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- Water Quality Specialist With the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
Amanda Gumbert serves as an Extension Water Quality Specialist with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food & Environment. Amanda collaborates with university personnel and federal/state/local agency partners to deliver water quality information and technical assistance to Kentuckians through the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service. A major program focus is the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act and implementation of agricultural conservation practices, with linkages to the Mississippi River basin. Her work also extends to streamside buffer zones in urban and rural areas, where she engages with watershed organizations to promote the installation and management of riparian areas. In addition to her Extension appointment Amanda teaches an introductory course on issues in agriculture, food systems, and the environment. She holds BS and MS degrees in Plant and Soil Science and a PhD in Soil Science from the University of Kentucky. Amanda attributes her passion for agriculture and natural resources to growing up on a farm in rural Kentucky, which she now owns and manages with her husband and young son.
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- Director of Publications at the Soil
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Annie Binder is director of publications at the Soil and Water Conservation Society and editor of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. She is responsible for the journal, SWCS book publishing, Web site, Conservogram newsletter, and other communications.
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- Senior Environmental Markets Analyst With the United States Department of Agriculture 's Office of Environmental Markets
Christopher Hartley is the Senior Environmental Markets Analyst with the United States Department of Agriculture's Office of Environmental Markets. He is responsible for the development of policy, tools, and metrics to facilitate private investment in conservation and the participation of farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners in emerging environmental markets. He previously worked for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington, DC, and in California. He is a member of the National Capital Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, where he has served in numerous leadership positions.
Hartley is a Certified Crop Advisor and a licensed Pest Control Advisor with more than 25 years of experience working in support of production agriculture and the promotion of clean air, clean water, and a safe and abundant food supply. He earned a doctorate in agricultural ecology and master's degrees in agronomy and international agricultural development from the University of California-Davis. He also served with the US Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa, from 1993 to 1996.
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Clare Lindahl is chief executive officer of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. Clare is in charge of public affairs, program development, governance, and special projects. Clare became the CEO of SWCS in August of 2017. She previously served as the executive director for Conservation Districts of Iowa and as...
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Courtney Allen is the event and professional development director of the Soil and Water Conservation Society and the executive assistant to the CEO. Courtney is the lead staff person for the SWCS Annual Conference and also manages the special conferences, workshops, distance learning, and other professional development opportunities with regional...
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- President of Ellen Gilinsky
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Ellen Gilinsky, PhD is president of Ellen Gilinsky, LLC, which she started in January 2017 to work with government, industry, and the private sector on finding environmental solutions to water challenges. Her clients include Resources for the Future, National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Defense Fund, SERA-46 Land Grant Universities, and National Academy of Sciences. As part of the Obama Administration from 2011 through 2016, she was the Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water at the Environmental Protection Agency, where she played a key role in water programs at the federal, state, and local levels, working closely with diverse stakeholders in the water quality, quantity, and agriculture sectors, and serving as co-chair of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Gilinsky served as director of the Water Division at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, and in the early 1980s she was part of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Program staff. In addition, she has 12 years of experience as an environmental consultant at several regional and national environmental engineering firms. Dr. Gilinsky received her BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in zoology, with a concentration in aquatic ecology, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been a past president of the Association of Clean Water Administrators, and held a past gubernatorial appointment to the State Advisory Board of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center. She currently serves as a board member of River Network and holds a gubernatorial appointment to the Science and Technical Advisory Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program.
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Emma Harper is the communications coordinator at SWCS. She is responsible for creating and implementing marketing and communications content to promote SWCS and our mission via social media, website, press releases, email, and other communication mediums.
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Erika is the membership director for SWCS. She provides and processes information on membership, chapters, subscriptions, and book orders.
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- Mississippi State Univ Student Chapter
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Jerry Hatfield received his PhD from Iowa State University in 1975 in the area of agricultural climatology and is the retired director of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa. His research focuses on the interactions among the components of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and their linkage to air, water, and soil quality. His focus has been on the evaluation of farming systems and their response to water and nitrogen interactions across soils and remote sensing methods to quantify field variation. He utilizes the genetics x environment x management concept to show producers how they can increase their production efficiency, increase soil health, and develop resilience to weather and climate variation. He is the recipient of numerous awards including being inducted into the USDA ARS Hall of Fame for his research impact and the Hugh Hammond Bennett award. He is the author of 498 refereed publications and 18 monographs.
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Jody (JT) is the editorial assistant at SWCS. She is in charge of manuscript tracking for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and puts together the monthly SWCS newsletter. JT also edits accepted research manuscripts, assists with SWCS book publications, and makes Web updates. In addition to her editorial...
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Joe Otto is the special projects and partnerships director at SWCS. His role is managing SWCS's current grants and developing grant and partnership opportunities. In addition, he is also the historian. He is archiving and organizing the Society's documents and historical records. He is also building interpretation of the Society's...
