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Vaikko Allen:
Vaikko Allen joined Vortechnics in 1995 while completing work towards
a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Maine in Environmental
Science (with a concentration in Water Resources). After graduating
with honors in 1998, he transitioned to full time work at Vortechnics under
the direction of Tom Adams, the inventor of the Vortechs Stormwater Treatment
Systems. As the Technical Manager, his current duties include developing
products and strategies to respond to the myriad of regulatory and technical
challenges facing design engineers throughout North America. Vaikko
is the primary inventor of the latest Vortechnics product offering, the
VortSentry.
Chet Arnold:
Lori Barg:
Ms. Barg's work focuses on watershed assessment and restoration in
communities both in the United States and in Latin America. She has
worked collaboratively with the State of Vermont to develop protocols for
fluvial geomorphic assessment, and with the Center for Watershed Protection
to analyze the morphological and hydrologic impacts of urbanization and
in-stream gravel extraction, and to develop restoration plans for urban
watersheds. Other projects include the hydrogeochemistry of the Elizabeth
Mine, an abandoned copper mine. Her education includes an M.S. in
Geology from the University of Massachusetts (1993), and B.S. from the
University of the State of New York (1991).
Gregory R. Baryluk:
Mr. Baryluk has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1990) and a Masters of Business Administration
from Xavier University (1998). He has been employed with Advanced
Drainage Systems in his current capacity since 1999. As Regional
Engineer, he is responsible for corrugated HDPE pipe specification development
and technical support for the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts
and Rhode Island. He currently resides in Holden, Massachusetts.
Deb Caraco:
Deb has been a water resources engineer at the Center for Watershed
Protection since 1996. Her responsibilities there include work related
to stormwater design, analysis of stormwater programs, water quality modeling,
and watershed research and education. Prior to joining the Center
in 1996, Deb worked for two years as an Agricultural Engineer at the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac River Basin in Rockville, Maryland. She
has Bachelors and Masters degrees in agricultural engineering from Cornell
University.
Rich A. Claytor:
Rich has 20 years of experience in the field of water resource assessment,
watershed planning, stormwater management design, and land use management.
He is currently the Vice President for Engineering and Planning at Horsley
and Witten, Inc. located in Sandwich, MA. He directs a group of engineers,
planners and scientists involved in engineering design, land use planning,
watershed management and water resource planning projects. Prior
to joing H&W, Rich was the Principal Engineer for the Center
for Watershed Protection, a national non-profit environmental organization,
located in Ellicott City, Maryland. He authored a number of guidance
documents on watershed planning, stormwater management and smart sit design.
Rich has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Union College, in Schenectady,
NY and is a Registered Professional Engineer.
Reid R. Coffman:
Reid Coffman is a landscape architect who has practiced wetland and
riparian design in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. He has received
national design awards for both his environmental and socially oriented
projects. He holds a lecture position in the Knowlton School of Architecture
at Ohio State University where he teaches how the use of natural technologies
provide environmental benefits. Currently, he is working on post
professional research in urban ecology focusing ion the environmental benefits
provided by green roofs.
Dr. Steven F. Daly:
Dr. Daly is employed by the Army Corps of Engineers as a Research Hydraulic
Engineer, ERDC/CRREL 1979 to Present. He has specialized in the analysis,
simulation and control of river ice, forecasting river ice, ice problems
at water intakes, ice effects on flood-frequency; and modeling snow processes
in support of hydrologic analysis. He is a registered Engineer in
NH and MI. Dr. Daly received a B.S., Civil Engineering at the University
of Michigan, S.M., Civil Engineering from MIT; Ph.D. from Iowa Institute
of Hydraulic Research at the University of Iowa. Dr. Daly has published
over 28 CRREL reports, 24 contract reports, 50 conference proceedings,
and 13 journal articles including Daly, S.F., et.al. 2000. An approach
to Snow Modeling for the Sacramento, and San Joaquin Basins, California,
Hydrol. Proc. 14, pp 3257-3271; Daly, S.F. 1998. Thermal Ice Growth: Estimation
via Kalman Filter, J. of Cold Reg. Eng. 12(1), 11; Daly, S.F. 1995. Fracture
of river ice by river waves, J of Cold Reg. Eng. 9(1), 41; Daly, S.F. 1995.
