2005 Biennial Meeting

Great Lakes Advisory Board Panelists
Friday, June 10, 2005 - 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Michael Goffin: Interim Canadian Co-chair, Water Quality Board.With training in environmental and physical studies, he has held various management and administrative positions with Environment Canada since 1981. He currently develops and coordinates the Government of Canada's multi-departmental Great Lakes Program as Director of Great Lakes and Corporate Affairs of Environment Canada's Ontario Region.

Gary Gulezian: Interim U.S. Co-chair of the Great Lakes Water Quality Board. With training in aquatic biology and environmental health sciences, he has held various management and administrative positions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 1977. He currently leads and coordinates U.S. efforts on the Great Lakes as Director of EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office.

Dr. Michael Donahue: U.S. Co-chair, Science Advisory Board, URS Corporation, Vice President Water Resources and Environmental Services.Dr. Donahue has over 25 years of experience in all aspects of program and project design, development, management and implementation. Areas of special expertise include water resources planning and management; environmental policy and decision support; organizational design, operations and leadership; and government, industry and community relations. His experience includes executive leadership positions in the public sector, where he served for the past 17 years as President/CEO of the Great Lakes Commission, a binational agency specializing in planning, policy, technical services and project management.

Dr. Donahue holds appointments on a number of national and international advisory and policy boards, and serves as U.S. Co Chair to the IJC Science Advisory Board - a position that he has held since 1991. He also holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, where he is actively engaged in teaching, research, writing and consulting on a range of water resources and environmental topics.

Isobel Heathcote: Canadian Co-chair, Science Advisory Board, 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.

Dr. Stephen B. Brandt: U.S. Co-chair, Council of Great Lakes Research Managers, has served as the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) in Ann Arbor, Michigan since 1997 and is the U.S. Co-Chair of the Council of Great Lakes Research Managers. GLERL conducts research into the sources, pathways, fates and effects of toxicants in the Great Lakes, natural hazards such as severe waves, storm surges and ice, Great Lakes hydrology and water levels, the regional effects of global change, and ecosystems and their interactions, including research into the causes, effects and techniques for ameliorating the impact of invasive aquatic species.

Prior to becoming GLERL Director, Dr. Brandt was the director of the Great Lakes Center for Environmental Research and Education at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York where he was also a professor of biology. He also has been a professor at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at the State University of New York at Syracuse, a professor at the University of Maryland's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland, and a senior research scientist with the Division of Fisheries Research for the Commonwealth Marine Laboratories in Cronulla, Australia. He earned a bachelor's degree in zoology and mathematics and a master's and Ph.D. in oceanography and limnology from the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Harvey Shear: Canadian Co-Chair of the Council of Great Lakes Research Managers. He serves as Regional Science Advisor for the Ontario Region of Environment Canada. As the Regional Science Advisor, he is responsible for the provision of scientific advice on priority issues to the Regional Director General and the Regional Management Board. Dr. Shear leads the Canadian part of the biennial State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference, and the State of the Lakes report and is also responsible for the Ontario Region portion of the national Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN). EMAN provides scientific information to senior management on Canada's international commitments in areas such as Acid rain, Biodiversity and Climate Change. Dr. Shear holds a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of London, UK, MSc & B.Sc., Aquatic Ecology from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Ann McMillan: Canadian co-chair of the International Air Quality Advisory Board. Since 1998, Ann has been the Director of Policy and International Affairs for the Meteorological Service of Canada with a particular interest in the interplay between science and policy. In 1995, Ann became Canadian Cochair of Subcommittee 2 under the Canada/US Air Quality Agreement, guiding them in their ongoing work of coordinating data analysis and modeling activities on both sides of the border to determine the nature and extent of transboundary transport of particulate matter.

Also in 1995, Ann became Director of the Science Assessment Division at the Service. In this role she supervised about a dozen MSC staff performing science assessments to provide a solid basis for Environment Canada's policy agenda. In 1994, she was the first woman president of the Canadian Association of Physicists. After several years of increasing responsibility at Ontario Hydro, Ann joined the then Atmospheric Environment Service of Environment Canada ES in 1990 and served as Chief of the Air Quality Modeling Group for several years. After receiving her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, her first appointment was as the Chief of the Air Quality Modelling Group at Ontario Hydro's Research Division.