2005 Great Lakes Conference
WORKSHOPS
Thursday, June 9, 2005
Speakers Bios
An Ecosystem Approach to Mercury: Modeling the Release, Behavior, Accumulation and Fate of Mercury in the Environment
Dr. Brian Branfireun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, and Director of the Program in Environment at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. He completed his PhD in Geography at McGill University, MSc in Geography at York University, and HBA in Geography at the University of Western Ontario. His research focusses on the hydrological controls on watershed element cycling with a particular emphasis on the cycling of mercury. His research group has undertaken research in boreal watersheds, temperate swamps, Bay of Fundy salt marshes, peatlands and reservoirs in Minnesota, and urban watersheds.
Dr. Mark Cohen is a Physical Scientist at NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland. His work involves modeling the atmospheric fate and transport of mercury and other toxic pollutants, with a particular focus on developing source-attribution information. Prior to his position at NOAA, he worked with Dr. Barry Commoner at Queens College in New York City. He holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked closely with the IJC for more than 10 years on Great Lakes atmospheric deposition issues.
Gary J. Foley, Ph.D - has been the Director of the National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, since April 30, 1995. He currently chairs the EPA Committee on Regulatory Environmental Modeling, and the EPA High Performance Computing Executive Council. He serves on the NOAA Air Quality Forecasting Oversight Board and is a member on NOAA's Federal Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research. Internationally, he is the US Co-Chair of the Air Board of the International Joint Commission and has been active in persistent toxic substances work with the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation and the United Nations LRTAP program.
Dr. Foley was appointed as the United States Co-Chair on the User Requirements and Outreach Sub-Group of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The purpose of GEO is to improve coordination of strategies and systems for observations of the earth; identify measures to minimize data gaps, with a view to moving toward a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained earth observation system or systems; coordinate an effort to involve and assist developing countries in improving and sustaining their contributions to observing systems; exchange observations recorded from in situ, aircraft, and satellite networks; and prepare a 10-year Implementation Plan.
Dr. Foley is the recipient of the Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award, four EPA Bronze Medals, and six Special Achievement Awards. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Manhattan College in New York. He holds Master and Doctoral of Science degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
Reed Harris is employed with Tetra Tech Inc, an environmental engineering consulting firm. Mr. Harris has over 25 years of experience in the environmental engineering field. Since 1988, Mr. Harris has focused on studying the behavior of mercury in the environment. He has developed and applied models of mercury cycling and bioaccumulation in lakes, reservoirs, and marine systems. Mr. Harris is currently managing a whole ecosystem mercury addition experiment (METAALICUS) that is examining the relationship between atmospheric mercury deposition and fish mercury concentrations.
Dr. John M. Johnston- has worked with States, Tribes, and the US EPA Regions on a number of mercury-related projects, including field sampling, study design and model development for comparative risk assessment. Most recently he contributed to the EPA Clean Air Markets Rule (CAMR) for mercury emissions from coal-fired utilities, involving national datasets for monitored and modeled patterns of mercury deposition, methylmercury transformation and bioaccumulation in fish tissues. Analyses of selected model ecosystems were performed across the US to gauge the timing and magnitude of proposed reductions in atmospheric depositions.
Dr. Johnston's areas of interest include spatial process modeling of mercury biogeochemistry and methylmercury bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs. Dr. Johnston received his B.S. from Xavier University (Chemistry)and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia (Ecology).
Pathogen Risks
Erin Dreelin is a post-doctoral research associate at Michigan State University. She earned her PhD in Ecology from the University of Georgia in 2004. Her dissertation research examined the use of innovative stormwater management approaches to protect aquatic ecosystems. She received a BS in Biology from Villanova University and an MS in Biology from Old Dominion University. Erin's past research has focused on the effects of habitat fragmentation on native mammal populations. Her current research interests include stormwater management, low impact development, and conservation ecology.
