Merritt T. Cooke,^1,*,**,*** Liyiran Xia<sup>1,****

1</sup>1Fox Leadership International, University of Pennsylvania, 3814 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 1910

^*Corresponding author: mterrycooke@gmail.com; 610-504-2245
^**Editor's note: This paper is an addendum to the “Land Stewardship from a Water Resource Perspective” special issue (Natural Areas Journal volume 39, number 1). M.T. Cooke was a member of the team that brainstormed that issue.
^***Merritt T. (Terry) Cooke is Visiting Professor and Instructor for the International Master of Public Administration program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, a 501c3 non-profit bringing clean water and low-carbon solutions to northeast China. Terry was the Panel Facilitator for the panel of scientists convened in 2016 by Roger Latham with multi-year funding from the William Penn Foundation to study issues of Land Stewardship from a Water Resource Perspective. This article belongs with that body of research, which was memorialized in a Special Issue of the Natural Areas Journal (Volume 39, No. 1). Terry and his family steward a 37-acre conserved property in the western suburbs of Philadelphia comprising mostly wetlands and floodplain. He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology (1985) and MA (1981) from the University of California at Berkeley and his BA from Princeton University in 1981.
^****Liyiran Xia is Co-Instructor for the International Master of Public Administration program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also an Environment and Clean Energy Project Manager at China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia. She holds a BA in environmental science from Franklin and Marshall College and an MA in international affairs with a focus on environment, energy, and sustainable development from Penn State University.