Lance has retired as a Lecturer in the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont. He developed and taught courses in Environmental Systems Thinking and in Modeling Dynamic Systems. As part of these courses, he taught the unintended impacts of population growth on various environmental policies, including climate change. He was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to create these courses.

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Lance earned a Ph.D. in Systems Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton, took graduate courses at Dartmouth College in systems modeling on Limits to Growth, and has a Master’s in Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University.

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He travelled widely in his younger days. He hiked solo in Africa, spending a month each in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, staying with families in rural villages. He has bicycled across Canada, Europe, and Central America.

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Currently, besides being a Board member of BnBVT, Lance is active in two climate change groups: Elders for Climate Justice and Third Act Vermont. Lance also volunteers for Meals on Wheels, delivering food to the elderly.