Sally Andersen, one-year term (10/2008 to 9/2009)
Sally is a field research biologist with a Master's Degree in
botany from the University of Vermont. She was born and raised in
Fairbanks and has worked over the years for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the National Park Service, and ABR, Inc. Her interest in the Tanana Valley Watershed Association is primarily in seeing a citizen led effort to create a riparian management plan come to fruition. She is excited by the commitment shown by the members of the TVWA and is eager to help forward those efforts. Sally currently works part-time for the Interior Alaska Land Trust on an effort to create a greenbelt in West Fairbanks. Sally and her husband run Arctic Wild, a wilderness guide service.
Ellen Lyons, one-year term (10/2007 to 9/2008)
Ellen has a background in watershed management. She received a M.S. in Watershed Science from Colorado State University in 2000. Her Master's Thesis involved working with the Small Lakes Focus Group, a subgroup of the larger Big Thompson Watershed Forum, to conduct a water quality characterization of Silver Lake in Loveland, Colorado. She has worked as a hydrologist for the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado and Idaho, and most recently as a Project Manager/Hydrologist in the Regulatory Division for the Corps of Engineers.
Christy Everett, two-year term (10/2007 to 9/2009)
Christy has been a resident of North Pole for twenty years, and has been involved with the Chena Slough Restoration Neighborhood Committee, the Chena Slough Technical Committee, and TVWA from the beginning. She is very interested in educating residents about the values and vulnerabilities of our local waterways. She has a M.S. in Range Science, and has worked for Natural Resource Conservation Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fairbanks North Star Borough and her current employer, Corps of Engineers, both at the Chena River Flood Control Project and the Regulatory Fairbanks Field Office.
Vacant, two-year term (10/2007 to 9/2009)
(to be appointed by the Board)
Josh Kunz, three-year term (10/2007 to 9/2010)
Josh is a lifelong local resident, and a career wild land firefighter with a degree in Natural Resource Management from UAF expected in December of 2007. He is now intimately a part of the Noyes Slough, having moved to live next to the Slough in May of 2007. Josh’s senior thesis studied the changing water levels at Harding Lake.
Ben Kennedy, three-year term (10/2007 to 9/2010)
For the past 15 years Ben has worked as a hydrologist with the U.S. Geologic Survey and Bureau of Land Management in interior Alaska. He has served as project lead for water quality, stream restoration, and climate change projects, working in the central Yukon, Fortymile, Tanana, and Birch Creek watersheds as well as local water-quality projects on Chena Slough and Noyes Slough. His M.S. thesis included evaluating glacier response to inter-annual and decadal variations in climate for south central Alaska. He is a member of the Chena Slough Technical Committee and is dedicated to maintaining healthy waterways in the Tanana Valley.
Vacant, three-year term (10/2007 to 9/2010)
(to be appointed by the Board)
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