Water Resources

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Carina Bracer

2003 Fellow
With her background in ecosystem services market mechanisms and many years in international environmental markets, Carina helps craft and foster private funding partnerships and mechanisms that leverage and celebrate the immense value of...
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Karen Levy

2001 Fellow
My group carries out research on the ecology and epidemiology of enteric (food and waterborne) diseases. We use environmental microbiology and environmental epidemiology methods to study water quality, food safety, and the impact of climate...
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Lisa Hummon-Jones

2009 Fellow
Lisa is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She studies conservation policy and law, and is focusing her research on a resource that many consider to be the “lifeblood of the west”...
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Karen Gaffney

1999 Fellow
Karen Gaffney oversees the Conservation Planning program at the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District. Previously, she was a CEO of West Coast Watershed - a small dynamic partnership focused on watershed planning and...
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Carolina Balazs

2009 Fellow
Carolina is passionate about applying her training in water resource management, environmental justice and public health to community-based research, environmental policy and mission-driven social enterprises. After two decades in the NGO...
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Melissa Nelson

1996 Fellow
Melissa graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1991 with an honors BA in Integrated Ecology and graduated from UC Davis in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Ecology. For the 28 years, she served as the Executive Director and President of The Cultural...
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Ken Mercer

2006 Fellow
Dr. Kenneth Mercer an engineer and researcher with eighteen years of experience leading or managing projects on various technical, managerial, and financial aspects of the water industry. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of AWWA Water...
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Stephen Wald

2005 Fellow
Steve is director of external communications and government relations for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previous positions include government relations and...
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Jessie Levine

2003 Fellow
Jessica Levine is the Conserving Land and Water Strategy Lead for The Nature Conservancy in New England and the Coordinator of the Staying Connected Initiative, a binational landscape connectivity partnership. She serves on the Executive...
Fellow Story

New technologies for protecting public health at beaches and resolving pollution problems

Southern California is notorious for its chronically polluted water bodies, from the affluent areas of Malibu to the more industrial city of Long Beach. California Assembly Bill 411 requires that city and county health departments regularly monitor impaired water bodies for fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and that they notify the public of water quality problems.
February 8, 2010