Wave propagation in ice-covered channels , J of Hyd.Eng. 119(8), 895; Daly,
S.F. 1992. Observed ice passage from Lake Huron into the St. Clair River,
J of Great Lakes Res. 18(1), 61; Daly, S.F.1991. Frazil Ice Chapter in
Freezing and Melting Heat Transfer, Engineering Ed. By K.C. Cheng, Hemisphere
Pub. Co.
Michael Darga:
Michael has been the Engineer of Design for Wayne County Engineering
since 1999. He has a B,S. in Construction Engineering from Lawrence
Institute of Technology and a M.S.E. in Construction Engineering and Management
from the University of Michigan and is a registered professional engineer
in the State of Michigan. He is a member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers and the
American Public Works Association and President of the Board of Directors,
Friends of the Rouge.
Phil Davenport:
Phil Davenport is the Public Works Business Manager in Virginia Beach,
with one of his functions being administrator of the Storm Water Utility
Fund and billing and customer service functions. He was instrumental
in design and implementation of the billing system and has served as the
fund administrator for the full ten years of the fund’s existence.
Pamela J. Deahl:
Pamela Deahl is a licensed Professional Engineer and currently serves
as the Vice President of Hydro International. She earned her bachelor’s
degree in civil and environmental engineering from Cornell University and
a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern
Maine. After several years as a design and consulting engineer, she
has spent the last eight years specializing in wet weather pollution control.
Andrea Donlon:
Andrea Donlon is a nonpoint source specialist in the Watershed Management
Bureau at the NH Department of Environmental Services. She conducts
illicit discharge investigations in the Merrimack watershed, administers
grants for fixing illicit discharges in the coastal watershed, and is also
responsible for guiding nonpoint source grant recipients through the quality
assurance project plan (QAPP) process. She has an M.S. in Forestry
from the University of Vermont.
Katherine Earley:
Kathi Earley is the Engineering Services Manager for the City of Portland
Maine. Her thirteen year career in Portland’s Public Works Department
includes experience in construction inspection, Industrial Pretreatment
Program administration, and her prior role as the City Engineer.
Her experience in public service and environmental stewardship includes
projects such as Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement, Greenways Master Planning,
and active participation in the Casco Bay Estuary Program. Most recently
Kathi has represented the City of Portland in both the creation of MeDEP’s
Phase II MS4 permit language, and the ongoing State Stormwater Law modification
process.
Jeff Edelstein:
Jeff Edelstein is a private consultant providing mediation and facilitation
services for public policy and environmental issues. Jeff holds an
engineering degree from Cornell University and is a registered professional
engineer. Jeff has trained in public policy dispute resolution at
the Muskie School of Public Service, the USM Mediation Institute, the Consensus
Building Institute, and the Lincoln Center for Land Policy and is listed
on the roster of the federally-chartered U.S. Institute for Environmental
Conflict Resolution. Jeff’s work has ranged from facilitating local
community forums to mediating federal legislation addressing forest conservation,
and has recently included leading a state-level working group in the development
of consensus recommendations for a state-wide Maine building code.
Carina Farm:
After my studies for a M.Sc. in environmental engineering, I have worked
in community and consultant companies with sanitary engineering and stormwater
treatment for 8 years, both in Sweden and in France. Since 1996 I
am working at Mälardalen University as a lecturer, giving courses
in sanitary engineering and water- and wastewater treatment. Parallel
to the work as a lecturer I have worked as a researcher with stormwater
treatment. In March 2003 I defended my thesis, Constructed Filters
and Detention Ponds for Metal Reduction in Storm Water.
John Field:
John Field received a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1994
with concentrations in fluvial geomorphology and hydrology. During
eight years as a university professor, Dr. Field received excellence in
teaching awards from the Geological Society of America and Western Washington
University. His research on flood hazard and habitat issues in Arizona,
Washington State, and New England has been published in numerous scientific
publications and presented at professional meetings throughout the United
States and Canada. Dr. Field’s thorough knowledge of the scientific
literature and wealth of practical experience provides a sound basis for
identifying sensible solutions to watershed problems
Amy Prouty Gill:
Amy Prouty Gill, a civil engineer with the City of Nashua, has managed
multi-site landfill closure and park rehabilitation projects and drafted
the Phase II stormwater permit
Terri-Ann P. Hahn:
Terri-Ann P. Hahn, Landscape Architectural Design Associates, Connecticut:
Ms. Hahn is a landscape architect whose practice has evolved from conventional
site planning to a practice where the design of stormwater quality measures
and erosion control are the starting point for designs. This evolution
was not the result of any glamorous commitment to the idea of water quality,
but rather out of necessity. The combination of NYCDEP regulations
and NPDES regulations created a need for professionals who could think
outside the conventional restrictions of detention basins and engineered
Stormwater calculations. Stormwater quality design and erosion control
has entered a new decade requiring flexible and creative solutions based
on solid principles. Ms. Hahn has been a practicing landscape architect
for 18 years with projects in Connecticut and New York. She is also a Certified
Professional in Erosion and Sedimentation Control (SCS based program).