Mr. Hemsley is the Director of Ocean Observing System Operations at the University of Southern Mississippi Department of Marine Science. He is currently funded by the NOAA Coastal Services Center to serve as the Deputy Director for Coastal Operations for Ocean.US. After graduating from The Johns Hopkins University in 1966 with a degree in geophysical fluid mechanics, Mr. Hemsley served as an officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers, eventually retiring from the US Army Reserve. During his military service, he received a MS in coastal engineering from The George Washington University.
Beginning in 1980, he was a Federal civilian employee, first at the Corps of Engineers' Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) then at NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), until his retirement from Federal service in 2001. At both CERC and NDBC, Mr. Hemsley managed the operation of national coastal data collection networks. He is active in numerous professional societies and has served as co-chair of the last three International Symposia on Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis. His publications include many on the design and operation of coastal data collection networks.
Dr. Joan B. Rose is a professor in the departments of Fisheries and Wildlife, Corp and Soil Sciences, and Homer Nowlin Chair of Water for water research at Michigan State University. She received her doctorate from the University of Arizona and is recognized as an international expert in water pollution microbiology, wastewater treatment, water quality, waterborne disease and public health/policy issues. She is a member of the IJC's Science Advisory Board and its Workgroup on Parties Implementation.
Syed Satter, Ph.D., who retired as Professor of Microbiology in June 2003, is now Director, Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology (CREM), University of Ottawa, Canada. His team conducts laboratory-based studies on the fate of human pathogenic bacteria, viruses and protozoa in water, food, air, municipal wastes and on animate and inanimate surfaces. Another focus of his work is to assess physical and chemical agents for interrupting the environmental spread of human pathogens. His current research includes safety of drinking water from source to tap with particular emphasis on the changing profiles of waterborne pathogens.
He has published 400 research papers, book chapters, commissioned reviews and technical reports, and delivered over 200 invited lectures worldwide. He is a Registered Microbiologist of the Canadian College of Microbiologists, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He is a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Infection Control and Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. He is an adviser to Canadian and U.S. governments as well as the World Health Organization on various aspects of biosafety and infection control.
Land Use and Sustainable Cities
Elizabeth Brabec is President and founder of Land Ethics, Inc., a firm which specializes in developing resource conservation strategies. As a landscape architect and attorney, Elizabeth has had over fifteen years experience in the field of resource and open space conservation.
John Braden is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne. His specialty is environmental economics. He has served on economics, ecology, and water-and-watershed review panels for the NSF and the U.S. EPA, an expert panel for NOAA, a National Research Council panel studying the planning methods of the Corps of Engineers, and an international committee advising the Government of China on its management of rivers.
Isobel Heathcote is the Dean of Graduate Studies for the University of Guelph and a joint professor in the School of Engineering, and Faculty of Environmental Science. She is the Canadian Cochair of the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board.
Mr. Kumble joined the faculty of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University in 2004. Peter received his academic training through a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Arizona (1988) and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Environmental Planning from Antioch College (1980). Peter has worked as a landscape architect and environmental professional for more than 24 years; in the private sector for consulting firms in Seattle, Washington, Tampa St. - Petersburg, Florida, Tucson, Arizona, and Washington, D.C. He has worked as an environmental planner for county government in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region and as an urban watershed restoration specialist for a regional council of governments in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the faculty at Utah State University, Peter was the principal partner in a nationally recognized landscape architecture and planning consulting firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan; The Johnson Hill - Land Ethics Studio, Inc.
Peter has focused his professional career on developing broad-based land protection and sustainable land use planning approaches and promoting techniques that foster effective resource conservation. While working as a senior environmental planner for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, Peter Kumble was responsible for managing the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Committee; the premier urban watershed restoration effort in the United States.
Victoria Pebbles assists in transportation and sustainable development issues, research and policy analysis, focusing primarily on initiatives related to land use, brownfields redevelopment as well as sustainable development. She also supports congressional advocacy efforts and the Ecosystem Charter for the Great lakes- St. Lawrence Basin. Her experience includes positions with several congressional offices, U.S. EPA and the Coastal States Organization.
