Scott serves as an extension services specialist and focuses on co-developing extension research programs within the Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center (PI-CASC). Scott facilitates the development of collaborative research products that directly uphold the resilience, sustainability, and adaptation of local populations in the face of complex challenges such as impacts from shifting weather patterns, land-use change, and invasive species. His programmatic efforts are driven by a relational approach to engaging multiple knowledge forms, building trust within existing long-term professional networks, and uniting varied worldviews through collaboration and knowledge co-production (manager-driven research).

Scott is a naturalist, facilitator, and educator. Over a few decades, he has rooted his path in engaging varied knowledge forms within the human condition through immersion experiences that develop and strengthen holistic relationships across human and more-than-human interactions. The intent of such engagement is to unite different worldviews with the goal of enhancing local adaptation through unprecedented change by further developing our ancestral and evolutionary capacities.