Douglas Heath:
Douglas Heath is a hydrogeologist at the EPA New England office in
Boston, Massachusetts, where he has worked for more than 18 years assisting
the New England states implement their wellhead protection and source water
assessment programs for public water supplies. Prior to employment
at the EPA, he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey in Boston and for
Law Engineering Testing Company in Atlanta, GA assessing ground-water interactions
with salt domes in Texas and Louisiana under consideration for high-level
nuclear waste disposal. He received his B.S. in Geology at the University
of Massachusetts in 1979 and a M.S. in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology in 1983. He is married and has two children.
John Hopek:
John Hopeck has worked at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection
since 1990, primarily in assessment of development impacts on groundwater
quality and quantity, and in development of Maine’s Stormwater Management
and Mining Programs. Prior to that, he had worked with the U.S. Geological
Survey and under contract with the Maine Geological Survey. He has
received a Bachelor of Science in Geology and English Literature from the
California Institute of Technology in 1981, a Master of Science in Geology
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989, and a Doctor
of Philosophy in Geology from the City University of New York in 1998.
Daniel Holzman:
Daniel Holzman has been a professional civil and geotechnical engineer
since 1977. He has worked on water, wastewater, highway, industrial,
commercial and residential projects. Some of his more notable projects
have included geotechnical and stormwater design for the Boston Central
Artery project, geotechnical and piping design for the Deer Island sewage
treatment plant in Boston, and civil design for numerous residential projects
in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He is a member of the Town of
Carlisle Planning Board.
Todd Janeski:
Todd is the Coastal Watershed Planner/Senior Planner for the Maine
Coastal Program at the State Planning Office. He manages the Coastal
Nonpoint Source Pollution Program for the Maine Coastal Program, as well
as the Healthy Coastal Beaches Program, serves on the NEMO Steering Committee,
is working towards bringing innovative means of addressing urban water
quality impacts to the State, coordinates stormwater impacts assessments,
is currently working to develop a physical stream habitat and geomorphic
assessment protocol, works closely with Coastal growth issues and volunteer
water quality monitoring efforts. Todd is serving as the Co-Chair
for this conference.
William J. Johnston, P.E.:
William J. Johnston is a graduate of Old Dominion University with a
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology. He is a registered
professional engineer in the State of Virginia. Mr. Johnston is a
co-author in the Development of FHWA Publication, HDS-%, Design of Highway
Culverts. He served as the drainage engineer for the City of Chesapeake,
Virginia and is currently the NPDES Administrator and the Stormwater Projects
Supervisor for the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia.
D. Scott Johnstone:
Mr. Johnstone most recently served in Governor Dean’s Cabinet as Vermont’s
Secretary of Natural Resources. As Secretary, he re-established storm
water programming and policy in the state, including a new permitting system
and the creation of a storm water BMP manual. Prior to that, Scott served
as Public Works Director in Burlington, Vermont and Conway, New Hampshire;
in each case, developing, implementing, and maintaining storm water solutions
at the municipal level. Mr. Johnstone is currently providing environmental
consulting services, including Storm Water, as Senior Project Director
with Stone Environmental, Inc., based in Montpelier, Vermont.
Jack Kartez:
Dr. Jack D. Kartez is Professor and Interim Chair in the Community
Planning and Development Masters Program at the University of Southern
Maine’s Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, and was founding director
of USM’s undergraduate Environmental Science and Policy Program.
A land use planner who has worked for Oregon’s statewide program as well
as county and regional planning agencies, he is frequently involved in
local government training and capacity-building efforts such as the joint
Muskie School/Maine Municipal Association Municipal Leadership Program
and he is a faculty cooperator with the US EPA Region I Environmental Finance
Center located at the Muskie School.