Jay Unwin is a trained environmental engineer. For the past twenty-four years he has worked for the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. (NCSAI, a forest products industry environmental research organization) where he currently serves as Northern Regional Manager with responsibilities for water research. He has spent his entire career in the Great Lakes basin.
Marcia Valiante teaches Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, and Judicial Review and Land Use Planning at the University of Windsor. She is highly involved in the University and community efforts to protect the environment.
Dr. Hugh Whiteley is an adjunct professor of water resources engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Guelph. He taught courses in hydrology and water management at the School for 35 years and continues his research into watershed modelling with special emphasis on the interaction of surface water and groundwater. During summers he maintains a watchful eye on waterlevels and beach-water quality in Green Bay and Lake Michigan from a summer home in Door County Wisconsin.
New Chemical Risks?
Bryan Boulanger- He received a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut, where he was involved in researching the fate and toxicity of metals in urban systems. He then went on to get a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in their Environmental Engineering Program, where his work involved exploring the environmental fate of emerging organic contaminants. His Ph.D. work was funded through the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He is currently doing research as a National Academy of Science/National Research Council Associate at the US EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Cincinnati, where he is continuing his work on fluorinated compounds.
Dr. Scott Brown has ten years experience as a research scientist and fourteen years as a biologist with Environment Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans conducting field and laboratory projects. His experience includes fish biology, physiology, endocrinology, analysis of hormones and essential vitamins and toxicology. He is a member of IJC's Science Advisory Board and its Workgroup on Ecosystem Health.
Derek Muir is a Senior Research Scientist and Chief, Atmospheric Contaminants Impacts Project with Environment Canada's National Water Research Institute in Burlington. He leads an environmental chemistry group at NWRI that studies sources, fate and bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Great Lakes basin as well as in Arctic and Subarctic Canada. His recent work has focussed on the bioaccumulation of newly emerging persistent chemicals such as fluorinated surfactants, brominated flame retardants and chlorinated paraffins. Derek is an adjunct professor in Environmental Biology at University of Guelph and Dept of Chemistry at University of Toronto. Much of his work is done by graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, located at NWRI Burlington, in collaboration with university and government colleagues.
Halting the Introduction of Alien Aquatic Species
David Kriger, P.Eng., MCIP -David Kriger is Vice President of iTRANS Consulting Inc., a binational transportation planning and traffic engineering consulting firm. David is responsible for the firm's practice in freight planning and in transportation planning policy, research and analysis. Recent assignments include a review of Freight Flows in the Great Lakes Region (for the Transportation Research Board, USA), Goods Movement Issues and Trends in Central Ontario (for the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario) and Economic Rationale for the Major Commercial Transportation System (for the Vancouver Gateway Council).
David holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Toronto and masters' degrees in transportation engineering and city planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He has 22 years of experience and is a member of the TRB Urban Freight Committee. David is based in Ottawa, Ontario.
Dr. Edward Mills - joined the department of Natural Resources in 1975. He conducts research in ecology of freshwater ecosystems and pursues questions, such as: How do exotic species alter pathways of energy flow in freshwater lakes? How do processes of oligotrophication and benthification impact aquatic ecosystems? Do large lakes ecosystems like the Laurentian Great Lakes have a sustainable future?
Jennifer Nalbone - Habitat and Biodiversity Coordinator, Great Lakes United
Jen received a Bachelors of Science in Biology and Geology from Syracuse University, a Masters of Science in environmental science studying non-indigenous species survivability from the University of Virginia, and spent subsequent years performing field and laboratory research. To make the transition from science into the policy and management arena, Jen performed research for a private philanthropy, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, while founding and advising environmental not-for-profits.
Jen began working for Great Lakes United in 1999 as the Habitat and Biodiversity Task Force coordinator. For GLU's Habitat and Biodiversity Task Force, Jen builds regional coalition and directs campaigns on critical and emerging issues that impact the entire Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River system. Currently, she is responsible for campaigns addressing aquatic invasive species and the Great Lakes navigation system - St. Lawrence Seaway.
