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Laura and Nic interview Wasseem Emam, founder and head of research at Ethical Seafood Research, to explore fish welfare, ethical aquaculture, and what it takes to build a career around an emerging and often misunderstood cause. From shrimp sentience to sustainable seafood systems, this episode dives into how research, policy, and cultural perspectives can reshape the way we think about aquatic animals and the food on our plates.

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Connect with Wasseem Emam at wasseem@ethicalseafoodresearch.org and https://www.linkedin.com/in/wasseem-emam/.

Guest Bio:
Wasseem Emam is the founder and Executive Director of Ethical Seafood Research, a Scottish-, Spanish-, Kenyan- and Egyptian-registered nonprofit working to improve the welfare of aquatic animals across food systems of the Global South, with active programs in Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria and Spain. Originally from Egypt, but having spent most of his career in the UK, Canada and now Spain, he has built his career around a question the food and environmental sectors have long overlooked: whether the billions of aquatic animals caught up in the food system each year have lives worth living.

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Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Laura and Nic interview Sunny Fleming, Kelly Easterday, and Healy Hamilton live from the Esri User Conference to explore how GIS, digital twins, biodiversity data, and conservation technology are reshaping the future of environmental work. From building community to using maps as powerful tools for storytelling and action, this episode dives into the people, ideas, and innovations helping conservationists see through the noise and move faster toward impact.

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Connect with Sunny Fleming at https://www.linkedin.com/in/littlemissesri/

Guest Bio:
Sunny Fleming serves as the Director of Conservation Solutions at Esri. Her career has been shaped by a consistent theme of applying GIS to solve real‑world challenges across conservation, environmental regulation, and parks and recreation management. From monitoring species and natural resources in the field to supporting agencies in policy development, asset management, and strategy, GIS has been central to her work at every stage. She has a passion for uniting these interconnected disciplines and advancing their role in conservation efforts around the world, and she is committed to building a global community of GIS practitioners who collaborate, innovate, and support conservation through shared expertise and geospatial insight.

Connect with Kelly Easterday at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-easterday-68a06837/

Guest Bio:
Kelly Easterday is the Director of Conservation Technology at The Nature Conservancy's Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. She has been with The Nature Conservancy for seven years. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

Connect with Healy Hamilton at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/healy-hamilton-a1a20942/

Guest Bio:
Healy Hamilton serves as Chief Scientist at the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and vice president of the Society for Conservation GIS. She has 25 years of experience as a biodiversity data scientist. Prior to joining SFI, she worked as Chief Scientist at NatureServe for ten years.

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Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Laura and Nic interview Natalie Hendricks, a leaking underground storage tank case manager with Washington D.C.’s Department of Energy and Environment, to explore how a geology background can lead to a career in environmental remediation and public service. From underground storage tank cleanups and vapor intrusion to career pivots, government work, and fostering rescue dogs, this episode offers an inside look at the diverse paths and people that make up the environmental profession.

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Connect with Natalie Hendricks at natalie.hendricks@dc.gov.

Guest Bio:
Natalie Hendricks is an Environmental Protection Specialist for Washington D.C.'s Department of Energy and Environment, where she manages Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUST) cases and Voluntary Cleanups of LUSTs throughout the District. She has been at this position for 12 years since joining DOEE in 2014. Prior to joining DOEE, Natalie was in private sector consulting with her start in LUST and project management at a small but successful startup in Florida and moved to Maryland in 2007 where she joined a larger international consultancy. She took a 2.5 year break to have her now 14 year old twins before moving to the public sector at DOEE where a number of her former colleagues were already happily transitioned! Natalie has a B.S. in Geology from the University of Florida and maintains her PG license also from the state of Florida (no PG licensing in Maryland or DC!). She was born in the Panama Canal Zone to military family life (11 schools before graduating HS in Orlando, FL). She is the mom of fraternal twins and one rescue chihuahua named Miss Pearl!

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Laura and Nic interview Dr. Gabrielle Patterson, historian at the Southeastern Grasslands Institute, to explore the forgotten history of America’s grasslands, the role of Indigenous fire stewardship, and how historical research can support modern conservation efforts. From uncovering centuries-old journals and maps to finding a career fueled by passion, this episode reveals how the landscapes of the past continue to shape the future of restoration and environmental stewardship.

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Connect with Gabrielle Patterson at gabrielle.patterson@segrasslands.org

Guest Bio:
Dr. Gabrielle Patterson serves as SGI’s Historian, specializing in environmental, natural, and Indigenous history. Her research focuses on the historical distribution of grasslands across the Southeastern United States and how landscapes have shaped human activities over time. She conducts historical and archival research, compiles historical maps, and develops GIS-based analyses to support SGI’s mission of saving the forgotten grasslands of the Southeast. Gabrielle holds an M.A. in History with a concentration in Native American History, an M.Ed. in Community College Leadership, and an Ed.D. in Adult and Lifelong Learning from the University of Arkansas. She enjoys golfing, hiking, hunting, traveling, and spending time with her two dogs.

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Laura and Nic interview Alex Ghenis, CEO and Principal Consultant at Accessible Climate Strategies, to explore the intersection of disability and climate justice, accessible climate planning, and the importance of ensuring everyone has a seat at the table. From disaster preparedness and climate resilience to advocacy, burnout, and building more inclusive communities, Alex shares how thoughtful engagement can create meaningful change for people with disabilities in a changing climate.

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Connect with Alex Ghenis at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-g-5b242421/

Guest Bio:
Alex Ghenis is the founder and Principal Consultant at Accessible Climate Strategies, the nation’s only consulting firm focused entirely on the intersection of disability and climate change. He began addressing disability climate justice in 2014 at the World Institute on Disability and has held other positions at Sustain Our Abilities and Climate Hive. Alex founded Accessible Climate Strategies in 2020 to better analyze disproportionate impacts and support disability-forward climate action. More info is available at www.accessibleclimate.com.

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Laura and Nic celebrate the Fourth of July with a lighthearted EPR Summer Camp minisode. Along the way, they connect summer camp nostalgia with environmental fieldwork, teamwork, patience, and the unpredictable fun of being outdoors.

