Brian Skahill has graduate degrees in applied math and engineering and is a certified professional hydrologist. For several years, he’s been taking courses on a part-time basis in the Wine Studies program at Chemeketa Community College and is close to completing an associate degree in Vineyard Management. While studying at Chemeketa Eola, together with Bryan Berenguer, Program Chair of the Vineyard Management degree at Chemeketa Community College, and Professor Manfred Stoll, Head of the Department of General and Organic Viticulture at Hochschule Geisenheim University, Brian has published applied research evaluating the impacts of climate change to viticulture in peer reviewed journals and presented related works at national and international conferences. He has also successfully completed the Wine Scholar Guild’s Italian Wine Scholar program.