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Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
 
 
 
 
 
 

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.