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Laura and Nic interview Shannon Oelkers, owner and principal consultant at Integrity Environmental, about growing a business, using AI thoughtfully in environmental work, and how hiring is changing in an AI-driven world. They also dive into the complex energy and infrastructure challenges facing western Alaska, along with the memorable field experiences that come with working in some of the country’s most remote landscapes.

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Connect with Shannon Oelkers at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-oelkers/

Guest Bio:
Shannon Oelkers is the owner and principal consultant for Integrity Environmental. Shannon previously worked at the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation in the Contaminated Sites and Terminal / Tank Farms division, focusing on industrial environmental compliance. Shannon holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Science and a master's degree in Community Development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has more than a decade of experience inspecting and auditing bulk fuel tank farm operations. Shannon is also an MBA Instructor at Alaska Pacific University. Shannon is well-versed in the unique challenges of completing oil and gas related projects in Alaska.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Laura and Nic sit down with Alice Madden, Senior Director of Climate Strategies at the National Audubon Society, to talk about Colorado’s clean energy transformation, what it takes to lead progressive policy change, and how strong teams help turn big environmental goals into action. Along the way, Alice shares candid career advice on mentorship, fundraising, public service, and building a meaningful path in climate and conservation work.

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Connect with Alice Madden at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-madden-3868112b/

Guest Bio:
Alice Madden is the Senior Director of Climate Strategies for the National Audubon Society where she oversees efforts to achieve the organization’s strategic goal of influencing the responsible clean energy transition to abate climate change. An innovative changemaker, Alice brings several decades of success in developing and implementing groundbreaking policies in myriad areas, including clean energy, sustainability, environmental justice, land/water conservation, and climate action.

Alice practiced law for a decade before serving in the Colorado House of Representatives. She is considered the architect of the 2004 progressive resurgence and as Majority Leader, Alice led the passage of an historic agenda – including implementing the means to grow a sweeping clean energy economy. She went on to become Gov. Bill Ritter’s Climate Change Advisor and was a Climate Fellow at the Center for American Progress in DC. She then held the Timothy E. Wirth Chair in Sustainable Development at the University of Colorado’s School of Public Affairs. In 2013, she accepted a high-level appointment in the Obama administration at the U.S. Department of Energy, serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Intergovernmental and External Affairs. Alice led the prestigious Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy & the Environment at University of Colorado School of Law. Just prior to joining Audubon, Alice served as Greenpeace USA’s first Policy & Political Director.

Alice has always believed in giving back to her community and has served on multiple non-profit boards. In everything she does, Alice incorporates efforts to create broad collaborations, and to ensure equitable and inclusive support of women and historically under-represented populations.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Laura and Nic sit down with Dr. Kaitlyn Kingsland, Director of 3D Digitization at Environmental Research Group, to explore how LiDAR, photogrammetry, and digital twins are transforming archaeology, environmental consulting, and the way we document and monitor change over time. From preserving historic sites in perpetuity to using repeat scans to track environmental degradation, this episode highlights how cutting-edge technology is reshaping both fieldwork and the future of the industry.

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Connect with Kaitlyn Kingsland at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaitlynkingsland/

Guest Bio:
Kaitlyn Kingsland is a digitization expert, utilizing LiDAR and 3D scanning methods to capture environments and objects for a variety of purposes. An archaeologist by training, Dr. Kingsland’s work intersects with technology and cultural heritage. More recently this work has expanded to environmental sciences and engineering applications, including assisting in work involving the lidar analysis of ecology and environments, reverse engineering, and scan to BIM. Her work has led her to travel domestically and internationally to scan sites as old as prehistoric Italy, Roman Malta, and as new as modern buildings within North America. Currently, Dr. Kingsland works with Environmental Research Group, LLC of Baltimore, Maryland.

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Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Nic and Laura interview Dr. Natalie Schmitt, an ecologist, conservation geneticist, explorer, filmmaker, and founder of Wild Tech DNA, to explore rapid field-based DNA technology, big cat conservation, and the power of making conservation tools accessible to frontline communities. From snow leopards and blue whales to Indigenous knowledge and the need for deeper human connection with nature, this episode examines how innovation and collaboration can shape the future of biodiversity protection.

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Connect with Natalie Schmitt at https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-schmitt-64877968/

Guest Bio:
Dr. Natalie Schmitt is an ecologist, conservation geneticist, and documentary filmmaker whose work is driven by a deep commitment to ethical and transformative approaches to biodiversity protection. With a background spanning Antarctic whale research to Himalayan snow leopard conservation, Natalie has spent over two decades exploring innovative ways to address the root causes of biodiversity loss — and to empower the people at the heart of its solutions.

Taking inspiration from the Indigenous principle of two-eyed seeing, Natalie is passionate about trying to weave together Western science, Indigenous knowledge, and creative storytelling to foster collaboration, connection, and justice in conservation. She has worked alongside communities in Nepal to help restore harmony between people, livestock, and snow leopards (with the Pangje Foundation), and has contributed genetic insights to policy change through the International Whaling Commission via her research with the Australian Antarctic Division.

As the founder and CEO of WildTechDNA, Natalie leads the development of a groundbreaking real-time DNA detection technology that makes species identification rapid, low-cost, and accessible — even in remote, non-lab settings. Her work aims to transform how customs officers, law enforcement, citizen scientists, and local communities monitor biodiversity and combat illegal wildlife trade.

In 2022, Natalie was honored as one of the Explorers Club 50: Fifty People Changing the World that the World Needs to Know About. She currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at McMaster University. Her mission is guided by the belief that the biodiversity crisis is not simply ecological — it is deeply human, relational, and personal.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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We’re LIVE from NAEP 2026 in Anchorage! Nic leads a special on-stage episode featuring Anna Kohl, Carolyn Nelson, and Fred Wagner as they dive into Alaska’s unique environmental landscape, NEPA challenges, and the realities of project delivery. With candid insights, legal perspectives, and memorable field stories, this live recording captures the humor, complexity, and energy of environmental work in action.

