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November 19, 2009

featuring

Kristin Lynett, Sustainable Development Manager, City of Tacoma

Meet Tacoma's New "Queen of Green!"

Join Kristin Lynett, Sustainable Development Manager of the City of Tacoma’s new Office of Sustainability and head of the City-wide Green Team, for an informal discussion about her career path and experience finding jobs in the field of Sustainability. She joins the City from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, where she served as their Resource Conservation Manager and Sustainability Coordinator. Kristi has a BS degree in Environmental Science from Willamette University and a Master's of Environmental Studies from Evergreen State College.

June 12, 2008

featuring

Ron Kreizenbeck, Senior Advisor to PSP Executive Director David Dicks

Puget Sound Partnership and Its Mission: to Restore Puget Sound

Figure out what's wrong with Puget Sound and create an Action Agenda that will lead to its restored health, from the end of Hood Canal to the San Juan Islands. That is the ambitious charge given to the Puget Sound Partnership by Gov. Chris Gregoire and the Legislature. The Puget Sound Partnership was created to restore and protect the environmental health of Puget Sound by 2020. The Partnership's Action Agenda will prioritize cleanup and improvement projects, coordinate funding resources, and make sure that we are all working cooperatively and basing decisions on science. For the first time in a generation, the political will to restore Puget Sound's health exists. This may be our last and best chance to save Puget Sound.

April 22, 2008

featuring

Pamela Emerson, Climate Change Specialist, City of Seattle

Climate Change and What You Can Do

Come hear Pamela Emerson, of Seattle's Office of Sustainability and the Environment, talk about Seattle's Climate Action Now (CAN) campaign.  This campaign was recently launched to address the need to get individuals aware and involved in how to respond to climate change.  Pam will talk about how the City developed the campaign, what the campaign is, how it's working so far, and who they are working with to bring this important call to action to every  Seattle citizen.

December 13, 2007

AWEP Holiday Social

An evening of good food, holiday music, and socializing with other AWEP members.  Join us for this combined networking opportunity and holiday event.  CHEERS!

October 10, 2007

featuring

A joint event presented by the Puget Sound Chapter of the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) and the Association of Women in Environmental Professions (AWEP)

Selection and Use of Hydrogeological Consultants and Information

This event features a panel of four Washington registered hydrogeologists who are members of the sponsoring organizations. The panel participants and the topics that will be discussed include: Heather Vick PG, PHg - Introduction and panel moderator. Anne Udaloy PG, PHg of Udaloy Environmental -- When and what to look for in selecting a hydrogeological consultant. Suzanne Dudziak PG, PHg of Greylock Consulting LLC -- Details matter: drilling methods, well installation and data collection. Marcia Knadle PG, PHg U.S. EPA Region 10 -- Use and misuse of hydrogeological information -- common pitfalls.

April 12, 2007

featuring

Lara Whitely Binder, University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group
and
Kelly McCaffrey, Washington Water Trust

Managing Our Water Resources and the Related Impacts of Climate Change

Lara Whitely Binder will speak about the potentially significant changes to Pacific Northwest snowpack and streamflow that climate change is expected to bring. Research from the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington finds that average annual temperature is projected to increase 2 degrees F by the decade of the 2020s and 3 degrees F by the decade of the 2040s. Warmer winter temperatures lead to more winter precipitation falling as rain rather than snow and contributes to lower snowpack, higher winter streamflows, earlier spring snowmelt, and lower summer streamflows in many PNW river basins. Lara will discuss these and other findings about PNW climate change, implications for water resource management, and preparing for climate change.

Kelly McCaffrey will speak about Washington Water Trust (WWT), its approach to restoring instream flows, how we all must adjust given water supply uncertainties and decreases, how WWT's is even more important in the face of water supply uncertainties, rivers), and how, given our current legal structure of water rights, drastic incentives or drastic societal response may be needed to change the status quo.

November 7, 2006

featuring

Jane A. Hedges, Program Manager for Ecology's Nuclear Waste Program

The Cleanup of Hanford Nuclear Reservation

September 20, 2006

featuring

Amee Quiriconi, Inventor of Squak Mountain Stone

The development and marketing of Squak Mountain Stone Sustainable Building Products

June 13, 2006

featuring

Andrea Ramage, Director of Sustainable Solutions, CH2M Hill, Inc.

SUSTAINABILITY:  Challenges, Opportunities, and Commitments