Walter has been teaching at Maritime since 2005 and retired from full time in 2022. Prior to that he was actively shipping with seagoing work as a senior officer on cruise ships and worked in oil industry, both seagoing and ashore as well as LNG and general cargo. His expertise is in marine environmental issues including ocean and polar environmental law and policy. He was a delegate to the International Maritime Organization, Marine Environmental Protection Committee in London. He was also the recipient of major grants from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for Mariner Environmental Education. He has helped the Nation of the Bahamas institute professional mariner training. Walter has also been the recipient of a teaching fellowship at the Istanbul Technical University.
His areas of expertise are Marine Environmental Protection as it pertains to oceans and polar areas. In particular the Polar Code, Ballast Water Management and Annex V of MARPOL.
In retirement, he enjoys teaching remotely Environmental Law and Policy to undergraduates. It is a class that he has been teaching for many years and find it enjoyable to keep current in the ever-changing Environmental regulatory and legal framework. In addition, he teaches Government Transportation and Environmental Policy to Graduate Students.
Walter holds a Master Mariners License as well as a BS from SUNY Maritime (’78). He did graduate work in Engineering systems as well as LNG at the Maritime Institute of Technology in Linthicum, MD. He took masters-level courses in Environmental Law, Environmental Policy and Management at Tufts university in Boston in conjunction with Harvard and MIT.