Bivan Patnaik- Since 2002, Mr. Patnaik has been the Regulatory Coordinator for the U.S. Coast Guard's Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Program. His responsibilities include: managing a regulatory team of attorneys, environmental analysts, economists and technical writers; coordinating with Federal Agencies, State agencies, and other stakeholders; and reviewing proposed ANS legislation. He has also worked as a consultant to the U.S. Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency. He has a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an M.S. in Environmental Policy from Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Anthony Ricciardi-Dr. Anthony Ricciardi is a professor of environmental science at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), where he teaches a course on invasive species biology. He holds a Quebec (FQRNT) Strategic Professorship at McGill. Since 1991 his research has examined the causes and consequences of invasions in freshwater ecosystems, and is primarily focused on predicting the ecological impacts of non-native invertebrates and fishes. He and his students have published over 40 scientific papers on this research.
Dr. John C. Taylor-Dr. Taylor is a transportation policy expert and has conducted a number of studies on U.S.-Canada transportation issues. He is a former member of the U.S.'s National Commission on Intermodal Transportation, and has published extensively in a number of academic logistics and transportation journals.
Understanding Ecosystem Integrity
Murray N. Charlton - is a limnologist working for Environment Canada since 1973 on Great Lakes issues. He has worked on the St. Lawrence River and all the lakes except, he regrets, Lake Michigan. He leads a group of researchers working on everything from oxygen in Lake Erie, to aquaculture, to algae on beaches, to causes of beach postings, taste and odour of drinking water, and organic contaminants. Currently some of his main concerns are aging waste infrastructure and emerging waste handling needs in the face of population growth, realistic expectations for lake management science, and the ongoing invasion of alien species in the Great Lakes.
Jan J. H. Ciborowski - is an aquatic ecologist who studies individual, population, and community-level indicators of environmental stress. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research. His current research includes studying the implications of recovery of mayfly populations in Lake Erie. As a founder and Co-Director of the Lake Erie Millenium Network, he has helped lead a team to investigate possible causes of periodic low oxygen in the central basin of Lake Erie. He is also a co-investigator in a collaborative study to develop and evaluate environmental indicators of the Great Lakes margins. He was the first recipient of the IJCs Biennium Award for Great Lakes Science.
Michele DePhilip - is an aquatic ecologist with the Nature Conservancy's Great Lakes Program. While with The Nature Conservancy, she led an effort to identify areas significant for freshwater biodiversity in the Great Lakes basin and integrated these results into a conservation blueprint for the Great Lakes. Currently, she develops strategies to address region-wide threats to freshwater biodiversity, with a special focus on impacts of altered hydrology on habitat and biodiversity.
John E. Gannon - is a limnologist and fishery biologist who has worked on Great Lakes research his entire career, both in academic and federal government positions. He has special interests in aquatic ecology, habitat protection and restoration, impacts of invasive species on native biota and their habitats, and environmental education and communication. He is currently Senior Scientist in the IJC Great Lakes Regional Office, a position where he is pursuing his interests in the interface between scientific research, resource management, and policy. He serves as Secretary to the IJC Great Lakes Water Quality Board.
Joel Ingram - is currently employed as a wetlands biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada - Ontario Region. He has 15 years experience involving wetland and water-bird ecology and conservation. In his current position at Environment Canada, he is involved in wetland research and monitoring related to Federal government mandates. Current projects include evaluation of water level regulation impacts on Great Lakes coastal wetland plant and bird communities, assessing vulnerabilities of coastal wetlands to climate change, and the Canadian Wetland Inventory initiative. He is also associated with the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Consortium, a binational multi-monitoring program using biological indicators.
Scudder D. Mackey - is a geologist and sedimentologist who has worked on Great Lakes research and management issues for more than two decades, both in academic, state, and in private consulting capacities. He has special interests in the geology and hydrology of wetlands, rivers and watersheds; physical controls on habitat structure; habitat mapping and restoration; cumulative impact analyses; restoration of natural flow regimes; lake level controls and impacts; fluvial and coastal erosion/sediment transport processes; and GIS database development and applications.
