Katherine
Chesick, President
Katherine Chesick is a hazardous
materials specialist with the Washington State Department of Transportation
(WSDOT). Ms. Chesick works with project engineers and real estate professionals
to address hazardous materials issues that arise during project planning and
construction. Before joining WSDOT, Ms. Chesick was an environmental attorney
at Heller Ehrman. There, Ms. Chesick primarily worked on matters and advised
clients regarding federal and state hazardous waste laws, the Clean Water Act,
the Clean Air Act, NEPA, SEPA, and the Endangered Species Act. Ms. Chesick's
prior work experience includes clerking for two years for a federal district
court judge in eastern Washington, co-developing the Household Hazardous Waste
Program and enforcing state hazardous waste clean-up and control laws in
Alameda County, California, working as a geologist for an environmental
consulting firm in Berkeley, California, and working for the U.S. Geological
Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington. Ms. Chesick
holds a B.S. in Geology from Stanford University and J.D. from the University
of California School of Law (Boalt Hall).
Claire Schary, Treasurer
Claire Schary is the
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 Market Incentives Specialist. Her
primary area of responsibility is to serve as the region's water quality
trading coordinator, which she has done since she started working at the Region
10 office in 1997. 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. In addition, Ms. Schary has advised the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality 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. In
addition to water quality trading, Ms. Schary recently started working as a
member of the region's Clean Diesel Team, serving as the marine sector lead and
focusing on market incentives to achieve diesel emission reductions in that
sector. She also serves as the region's Environmental Management System (EMS)
Team Lead, to help launch and maintain an EMS for the Region 10 building in
Seattle. Before moving to Seattle, Ms. Schary worked at EPA Headquarters in
Washington, DC for seven years in the Office of Air and Radiation's Acid Rain
Division (now called the Clean Air Markets Division.) There she helped to write
and implement the rules for the sulfur dioxide emissions trading program. Ms.
Schary's previous work experience also includes five years at The Nature
Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia. She has a B.A. in Economics from Carleton
College and an MBA from Cornell University, which she received in 1990.
Manuela Winter, Secretary
Manuela Winter has 25 years
of experience doing a wide range of environmental regulatory work such as
managing and implementing permit acquisition plans, code enforcement and code
development, NEPA/SEPA/CEQA document preparation, field investigations,
regulatory audits, and development of environmental related policies and
procedures. Besides working on transportation and other development projects in
King County for 10 years, Manuela worked on numerous geothermal resource power
plant projects in Nevada and California in the '80's and '90's. She is
currently supervising the environmental section that supports the Snohomish
County Public Works Department.
Heather Vick, Membership Chair
Heather Vick is a registered
geologist in Washington, Florida and Pennsylvania as well as a registered
hydrogeologist in Washington. She has 23 years of experience working in the
environmental industry as a geologist and senior hydrogeologist with
Environmental Science and Engineering, Inc. in Florida, Metcalf and Eddy, Inc.
in Boston and Tetra Tech EM Inc. in Seattle. She has conducted numerous site
characterizations and groundwater investigation studies at contaminated sites
as well as performed work involving groundwater as a drinking water source. She
is currently teaching courses in Physical and Environmental Geology at South
Seattle Community College, working as a Project Manager with EMG Corporation
and also has a private consulting practice.
Shauna Hansen, Communications Chair
Shauna Hansen is working in the
Environmental Services Division of the City of Tacoma Public Works Department
in the Surface Water Management group. She has been working in the Tacoma
Public Works Department since 2000, and she earned her Professional Engineering
license in Civil Engineering in 2004. Ms. Hansen graduated with a Bachelor of
Science in Chemical Engineering (1998) and a Master of Science in Environmental
Engineering (2000), both from the University of Washington. During her
undergraduate degree, she studied engineering abroad for one semester at the
Universite de Technologie de Compiegne in France.
Nancy Helm, Member at Large
Nancy Helm is a staff member of
the Office of Air, Waste and Toxics of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 10, where she serves as air quality liaison for the State of
Washington and project manager for the Georgia Basin - Puget Sound
International Airshed Strategy. Ms. Helm has been with the EPA for 17 years,
serving 3 years at EPA headquarters and the past 14 in Region 10. She has held
positions in several environmental programs, working primarily in the areas of
policy development and project management. In 2000 and 2001 Ms. Helm was on
loan from EPA to the City of Seattle where she helped the City establish its
urban sustainability program. Prior to joining EPA she served for two years
with the U.S. Peace Corps in Samoa. Ms. Helm holds a bachelor's degree in
zoology from The George Washington University and a masters in marine
environmental science from the State University of New York at Stony
Brook.
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