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"Who’s Doing What?" Hosted by
June 9, 2004 Montclair State University
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Lisa Baron is an environmental biologist and Program Manager at the Office of Maritime Resources (OMR), a division of NJ Department of Transportation. Over the last 5 years, Lisa has managed and supported many projects and initiatives related to environmental restoration, navigational and environmental dredging, beneficial use of dredged material and Port Improvement in the Port of NY and NJ. Lisa’s primary responsibilities include managing the Lower Passaic River Restoration Feasibility Study (as local sponsor) and serves as Co-Chair of the Management Committee for the Comprehensive Port Improvement Plan (CPIP) for the Port of NY and NJ. Prior to her employment with OMR, Lisa was a Senior Environmental Scientist for four years with McLaren/Hart’s Risk Assessment Group. There, Lisa performed ecological risk assessments, biological monitoring and site characterizations at hazardous waste sites and industrial facilities. Lisa also worked for four years as an environmental biologist and ecological risk assessor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy facility. She received Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology and Marine Biology from Bloomsburg University and a Master of Science degree in Biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Thomas Belton is a Research Scientist (specializing in bioaccumulation) in the Division of Science, Research and Technology at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Jennifer L. Bonin is a hydrologist for the US Geological Survey New Jersey District. Damon Chaky received an undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Trainee in Hydrogeology during his PhD studies, again at Rensselaer. The focus of his research is understanding the transport and fate of persistent contaminants in the environment. He joined Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory as a post-doctoral research associate in 2003. Keith R. Cooper is a professor and Acting Executive Dean of Cook College and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Cook College, Rutgers-The State University. Dr. Cooper is also the associate director of the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology NIEHS Training Grant, and former chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers University. Dr. Cooper is a member of the Center for Marine and Coastal Research, the Environmental Science Graduate Program, and the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology. His research interest is xenobiotic metabolism in aquatic animals, including endocrine disrupting compounds, particularly dioxins, dibenzofurans, and phthalates, on finfish and bivalve mollusks. He is also developing both food web and physiological based pharmacokinetic models to better predict chemical movement both in the environment and within the organism of concern. Veronica Craw is the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners Scientist. In the past, Veronica performed research on the Niantic River, CT and ecological sampling in Eastern Long Island Sound. She is in the process of earning her MS in benthic ecology from the University of Connecticut and holds a BA in Biology, with a specialization in Marine Science, from Boston University. Veronica participates in the interstate NY/NJ Harbor Estuary Program’s Management Committee, and Pathogens and Nutrients Subcommittee meetings. In addition, Veronica is a member of the Hudson-Delaware Regional Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, the Hudson River Environmental Society and the New Jersey Water Environment Association. She is also an active participant in the local Watershed Management Area 4 (WMA4) stakeholder meetings and holds the position of Chairperson of the WMA4 Public Advisory Committee. Ella F. Filippone has been the Executive Administrator for the Passaic River Coalition for the past 30 years. She has been involved in the establishment of laws, rules, and policies on open space preservation, and is recognized as the foremost expert on issues related to water quality/quantity within the Passaic River Watershed. Ella led the fight against the development of Sterling Forest and the Passaic River Flood Tunnel, and formed the Passaic River Restoration Project on the Lower Passaic in 1980. With 20 years of planning experience with the New York District (NYD), Roselle Henn, who holds degrees in Anthropology/Archaeology (B.A. from New York University, M. Ph. from the City University Graduate Center), is the senior environmental project Team Leader, Section Chief, and Coastal Coordinator in the Environmental Analysis Branch of Planning Division. Roselle also serves as the Brownfields Program Manager for the NYD. She is the Environmental Team Leader of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary (HRE) Ecosystem Restoration Project (ERP), the HRE Gowanus Bay and Canal ERR, and the HRE Lower Passaic River ERP, as well as many other projects in New York and New Jersey. Leonard Houston is the New York District (NYD) Team Presenter and has a B.S. in Biology from Brooklyn College and M.S. in Marine Science from Long Island University. Lenny has 20+ years with the NYD as a fishery biologist, senior biologist, oceanographer and Section Chief. Len now serves as Chief of the Environmental Analysis Branch in the NYD Planning Division. Carol Johnston is Director of Special Projects for the Ironbound Community Corporation in Newark, NJ. She has a Master of Arts (MA) in Sociology and a Master of Public Administration(MPA). Carol has worked in planning and program development in community-based organizations in urban areas in the US and in Mexico and Central America for more than 30 years. She is currently coordinating ICC's activities to implement ICC waterfront's plan featuring open space for passive and active recreation and the development of an Environmental and Cultural Center. Michael A. Kruge is Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics and Professor of Earth and Environmental Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is one of the founders of the Passaic River Institute at MSU. Kruge was formerly Professor and Chair in the Department of Geology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and a Geochemist for Standard Oil (Ohio)/British Petroleum. He holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include: Geochemistry of organic contaminants in sediments. Marine, estuarine and lacustrine biogeochemistry. Geochemistry of peat. Fossil organic matter as indicator of environmental change. Applications of analytical pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Biological marker compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in, petroleum, petroleum source rocks, oil shales, coal and sediments. Nature of organic sulfur in fossil fuels, a precursor of acid rain. He is the author of about fifty peer-reviewed scientific publications. Tim Kubiak is the Assistant Supervisor for Environmental Contaminants and Private Lands for the New Jersey Ecological Services Field Office for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Mr. Kubiak began his Federal Government career with Region 7 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1974. He has served in a variety of positions in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, both in the Field and Washington Offices since 1978. Mr. Kubiak has been extensively involved