2008 AWRA Board of Directors

Jane O. Rowan
PRESIDENT

Jane Rowan, P.W.S, LEED® is a past Board member of AWRA (2003-2005) and has been an active member of AWRA for many years. Rowan has participated in AWRA nationally as well as locally in the Metro Philadelphia Section. Rowan has worked in the private sector for many years as a Professional Wetland Scientist,
certified by the Society of Wetland Scientists Professional Certification Program (SWSPCP). She has been a P.W.S. since 1994 and has worked in wetland delineation, value, and environmental impact assessments, endangered species studies, wetland creation/restoration designs, and Clean Water Act and Rivers and Harbors Act authorizations and permitting since beginning her career in 1982. Ms. Rowan has also worked as a Wetland Ecologist for Region III of the U.S. EPA where she was involved in assessment and mitigation of impacts to water resources resulting from dam construction, river dredging, stream channel modifications, and other development related impacts. Rowan served as the Chair of the Certification Standards Committee of SWSPCP for three years and was instrumental in moving toward accreditation of the PWS Program by the Council of Engineering and Scientific Boards.

Jerry Selhke
PRESIDENT-ELECT

Jerry Sehlke is an Advisory Scientist/Engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Jerry has a BS in Biology and a MS in Entomology from Washington State Univ. and a MS in Hydrology from the Univ. of Idaho. His professional focus is working with interdisciplinary teams developing integrated programs to address large-scale environmental issues. He is especially interested in the development of natural/water resources laws and policies, the integration of laws and policies with science, and the development and implementation of sound water resources management programs.

Jerry has 20 years experience as a program manager and individual contributor for regulatory compliance, environmental restoration, water resources policy and planning, ground water monitoring and protection, and watershed management programs. He is presently INL’s Principle Investigator (PI) for developing a NASA Solutions Network to better integrate and utilize NASA space platforms and tools in water resources decision-making processes. Jerry is a Co-PI for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratories Energy~Water Nexus team that seeks to better understand the relationship between water resources availability and use and the generation and use of energy in the U.S., and to manage these interactions while minimizing environmental impacts. In addition, he is collaborating with the Pacific Northwest National Lab., Oregon State Univ., and several Pacific Northwest Water Resources Research Institutes to develop a Joint Northwest Water Institute.

Jerry has been an active member of AWRA since 1994. He has presented papers at numerous conferences and he participated on a number of AWRA Technical Committees. Recently he chaired the AWRA Conference on Adaptive Management and he is a member of the conference committee for the 2007 AWRA annual conference. He is active in numerous other water resources organizations; for example he is the Chair of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute’s “Laws and Institutions Committee” and chairs a task committee developing guidelines for Integrated Water Resources Management programs. He is editing the upcoming issue of UCOWR’s Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education on energy and water resources. Also, he has been active in and provides technical assistance to a number of state, regional, and national water-related programs, agencies, and organizations. In addition, he recently completed a Congressional Fellowship where he provided technical and policy advice to Congress on energy, water, and natural resources issues.

Gerald E. Galloway
PAST- PRESIDENT

Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., P.E., Ph.D., has been an active member of AWRA for many years and has participated in activities of the Association both locally and nationally. In support of national activities he has been a speaker at national conferences (keynote in Houston), Vice-Chairman of the Education Committee, and, over the past four years, General Chairman of the AWRA sponsored Water Policy Dialogues and a member of the Steering Committee for the Dialogues. Gerry was also a member of the organizing committee for the AWRA Symposium held in Dundee Scotland in 2004 and has worked closely with AWRA leadership over the years in a variety of other undertakings to assist in the coordination of AWRA activities and those of other organizations

Galloway feels that AWRA is positioned to play a unique role among water related organizations in that its multidisciplinary membership, coupled with its efforts to always act as an honest broker, gives it broad credibility among governmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the public. He believes that through effective specialty conferences and well-subscribed national conferences this position can be enhanced (Strategies 1 and 2). By personal contact with organizations, he would work to expand their knowledge of the importance of participation in these events and urge both increased support of the conferences but also increases in attendance by their personnel. By conducting two National Water Policy Dialogues, the capability of the Association to execute Strategy 3 ­ supporting multidisciplinary activities ­ has also improved. The Dialogues exposed many new friends of AWRA to the breadth of the AWRA membership and the Association¹s focus on interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. He would carry this message to other fora and to other organizations to continue to spread this important message and increase the potential for AWRA to b called on to carry out interdisciplinary activities for these organizations.