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Connect with Anna Kohl at https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-kohl-cep-8184159/

Guest Bio:
Anna Kohl was born and raised in Anchorage and left for college before realizing there was much to explore back home. She obtained a BA in Geology from Mount Holyoke College and worked in coffee shops and remediation before landing at HDR Engineering in 2004, where she has been ever since. Anna’s technical background is in the NEPA and impact analysis/environmental science fields, though she currently is the Operations Manager for 150 engineers, planners, scientists, GIS professionals, and other smart folks who make up HDR in Alaska. An active member of NAEP and a Trustee of ABCEP, she obtained a certificate in NEPA from the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012 and her CEP in 2017.

Connect with Carolyn Nelson at https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-nelson-p-e-02768977/

Guest Bio:
Carolyn Nelson is responsible for providing technical assistance for NEPA compliance and other related environmental laws and Executive Orders as Director of Environmental Analysis & Compliance Division of PHMSA. Carolyn has over 30 years’ experience as a geometric design engineer and NEPA practitioner. She was Co-Chair of the White House Interagency Council (IAC), NEPA Committee and is recognized as a national expert for NEPA compliance. Carolyn has worked at Headquarters of the FHWA and also in the FHWA Michigan Division Office. Prior to FHWA, she worked for the Michigan DOT and CH2M Hill (now Jacobs).

Connect with Fred Wagner at https://linkedin.com/in/fred-wagner-59043019

Guest Bio:
Fred Wagner focuses on environmental and natural resources issues concerning major infrastructure, including surface transportation, energy, mining, and commercial project development. Fred advises clients on environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act or equivalent state statutes. He also helps secure permits and approvals from regulators under a variety of federal programs, including Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act. Fred provides strategic counseling regarding implementation of the full spectrum of federal environmental programs, as well as U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) surface transportation grant management and safety regulations.

Prior to joining Jacobs, Fred represented a wide variety of developers, public entities, and businesses in environmental, land use, and natural resources litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits to government enforcement actions and Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges. Most recently, Fred was counsel of record in the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition NEPA case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Laura interviews Dr. Angela Seligman, senior geoscientist from Clean Air Task Force, to explore the cutting edge of geothermal energy, the science behind volcanoes, and what it takes to turn curiosity into a meaningful career. From next-generation clean energy to the importance of science communication, this episode dives into how understanding what’s beneath our feet can shape a more sustainable future.

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Connect with Angela Seligman at https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-seligman-4717b476/

Guest Bio:
Angela Seligman is CATF’s Senior Geoscientist on the Geothermal team, where she acts as the team’s subsurface technical expert. In this role, she works to further the technology innovation needed to deploy geothermal at a scale necessary to provide low-carbon energy globally at a competitive cost. Angela held a postdoctoral research position with the EPA where she researched remediation methods for water contaminated by uranium mining. She received her Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Oregon and her master’s degree in Geology from the University of Utah, where she studied geochemistry and volcanology.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Chase Cain, meteorologist and the former climate correspondent for NBC News, now the creator of a new YouTube series "Chase What Matters" about Meteorology, Climate Cancer, and Life after NBC News. Read his full bio below.

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Guest Bio:
Chase Cain is a meteorologist and three-time Emmy Award winner. As the first climate reporter for NBC, he also earned a national Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting on how climate change is threatening the beloved Joshua tree. Now, Chase has traded the legacy news desk for the global reach of YouTube to lead an honest, hopeful conversation about our relationship with our environment. In his series “Chase What Matters,” he’s exploring how reconnecting with nature can heal us and the planet!

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On today’s episode, we’re LIVE from Hutchinson Island at the FAEP Conference! In this episode, we’re joined by Kelley Samuels, Senior Ecologist and Certified Project Manager at AECOM. Kelley shares her insights from over 25 years of experience in environmental permitting, impact assessment, and ecological work across the Southeast. We dive into the complexities of wetland work, the challenges of managing large, interdisciplinary teams, and discuss this year's conference theme: "Anchored in Purpose, Driven by Vision." Plus, we swap some #FieldNotes from our time in the field.

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Guest Bio:
Kelley Samuels is a Senior Ecologist and an AECOM Certified Project Manager based in Orlando, Florida. Kelley has 25 years of experience as an environmental impact assessment and permitting specialist. Her expertise includes ecological assessments of flora and fauna, primarily in the southeast, with a specific focus on wetlands and wildlife as they relate to linear corridor analyses, environmental permitting, due diligence evaluation, and environmental monitoring.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Angela Perri, Vice President of International at Chronicle Heritage about Cultural Resources Management, Transitioning from PhD to Field Archeology, and Working in Saudi Arabia. Read her full bio below.

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Connect with Angela Perri at linkedin.com/in/angela-perri-ph-d-605855222

Guest Bio:
As Vice President of International at Chronicle Heritage, Dr. Angela Perri directs a broad portfolio of heritage projects across the international space, including in the GCC, UK, and Europe. Since joining the firm in 2021, she has expanded the division’s international capabilities and built a diverse team of heritage professionals from around the world. Her leadership has supported the successful delivery of dozens of major initiatives for clients operating in complex cultural and regulatory environments. Dr. Perri holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Durham University and is an expert in prehistoric archaeology, domestication, and archaeological science.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Melissa Troutman, award-winning journalist and filmmaker about Oil and Gas industry, Investigative Journalism, and the Permian Basin. Read her full bio below.

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0:58 - Laura on navigating career growth
6:10 - Interview with Melissa Troutman Starts
11:14 - Journalist confronting oil and gas
15:08- Fighting for policy change in an oil field
30:58 - Career advice and personal passions

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Guest Bio:
Melissa Troutman is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and environmental policy advocate. In 2011, Melissa co-founded the investigative newsroom Public Herald and in 2019 received a Community Sentinel Award honoring her dedication and support for communities and ecosystems in oil and gas regions. After more than a decade investigating corruption and collusion in the oilfields of Pennsylvania, Melissa turned to policymaking in the highest yielding oil and gas extraction zones across the United States. Since 2022, she has served as Climate and Health Advocate for WildEarth Guardians with a focus on energy development in New Mexico and Colorado.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Renee Lertzman, environmental psychologist and founder of Project InsideOut about Environmental Psychology, Climate Anxiety, and Behavior Change. Read her full bio below.