with contaminated sediments and environmental pollutants while working for the Service. He has particular expertise in the ecotoxicological effects of PCBs and dioxins and has published extensively. Mr. Kubiak holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University – Bloomington. Dawn McReynolds is a biologist with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) for 14 years. Currently she is the lead biologist for NYSDEC’s New York New Jersey Harbor Dredge Projects Biological Monitoring. Mark Moese has more than twenty years of experience in the environmental field, specializing in risk based criteria development, ecological and human health risk assessments, environmental impact assessments and statements, hazardous materials investigations, and sediment quality analysis. Dr. Moese also served as project manager of multi-disciplinary investigations and business development leads in both domestic and international markets. His international experience includes dealing with environmental and health impacts in the following countries: People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Pakistan, Philippines, and Egypt. John O’Connor has over 12 years of experience in the field Civil Engineering and Project Management. For the past 5 years Mr. O’Connor has been employed at the US Army Corps of Engineers, New York District. Mr. O’Connor joined the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1998 with project management responsibility of water resource related planning and construction activates. Various efforts include waterfront planning and construction of improvements including bulkheads, seawalls, retaining walls, floodwalls, culverts, breakwaters, channels, and piers. As a Project Manager, John leads, motivates and inspires a project team in the implementation of solutions of various water resource dependent problems such as Stream Bank Erosion, Flooding and Hurricane and Storm damage. These projects are valued at over $500 million. John is actively managing waterfront projects along Raritan Bay in Keyport and Highlands, Ramapo River in Bergen County NJ, and the Passaic River in Newark and Harrison New Jersey. Before joining US Army Corps of Engineers, Mr. O’Connor was a Civil Engineer for the Dam Safety Section of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection. As a Civil Engineer he was responsible for the planning and design of various dam construction projects in New Jersey. John received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College and is a Registered Engineer in the State of Delaware. William P. (Bill) O’Hearn joined the Passaic River Coalition in 2002 as Director, Land Trust. Bill handles all of the PRC Land Trust’s open space acquisitions, and he also works on PRC policy projects and supervises consulting work such as open space master plans, natural resource inventories, Green Acres funding applications, and others. He uses his 18 years of corporate communications experience to write, edit, and oversee photography, layout, and printing of PRC policy and consulting documents. John Sacco is the Director of the Office of Natural Resource Restoration in the Natural and Historic Resources Program at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Thomas Shea is the Project Manger for the Hudson Raritan Estuary (HRE) Lower Passaic River Ecosystem Restoration Project (ERP), the HRE Gowanus Bay and Canal ERP, and the New York and New Jersey Harbor Deepening Project. Prior to holding this position, he was a Planner with the New York District (NYD), where he wrote the decision documents for all the harbor channel deepening projects presently underway, along with the initial development of the HRE ERP. Prior to joining the NYD, Tom served eleven years on active duty in the Army as an engineer officer, serving in Korea (twice), For Stewart, Honduras, Turkey, Northern Iraq and the Philadelphia District and currently serves in the active Reserves. Tom graduated from SUNY Cortland with a BS in Physics, and received a MSA from Central Michigan University, and is pursuing his MS in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic University. Eric A. Stern is an environmental scientist/oceanographer specializing in contaminated sediments and dredged material management. From 1986-1990 Stern was an oceanographer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District Operations Division (Corps). He was the project manager for the ocean monitoring, environmental assessment, and management of the New York/New Jersey Dredged Material Ocean Disposal Site located in the coastal Atlantic Ocean. This included geophysical, biological, and chemical survey work and assessment. He was the Corps project manager for the Federal Interagency Dioxin Dredged Material Steering Committee. At the Corps he was involved in dredged material evaluations and all aspects of contaminated sediment environmental management for the Port. From 1990 to the present, Stern has been with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 - New York, Division of Environmental Protection and Planning - Dredged Material Management Team. From 1990-1993 he held the position of oceanographer managing both the Delaware Estuary Program and the Long Island Sound Study, both of regional environmental significance in the EPA National Estuary Program. Since 1993, Stern is the Regional Contaminated Sediment Program Manager for EPA where he directs under the authority of the federal Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) the “NY/NJ Harbor Sediment Decontamination Program.” Stern works closely with EPA Superfund and other EPA and Corps regions on contaminated sediment regional projects such as the Passaic and Hudson Rivers, and Gowanus Canal, Newtown, Creek NY restoration. He is an active member of the European Sediment Network Research Treatment/Remediation Workgroup. Stern’s applied research interests include contaminated sediment assessments, dredged material management, sediment visualization, sediment beneficial use applications, and development of a system’s approach to integrated contaminated sediment management coupled with innovative decontamination technology development and beneficial use. Stern is on faculty at Montclair State University as a Research Associate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies – Graduate Program in Environmental Management. From 1989 to present Andrew Willner has been the Director of NY/NJ Baykeeper, an affiliate of the American Littoral Society, and a founding member of the Waterkeeper Alliance. Baykeeper is a stewardship organization working to protect, preserve and restore the Hudson-Raritan Estuary through advocacy and conservation programs. Willner is a former sailing vessel captain, city planner and boat builder. He formerly owned a boat building and restoration business in Staten Island. Timothy Wilson is a research hydrologist/geochemist for the U.S. Geological Survey New Jersey District, and is principal investigator for the USGS-NJ portion of the NJ Sediment and Contaminant Reduction Program investigating Newark and Raritan Bays and the associated estuaries. Alice Yeh is a Remedial Project Manager for EPA on the Lower Passaic River Restoration Project. She has been with EPA for 10 years, working on the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program and the Lake Ontario/Niagara River Toxic Management Plans. She has a Master of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor in Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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