Gerry Galloway is Glenn L Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, and a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources. Prior to joining the Maryland faculty, he was Vice President for Geospatial Strategies, ES3 Sector of the Titan Corporation. A civil engineer, public administrator, and geographer, he also serves as a water resources and flood mitigation consultant to a variety of national and international government organizations. He has served as a Presidential appointee to the Mississippi River Commission and the American Heritage Rivers Advisory Committee and as Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Canada-U.S. International Joint Commission. In 1994, he was assigned to the White House to lead a committee in assessing the causes of the 1993 Mississippi River Flood. During a 38-year career in the military he served in various command and staff assignments in Germany, Southeast Asia and the United States, retiring in 1995 as a Brigadier General and Dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy. In 2002 and 2005, he served as General Chairman of the American Water Resources Association National Water Policy Dialogues. He holds a Bachelor¹s degree from West Point, a Master¹s degree in Engineering from Princeton, a Master¹s in Public Administration from Penn State (Capitol Campus), a Master¹s in Military Art and Science from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). He has been the recipient of the Association of State Flood Managers¹ Goddard-White Award, ASCE¹s Civil Government Engineer of the Year and Presidents¹ Awards, the SAME Academy of Fellows¹ Golden Eagle Award, the Julian Hinds Award of the Environment and Water Resources Institute of ASCE and the U.S. Geological Survey¹s John Wesley Powell Award. In 2005 he was named an Honorary Diplomate by the American Academy of Water Resource Engineers. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in New York.

Robert Moresi
SECRETARY/TREASURER

After almost five years and assisting in the development of their initial regulatory program, Bob moved to the St. Johns River Water Management District for almost another five years. While at the St. Johns River Water Management District, he was heavily involved in their water resources studies and regulatory development. While employed there, he was the Assistant Director of Water Resources, and the Director of the Regulatory Department. After leaving the water management districts Bob began work as a consultant, providing senior level hydrologic, geologic, environmental, and engineering services. He has worked as a consultant, mostly in Florida, since 1981.

Bob's experience with the Florida Section of AWRA includes 33 years as a member, fulfilling all Board of Director functions. As a member of the National Association for approximately 31 years, he has participated on many Committees, most notably the Conference Planning, Education, and By-Laws. He has been active in all of the Florida National Conferences, and was Conference General Chair for the National Conference in Ft. Lauderdale in 1996. Bob was part of the Planning Committee for the 2002 Coastal Water Resources Specialty Conference held in New Orleans. He was a member of the Board of Directors for five years, and was President in 2003. Bob is currently Director, Water Use Regulation Division, South Florida Water Management District, in charge of water use permitting district-wide.

Faye Anderson
DIRECTOR

Faye's activities with the Association have lately focused primarily around the theme of building awareness on international water management issues ­ both building awareness on key issues within the organization¹s membership and increasing awareness of AWRA in the global water community.

Towards these ends, Faye co-chaired the Water Information Theme for the 2000 World Water Forum in Japan where AWRA co-sponsored a number of Water Information Day activities and presented the Ministerial Statement on Water and Information. She has also served on the planning committees for the two AWRA international specialty conferences held in Scotland in conjunction with the University of Dundee. Faye's other primary activity has been serving as an Editor for Water Resources IMPACT since 2000. She has found it to be very rewarding to work with its editorial team and has edited or co-edited a half a dozen IMPACT issues on distance learning, international water management, the Internet, and most recently, the role of performance measurement in water management.

AWRA has played a significant role in Faye's professional development and she would seek to strengthen AWRA¹s strategic direction in her role as a Board member. She is currently involved in strategic planning activities professionally and will try to contribute an outcomes-based, results-oriented perspective to organizational issues. Faye holds AWRA¹s mission and core values as an interdisciplinary professional association in high regard, and believes its future efforts should be grounded in this mission - particularly its publications, conferences, and networking activities. Faye would bring her experiences working with a diverse array of water resources organizations and stakeholders to her work as a Board member. She thinks AWRA members are constantly evaluating the "value-added" to their lives by AWRA given the wide range of professional associations out there and fundamentally believes that the AWRA Board must continue to provide leadership to meet the challenge of positively answering that question member by member.

