VLMP Board of Directors and Staff
Board of Directors
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Bill Monagle (Winthrop) President Tamara Lee Pinard (Westbrook) Vice President Peter Vaux (Orono) Treasurer |
George Cross (Sangerville ) Mary Jane Dillingham (Auburn) Peter Fischer (Bristol) Phoebe Hardesty (New Gloucester) Philomena McPhee-Brown (Turner) Lew Wetzel (Casco) |
Staff
Scott Williams
is the Executive Director of the Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program. He is an aquatic biologist with more than 25 years of professional experience in the assessment, management and protection of Maine lakes and ponds. Scott has worked with lake associations, towns, natural resource agencies, educational institutions and others in his mission to insure that our lakes remain among the clearest and cleanest in the nation. He has trained and provided support to hundreds of volunteer lake monitors in this pursuit. He is the Co-Chair of the Maine Council on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, a member of the PEARL Advisory Committee and Past President of the Maine Congress of Lake Associations. He has received recognition for his work from the North American Lake Management Society, the Natural Resources Council of Maine, the Maine Legislature, COLA and others.
Roberta Hill is an aquatic ecologist and environmental educator. She has extensive experience with lake water quality protection and community outreach in Maine, having served as Education Coordinator and Assistant Director of the Lakes Environmental Association, located in the Long Lake/Sebago Lake watershed, and Environmental Education Coordinator for the Watershed Protection division of the Portland Water District. Roberta helped to establish and is currently the program director for the Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program’s new Center for Invasive Aquatic Plants. Since its inception in 2003, the Center has trained roughly 1300 individuals, including volunteers, professionals, agency personnel, students, teachers and others, to screen Maine waterbodies for the presence of invasive aquatic plants, helping to build one of the most active, citizen-based, early detection programs in the country.
Tania Neuschafer received her Masters degree in Environmental Education in 1998 through the Audubon Expedition Institute, and her teaching certification from Lesley University. She was an adjunct faculty for the University of New England’s Environmental Department, and the Education & Outreach Manager for the Maine Island Trail Association. She’s led groups and taught nature programs to a variety of ages, including Maine Audubon, the School Around Us, Regional Waste Systems, and many others, and was the Development Director for VSA arts of Maine. In addition to her work at MVLMP, she is also the Development Coordinator for the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust
and has a private therapeutic Breathwork practice in Portland and Brunswick.
Jim Roby-Brantley Entwood is the Program Coordinator and webmaster. As an AmeriCorps volunteer with the Maine Conservation Corps he was the Volunteer Coordinator at the Maine Department of Transportation in 2001. Jim has a background in science with a B.A. in Physics and an Environmental Studies minor from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
Jackey Bailey earned her MS at the University of Maine studying physical control methods for variable-leaf watermilfoil and completed her certificate in Rainforest Studies from Boston University in Yungaburra, Australia. Prior to her graduate studies, Jackey worked as an international trade specialist helping Maine’s environmental firms export their products and services overseas. This experience provided her with a look at the global consequences of invasive species and the need to focus on this issue. An avid fan of kayaking and rafting it was a natural for her to focus research on invasive aquatic species. In addition to working with the VLMP-MCIAP Jackey is a graduate student at the University of Maine, studying the ecological effects of variable-leaf watermilfoil on Maine lakes and in the summer assists with milfoil removal projects.
Christine Guerette
Interns and Office Volunteers
- Intern program description and application information
Spring and summer are very busy seasons at the VLMP
office. We are presenting workshops on water quality and invasive aquatic plants, running the annual
meeting, and working on new projects. Intern and volunteer help is very
important to the success of the monitoring season and expansion of our
programs.
Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program
vlmp@mainevlmp.org
24 Maple Hill Road, Auburn, ME 04210
(207)-783-7733
www.MaineVolunteerLakeMonitors.org
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