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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 including again now. 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 VICE PRESIDENT |
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| Steve is a native Oregonian, and is a recently retired biologist with 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. | |||
| Kit Rouhe TREASURER |
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Kit is currently a PhD student at Portland State University in the Environmental Science and Management department. His research focuses on the ecology of algae in shallow lakes and the influence of marshes and wetlands adjacent to shallow lakes on the algal assemblages that make up lake ecology. His work also includes the spatial relationship between lakes at the scale of the watershed. Kit is also involved in a fellowship that is designed to pair PhD students with middle and high school teachers for the purpose of designing inquiry based science curriculum for secondary students in Portland area schools. He currently works at Oliver P. Lent Elementary in SE Portland with a sixth grade class taught by Laurie McDowell. Their project includes comparing macroinvertebrate families from streams and phytoplankton groups from wetlands between the Coast Range, the Cascade Mountains, and the Willamette Valley. Before he began his PhD project in 2009, he received his MS from Portland State for his research about the effect of water from marshes in Upper Klamath Lake on the photosynthesis cyanobacteria in the lake. Prior to his MS project, Kit taught biology and environmental science at La Sierra High School in southern California. |
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| Karen Font Williams SECRETARY |
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| Karen works in the Water Quality Section of the Northwest Region of DEQ. Her 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, she is 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, she 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. Karen began work with DEQ in 1998 as the Volunteer Monitoring Coordinator at the DEQ Laboratory. That job allowed her to train volunteer groups (mostly watershed councils) all across the state who were building or maintaining water quality monitoring programs. Karen is a hydrogeologist, with an undergraduate degree in geology and an M.S. in hydrogeology. | |||
| Dr. Wayne Carmichael DIRECTOR |
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| Wayne Carmichael is a retired (2007) Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor Emeritus at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. An Oregon native he received his B.Sc. In Botany/Zoology from Oregon State University-1969; and an M.Sc-1972 and Ph.D.-1974, in limnology, aquatic microbiology and pharmacology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. His professional career was spent on primary research of cyanobacteria freshwater harmful algae blooms. Projects as a Professor Emeritus focus on management and mitigation of harmful cyanobacteria in municipal and recreational water supplies. This includes serving on national and international HAB committees, organization of and participation in workshops and symposia plus advising on HAB issues for local, state, national and international agencies and groups. He now makes his home in the coast range of Northern Oregon, on the beautiful Nehalem River. | |||
| Trish Carroll DIRECTOR |
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| Michelle DaRosa DIRECTOR |
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| Michelle joined the OLA board 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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| Roger Edwards DIRECTOR |
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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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| Stan Geiger DIRECTOR |
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| Stan is managing ecologist of Aquatic Scientific Resources. He is a limnologist, phycologist, and a professional wetland scientist with the Society of Wetland Scientists. Between 1974 and 1978 he worked with Beak Consultants, Inc. in Portland analyzing Columbia River water for drifting algae species. His subsequent experience as a private sector consulting scientist includes strategic planning for environmental permitting, wetland and watershed restoration, design and construction of treatment wetlands. He has addressed the practical problems of managing over-fertilized streams and lakes in a variety of long-term quantitative studies of watersheds, and development of receiving water nutrient standards, in Oregon and Washington. He has been the principal investigator and project manager on projects that have entailed the collection and analysis of flow and water quality data to assess sources of nutrients to receiving waters (Blue Lake, Lacamas Lake, Lake Oswego, Garrison Lake). Recently, he has managed the design, construction, and monitoring of constructed wetlands and stream enhancements, and since 1997 he has worked on wetland-related projects in the watershed of Upper Klamath Lake. From 2004-2009 he was project leader and support staff for research with Oregon State and Portland State Universities funded by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the hypothesis he developed that the loss of over 35,000 acres of wetland from within Upper Klamath Lake between 1896 and 1978 (without permits and without mitigation) led to changes in lake quality and dominance by one species of cyanophyta, Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (Lakeline, Spring 2011). Currently he is under contract with Nike, Inc. and the City of Portland Water Bureau doing phycological and water quality assessments. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Ben Johnson DIRECTOR |
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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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| Paul Robertson DIRECTOR |
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Paul is a native of the Oregon Coast, an area he returned to in 2003, and now finds himself managing his childhood fishing grounds, Devils Lake. An environmental scientist in training, Paul has thirteen 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 as an analytical chemist in London, England, work in Oregon’s Coast Range as a stream surveyor,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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