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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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