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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 127-132

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From page 127...
... , Chair, is senior vice president with CH2M HILL in Englewood, Colorado. He serves as Chief Wastewater Process Engineer and is responsible for wastewater process engineering on both municipal and industrial wastewater treatment projects on a firmwide basis.
From page 128...
... His research and communications efforts are focused on programs and responsibilities for flood and coastal storm risk management, design of payment for ecosystem services programs, and development of evaluation protocols for ecosystem restoration and management projects, with special focus on the Everglades, Coastal Louisiana and Chesapeake Bay. Among the specific topics related to these broader themes is applied research on permitting under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, creating market-based incentives for water quality management and provision of ecosystem services, and design of collaborative water management institutions.
From page 129...
... Her research is focused on coupled hydrologic-water qualityecosystem modeling; water resources evaluation and remediation; evaluation of impacts of agricultural production on surface- and groundwater quality; and development of hydrologic indicators of ecosystem status. She has previous NRC committee experience, having served on the Committee on Seeing Into the Earth: Non-Invasive Techniques for Characterization of the Shallow Subsurface for Environmental Engineering Applications, and as a member of the third Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress.
From page 130...
... degree in oceanography from Florida State University. Kurt Stephenson is an associate professor of environmental and natural resource economics in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
From page 131...
... degree in civil engineering and his M.S. in bioenvironmental engineering, both from Oklahoma State University.
From page 132...
... Since joining the NRC in 1997, she has served as the study director for 16 committees, including the Committee to Review the New York City Watershed Management Strategy, the Committee on Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soils and Sediment, the Committee on Assessment of Water Resources Research, and the Committee on Reducing Stormwater Discharge Contributions to Water Pollution. Ehlers has periodically consulted for EPA's Office of Research Development regarding their water quality research programs.


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