Kent is a senior conservation biologist at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies in Norwich, Vermont and leader of the Vermont Atlas of Life. His research focuses on bird and insect ecology and conservation. He is the PI for the Vermont Butterfly Atlas, conducted monitoring and research of alpine butterflies in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and is co-leader of e-Butterfly.org. He has wide-ranging experiences and interests with citizen science, communications, and conservation photography.