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1:35 - Green guilt
9:34 - Interview with Renee starts!
13:14 - Reframing environmental Action
29:43 - Listening to stakeholders
38:31- Five guiding principals

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Renée Lertzman is a founder, psychologist, researcher, and strategist who has spent three decades investigating one of the most pressing questions of our time: why do people struggle to act on what they care most deeply about—and what does it actually take to change that? Her answer challenges everything we think we know about motivation, resistance, and human behavior. The problem, she has found, is never lack of care. It's that care gets buried under anxiety, unprocessed grief, and the weight of impossible-feeling choices, and the strategies we use to overcome that tend to make it worse. Her work, spanning corporations, governments, nonprofits, and communities across the globe—is built on a simple but radical premise: the capacity for change already exists in people. Our job is to unlock it.

Renée has advised senior leaders and leadership teams at Google, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, WWF, Live Nation, and the White House, and her TED Talk, How to Turn Climate Anxiety into Action, has been viewed over two million times. She is the author of Environmental Melancholia and the founder of the acclaimed Project InsideOut, seed funded by the 11th Hour Project and KR Foundation. Her forthcoming book, So You Want to Change the World? Creating the Future You Want from the Inside Out (Viking 2027), is the culmination of thirty years of practice and research at the intersection of psychology and planetary change.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Kimberlee Chambers, Agriculture Program Manager at Earthworm Foundation about Regenerative Farming, Food Systems, and Non-Linear Career Paths. Read her full bio below.

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1:30 - Earthworm facts!
7:22 - Interview with Kimberlee Chambers Starts
13:11 - Regenerative Agriculture
19:16 - Navigating consumer acceptance
26:27 - #Fieldnotes adventures!

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Kimberlee Chambers is an Agriculture Program Manager at Earthworm Foundation, an international nonprofit. She works throughout food system supply chains to support farm viability and sustainability initiatives. Kimberlee’s roots in agriculture and conservation run deep — since growing up on a family farm in Ontario, Canada, she has conducted multiple applied agricultural research projects with farmers, Tribes, and First Nation communities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Kimberlee serves as a Board Member for Sustainable Northwest and the Oregon Agricultural Trust. She has a PhD in geography from the University of California, Davis, and an MSc in ethnoecology from the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Irene Jorden Romero, NASA Goddard NEPA Manager and Cultural Resource Manager about Rockets, Environmental Compliance at NASA, and Space Mission Planning. Read her full bio below.

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1:41- The Roman Telescope!
6:03- Interview with Irene starts
13:59- Irene's path to NASA and career evolution
18:57 - Navigating environmental compliance for NASA's space missions
31:45 - #FieldNotes

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Guest Bio:
Irene Jorden Romero is an Environmental Planner at NASA leading the Goddard NEPA and Cultural Resources Programs. She will be celebrating 14 years at NASA April 1st, with previous career work in sustainable architecture and construction management. Outside of work she enjoys Girl Scouts, outdoor activities and reading alongside her 2 kids and husband. She resides near Annapolis, Maryland.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Eric Beightel, Federal Strategy Director at Environmental Science Associates about Environmental Permitting Reform, NEPA Assignment, and the Future of Environmental Policy. Read his full bio below.

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0:19 - Right Whale Facts!
7:18 - Interview with Eric Beightel starts
18:38- The bureaucracy and challenges of environmental permitting
36:55 - The benefits and futures of NEPA Assignment for states
45:12 - #FieldNotes

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Guest Bio:
As Federal Strategy Director, Eric serves as an advisor to ESA’s clients on the full range of regulatory challenges, helping navigate the ever-evolving changes to federal policies, processes, and funding requirements.

A seasoned practitioner with a career spanning 25 years in federal, state, and private sector positions, Eric Beightel is a nationally recognized expert on environmental policy, NEPA, and the federal permitting process. Throughout his career, he has continually played a leading role in driving the national effort to streamline the environmental permitting process for major infrastructure projects.

Before joining ESA, Eric was the Presidentially appointed Executive Director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) where he was responsible for overseeing a portfolio of more than $75 billion in large-scale infrastructure projects, supporting federal agencies and project sponsors through expedited federal environmental review and permitting that advanced dozens of critical projects to completion, realizing their economic and environmental benefits for the nation.

Eric previously served under prior federal administrations as a Senior Environmental Policy Advisor at the Department of Transportation and as a subject matter expert to the Office of Management and Budget. In addition to his public sector positions, he also has held national infrastructure and environmental policy and strategy roles with national and global consulting firms, bringing hands-on experience with project implementation and delivery for complex infrastructure projects.

Eric Beightel holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and a Master of Public Policy degree from George Mason University.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wager, Principal Environmental Regulatory Advisor with Jacobs about The Endangerments Clause, Updates to ESA, and the Future of WOTUS. Read his full bio below.

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0:29 - Cute animal facts!
1:28 - Navigating travel chaos
10:39 - Interview with Fred Wagner starts
16:15 - Unpacking the Endangerment Clause and Major Questions Doctrine
27:47 - The future of WOTUS and endangered species act interpretations
37:44 - Examining Section 106 and historic preservation challenges
40:53 - Optimism, regulatory resilience, and concluding thoughts

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Guest Bio:

Fred Wagner focuses on environmental and natural resources issues concerning major infrastructure, including surface transportation, energy, mining, and commercial project development. Fred advises clients on environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act or equivalent state statutes. He also helps secure permits and approvals from regulators under a variety of federal programs, including Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act. Fred provides strategic counseling regarding implementation of the full spectrum of federal environmental programs, as well as U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) surface transportation grant management and safety regulations.

Prior to joining Jacobs, Fred represented a wide variety of developers, public entities, and businesses in environmental, land use, and natural resources litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits to government enforcement actions and Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges. Most recently, Fred was counsel of record in the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition NEPA case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Amy Jacobs, The Nature Conservancy, Chesapeake Bay Director, about Wetland Restoration, Agricultural Water Quality, and Chesapeake Bay Conservation. Read her full bio below.