He is currently a Visiting Research Scientist and Professor at the University of Windsor and is also a Principal and owner of Habitat Solutions, an independent environmental consulting firm located in the Chicago area. His current interests are focused on the dynamic nature of Great Lakes' aquatic habitat and developing structural and functional linkages with flow, hydrology, and near-shore coastal processes.
Craig Mather - is retired from the Toronto Regional Conservation Authority. With training in mechanical and water resources engineering, he held various positions with the Authority since 1971. For many years he was the Administrator of its Water Resources Division where he was responsible for all aspects of water management programs, including flood control, erosion control, storm-water management, and waterfront development. He is a member of the IJC Great Lakes Water Quality Board.
David Ullrich - is the Director of the Great Lakes Cities Initiative where he works with U.S. and Canadian mayors across the Great Lakes basin to advance the restoration and protection of the resource. With training in environmental law, he previously served in various managerial and administrative capacities with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes regional office in Chicago, including Acting Regional Administrator and Deputy Regional Administrator. He currently is a member of the IJC Great Lakes Water Quality Board and previously served for six years as its U.S. Chair.
RAPs and LaMPs: Enhancing Decision Making to Achieve Environmental Benefits
Annette E. Ashizawa, Ph.D. is an Epidemiologist in the Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). She received her M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in the field of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Her doctoral dissertation was an environmental/occupational epidemiologic study examining a statewide respiratory disease program and its effectiveness in reducing morbidity in coal miner participants.
Dr. Ashizawa is the Project Manager of the Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOC) report and is presently preparing the report for dissemination to the International Joint Commission (IJC) and the public. The Great Lakes AOC report was done in response to an IJC request to investigate the public health implications of hazardous substances in the U.S. AOCs. She will be presenting some data from the report.
Dr. Ashizawa has also been involved in the management of the ATSDR Great Lakes Human Health Effects Research Program. Her other duties include developing proposals and budgets for prospective ATSDR programs, responding to Congressional inquiries, and reviewing the Division's toxicological profiles and grant applications. She is a member of the Agency's Minimum Risk Level Committee (health guidance values) and is the Division's Epidemiologic Consultant.
David C. Cowgill is an environmental scientist and Program Manager with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes National Program Office in Chicago, Illinois. He is Chief of the Technical Assistance and Analysis Branch. His management areas of responsibility include contaminated sediment assessment and remediation (including implementation of the Great Lake Legacy Act of 2002), ecological protection and restoration, information management and data integration, and coordination of the Great Lakes Human Health Network with Canada. The Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) is responsible for developing and coordinating the implementation of programs and plans to address the environmental issues confronting the Great Lakes.
Previous positions within GLNPO include serving as the Chief of the Environmental Information Branch, the Remedial Programs Staff, and acting Chief of the Surveillance and Research Staff. He also served as the Program Manager for the Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments (ARCS) program.Mr. Cowgill served as a Physical Scientist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' North Central Division office in Chicago for almost 12 years from 1977 to 1989, responsible for water and sediment quality technical support.Mr. Cowgill received a bachelor's degree in biological sciences and environmental studies in 1975 and a master's degree in environmental science in 1977, both from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
Conrad deBarros has over 22 years of environmental experience with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Over the last five years he has held the title of Coordinator for the Cornwall Sediment Strategy and has managed this project on behalf of Environment Canada and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Conrad is also the Great Lakes Advisor for the Lake Ontario LAMP.
