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Karen Williams |
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| Karen works in the Water Quality Section of the Northwest Region of DEQ. My current responsibilities are to develop total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for the Yamhill Subbasin and implement TMDLs in the Molalla River portion of the Molalla-Pudding Subbasin. Though it's currently a lower priority, I am also responsible
for developing a TMDL or another appropriate plan to address Blue Lake's
(East Multnomah County) aquatic weed, algae, and pH problems.
Previously, I was responsible for implementing TMDLs in the Clackamas,
Sandy, and Lower Willamette basins. This involved work with cities and
counties to develop implementation plans, and overseeing grants from our
non-point source program that funded water quality restoration projects.
I began work with DEQ in 1998 as the Volunteer Monitoring Coordinator
at the DEQ Laboratory. That job allowed me to train volunteer groups
(mostly watershed councils) all across the state who were building or
maintaining water quality monitoring programs. I'm a hydrogeologist,
with an undergraduate degree in geology and an M.S. in hydrogeology |
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| Roger Edwards PAST PRESIDENT |
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Roger Edwards is a long time OLA member, who is a retired microbiologist for the Portland Water Bureau. In addition to overseeing the analyses for bacteria, algae, and zooplankton at the Bureau's Water Quality lab, he also was paid to wander about in the Bull Run watershed, where he collects water samples from the streams, lakes, and reservoirs there. He is a Portland native who graduated from the University of Portland, and then did enough practical biology to earn a master's degree from Northeastern University in Boston. “New England was an interesting place to visit, but I don't regret coming back to the Pacific Northwest.” He enjoys being in OLA if for no other reason that the excuse it gives him for trips to the many lakes here. |
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| Toni Pennington TREASURER |
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Toni is an Aquatic Biologist for Tetra Tech, Inc. in Portland, Oregon. Her expertise includes aquatic plant research, aquatic invasive species (AIS) prevention and management, plant identification, wetland delineations, water quality data collection and analysis, and environmental permitting. Her research on aquatic plants includes physiological studies to improve management of invasive species and ecological studies on nutrient requirements. Toni has been a member of OLA since arriving in Oregon in 2000 as well as a member of the North American Lake Management Society, the Western Aquatic Plant Management Society, and the Aquatic Plant Management Society. |
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| Ben Johnson SECRETARY |
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Ben Johnson graduated from the University of Oregon in 2003 with degrees in physical geography and geology. After graduation he worked as an Envircorps team leader in Portland, and a docent for Riverlink in Asheville North Carolina. Ben is currently a full time graduate student at Portland State University, studying the impacts of urbanization on watershed hydrology and biogeochemical cycles. More specifically, he is looking at the effects of urbanization on riparian and hyporheic denitrification in the Willamette Valley. In addition to his Graduate studies, Ben is working as an intern at the Lake Oswego Corporation, becoming intimately involved with the management of an urban lake. |
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| Michelle DaRosa BOARD MEMBER |
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| Michelle is new to the OLA board, joining in November 2008. She is an attorney who specializes in real property and natural resources law. Before embarking on a career in law, Michelle was a long-time educator in the Waldorf Education system, where she taught natural sciences in grades four through eight, among many other subjects. Michelle loves water sports, anything to do with the ocean, and bird watching. |
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| Al
Johnson DIRECTOR |
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| Al currently works as a Hydrologist and lake specialist for the U.S. Forest Service. His academic background includes the study of freshwater ecology and he earned a Master’s Degree in biology from the University of Oregon. His experience includes over ten years of involvement of with the management of lakes on national forests and participation in research projects concerning Waldo Lake located on the Willamette National Forest. Since early 2003, he has also worked with representatives from various agencies on the Diamond Lake Restoration Project located on the Umpqua National Forest. In addition, Al has provided information and organized training for several agencies dealing with potentially toxic blue-green algae blooms in lakes. | |||
| Paul Robertson DIRECTOR |
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Paul is a native of Lincoln County, Oregon, an area he returned to in 2003 and now finds himself managing his childhood fishing grounds, Devils Lake. An environmental scientist by trade, Paul has twelve years of work experience in the field and currently serves in the public sector as the Lake Manager for the Devils Lake Water Improvement District. Previous employment includes work in Oregon’s Coast Range as a stream surveyor, work as an analytical chemist in London, England, and work as a pollution abatement operator and water chemist in Burlington, Vermont. His educational background includes a Masters of Science in Environmental Diagnosis from Imperial College London and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Vermont. His research interests include limnology, aquatic chemistry, and instrumental analysis with a specialty in radionuclide analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, or ICP-MS. |
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| Kit Rouhe DIRECTOR |
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Andy Schaedel |
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| Andy was OLA’s first President and has served as its President several other times. Andy is a retired Water Quality Manager from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality where he worked for 30 years. During this time, he managed a statewide water quality monitoring section, a surface water program development section (which included the Clean Lake Program), a science and data section and regional water quality implementation section. Prior to that, he developed Lake Management Programs for the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments and did research on the Great Lakes while working for the Great Lakes Research Division of the University of Michigan. He has a Masters of Public Health in Environmental and Industrial Health – Water Quality and Bachelor of Science in Oceanography and Zoology, all from the University of Michigan. Andy is one of the authors of the Atlas of Oregon Lakes, which describes 202 of Oregon’s largest lakes. As a recent retiree, Andy enjoys recreating on lakes throughout the country but particularly in Oregon and Michigan. | |||
| Steve Wille DIRECTOR |
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| Steve is a native Oregonian, currently employed as a biologist by the
United States Department of Interior-(DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service in
the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office. He previously worked in private
consulting where he gained experience in lake restoration, lake and
stream water quality surveys, urban storm runoff research, phytoplankton
and zooplankton interactions, wetland ecology, and watershed planning.
While working for the Service he has worked extensively with federal
permitting requirements under section 404 of the Clean Water Act, and
practical aspects of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, National
Environmental Policy Act, and the Endangered Species Act. He is a
certified instructor for the DOI to teach motorboat operation and safety
on the west coast. His research passion is the ecology of vernal pools
and temporary waters. In his free time he enjoys international travel,
salmon and steelhead fishing, and boating, and participates in local
community athletics as an Oregon School Athletic Association certified
wrestling referee.
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| Karen Williams PRESIDENT |
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| Roger Edwards |
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| Toni Pennington TREASURER |
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| Ben Johnson SECRETARY |
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| Michelle DaRosa DIRECTOR |
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| Al Johnson DIRECTOR |
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| Paul Robertson DIRECTOR |
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| Kit Rouhe DIRECTOR |
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| Andy Schaedel DIRECTOR |
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| Steve Wille DIRECTOR |
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