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1:40 - Our favorite Airbnb experiences
6:10 - Interview with Amy Jacobs Starts!
12:39 - Jacobs Conservation Efforts

20:02 - Approaches to the Watershed
26:32 - Jacobs paddle boarding hobby

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Guest Bio:

Amy brings over 30 years of experience in conservation, dedicating her career to making a significant impact in the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding landscapes. She began her journey with The Nature Conservancy, assessing the condition of wetlands in the Nanticoke Watershed. Amy then took a position with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, where she built a Wetland Assessment and Monitoring Program. In 2012, she returned to The Nature Conservancy for the mission and to advance restoration in the Chesapeake Bay.

Amy has a proven track record of leading large-scale conservation programs, securing funding, and fostering impactful partnerships. From working to restore over 3,500 acres of floodplains along the Pocomoke River to working with private agribusiness to establish the MidAtlantic 4R Nutrient Stewardship Association that has advanced over 150,000 acres of improved farmland management in the Chesapeake region, she is passionate about driving impact on the ground. Amy holds a bachelor’s degree in forestry and wildlife from Virginia Tech and a master’s degree in Environmental Forest Biology from the State University of New York and Syracuse University.

In her free time Amy enjoys traveling with her family, standup paddleboarding, yoga, raising funds for local food pantries, and being a groupie to her husband’s band.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Lee Clauss, Southern California Project Manager with The Trust for Public Land and Principal Consultant at LSC Consulting, specializing in Indigenous land stewardship, sovereignty, and cultural resource management.Read her full bio below.

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1:31 - Nic's New Job!
7:13 - Interview with Lee Clauss Starts
22:37 - What needs to Change?
33:03 - What is the Process of Giving Land Back?
40:36- #Fieldnotes with Lee!

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Guest Bio:
Lee Clauss currently serves as a Project Manager on the Trust for Public Land’s
California Land Protection team. She is an applied anthropologist/archaeologist and advocate for Native American communities' sovereignty. She has 25 years of
experience in historic preservation and environmental law, regulatory compliance and public policy analysis. Her background includes Indigenous lands and cultural
stewardship, curation, and community-based planning and research. Clauss regularly provides training on land return pathways, repatriation, Indigenous science, Tribal consultation, environmental justice, and data sovereignty. Prior to her time at TPL, Lee worked for and with multiple Tribal governments in Arizona, North Carolina, and California.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sarah Newman, Founder and Executive Director of the Climate Mental Health Network about Climate Anxiety, Resilience, and Community Support. Read her full bio below.

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1:30 - Environmental Challenges
8:15 - Interview with Sarah Newman Starts
12:30 - How do we help
25:19 - Connecting to the Climate movement
30:16 - Living on a Sailboat!

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Guest Bio:
Sarah Newman is the founder and executive director of Climate Mental Health Network, addressing the mental health consequences of climate change. The organization is the largest in this emerging sector, reaching young people, parents and educators with research-informed programs and resources. In 2025 she was named a Grist 50 Fixer. She previously worked in the media impact sector and at nonprofits as an outreach director and community organizer.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

We have a new minisode for you today! This is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode on Friday this week. Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Jeremy Raguain, Seychellois conservationist, Italy-AOSIS Fellowship Director, and owner of Out of the Shell Solutions Seychelles about Protecting the High Seas, Teaching the Next Generation of Leaders, and Growing Up Where Conservation is Everyday Life. Read his full bio below.

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1:26 - Island Living
6:02 - Interview with Jeremy Raguain begins
13:55 - Italy-AOSIS Fellowship
26:13 - What makes a good fellow
30:41 - #Fieldnotes with Jeremy!

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Guest Bio:
Jeremy Raguain is a Seychellois conservationist working with the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) as the Director of the Italy-AOSIS Fellowship.

In addition to being an alumnus of this fellowship (2022) he is also an alumnus of Columbia University's Masters of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy (2024), which builds on a Bachelor of Social Science in International Relations (Honours) and Environmental Geographical Sciences from the University of Cape Town. Before rejoining AOSIS, Jeremy worked as a Senior Programme Officer for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at its Eastern and Southern African Regional Office, supporting 11 African states in ratifying and implementing the BBNJ Agreement, a subject matter on which he publishes peer-reviewed research.

Jeremy has served as the Climate Change and Ocean Advisor for the Seychelles Permanent Mission to the UN, coordinated projects and communications, as well as contributed to Seychelles' national environmental policy through several positions at the Seychelles Islands Foundation and is the Owner of Out of the Shell Solutions Seychelles, a consultancy providing services related to environmental policy, communications and project Management.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sunny Fleming, Esri's Director of Conservation about Making Conservation Tools Accessible, Using Data Responsibility in Conservation, and a New Chapter for Conservation Leadership. Read her full bio below.

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1:50 - What changed in the course of our careers?
10:29 - Interview with Sunny begins
19:03 - 1st experiences with mapping tools
35:28 - What are you hopeful about in the conservation space?
42:55 - Fly fishing with Sunny!

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Guest Bio:
Sunny Fleming serves as the Director of Conservation Solutions at Esri. Her career has been shaped by a consistent theme of applying GIS to solve real‑world challenges across conservation, environmental regulation, and parks and recreation management. From monitoring species and natural resources in the field to supporting agencies in policy development, asset management, and strategy, GIS has been central to her work at every stage. She has a passion for uniting these interconnected disciplines and advancing their role in conservation efforts around the world, and she is committed to building a global community of GIS practitioners who collaborate, innovate, and support conservation through shared expertise and geospatial insight.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Lauren Watkins, environmental psychologist, working at the intersection of people and environmental challenges about Using Psychology to Solve Environmental Problems, Working Directly with Communities, and Managing Conflict and Tough Conversation. Read her full bio below.

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1:55 - EPR is hiring!
5:15 - EPRs New Yearly Goals
9:14 - Interview with Lauren Watkins Starts
19:15 - Opportunities outside Academia
26:12 - Behavior Change Campaign

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Guest Bio:
Currently supporting organizations such as the Jane Goodall Institute, Keeping Forests, Ecochallenge.org, and the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance, Lauren Watkins brings over a decade of experience in environmental psychology and social science research to inspire sustainable behavior change.