Bob Kort:
Bob Kort is a planning engineer with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service in Vermont where his work focuses on stormwater management and
water resources planning. Recent efforts include cooperative studies
with the University of Vermont to develop planning tools for a better understanding
of watershed phosphorus budgets and their application to assess long-term
nutrient management strategies. Before relocating to Vermont, Mr.
Kort was an engineer with the Maryland Department of the Environment where
responsibilities included education and training for stormwater management
and administering a stormwater retrofit program. He has received
a B.S. in forest engineering and an M.S.in agricultural engineering
Rebekah Lacey:
Rebekah Lacey is an Environmental Analyst in the Water Quality Division
of the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.
Her main areas of focus are wetlands and NPDES permitting. Rebekah
coordinates NEIWPCC’s Stormwater Workgroup, which brings together state
and federal staff to discuss Phase II permitting issues. Rebekah
has an M.S. in Water Resources from the University of Vermont.
John LaGorga:
John LaGorga has 10 years experience in water resources engineering.
His specialties include design and evaluation of high-rate treatment facilities
for wet-weather flows, including solids and trash removal technology and
disinfection. His specialties also include point and nonpoint watersheds
well design, implementation and evaluations of agriculture best management
practices. Mr. LaGorga's education includes: M.S., Environmental
& Resource Engineering, State University of New York; College of Environmental
Science and Forestry (SUNY CESF), 1997; B.S., Forest Engineering, SUNY
CESF, 1992; AAS, Ecology and Environmental Technology, Paul Smith's College
of Arts and Science, 1989.
Natalie Landry:
Natalie Landry is a biologist with the New Hampshire Department of
Environmental Services. She works with communities to manage and
treat stormwater runoff. Her experience includes pollution source
identification and coastal water quality restoration. She is responsible
for the administration of the grant funds for this project.
Al LeBlanc:
Al LeBlanc, a civil engineer with CDM, 9 years of design and construction
experience in municipal water treatment and sanitary and storm sewer collection
systems.
Susanne Meidel:
Susanne received a B.Sc. in Marine Biology from the University of Wales,
Swansea in Great Britain, and a Ph.D. in Biology from Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Canada. She worked for the past year for the Biomonitoring
Section of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, and recently
started a DEP contract investigating the impacts of urbanization on the
ecology of four streams in the Portland and Bangor areas. The focus
of this pilot project is to develop Non-Point Source Total Daily Maximum
Loads based on remedial actions and best management practices with the
goal of improving impaired biological communities, especially macroinvertebrates.
Scott Nolan:
Scott Nolan is the Project Manager for the Evaluation project and is
currently employed by the University of New Hampshire. Scott is responsible
for the day-to-day project activities, overseeing the analysis of data
and information, and reporting to the funding agencies.
Gregg Novick:
Mr. Novick has been working in both the Stormwater Quality and Quantity
industry for nearly 10 years. He has received a Bachelor of Science
degree from the University of Massachusetts in Resource Economics and a
Civil Engineering degree from the University of Vermont and is currently
employed as a Regional Product Manager for StormTech. He works closely
with designers and regulators to help them implement and design practical
solutions for Stormwater management.
Gary Oberts:
Mr. Oberts has worked for over 30 years in the snowmelt arena since
his graduate work on Antarctic dry valley lake chemistry. Since then,
his work with snowmelt characterization and management began in earnest
in Minnesota in the mid-1970s with field work on urban runoff and management.
He currently works for a water resource consulting firm in Minnesota.
John Olcott:
John Olcott, also with CDM, is a landscape architect and planner with
22 years of experience in environmental planning and design.
Eileen Pannetier:
Eileen Pannetier is the founder and President of Comprehensive Environmental,
Inc., an environmental consulting firm with offices in New Hampshire and
Massachusetts. Ms. Pannetier is a water quality specialist with over
20 years of experience in hydrology, watershed and water quality management,
and stormwater treatment. She has been working on stormwater Best
Management Practice (BMP) designs since 1987 and has extensively studied
treatment aspects, maintenance issues and siting constraints in BMP design.
Ms. Pannetier is coauthor of CEI’s BMP Design Standards, the first intensive
treatment of today’s BMPs for stormwater. She has Bachelor’s and Master’s
Degrees in Biology.