Dr. Allan Jones B.Sc., Ph. D. is a consultant in regulatory and environmental affairs with a focus on the safety and environmental aspects of new and existing chemicals. His clients include private sector companies and numerous trade associations. He was formerly the Vice-President of Operations & Environmental Affairs for Rhone-Poulec Canada Inc. (Rhodia Canada and Aventis Canada companies). His career with the group for over twenty-three years in Canada and Europe provided a range of technical and management roles in areas of research and development, regulatory affairs and chemical manufacturing operations. Dr. Jones is currently a member of the IJC Science Advisory Board and its Workgroup on Emerging Issues and a consultant to the Business and Industry Advisory Committee on the OECD Task Force on new chemicals.
Allen Lucas received a diploma of Survey Technology in 1979 from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, a B.A.Sc. Civil Engineering (Water Resources) in 1989 from the University of Waterloo and Facilitator of Adult Learning Certificate in 2000 from Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology. Allen has been employed in a variety of roles within consulting engineering firms and within municipal utilities. Currently employed at Utilities Kingston as a Utilities Engineer, he is responsible for providing technical resources to the planning and design for the water and waste water operations.
Allen Lucas has recently been elected as Vice President of PEO for the 2004-05 term and has served two previous terms on Council for PEO as Eastern Region Councillor. For the past three years Allen has chaired the Regional Councillors' Committee and sat on the Executive Committee as Vice President Appointed by Council. Since 2000 he has been active on a number of committees, including the Executive Committee and the Environment Committee. Allen has previously been active on the Ontario Water Works Association Management Committee. He has contributed papers on Digester Cleaning to WEAO's 26th Annual Technical Symposium, on Qualifications Based Selection to WEAO's 34th Annual Conference and on Asset Management to the October 2001 Engineering Dimensions Magazine.
Dale Phenicie has worked on Great Lakes environmental issues for many years. He served on a U.S. EPA task force regarding the Great Lakes Initiative (GLLI), the IJC Virtual Elimination Task Force, has organized and chaired several industry oriented committees and working groups on a wide variety of Great Lakes matters, coordinated industry activity in the Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy, and has been a member of the SOLEC Steering Committee since 1994. Since 1996, Dale has pursued an independent consulting practice primarily focused on Great Lakes issues. A primary client has been Council of Great Lakes Industries. His industrial expertise includes pulp and paper making processes, lumber and wood products production, chemical manufacture, hydro-electric and thermal electric generating systems. Dale holds degrees in Industrial Chemistry Technology and Pulp and Paper Technology from Ferris State University and Western Michigan University respectively.
Robert Townsend is an Environmental Engineer with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. As a RAP Coordinator, Mr. Townsend facilitates activities for the Remedial Advisory Committees involving the Oswego and St. Lawrence River RAPs and provides liaison with federal, state, and local agencies for other New York RAPs which address the Niagara, Buffalo, and Genesee Rivers, and Eighteenmile Creek. RAP actions identify priorities and seek to accomplish desired results. Common use impairment priorities include fish and wildlife consumption restrictions, loss of habitat, and the downstream effects of contaminants from waste sites.
Other Great Lake's Program functions for Robert include participation on the Work Groups of both the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plans (LaMPs) and management of the Waterbody Inventory / Priority Waterbody Lists and update process for the Great Lakes Basin. Education includes a Master of Environmental Engineering degree from the University of Florida and Bachelor of Civil/ Environmental Engineering from Syracuse University. Work experience includes a number of corporate and consultant employments.
Gary Vandergaast, Project Manager Low-level Radioactive Waste Management Office, AECL
- BSc Degree (1975) University of Toronto - Environmental Sciences
- MA Degree (1999) Carleton University - Geography (Climate Change)
- 1977 to 1989 at Eldorado Resources Limited/Cameco Corporation, mostly in Port Hope as Environmental Compliance Specialist for Refinery and Waste Management site operations. Also involved in various environmental remediation projects for Eldorado/Cameco.
- 1989 to 1999, private consultant with extensive contract work for the federal Siting Task Force on Low-level Radioactive Waste Management and AECL's Low-level Radioactive Waste Management Office in relation to various radioactive waste management projects.
- 1999 to present, Project Manager for the Port Hope and Port Granby Long-term, Low-level Radioactive Waste Management Projects.
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