Stan Senner, along with his wife Pat, joined the staff of the Fairbanks Environmental Center in 1974. Stan served as Vice President of the center in 1976 and then as its president in 1977. He also worked as the D2 coordinator for the Alaska Coalition during these years. In 1978, he was hired by the Wilderness Society as its Alaska representative and in 1979 he worked as a staff member on the House Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries for Congressman Tom Evans from Delaware. He has also worked as executive director of the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in Pennsylvania, a science coordinator for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, and as executive director of Audubon Alaska
From the guide to the Stan Senner Papers, 1975-1982, (University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Polar Regions Collections & Archives)