Ari Michelsen
DIRECTOR

Dr. Ari M. Michelsen is Director of the Texas A&M University Research Center at El Paso and Professor of Agricultural Economics. His responsibilities include leadership and administration of the Center's research programs which are focused on scientific and policy advances in water resources management. Prior to joining Texas A&M he was at Washington State University, Associate Director of the Water Research Center at the University of Wyoming, and Senior Associate, RCG/Hagler, Bailly Inc., consulting on natural resources pricing and valuation of regulatory impacts for government agencies and industry. Michelsen has a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics and a Master's Degree in Economics from Colorado State University and a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Management from the University of Maryland.

Michelsen's research in water resources is nationally and internationally recognized. This includes studies on the effectiveness of water conservation programs, water markets and pricing, impacts of endangered species water acquisition programs and development of integrated river basin scale support systems for water management and policy analysis in the U.S. and China. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications. In addition to his service to the A&M community and AWRA, he is Past-President of the Universities Council on Water Resources and has served on numerous local, regional, and national boards and committees in the water resources sector.

Michelsen has been an active member of AWRA for 19 years. He served as AWRA Conference Co-chair in 2001, chartered the University of Wyoming AWRA Student Chapter, publishes in JAWRA and IMPACT and is a reviewer for JAWRA, and consistently presents and participates in AWRA conferences including both National Water Policy Dialogs. He is a strong advocate of multidisciplinary water resources management, research, and education and a proponent of government, university, and private partnerships. If elected, Michelsen will bring his experience, enthusiasm, and dedication to AWRA in areas such as developing and accomplishing AWRA's Strategic Plan objectives, furthering the building of a strong multidisciplinary community of experienced professionals, leveraging AWRA strength with other organizations, awards to recognize outstanding multidisciplinary efforts in water resources, and increasing the stewardship and visibility of AWRA in national and internationally important issues in water management.

Mary Theresa Flynn
DIRECTOR

Mary has 35 years of experience in the field of water resources management: the first 15 years in a technical capacity, and the last 20 years as a lawyer practicing in the fields of water resources, land use, and related litigation. She is currently Vice-chair of the National Water Law Team for Holland & Knight LLP, where she brings her technical past together with legal skills in practicing various aspects of water law. She represents local governments, federal agencies, and private clients in matters involving the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, the National Flood Insurance Act, Army Corps of Engineer permits and related wetlands issues, nitrogen standards for ground water, and water supply/wastewater rights and obligations, as well as other water and land use issues.

Mary has maintained a very active involvement in AWRA and is currently in the middle of revitalizing the National Capital Section of AWRA, and is contacting all AWRA members in jurisdictions close to Washington, D.C., to restart this section for a lunchtime speakers program.

Thomas E. Johnson
DIRECTOR

Thomas Johnson's background is in watershed hydrology and aquatic ecology. His current position is with the U.S. EPA, Office of Research and Development, Global Change Research Program where he works to assess and manage the impacts of human disturbance including climate and landuse change on water and watershed systems. His interests include the interaction of hydrologic processes and aquatic ecosystems, the effects of changes in precipitation and temperature on non-point pollution, improving the effectiveness of stream and watershed restoration, and the development of decision support tools to support adaptation to climate change. Prior to joining the EPA, Tom held positions with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and from 2003 to 2005 completed an American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science and Technology Policy Fellowship in Washington, DC. Tom has degrees in Forest Hydrology (Ph.D., Penn State University), Watershed Science (M.S., Colorado State University) and Environmental Biology (B.A., University of Colorado).

Tom has been a member of AWRA for over 15 years. He has served as an officer of the Penn State Student Chapter and the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Section. He has also served on planning committee's for the 2002 AWRA Annual Conference in Philadelphia, the 2006 AWRA Annual Conference in Baltimore, and was a guest editor of a 2006 issue of Water Resources Impact addressing climate change and water resources management. Tom has been a Director of the AWRA since 2007.

