Mid-Atlantic Chapter

Mary Alldred is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Professional Wetland Scientist at the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at SUNY Plattsburgh. She studies the influence of organisms and ecological communities on ecosystem function. Her research focuses on predicting the influence of wetland plants on denitrification, a microbial process that provides an important ecosystem service by removing excess nitrogen. Her work has also addressed the impacts of coastal management, including invasive-plant removal and coastal marsh restorations, on nitrogen cycling and ecosystem services. Learn more at malldred.github.io

I am a wetland ecologist by trade with a passion for environmental education.

Environmental educator at the Marine Science Consortium, Wallops Island, VA,  1977 - 1980; Biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District 1980 - 1987; Senior staff Biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District 1987 - 2016; Chief of Regulatory Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District 2016 - 2020. Retired May 2020. I have been a member of SWS since January 1980 with PWS certification since 1995.

I engage stakeholders to lead complex and sometimes controversial projects to amicable resolution. I embrace hard work and creativity while building teams with key expertise. The side benefit? It allows me to also mentor staff to reach their potential!

I am currently a Project Manager over post-construction monitoring and regulatory compliance for large-scale pipeline projects. I also manage our FlexForce biological professionals for temporary assignments across the U.S. As a key subject matter expert, I prepare NEPA documentation on behalf of industry clients as well as federal agencies.

 
My career began as a wetland regulator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and transitioned to environmental consulting where I delineated and monitored wetland ecosystems across the U.S. and Alaska. Working in multidiscipline teams allowed me to participate and collect survey data for mass movement areas, aquatic resources, and threatened/endangered species. Applying decades of “boots on the ground” surveys I advanced to manage large-scale field efforts, consult with regulatory agencies, and guide construction activities to comply with permitting.

My career’s successes include:
• finding unique perspectives while authoring sections for Environmental Impact Statements;
• bringing conflicts to consensus among stakeholders on controversial projects; and
• focusing regulatory goals to practical and beneficial outcomes.

In my life/career stage, I find opportunities to encourage the up-coming cohorts that will lead natural resource management. I enjoy laughing but can spend hours buried in a spreadsheet. I enjoy opposing philosophical and political discourse to safeguard becoming stuck in a perspective. And if I don’t get into the forest occasionally – I might combust.

When not working, I enjoy restoring my 1900 bungalow, creating natural habitats within my urban lot, and restoring vintage treasures buried in flea markets.

With a total of 33 years of experience (20 as a manager) working within the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Mr. Der is currently executive principal of Andrew T. Der and Associates, LLC practicing in the water resources consulting and contracting industry regionally and nationally since 2013. Before that and since 2000, he was Director of Environmental Services for two civil engineering firms in the Washington DC/Baltimore, MD metro region. Previously, he completed 18 years of service at the Maryland Department of the Environment leaving as a manager. Specialties include regulation and compliance; assessment; watershed studies; advocacy; permitting; feasibility studies; nonpoint source pollution; wetland and stream mitigation; water quality; and Clean Water Act and NEPA, as well as various federal and state pollution and waste programs. He is an Academy of Board Certified Environmental Professionals (ABCEP) Certified Environmental Professional (CEP) by eminence, and also teaches seminars, publishes industry-related and natural resources articles, a member of industry and advisory committees, recipient of numerous awards of recognition, and provides expert testimony and media interviews.

As a Project Manager at Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., I complete stream and wetland delineations as well as perform rare, threatened, and endangered plant surveys. I also have an established fundamental knowledge of plant identification, electrofishing sampling, common fish identification, and sample analysis techniques throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

Specialties:
Rare Plant Surveys, Botany, Wetland Delineations, Macroinvertabrate Sampling, Electrofising Techniques, Invasive Plants, and Nature Photography

Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS)

Ohio Approved Running Buffalo Clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) Surveyor

Pennsylvania Approved Running Buffalo Clover (Trifolium stoloniferum), Northeastern Bulrush (Scirpus ancistrochaetus), and Small Whorled Pogonia (Isotria medeoloides) Surveyor

West Virginia Approved Running Buffalo Clover (Trifolium stoloniferum), Northeastern Bulrush (Scirpus ancistrochaetus), Small Whorled Pogonia (Isotria medeoloides), Virginia Spiraea (Spiraea virginiana), and Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum) Surveyor 

I'm enjoying assessing project sites in the field, i.e., in the thick of the NJ Pinelands year-round! I judge research projects with Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Honor Society) to help students become better researchers!

