program offerings in the School of Arts and Sciences at Southern Connecticut State University. Topics of interest for possible new course developments include environmental modeling, environmental chemistry, and earth systems.

Jim was elected to the Leadership Fellows in July 2009.