Michael E. Campana
DIRECTOR

Since June 2006 Michael E. Campana has been Director of the Institute for Water and Watersheds and Professor of Geosciences at Oregon State University. Prior to that he was the Albert and Mary Jane Black Professor of Hydrogeology and Director of the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico, and a research hydrologist at the Desert Research Institute/adjunct professor at the University of Nevada- Reno. His interests include hydrophilanthropy, water resources in developing countries, transboundary water resources issues, and regional hydrogeology.

Campana has taught a wide variety of courses, ranging from The Culture of Water to Watershed Management to Groundwater Hydraulics, and developed curricula in hydrogeology, water resources, and environmental science. He has supervised the work of 67 graduate students and authored/co-authored 70 reports and journal articles. His domestic work currently focuses on Western USA water management issues; his international work is primarily in Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Kazakhstan, and the South Caucasus, where he directs South Caucasus River Monitoring, a six-country project.

Campana was a Fulbright Scholar to Belize in 1996 and a Visiting Scientist at the Research Institute for Groundwater (Egypt) in Fall 1995 and the IAEA (Vienna) in Fall 2002. He served on several National Research Council committees and currently serves on the Sustainable Oceans, Coasts and Waterways Advisory Committee of the Heinz Center and the NRC Committee on Hydrology, Ecology, and Fishes of the Klamath River Basin. He served on the boards of: NGWA (four years; VP for two years); AGWSE (nine years; Secretary, Chair, Past Chair); UCOWR (two years); and AIH (two years; VP of Academic Affairs). Dr. Campana is founder and President/Treasurer of the Ann Campana Judge Foundation (www.acjfoundation. org), a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation that funds and undertakes projects related to water, health, and sanitation in developing countries. He maintains the WaterWired blog (aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/) and The Oregon Water List (TOWL) listserv. He earned his BS in geology from the College of William and Mary and his MS and PhD degrees in hydrology with a mathematics minor from the University of Arizona. Campana has been a member of AWRA for 10 years. He chaired AWRA’s 2001 Annual Conference and also chairs the 2007 Annual Conference. Michael has advised student chapters at the University of New Mexico and Oregon State University, and served as President and Vice President of the New Mexico section.

Martha Corrozi
DIRECTOR

Martha Corrozi is a Watershed Analyst with the Institute for Public Administration’s Water Resources Agency (IPA-WRA) at the University of Delaware. Martha has been an active member of AWRA for over seven years. Her membership began when she was a graduate student at the University of Delaware and has continued through her professional career.

As a Watershed Analyst with the University of Delaware’s IPA-WRA, Martha is responsible for providing regional watershed technical, policy, education, and research support to state and local governments; University of Delaware staff, students, and faculty; and nonprofit organizations in Delaware and the Delaware Valley. Prior to joining the University of Delaware’s IPA-WRA Martha was employed by the Chesapeake Research Consortium at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office in Annapolis, Maryland, the Public Works Department in the City of Wilmington, Delaware, and the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples, Florida. In these jobs she worked on local, regional, and federal watershed management topics including: NPDES permitting; CSO programs; grant applications; oversight and coordination of federal, state, local, and nonprofit organizations; and research related to reducing the nutrient pollutant loads in the Chesapeake Bay. Martha received her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology from Lehigh University and her Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) degree from the University of Delaware where she specialized in watershed management.

Martha was the Charter President of the Delaware Section of AWRA (DE AWRA), is a DE AWRA board member, and has served on several national and local AWRA conference committees. Martha believes it is very important to market the Association to both students and young professionals in order to ensure the participation and leadership of young and energetic water resourceprofessionals now and into the future. Martha believes it is also critical for AWRA to create a consistent and direct connection between the national chapter and the state sections as well as encouraging informal regional groups. The multi-disciplinary nature of AWRA is an attribute and major strength and AWRA’s role in connecting students and professionals from diverse water resource disciplines benefits everyone involved. Fostering collaboration on water resource projects and research is a critical role of AWRA and should continue to be fostered through national and regional AWRA conferences, forums, and other modes of communication.

Because of the benefits and opportunities AWRA has provided, Martha is enthusiastic and excited about the opportunity to serve on the AWRA Board of Directors. The benefits she has received and the opportunities she has been given through her association with AWRA, both nationally and locally, have helped shape her professional career and she would like others to share this same experience.