I implement my undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education in the advancement of science (field work & continuing education). Specifically, I apply my Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) expertise and effectively evaluate wetlands, floodplains, hydrologic and hydrogeologic site data pursuant to local, county, state and federal regulations. Most importantly, adhering to local ordinances and coordinating with stakeholders as I serve the public.

Environmental consultant working for Burgess & Niple in Indianapolis, Indiana. My main focus is wetland delineations, floristic quality assessment, Waters of the US Determinations, and waterway permitting. 

Ms. Gloshinski has extensive experience in the areas of wetland identification and delineation, environmental impact analysis and assessment, and permit acquisition and compliance.   She has also provided Expert Testimony to various municipalities regarding environmental studies she performed.

Ms. Gloshinski is responsible for the completion of all projects as well as administrative work involving business development, cost tracking, and coordination of work with clients and subconsultants.    She has over 36 years experience in the environmental field.   Ms. Gloshinski’s prior experience in the environmental field has included working for consulting environmental and engineering firms , and she has been involved in managing several large highway and private development projects involving wetland delineation, wildlife assessments, environmental impact assessments, environmental permitting and wetland mitigation design.

Ms. Gloshinski is cognizant of the New Jersey Freshwater Wetland Protection Act Rules and Regulations, as well as the U.S. Army corps of Engineers regulations under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.   She has the expertise and experience in preparing Letter of Interpretation Applications, General Permits, Individual Freshwater Wetland and State Open Water Fill Permits, and Transition Area Waivers.   She has been involved in the preparation of wetland mitigation plans, including site selection, planting design and specifications, as well as preparing Monitoring and Maintenance reports for Wetland mitigation projects.   She also has worked with several clients in the due diligence phase of real estate transactions to identify environmental constraints that may impact the development potential and value of the property.   Ms. Gloshinski has established contacts with the regulatory community at both the Federal and State Levels through her involvement in various projects over the years.

Projects have involved clients from County and Local governments agencies; private industry;  real estate developers; and single family home owners.

Ms. Gloshinski also works with the Land Conservancy of New Jersey where she utilizes her land use background and assists the Land Trust as well as several towns in preserving open space and farmland.  This work involves grant submissions to NJDEP Green Acres Program, as well as County Open Space Programs.  She has prepared Recreation and Open Space Inventories (ROSI’s) for various towns as part of the grant submissions.   She also works with the State Agricultural Development Committee on farmland preservation projects.   She has worked with the Highlands Council, obtaining approvals for a Highland Permit 1 for stream restoration and habitat enhancement work, and has helped develop a Critical Habitat and Management Plan for the Borough of Kinnelon.   

Key Qualifications: Ms. Greene has worked professionally in the field of environmental impact analysis and protection, environmental permitting wetlands, endangered and threatened species and ecological restoration for over 46 years.  She has a Masters in Ecology from Rutgers University and a Bachelors in Biology from Boston University.  For over 33 years Ms. Greene was President and Owner of Amy S. Greene Environmental Consultants, Inc., providing professional environmental services to private and public sector clients on over 4,000 projects throughout New Jersey and in 10 other states.  Her She is a long-time member of the Raritan Township Environmental Commission and is also currently a member of the Township Green Team.  She is long-time chair of the Raritan Township Open Space Advisory Committee.

She has presented seminars at universities, professional societies, and conferences.  She has worked with NJDEP on development of updates to Environmental Regulations.  She was is past Board Trustee of The Nature Conservancy New Jersey Chapter and currently co-chair of their Conservancy Council, and a trustee of the NJ Conserve Wildlife Foundation, Chair of the Ride for the River Fundraiser for the Raritan Headwaters Association and co-chair of the Hunterdon Land Trust Dvoor Farm Capital Campaign Committee.  She and her firm were recipients of many environmental awards, including the CIANJ Environmental Leadership Champion Award, the NJ Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award, The Nature Conservancy NJ Chapter Leadership Award and the New Jersey Conserve Wildlife Foundation’s Women and Wildlife Inspiration Award.

A Professional Wetland Scientist and Qualified Bog Turtle Surveyor. Specializing in Wetland Delineation, Herpetological Survey and Botanical Survey.