As Principal Owner of her consultancy, Lauren specializes in co-creating solutions alongside communities, employing empathetic research methods, and crafting tailored communication and change strategies with communities and target audiences - not simply for them. Her work emphasizes ethical and sustainable approaches to addressing environmental challenges, ensuring that initiatives resonate deeply with stakeholders. Passionate about fostering impactful change, Lauren focuses on bridging the gap between people and natural ecosystems to find solutions that match the scale of today's problems.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Heidi Pan, Founder of the 1.5 Degrees Podcast about Starting a Podcast at 16, Career Advice for Gen Z, and Junk Journaling. Read her full bio below.

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4:06 - Let Them Theory
11:45 - Interview with Heidi Pan begins
18:50 - Who are you speaking to?
27:30 - Mental Health & Youths
32:58 - #FieldNotes with Heidi Pan!

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Guest Bio:
At 16, to bridge the gap between aspiring environmentalists and established professionals Heidi Pan founded the 1.5 Degrees Podcast showcasing climate careers and involving the science, solutions, and stories in the fight against climate change. Her accessible intergenerational and intersectional climate conversations have since been featured by BBC Future Earth and the Smithsonian. In her free time she's teaching herself acoustic guitar, taking photos of birds, and junk journaling.

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We have a new holiday minisode for you today! This is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode on Friday this week. Thank you so much for listening!

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We have a new minisode for you today! This is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode on Friday this week. Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Teresa Martinez, Executive Director and Co-founder of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition about Leadership Rooted in the Ground, Community-Led Conservation, and Connection Across Landscape and People. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
2:35 - Hiking the Appalachian Trail
10:36 - Interview with Teresa Martinez Starts!
19:03 - Personal Goals in the Workplace
27:45 - Challenges of Community Input
42:49 - #FieldNotes with Teresa

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Guest Bio:
Teresa Martinez is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, the lead national and lead partner working with the USFS, BLM, National Park Service, State Agencies, Indigenous Communities and Tribal Nations to cooperatively steward the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail. For over 30 years, Teresa has worked professionally to increase awareness, engagement, access, and stewardship of our entire National Trails System. A graduate of Virginia Tech, Teresa holds a B.S. and M.S from the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife in the College of Natural Resources. From 1987- 2007 she worked for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, from 2007 to 2012 she worked for the Continental Divide Trail Alliance and since 2012 she has been the Executive Director (and co-founder) of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition. Formerly a Board member, today she serves on the Trail Leadership Council of the Partnership for the National Trails System and has served as the Chair of the Federal Advisory Committee to aid the USFS in the development of the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail. Teresa also serves on the Board of Directors for Leave No Trace and has also served on the advisory committee for the Salazar Center for North American Conservation.

Teresa is actively involved in the creation of equitable spaces for all people in the outdoors and in 2015, was part of the inaugural group of conservation leaders assembling in Washington DC to launch a new vision for the next 100 years of stewardship of our nation’s parks, forests, waters, oceans, and trails which led to the formation of the Next 100 Coalition and the Next 100 Coalition Colorado.

Today, Teresa serves as the Chair of the National Board for the Next 100 Coalition. In 2019, Teresa was honored by the Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources as the recipient of the Gerald Cross Alumni Leadership Award. When not working one of these heart driven endeavors, Teresa can be found perfecting her sourdough and puff pastry bakes, or spending her time exploring the mountains, mesas and arroyos of the landscapes around her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her rescue dog Riley and hosting discadas with friends while watching the sunrise and sunset over the beautiful terrain of the Land of Enchantment.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome, Associate Professor in the Environmental Justice Specialization at the University of Michigan about Forced Job Transition, Career Reinvention, and Purpose Under Pressure. Read her full bio below.

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2:12 - Learning a New Job
8:37 - Interview with Jalonne White-Newsome Starts
16:37 - Key factors to continue moving forward
31:34 - How to engage communities in today political climate
42:11 - #Fieldnotes with Dr. White-Newsome!

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Jalonne L. White-Newsome is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Justice Specialization. Building on her multi-faceted, multi-sectoral and diverse areas of passion, practice, service and scholarship, Dr. White-Newsome’s areas of research include: environmental and climate justice policy and practice; finding solutions to address the social, economic and public health impacts of climate change – specifically, extreme heat, extreme flooding, and specific health impacts on the elderly and children; examining how to integrate justice, equity and corporate social responsibility; and advancing justice-centered leadership across the environmental sector.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Carissa Cabrera, Founder of Futureswell an ocean conservation consultancy scaling solutions for planet ocean about Media-Powered Advocacy, Persistent Policy Leadership, and Place-Based Inspiration. Read her full bio below.

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2:02 - Carbon Footprints of Travlers
8:55 - Interview with Carissa Cabrera begin
21:40 - Something I learned as an Advocate
29:35 - What kind of stories do you share?
41:45 - Carissas Hobbies; Bookclub!

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Guest Bio:
Carissa Cabrera is an ocean climate advocate, Harvard-recognized content creator, and has dedicated her career to conserving planet ocean. For the past 10 years, she has focused on ocean recovery efforts—working with endangered species, ecosystem restoration, conservation financing, community outreach, and environmental literacy. She founded Futureswell in 2020, a conservation consultancy and storytelling firm dedicated to advancing community-based ocean climate solutions through partnerships with NGOs, coalitions, and accessible media. Specifically, she works on the development strategy of innovative ocean climate solutions that serve Hawai'i and the broader ocean community. For example, she developed the first coral restoration training program in the Pacific specifically dedicated to training Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders on diving restoration, and recently was the long-standing community organizer for passing the first visitor green fee legislation in the United States. She has been recognized as Ocean Influencer of the Year by Coral Reef Alliance, is an established educator under National Geographic Society, and was one of the inaugural Climate Creators to Watch by Harvard. Carissa's work, company, and media projects share one mission: to expand pathways for ocean climate action and accelerate collective conservation solutions globally.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ushma Pandya, co-founder and partner at Think Zero about Zero Waste, Sustainability Job Types, and Trash Walkers. Read her full bio below.

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1:58 - Nic & Laura talk Scams
8:48 - Interview with Ushma Pandya Starts
17:48 - Different type of Partnerships
29:14 - Sustainability as a growing field
34:20 - Fieldnotes with Ushma!

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Guest Bio:
Ushma is a co founder and Partner at Think Zero LLC, a zero waste advisory firm that works with companies on their sustainability goals related to waste.

