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A Workshop on Environmental
Credits Generated Through Land-Use Changes: March 8-9, 2006 -- Baltimore, Maryland Speaker Biographies WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Mark Kieser is Senior Scientist at Kieser & Associates of Kalamazoo, Michigan and is Acting Chair of the Environmental Trading Network. He work involves advising state and local governments in developing water quality policies. In his capacity with the ETN, Kieser has played a central role in developing WQ trading programs across the nation. Bruce McCarl is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Texas A&M. He is is an internationally recognized expert in the study of the economics of carbon sequestration having written on the subject since 1990. He has worked heavily in conjunction with the EPA Non-CO2 Gases and Sequestration Branch in appraising agricultural and forestry consequences of greenhouse gas policy and trading. W.R. Zach Willey is an economist in the Global and Regional Air Program at Environmental Defense. He has been instrumental in defining Environmental Defense's position as a leading advocate of using market based approaches to addressing the problem of climate change. He led the development of a book on Terrestrial GHG Offset Manual the economics of climate mitigation, which was accompanied by a conference in Washington D.C. in the Fall of 2004. Richard Woodward is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Texas A&M. He is an expert in the use of transferable rights for water quality. He has numerous publications on this emerging issue and was a principal investigator on an interdisciplinary study of effluent trading for the State of Texas. INVITED SPEAKERS Kenneth Andrasko is senior sequestration expert, Climate Change Division, US Environmental Protection Agency. He has worked on climate, agricultural and forestry analysis and project methods since 1989. Recently he was co-author of an EPA report on Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential in U.S. Forestry and Agriculture and of a major report on sequestration in Russia by World Resources Institute. Michael Ashford is Deputy Director of The Climate Trust, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to providing solutions to climate stabilization. The Climate Trust's mission is to promote climate change solutions by providing high quality greenhouse gas offset projects and advancing sound offset policy. Michael shares responsibilities for oversight of offset project acquisitions, project portfolio management, organizational development, and strategic planning. Wiley Barbour is the Executive Director of Environmental Resources Trust, where he is focused on developing the infrastructure for a robust greenhouse gas emissions trading market by providing independent registry services. Mr. Barbour has over 14 years of experience working as an air pollution engineer, climate and energy policy analyst, and greenhouse gas emissions estimation specialist. Sandra Brown is senior scientist in the Ecosystem Services unit of Winrock International. She has more than 25 years of experience in planning, developing, implementing, and managing public and private-sector-funded projects focusing on forests and their relation to climate change and mitigation, resulting in more than 150 peer-reviewed papers. She has served as co-convening lead author on chapters in five IPCC reports related to impacts and mitigation of climate change on the land use and forest sector. Dusty Hall is currently the Manager of Program Development of The Miami Conservancy District. Dusty has a wide range of experience in water resources management ranging from source water to storm water. He is currently leading an effort to establish a market-based approach to water quality improvement in the Great Miami River Watershed. Dennis King is a Professor at the University at the University of Maryland and President of King and Associates, a consulting firm specializing in integrated environmental, economic, and risk analysis. He has developed several widely used analytical tools for assessing and comparing ecosystem services and values, and for debiting and crediting environmental mitigation trades. Most recently he has been developing applications of science-based methods for ranking investments and "scoring" trades involving water quality and water quality, carbon sequestration, wetlands, and wildlife habitats. Jim Klang is the Lead Engineer in the Impaired Waters Program at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Jim currently is lead engineer for nutrient pollutant trading, and Total Maximum Daily Load studies in the State of Minnesota where two of the earliest water quality trades took place. Brian Murray will soon join the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, as Director for Economic Analysis. Currrently, he is the Director of the Center for Regulatory Economics and Policy Research at RTI International a nonprofit corporation with a distinguished history in scientific research and technology development. Brian is a recognized expert in the integration of economic and biophysical models to assess greenhouse gas mitigation strategies in agriculture, land-use change, and forestry. He is co-author of several national and international assessments of forest resources, especially related to climate change. Dennis O'Grady is the General Manager of South Nation Conservation, a 4,000 sq. km. watershed covering 15 municipalities in Ontario. South Nation delivers a wide variety of programs in surface and groundwater protection, forestry, fisheries, water quality, flood and erosion control, environmental planning and permitting. The South Nation River Watershed's trading program for phosphorus started 8 years ago; it currently has over 200 verifiable trades completed. South Nation recently completed a contract for the Province of Ontario detailing how to implement a phosphorus trading program in the Province. Claire Schary is the water quality trading coordinator for EPA Region 10 in Seattle, WA. She led a team to develop the region's first demonstration projects for water quality trading on the Boise River and Mid-Snake River in Idaho and advised Oregon DEQ in developing their first temperature trading project on the Tualatin River. She also lead a team that developed the EPA's Water Quality Trading Assessment Handbook, which guides regulators and stakeholders in determining if water quality trading is the right tool for their watershed. Eric Strecker of GeoSyntec Consultants is a recognized expert in the area of stormwater management, especially in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of best management practices (BMPs) and in development of watershed management plans. His work has included conducting applied National and local research studies for US EPA, Federal Highway Administration, Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF), and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) as well state and local governments throughout the western United States. Mr. Strecker was awarded the American Society of Civil Engineering´s "2003 State-of-the- Art in Civil Engineering" Award for his contributions as a Principal Investigator to the International BMP Database project, funded by EPA. 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