Mr. Kunz is a Senior Associate Consultant with Davey Resources Group and a certified Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS).  He is highly experienced in performing natural resource field studies for public and private sector clients. Mr. Kunz is an expert in field botany; rare plant ecology; performing targeted rare plant surveys; wetland ecology; vegetation sampling and analysis; floristic quality assessment; and wetland assessment, restoration, monitoring, delineation, and regulation. Mr. Kunz has also worked extensively with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His work with GIS includes compiling and organizing spatial data, digitizing and building vector-based topologies, producing report figures and designing large-format map layouts for public presentations, and creating map books for linear development projects. He is highly skilled at aerial photographic interpretation and has extensive experience mapping vegetation and land cover. Mr. Kunz has led hundreds of field surveys for federal and state-listed endangered, threatened, and rare plant species and has worked on a multitude of projects involving environmental permitting in support of transportation, electrical transmission and natural gas transmission pipeline development and operation in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Coastal Wetland Ecologist and Nonprofit Leader.  Experience from MA to FL.

Over 18 years of experience in natural resource consulting and 12 years of project administration and client coordination.  Responsibilities entail conducting natural resource technical investigations and reporting for resources such as streams, wetlands and threatened and endangered species.  Experienced in freshwater benthic macroinvertebrate, wetland delineations, wetland mitigation plan development, construction and post-construction wetland monitoring, global positioning system (GPS) survey, and ecological assessments for rare, threatened and endangered species.  Experience conducting environmental investigations in Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Virginia, West Virginia, and military installations.

Ecologist

I spent 13 years in the private sector as an ecological consultant to the energy , mining, and land development industries. I have a strong background in surface water permits and field delineation of non-tidal freshwater wetlands and streams. My experience in the private sector included compiling permit packages/reports for submission to various state and federal agencies, Threatened and Endangered species and habitat surveys, invasive species surveys, Clean Water Act compliance, and wetland stream mitigation. A large part of my job was educating clients and junior staff on environmental regulations. 

I am currently a Biologist for the USACE Pittsburgh District in the Environmental and Cultural Resources Section of the Planning and Environmental Branch. My main duties include planning, coordinating, and conducting site investigations and preparing appropriate documents and reports in response to Federal and State environmental and cultural resource protection statutes. Conducting inventories of project/study area resources, analyzing the potential impacts of proposed actions, and recommending alternatives to avoid, minimize, or mitigate impacts. In addition, I help ensure that District activities satisfy necessary compliance requirements, such as NEPA and other legislation applicable to more specific resources (wetlands, fish and wildlife habitat, cultural resources, etc.).

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristopher-morgenweck-403653218/

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Mr. Page has over thirty-five years of experience as a Project Manager/Biologist that has worked for the natural gas and environmental/engineering consulting industries, as well as for non-profit organizations performing natural resource investigations (wetland delineations and stream assessments); rare, threatened, and endangered species surveys; wetland and stream mitigation/restoration design; permitting; compliance; site/right-of-way (ROW) restoration; and permit closure activities.

SPWS #001101

Supervisory Biologist

Kimberli Ponzio has over 36 years of experience working in Florida wetlands as an Environmental Scientist for two water management districts in the state of Florida, USA.  Kim has been certified as a Professional Wetland Scientist for 25+ years, finding it important to ensure stakeholders from public, academic, and consultancy sectors that she has the education, work history, and skill-set necessary to deliver professional wetland services, and that she is committed to upholding a high standard of ethical behavior.  Kim has been involved in leadership with the Society of Wetland Scientists since 2007, was SWS President in 2015, President of the SWS Professional Certification Program (SWSPCP) in 2020, and currently serves as Co-Chair of the SWSPCP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.  Kim is actively involved in helping to globalize the SWSPCP by making the Program accessible to qualified individuals, regardless of geography or financial standing.  Kim’s approach has always been one of a collaborative spirit, which she believes is one of the most powerful mechanisms to further the cause of conserving, restoring, and protecting wetlands.

Senior Environmental Scientist with over seventeen years of experience working as a consultant in eastern Pennsylvania. Professionally skilled in wetland delineation, wetland mitigation monitoring, environmental permitting, habitat assessments, threatened and endangered species surveys, phase I environmental site assessments, limnological studies, and water quality monitoring. 

Charles Schutte earned a B.S. in Environmental Science and a B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 and a PhD in Marine Science from the University of Georgia in 2018. He went on to a postdoctoral scientist position at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany and later returned to the United States as a research scientist at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. He has been an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Rowan University since 2019 where he teaches field methods and oceanography courses. As a biogeochemist, his work is focused on understanding how nutrients and greenhouse gases cycle through aquatic environments and how these cycles are likely to shift in response to global environmental alterations like climate change and sea-level rise.

