I’m Tyler Roman, and I founded EnviRoman Consulting in 2021 as a way to bring together over a decade of hands-on experience in ecosystem research, environmental monitoring, and technical project management. My work has taken me from the forests and peatlands of the U.S. Midwest to high-elevation wetlands in the Andes, supporting efforts to better understand greenhouse gas dynamics and implement long-term monitoring systems. EnviRoman Consulting was created to offer thoughtful, practical, and science-driven support for organizations working at the intersection of ecology, data, and technology.

About me:

Over the past decade, I’ve dedicated my career to studying forest and peatland greenhouse gas (GHG) cycling, primarily through my work with the U.S. Forest Service. My introduction to this field began at the Morgan Monroe State Forest AmeriFlux site while I was a student at Indiana University. There, I gained hands-on experience with eddy covariance (EC) methods and a wide range of complementary techniques, including soil gas flux measurements, leaf-level gas exchange, and environmental sensor monitoring.

Following that, I joined the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station at the Marcell Experimental Forest in northern Minnesota. I managed an EC site within the forest, led its enrollment in the AmeriFlux network, and initiated annual data submissions. I also helped oversee a long-term network of hydrological and meteorological datasets and played a key role in modernizing the site’s infrastructure—transitioning from strip chart recorders to digital sensors and dataloggers—vastly improving data quality and accessibility. In addition to fieldwork and instrumentation, I contributed to numerous data publications by supporting data preparation, QA/QC, and formatting for public release, helping ensure that the site’s long-term datasets were made widely available and usable for the broader scientific community.

After five years in Minnesota, my family and I returned to our home state of Indiana. I then took a position with the U.S. Forest Service International Programs and Trade, working on the Latin America and Caribbean Nature-Based Solutions team. As part of the Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP), I collaborated with international partners on several peatland GHG flux projects in both lowland and mountain ecosystems. While the broader SWAMP team also developed national and regional peatland maps across the northern Andes, my primary role focused on designing and implementing flux studies, including training, measurement campaigns, and data analysis. A major component of this work involved building capacity—training students and early-career professionals in flux measurement techniques, data processing, QA/QC, and interpretation.

More recently, I’ve been serving as a co-lead of the Education Working Group for FLUXNET. Our team has developed multilingual (English, Spanish, and French) virtual training resources to support learners worldwide in understanding and applying flux methodologies. I also helped organize the first Taller de Aprendizaje de Flujos Ecosistémicos, a Spanish-language flux workshop taking place in Mexico in summer 2025—an initiative several years in the making to strengthen the Latin American flux community.

My work has given me a diverse and adaptable skillset that I bring to every project. From designing instrumentation systems and writing datalogger programs to building automated data pipelines, performing QA/QC, and analyzing complex datasets—I enjoy contributing to collaborative, data-driven efforts. If you’re interested in partnering or hiring me for part-time, full-time, or project-based consulting work, I’d be happy to connect.