Ushma has had a lifelong interest in sustainability and waste reduction. Before the term "zero waste" was coined, she was raising awareness about consumption and waste with her schoolmates and work colleagues.

Prior to launching Think Zero, Ushma held senior management roles with American Express, Booz & Co., and Katzenbach Partners. She has worked on environmental issues with organizations such as the Environmental Defense Fund, the Department of Environment of the City of Chicago, and Acumen.

Ushma is a board member of the Sanitation Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the NYC DSNY, the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board (MSWAB) and the NYC chapter of the New York League of Conservation Voters. She was previously on the Board of Sustainable South Bronx, where she oversaw the for-profit subsidiary Cool Roofs that worked on cooling and greening roofs throughout NYC. In addition, she sits on the Environmental Protection Committee of Community Board 1, Manhattan.

Ushma holds degrees from Georgetown University, Columbia University and Harvard University. She is certified as a TRUE Zero Waste Business Associate by GBCI and a LEED Green Associate.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Letise LaFeir, Chief of Conservation and Stewardship at the New England Aquarium about Resilient Leadership, Interconnected Stewardship, and Integrated Science Communication. Read her full bio below.

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1:55 - Friends in adulthood
10:37 - Interview with Letise LaFeir starts
21:45 - LaFeir's Career Path
34:50 - Policy Work
41:09 - Field Notes with LaFeir

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Letise LaFeir serves as the Chief of Conservation and Stewardship at New England Aquarium, overseeing Animal Care, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, Conservation Learning, Conservation Policy, and Community Engagement. LaFeir most recently served as a day-one Biden-Harris Administration appointee in the role of Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Before holding that position, LaFeir was a Program Officer and later Director of Federal Policy at Resources Legacy Fund; California Ocean Policy Manager at Monterey Bay Aquarium; Policy Analyst and later National Outreach Coordinator for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries; and Director of Government Relations and Education Program Coordinator at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. She also spent one year as a Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow for now-retired Congressman Sam Farr of California. In 2014, LaFeir founded and still co-owns Upwelling Consulting, LLC. During her career, she has been honored with several awards, has had countless public speaking engagements, and has served on several professional advisory boards. In addition to authoring or co-authoring several scientific publications and a book of poetry, she is a certified scuba diver (Advanced and Nitrox) and has traveled to all seven continents and the seafloor. LaFeir holds a B.S. in Aquatic Biology and a B.A. in English (with Honors in Creative Writing) from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the University of Delaware-College of Marine Studies.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Mark Coleman, Author, Planet Pragmatism and Director of Advanced Energy Advisory and Innovation with TRC Companies about Establishing Trust, Rediscovering Humanity, and Planet Pragmatism. Read his full bio below.

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2:45 - Delightful things
10:08 - Interview with Mark Coleman
20:32 - How to work through all the Noise
29:22 - How do you build Trust with doubtful people
47:06 - Fieldnotes with Mark!

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Guest Bio:
Mark C. Coleman is an award-winning author and recognized voice as a business and leadership advisor, entrepreneur, and educator specializing in sustainable change management and enterprise development. With over 25 years of experience, he inspires both current and future leaders to embrace principled leadership founded on pragmatism, dignity, trust, and accountability. He has served as a strategic advisor to numerous leading organizations across academia, industry, emerging enterprises, and government, focusing on the intersection of societal change, environmental risk, and sustainable innovation.

Mr. Coleman currently serves as Director of Advisory and Innovation within TRC’s Advanced Energy (AE) business segment where he works with leaders across the organization and with partners and clients to strategically advance best-in-class integrated solutions to complex energy and business challenges. His work is focused on the nexus of energy and environmental innovation and the emergent sustainable economy, marked by solutions which are decarbonized, digital, decentralized, and which also embody social impact, environmental justice, and economic equity at their foundation.

As the founder of Convergence Mitigation Management (CMM), a high-impact business intelligence, strategy, and management consultancy, Mr. Coleman provides custom advisory services to entrepreneurs, small and medium sized businesses, government, applied research, and non-governmental organizations.

In July 2025 Mr. Coleman published his 4th book, Planet Pragmatism: The New Path to Prosperity. Mark currently serves as a Board Member of Ecology Prime, a global platform catalyzing ecologic education, outreach, and communications. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for Cayuga Community College and as an adjunct instructor of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprise at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in Sustainable Enterprise. Mr. Coleman resides in the Finger Lakes region of New York with his wife and two sons.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Mu

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We have a new minisode for you today that is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode. Thank you so much for listening!
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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, assistant professor of environmental and health sciences at Spelman College and Co-Founder of the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance about Community Science, Climate Justice, and Mentorship. Read her full bio below.

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1:36 - The Positives about Fall
7:59 - Interview with Dr. Jelks starts
17:40 - West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
29:56 - Challenges of Funding
39:35 - Field Notes with Dr. Jelks!

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Na’Taki Osborne Jelks is an assistant professor of environmental and health sciences at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA and Co-Founder of the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, a community-based, environmental justice organization. Jelks investigates urban environmental health disparities; the impact of climate change on marginalized communities; the role that place, race, and social factors play in influencing health; and urban greening and resilience practices and their impact on health. She also develops, implements, and evaluates community-based initiatives that set conditions to enable low-income and communities of color to empower themselves to reduce exposure to environmental health hazards. Jelks’ scholarship centers participatory approaches that engage environmentally overburdened communities in monitoring local environmental conditions, generating actionable data for community change, and developing effective community-based interventions that revitalize toxic, degraded spaces into healthy places. She is currently leading UrbanHeatATL, a research initiative in which local students and community members are mapping urban heat islands in Atlanta with community science. Her research has been supported by public and private entities such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Rockefeller, Robert Wood Johnson, JPB, and National Science Foundations.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Josh Hirten, Environmental Discipline Leader at CDM Smith about The Silver Tsunami, Mentorship, and Global Collaboration. Read his full bio below.

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1:39 - Diving Adventures with Nic & Laura
8:30 - Interview with Josh Hirten Starts
13:34- Sampling through cavern diving
22:04 - Impact of professional organization
29:05 - Field Notes with Josh!