Robert Patten:
Mr. Patten is an environmental engineer for EER with ten years experience
in the assessment, investigation, and design of storm water, groundwater,
and wastewater related projects. He is currently project manager
for the Phase II Storm Water Management Plans for the City of Auburn, Maine;
and the towns of Berwick, Eliot, Kittery, Sabattus, and South Berwick,
Maine. He also participates in the Casco Bay Interlocal Storm Water
Group; which has developed Storm Water Management Plans for the 11 greater
Portland MS4 communities. He received a bachelor’s degree in Environmental
Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Clinton Pinks:
Clinton Pinks is a landscape architect with a background in plant science
and environmental design. While working for the landscape architectural
firm Land Design North, in Anchorage Alaska, Clinton collaborated with
local engineering firms, regulatory agencies, and horticultural sectors
in the design, and construction of numerous stormwater management and water
quality improvement projects. Clinton holds a Masters in Landscape
Architecture from the University of Manitoba, and is a member of both the
American Society of Landscape Architects and the Canadian Society of Landscape
Architects. Clinton has recently returned home to Halifax, Nova Scotia
where he works for the engineering firm CBCL Limited.
Andrew Potts:
After earning a Bachelors degree in physics from Ursinus College, Andrew
went onto perform Research on watershed modeling for the University of
Virginia, completed his thesis entitled Impact of Hydrological Calibration
on Water Quality and Watershed Management and graduated with a Masters
of Science of Civil Engineering in 2000. Since then he has spent
over three years at Cahill Associates focused on stormwater management
design, watershed studies, hydrologic analyses, sustainable site design,
and water resource based presentations. He has also co-authored several
articles on stormwater management through infiltration, porous pavement,
and watershed modeling.
Marcus Quigley:
Marcus Quigley is a consultant with GeoSyntec out of the Boston, M.A.
office. He is a Project Engineer with over six years of experience
and has played a key role in the assessment of BMP for the National Stormwater
BMP Database Project.
Kristie Rabasca, P.E.:
Ms. Rabasca has 12 years experience in environmental consulting as
a project engineer. As part of EER’s municipal environmental compliance
team, Ms. Rabasca has been heavily involved in the Maine DEP and USEPA
Storm Water Phase II Program working for the communities of Auburn, Sabattus,
Berwick, South Berwick, Kittery, and Eliot, Maine; and Newington and Hampton,
New Hampshire. Ms. Rabasca is a registered Professional Engineer
in the States of Maine, Connecticut and New Hampshire.
Evan Richert:
Evan Richert is an Associate Research Professor at the University of
Southern Maine’s Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service. At Muskie
School he directs the Gulf of Maine Census of Marine Life, teaches Land
Use Planning, and consults with state and local governments. From
1995 to 2002, he served as Director of the Maine State Planning Office
under Gov. Angus King.
Robert Roseen:
Dr. Robert Roseen, PhD. is a Water Resources Engineer in Civil Engineering
at UNH. He has been at the center of the design of the Stormwater
Technology Evaluation and Verification Facility to examine stormwater control
measures through partnering with governmental and private entities through
the evaluation of stormwater control measures that range from conventional
BMPs, to manufactured devices, to less conventional style devices.
Dr Roseen's research interests include stormwater and surface water hydrology
and hydraulics, stream restoration and riparian studies, groundwater flow
into coastal and estuarine systems, GIS and remote sensing, and field sampling
methodology and analysis.
Katrin Scholz-Barth:
Katrin Scholz-Barth is a civil engineer and a nationally recognized
expert in Green Roof technology. She helped this design phenomenon
gain momentum in the United States and advocates its use as an innovative
stormwater management tool to ease stormwater permitting. Ms. Scholz-Barth
leads efforts in ecological planning and design, and her work demonstrates
how Green Roofs can become an integral, performing and cost-effective building
element to reduce the environmental footprint and protect waterways while
increasing biodiversity and quality of living especially in urban areas.
She teaches "Ecological Landscape Design for Watershed Protection" a graduate
course at the University of Pennsylvania.
Annette Semadeni-Davies:
Dr. Semadeni-Davies presented her PhD thesis on urban snowmelt in 1999
at Lund University and is a co-author of the UNESCO 2000 special report
on Urban Drainage in Cold regions. After completing a year’s post-doctoral
studies in Trondheim, Norway, Annette returned to Lund where she is now
a researcher. Her current projects deal with the effects of de-icing
salts and ice coverage on the removal efficiency of a stormwater pond and
the relative impacts of socio-economic change and climate change on urban
drainage in south Sweden. Annette has three cats and likes to fly
kites.
