Dr. Slocum serves as the Associate Director of the Delaware Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program and has over 20 years of research administration and project management experience. Dr. Slocum will serve as the project manager of the CZ-Collaborative. Dr. Slocum has managed a number of large interdisciplinary research projects including EPSCoR tracks 1 and 2 and a Critical Zone Observatory project.