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Keith Berns combines over 20 years of no-till farming with 10 years of teaching agriculture and computers. In addition to no-tilling 2,500 acres of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, sunflowers, and buckwheat in south central Nebraska, he also co-owns and operates Green Cover Seed, one of the major cover crop seed providers and educators in the United States. Through Green Cover Seed, Berns has experimented with over 100 different cover crop types and hundreds of mixes planted into various situations and has learned a great deal about cover crop growth, nitrogen fixation, moisture usage, and grazing utilization of cover crops. He was honored by the White House as a 2016 Champion of Change for Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture. Berns also developed the SmartMix CalculatorTM one of the most widely used cover crop selection tools on the internet. He has a master's degree in agricultural education from the University of Nebraska and teaches on cover crops and soil health more than 30 times per year to various groups and audiences. Berns was also recently appointed by Nebraska Governor Pete Rickets to be the chairman of the Nebraska Healthy Soils Task Force.
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Leonard Jordan has spent more than four decades building a portfolio focused on conserving our natural resources. Having worked across the nation, Jordan has worked with several interest groups, government agencies and non-profit organizations to ensure that our environment is protected. His passion is to work with the American public,...
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Rachel Owen is the SWCS Senior Advisor, focused on policy, grants, and overall strategy for the Society. Rachel is a soil scientist who has built a career in policy and social entrepreneurship. She received a PhD in Soil Science from the University of Missouri School of Natural Resources, holds an...
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Rebecca Power is Director of the 12-state North Central Region Water Network and leads a range of other water outreach programs at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. During her 20 years with UW-Extension, she co-directed the six-state Great Lakes Regional Water Program and served as a local natural resource educator in the Upper Fox and Wolf River Basins. In each of these positions, her role has been to work with natural resource leaders locally, across the Upper Midwest, and nationally to identify strategic opportunities and develop teams and programs to address those opportunities.
Rebecca has been a member of the Soil and Water Conservation Society for over 12 years, served on the SWCS Annual Conference Planning Committee for six years, chaired the Committee for three years, and supported local conference planning for the 2017 conference held in Madison, Wisconsin. She also serves on the SWCS Science and Policy Committee. Rebecca began her career with a private consulting firm restoring savannas, prairies, wetlands in the Upper Midwest, and spent eight years with the US Fish and Wildlife Service using adaptive management strategies in the restoration of savanna ecosystems. She is an active birder and botanizer, now putting her skills to work with the Chiwaukee Prairie Preservation Fund near her home in southeastern Wisconsin. Her free time also goes to art photography and painting as a way to share the wonders of our world with a broader audience.
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Renee Bouldin is the chapter and community builder of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. She is responsible for chapter outreach and support. Renee also assists with event planning and execution. She started her work with SWCS as the Executive Director of the Southern New England Chapter in 2019.
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Roger Wolf is a lifelong native Iowan, current farmer landowner, and President of Wolf Brothers Wildlife Enterprises, LLC headquartered in Osceola, Iowa. He has over 33 years of professional experience working in soil and water conservation. He started his career as a Watershed Project Coordinator in 1989 working in the Carroll Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and later for the Hardin and Grundy SWCD offices in Iowa. From 1994-2000, Roger served as a conservation and environmental consultant, managing several large grants and working with partners in agriculture, conservation organizations, and a water utility in Iowa. In 2000, he established an Environmental Programs and Services team at the Iowa Soybean Association. Presently, he serves as the Director of Iowa Soybean Association's Research Center for Farming Innovation.
Roger strives to advance innovative programming by integrating knowledge development and enhancing cropping systems and resource management with active farmers and collaborators, leading to more resilient agricultural environments. Roger is an active proponent of the One Water Management approach fostering leadership from conservation, agriculture, and the water sector and capitalizing on innovative ways of improving soil health and reducing nutrient loss for more resilient landscapes in Iowa and the Mississippi River Basin. Throughout his career, he has served on a variety of committees and boards, including Co-Chair, Fishers & Farmers Partnership, 2008-2010; Committee Member on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act: Scientific, Modeling, and Technical Aspects of Nutrient Pollutant Load Reduction Allocation and Implementation, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 2009; Steering Committee Member, America's Watershed Initiative, 2010-2013; Board of Directors for the US Water Alliance, 2010-2018; and Advisory Committee Member, Diverse Corn Belt, 2022. Roger is curious and creative and strives to work with people who want to make a lasting impact. He holds a bachelor degree in geography from the University of Iowa.
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Sarah Wright joined the SWCS staff as the Student Leader Project Intern. Her focus during the internship will be planning a student and early career professional networking session and assisting with operations and logistics of the 78th SWCS International Annual Conference, as well as assisting ARCSE, the intern sponsor, on...
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Steve is the owner/operator of Soil Health LLC. He is currently working with the New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts as their soil health specialist and program manager. Steve retired in 2021 after a 34-year career with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) as the New Mexico State Resource...
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