Chris Spelic:
Chris Spelic is with Invisible Structures, Inc. as the eastern regional
Sales Manager. Chris graduated from Colorado State University and
has 18 years of landscape design and planning background. He has
been with Invisible Structures the past four years. This afternnon
Chris will talk about the performance of porous paving in cold climates
and how these products can help manage storm water and increase the aesthetics
of the landscape.
Eric W. Strecker:
Eric Strecker is a Principal with GeoSyntec Consultants in the “other
Portland” (Oregon) office. He has over 20 years of experience in
stormwater management for Government and private clients nationally and
particularly in the western US, including significant applied research
work. He is one of principal investigators for the National Stormwater
BMP Database Project and is currently working on several WERF and NCHRP
BMP Evaluation projects.
Sveinn T. Thorolfsson:
Sveinn T. Thorolfsson is an associate professor in water supply and
wastewater engineering at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway since 1982. In 1985 he received a Professorship
at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland, but moved back to Norway.
He has been involved in numerous teaching, research and consulting activities
in the fields of water supply and urban drainage in cold climate.
He has worked in Norway, Iceland, Nepal, Zia’n in China. He participated
in the preparation and the implementation of the Master urban runoff plan
for the City of Reykjavik (1984-1994). His research activities focus
on technologies for urban drainage in cold climate, including the activities
in two the experimental urban hydrological catchments, Sandsli in Bergen
and Risvollan in Trondheim, Norway. He has developed the so-called
Sandsli system for local stormwater disposal. He has lectured at
the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland and at UNIS, the University
Studies at Svalbard. He received the award for pioneering pedagogic
efforts at NTNU (Pedagogisk nybrotsarbeid ved NTNU) in 2002.
Paul Tischler:
Paul Tischler has a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from
American University. He has over 25 years of fiscal and economic
consulting experience and is principal of Tischler & Associates, Inc.
The firm has prepared over 500 impact fees and revenue exactions across
the country.
Tim Van Seters:
Tim Van Seters has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto
and a Masters in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo.
From 2000 to 2002 he worked as a Research Scientist with the Stormwater
Assessment Monitoring and Performance Program (SWAMP for short).
He now works as a water quality co-ordinator with the Toronto and Region
Conservation Authority, while continuing to co-ordinate stormwater monitoring
studies through the SWAMP program.
Jeff Varricchione:
Jeff received a B.S. in Environmental Studies at the University of
Vermont and a M.S. in Biology from Idaho State University. He currently
works as an aquatic biologist for the Maine Department of Environmental
Protection. Jeff recently completed a study of two streams in a highly
urbanized region of Southern Maine, Long Creek and Red Brook. Jeff
currently serves as the coordinator of the Maine Stream Team Program, a
program that provides technical guidance and support to citizen stewardship
groups around the state. He also assists the Department with various
stream issues and studies and he has been an active member of the Intra-Agency
Fluvial Geomorhphology Workgroup.
Kate White:
Kathleen D. White, Ph.D., P.E. has been a Research Hydraulic Engineer
at the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center’s
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (ERDC-CRREL) since 1988.
She holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental
Engineering. Her research includes laboratory and field experiments
and data analysis in the area of cold regions hydrology, hydraulics, and
water quality, with special emphasis on monitoring, statistical analyses,
and forecasting. As an Associate Technical Director, Dr. White has
participated in numerous Corps research program development and planning
activities, and is currently the Program Manager for the Technologies and
Operational Innovations for Urban Watershed Networks Research Program.
Brenda Zollitsch:
Brenda Miles Zollitsch is a Ph.D. Student in the field of Public Policy
at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern
Maine, Portland, Maine. Brenda’s doctoral research is focusing on
issues relating to coastal zone management policy and stakeholder engagement
in planning processes. Brenda has a double Masters’ degree in International
Relations and Resource and Environmental Management from Boston University
School of Medicine and has extensive experience in administration, planning,
and resource development, having served over time as a foundation director,
development officer, continuing education administrator and consultant
to environmental non-profits. Brenda has served on numerous boards,
commissions and committees, including the Maine Commission for Community
Service and the Penobscot River and Bay Institute.
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