Matt is a retired federal wetlands ecologist and wildlife biologist. He is the Principal at his firm, Wetland Strategies and Solutions, LLC (WSS), where he provides policy, regulatory and technical advice and assistance for clients seeking to navigate a wide range of regulatory and non-regulatory issues related to wetlands and other aquatic resources. He works throughout the U.S.

He spent nearly 33 years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at both its Headquarters office and New England Region office in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to retiring from federal service, he served concurrently as Chief of the New England Region’s Wetlands Protection Program, as Senior Mediator with the Region’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, and as the Agency’s representative on the International Joint Commission’s International St. Croix River Watershed Board. During his entire tenure with the New England Region, Matt also served as the Region's Senior Wetlands Ecologist.

He is a nationally recognized expert in the federal Clean Water Act’s Section 404 Program. Matt served on national work groups developing federal guidance and regulations on Clean Water Act jurisdiction, and agriculture and enforcement issues.  He also testified before federal grand juries and served several times as an expert witness on wetland regulatory and technical matters at both federal and state levels.

Matt has extensive experience with coastal and inland wetlands and other aquatic resource issues for major projects involving transportation, energy, agriculture, commercial and port development, and hazardous waste cleanup. He has taught courses in wetland regulation, restoration, wetland ecology, and wetland identification and delineation for EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the New England states, Northeastern University, and many other organizations. 

Ms. Shearer is a Natural Resources Project Manager. She has a diverse background including conducting rare, threatened, and endangered plant surveys and wetland and stream delineations. She is a Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP), Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS), and maintains a valid Pennsylvania Wild Plant Management Permit. She is qualified to conduct running buffalo clover surveys in Ohio.

Ms. Shearer also prepares Pennsylvania Chapter 105 Water Obstruction and Encroachment Permit application packages, Joint Chapter 105/Section 404 Permit Applications (JPAs), Nationwide Permit application packages, West Virginia Stream Activity Permits, and Critical Issues Analysis. She coordinates with state and federal agencies on projects and facilitates meetings between agencies and clients.

Ms. Shearer is safety-orientated and ensures her team follows all safety procedures, including client-specific requirements. 

Jason Smith is a Senior Scientist and Project Manager for Hanover Engineering. He is also certified as a Professional Wetland Scientist.  Jason specializes in surface water resource management, including wetlands, lake and watershed management, stream restoration, land preservation, environmental planning, and stormwater management. Jason received his BS degree in Environmental Resource Management from the Pennsylvania State University, focusing on water resource management.

Jason is a Township Supervisor and Chairman of the Environmental Advisory Council in Bushkill Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.  He has served terms with the Pennsylvania Lake Management Society, Education Committee for the North American Lake Management Society, Northeast Aquatic Plant Management Society, and the Society of Wetland Scientists (currently on the Wetlands of Distinction Committee).

Lorie Staver is an ecologist at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory (UMCES HPL).  Her focus is on restoration of nearshore and subtidal habitats to promote coastal resilience, estuarine water quality and carbon sequestration.  Her work has focused on the role of nutrients in the restoration and sustainability of marsh and submersed aquatic vegetation communities.  Current work includes tidal marsh restoration at the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island and studies of the ecosystem services provided by living shorelines.

Environmental Specialist with Georgia Power Company supporting wetland and environmental permitting needs for the utility construction and maintenance requirements of the company.

Dr. Wilcox is a wetland ecologist who retired from the U.S. Geological Survey in 2008 to accept a position at Brockport in his native western New York State.  He had also recently retired from his role as Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Wetlands after a 20-year tenure.  His research on wetlands has spanned the Great Lakes basin and focused primarily on interactions of wetland plant communities and hydrology, including the role of climate change and the effects of lake-level regulation.  He was a major contributor in the International Joint Commission study on regulation of Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence River levels and flows.  He was the Lake Ontario/eastern Lake Erie lead on a large study funded by the USEPA that initiated a wetland monitoring program for all Great Lakes wetlands.  His research also focused on developing wetland restoration methodologies for use in Lake Ontario wetlands and implementing them in the field. He took his second retirement in 2020 and continues work on journal manuscripts relating to his research.

37 Years of Natural Resources Experience; Mid-Atlantic; VA,MD, NC; Floristics Expert