Sam is now a Climate Solutions Fellow for Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) in Washington, DC. After his Mitchell year, he stayed on in Ireland to work as a Policy Analyst in the Sustainable Policy Analytics Unit of University of Galway's Data Science Institute. This role seeks to inform new member states and EU evidence-based policy on peatlands in Ireland and abroad. This includes renewable energy alternatives, making nature restoration a more interest-based solution for farmers with carbon credits & other measures, and support to introduce commercial moss farming as a new method of regenerative agriculture in Ireland with Bord na Mona and the horticulture sector. Sam studied Public Policy at UCD. He is a University of Louisville graduate with a BS in Applied Geography and BA in Liberal Studies for Public Policy & Industrial Ecology. His thesis used satellite data to create crop water balances for avoiding water scarcity in Peru. In Kentucky, Sam co-owns a patent with the US Geological Survey from developing a low-tech & low-cost cumulative water sampling device. At UofL Sam founded the Commonwealth Policy Coalition, a think tank partnering university research with legislators to develop new solutions and policy fellows. After studying economic opportunities with Kentucky Bourbon wastes, Sam introduced an incentive package to the state assembly promoting renewable energy and circular economy by upcycling the potential pollution to new business. He sees similar opportunity with Irish whiskey. Appointed to the UofL Sustainability Council, Sam became a student-author of the Climate Action Plan and led negotiations with university leadership to plan transition to biogas using their own Conn Center for Renewable Energy. When the center produced a spinoff startup, Sam developed a proposal to use rewetted peatland moss with the company's technology to produce a renewable biocoal replacement for peat and coal. Sam read that new agriculture called plaudiculture preserved carbon sequestration and could grow moss in northern countries to replace horticulture products. The KY Nature Preserves Commission granted Sam a permit to sample rare moss in the Appalachian Mountains so a species found in Ireland could be analyzed for biocoal - it was deemed a suitable candidate.