Water Resources

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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
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Jessica Davenport

1997 Fellow
Jessica Davenport supports the creation of resilient landscapes for people and nature in the San Francisco Bay Area as Deputy Program Manager for both the California State Coastal Conservancy’s Bay Area Program and the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.
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Tim Krupnik

2007 Fellow
Dr. Timothy Krupnik holds the position of Systems Agronomist with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based in Bangladesh but with regional duties. He leads a portfolio of applied research and development efforts...
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Alfred Gonzalez

1995 Fellow
Tenured biology instructor at Evergreen Valley College (SJ,CA). My focus has shifted to improving science curricula and facilitating educational achievement for Chicano/Latino and Native American students. Other areas of focus include...
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Hilary Harp Falk

2005 Fellow
Hilary Harp Falk was previously the Regional Executive Director of National Wildlife Federation’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Center. Prior to NWF, she was the Director of the Choose Clean Water Coalition, a 230 member advocacy organization...
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Leonard Sklar

1996 Fellow
Leonard was originally trained as a civil engineer, earning a bachelor's in engineering from Cooper Union and an MS from UC Berkeley. After a year working on creek and wetland restoration projects for Philip Willimas & Associates, Leonard...
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Genevieve Connors

2003 Fellow
Genevieve Connors is Water Specialist at the World Bank. She is currently based in the New Delhi office where she works as a core member of the inter-disciplinary Water Resources Coordination Group on issues ranging from basin management to...
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Leslie Ferguson

2001 Fellow
Leslie is currently a Masters degree student at UC Davis in applied ecology where she is pursuing her passion for aquatic ecology, and stream restoration and conservation. Her thesis research involves studying the effectiveness of stream...