Water Resources

Fellow

Heather Hulton VanTassel

2014 Fellow
Heather previously held a position with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as the Assistant Director of Science and research where she managed and facilitated programs related to science, research, and collections. Heather recently...
Fellow

Chris Maroshegyi

2014 Fellow
Christopher Maroshegyi is a Director at the Albright Stonebridge Group, where he helps clients navigate markets in Europe and the Middle East. He also works with the firm’s energy and environment interest group, where he advises clients on...
Fellow

Tom Robinson

2014 Fellow
Tom works to create resilient ecosystems by supporting effective and efficient land use decision-making. A landscape ecologist and conservation planner with the Bay Area Open Space Council, Tom brings together scientists, state and local...
Fellow

Andrew Fowler

2014 Fellow
Andrew is a geochemist in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Andrew researches geological hazards, and how natural chemicals are transported and attenuated in the environment. He mentors junior researchers in...
Fellow Story

Wisland asks which electricity source will best weather the drought in California?

Even though renewables (not counting small hydro) averaged 12 percent of the in-state power mix between 2001 and 2012, compared to hydropower that generation did not vary unpredictably from year to year. That predictability is very valuable to your electric utility, which needs to plan ahead and unfortunately can’t forecast the water year. Read more
April 9, 2014
Fellow Story

Hansen says US Senate committee bill to protect drinking water could be stronger

Evan Hansen of Downstream Strategies said the bills matches up to the way West Virginia’s Senate Bill 373 started the legislative process. That bill, which was signed into law earlier this week, changed, however, as it worked its way through both houses of the legislature. “The West Virginia bill is much more comprehensive,” he said Thursday. “They overlap in terms of having new regulations on aboveground storage tanks, but the West Virginia bill includes a lot more.”
April 5, 2014
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Hansen in New Yorker cites steady effort to undermine environmental laws by West Virginia's politicians

Evan Hansen, an environmental consultant who has testified about the leak before the West Virginia legislature, has tracked the cumulative effect of that objective throughout the government. “In the past ten or fifteen years, they’ve systematically weakened virtually all the major water-quality standards that apply to the coal industry,” he said. “One by one, there’s been a steady effort to undermine the implementation of environmental laws, to the point that it’s become a part of everyday normal life here.”
April 5, 2014
Fellow Story

Lessons Learned from Testifying Before the U.S Senate on Behalf of the State of California

One of the ways our Fellows lead is by providing expert testimony before state and national legislative bodies. In March, Mike Wilson and Evan Hansen were called to testify before the U.S.
March 29, 2014
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Balazs receives achievement award for diversity and community

The 2014 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity and Community have been presented in the categories of Academic Senate and Academic Federation, staff, undergraduate and graduate student, community member — and in a new category, post-doctoral scholar. ...
March 26, 2014
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How Twitter Can Lead to a Big Opportunity: 3 Lessons from @hansenevan

You work hard every day on issues affecting the health of residents in your state. You release reports about the dangers of fracking and other critical environmental issues. You try to link economic development with natural resource stewardship. You tweet and blog and host webinars to get the issues out to the public. But if you live in a state like West Virginia, you’re literally swimming upstream struggling for recognition of the big issues in the face of policymakers tied to a carbon-based future.
March 23, 2014