2010 Maine Water Conference
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Maine

2010 Featured Plenary Speakers

Art Gold
Professor of Watershed Hydrology, Natural Resource Program Leader Director of URI Water Quality Cooperative Extension Program

Dr. Gold’s research addresses the effects of land use and natural features on water quality, with particular focus on sources and sinks of nitrogen in mixed-use watersheds. He has published more than 80 refereed journal articles and attracted more than $17 million in external funding from the NRI, CSREES NIWQP, NSF, SeaGrant, NRCS, EPA and state agencies. His outreach/extension activities are directed towards local and state decision-makers and promote the use of GIS decision support tools to mitigate both cumulative and site-specific effects of human alterations. Dr. Gold maintains an active graduate program and is one of the principal scientists involved in an NSF-funded, Ph.D. IGERT training project entitled: Assessing Change in Coastal Ecosystems: Integrating Natural and Social Sciences. His teaching responsibilities include an undergraduate course in Watershed Hydrology and a graduate course in Ecohydrology.

At the University of Rhode Island Dr. Gold is the Natural Resource Program Leader for Land Grant Programs and Associate Director of the Coastal Institute. His current professional activities include service as a senior research advisor for an international watershed research coordination project of the IAEA/UN FAO; co-chair and host of the NSF Research Coordination Network’s workshop on “Managing Denitrification in Human Dominated Landscapes;” and director of the Northeast States and Caribbean Islands Regional Water Program, a CSREES funded project that includes extension and research faculty from all Land Grant Institutions within EPA’s Regions 1 and 2. He was an appointed member of the US EPA’s Science Advisory Board Subcommittee on Environmental Models (1997-2000); and Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality from 1997-2003. In 2001 Dr. Gold received the University-wide Scholarly Excellence Award.

Andrew Reese
Principal Engineer and Vice President, AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc.

Andrew J. Reese, Principal Engineer and Vice President, AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., has over 30 years experience in a wide variety of stormwater management, water resources, hydraulic and hydrologic engineering, and management roles.  He earned an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Cornell University he master’s degrees in business administration from Boston University and hydraulic engineering from Colorado State University. 

He has worked in all fifty states in a wide variety of assignments from highly technical modeling and criteria development to stakeholder group facilitation and stormwater utility implementation. He is known as a leading expert in municipal stormwater program development, NPDES permitting, LID and green infrastructure design and planning, and stormwater program and funding implementation.

Mr. Reese has been a popular speaker at over 200 conferences, short courses and meetings including the keynote for the first annual STORMCON conference. He has published over fifty articles and has co-authored a best-selling 1400 page textbook on Municipal Storm Water Management, now in second edition.