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Guest Bio:
Joshua Hirten, PG is an Environmental Discipline Leader at CDM Smith with over 28 years of experience. He holds an MS in Geology from the University of Florida, BA in Geology from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and is registered Professional Geologist in Florida.

Josh is part of the Sky Wave at CDM Smith Team that combines data acquisition and machine learning to obtain detailed results to drive data to decisions. Josh is the Program Manager for the Waste Cleanup Program at the FDEP. In addition to environmental projects, Josh developed and conducted Project Management training at over 20 locations globally.

Josh is actively involved in professional activities, serving as Board Member for National Association of Environmental Professionals and Vice President for Florida Association of Environmental Professionals.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Michael Carter, Climate and Workforce Manager at King County’s Executive Climate Office about Local Workforce Empowerment, Climate, and Good Trouble. Read his full bio below.

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1:43 - The Art of Hustling
8:11 - Interview with Michael Carter Starts
15:30- Challenges talking about Climate
29:14 - Being a good trouble maker
43:24 - On being a poet

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Guest Bio:
Michael Carter is a changemaker and good trouble seeker, serving as the Climate and Workforce Manager at King County’s Executive Climate Office (ECO). His work centers on connecting communities affected by climate change with living wage employment opportunities linked to clean energy deployment. He leads initiatives like King County JumpStart, a workforce development program to connect youth to clean energy careers, and local businesses to clean energy contracts at King County. In addition, he serves as the co-chair of the Coalition for Climate Careers, a public-private partnership focused on increasing access to the green economy for underrepresented groups. Michael is committed to bridging the gap between skilled trades and clean energy deployment while ensuring equitable access to living-wage jobs for frontline communities impacted by climate change. He holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Southern California (USC), where his research focused on integrating workforce development into local government climate action plans.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Matt Scott, Director of Storytelling and Engagement at Project Drawdown and founding director of Drawdown Stories about Storytelling, Opportunities through Connections, and Everyday Changemakers. Read his full bio below.

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1:32 - Power of Stories
7:56 - Interview with Matt Scott Begins
15:08 - What is Project Drawdown
24:26 - Bringing everyday people into the convo
35:50 - Draw to Reality TV

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Guest Bio:
Matt Scott (He/Him) is the Director of Storytelling and Engagement at Project Drawdown and founding director of Drawdown Stories, where he helps everyday people connect with climate solutions. He hosts Drawdown’s Neighborhood, a climate solutions docuseries, highlighting local climate heroes across the U.S. with a focus on passing the mic to voices who often go unheard. Previously, Matt led global community engagement for NASA’s Space Apps Challenge, the world’s largest problem-solving hackathon, earning two NASA awards and collaborating with organizations including the UN, USAID, Nike, and the Obama White House. He’s also the creator of Let’s Care and the film 20s & Change: San Francisco, which has been recognized at three film festivals. Matt's work has been featured by The Weather Channel, National Geographic, Grist, PBS, FEMA, NOAA, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Hollywood Climate Summit, and more.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, Nik talks LIVE with Cinder Miller, President of Gray and Pape, Andrew Goldberg, Principal at Agora at American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA)’s 31st Annual Conference about the future of environmental policy and protecting cultural resources. Read their full bios below.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Katherine Amidon, Senior Water Resources Planner at Bolton & Menk about Career Path to Planning, Challenges of Long-Term Planning, and Personal Growth and Balance. Read her full bio below.

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2:05 - Nic meets a Manta Ray!
5:26 - Interview with Katherine begins
9:03 - How do you plan well?
25:15: - AICP Certification
33:27 - Field Notes with Katherine

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Guest Bio:
Katherine is a Senior Water Resources Planner at Bolton & Menk, a multidisciplinary firm offering a wide array of services ranging from planning, engineering, and design to project communications and GIS. She is a hands-on project manager who enjoys working alongside project stakeholders to work through complex projects. Katherine is passionate about projects involving water, equitable access to nature, and regional land use analysis. She considers herself a "forever sponge" - there is always more to learn. She is an active member on the board for Friends of the Reedy River and has been involved with the South Carolina statewide watershed planning process as the Vice Chair of the Saluda River Basin Council. When not planning, which she also does in her personal life, she can be found on her Trek bike, teaching yoga, or backpacking.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wagner, principal environmental advisor at Jacobs about the courts reshaping policy, NEPA uncertainty, and sticking to core environmental Values. Read his full bio below.

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1:42 - Do you know your NEPA terms?
8:09 - Interview with Fred Wagner Starts
24:17 - Alligator Alcatraz
31:24 - What are defensible exclusions now
46:29 - How do we balances changes with our values

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Guest Bio:

Fred Wagner focuses his practice on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Fred is familiar with the full range of issues surrounding USDOT surface transportation programs, including grant management, procurement, suspension and debarment, and safety regulations. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Alex Troutman, Wildlife Biologist about Spark Birds, Lifer Pie, and Becoming the Mirror for Yourself. Read his full bio below.

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1:17 - Learning from our Guests
8:40 - Interview with Alex Troutman Starts
15:51 - Favorite Roles
26:40 - Being a role model
41:53 - Field Notes with Alex!

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Guest Bio:

Alex is a Fish and Wildlife Biologist and Environmental educator with a passion for sharing and immersing the younger generation into nature. He has a Bachelor of Biology and master’s degree with a focus in Conservation Biology from Georgia Southern University. Knowing how it feels to not see anybody who looks like you in your dream career, Alex makes it a point to be that representation for the younger generation. He is the co-organizer for several Black in X weeks including Black Birders Week and Black Mammologists Week, A movement encouraging diversity in nature, and the celebration of Black individuals scientists, and increasing awareness of Black nature enthusiasts, and diversity in STEM fields.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Kristy Drutman, Founder and Co-CEO of Green Jobs Board about Going Viral, Consistency and Rejection to Redirection to get to Your Career. Read her full bio below.

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1:32 - Condensing info through Social Media
8:06 - Interview with Kristy Starts
15:38 - Brown Girl Green
23:30 - Career Path with all the twists & turns
36:10 - #Field Notes with Kristy

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Guest Bio:
Kristy Drutman, otherwise known as “Browngirl Green” is a speaker, consultant, media producer, and environmental educator passionate about working at the intersections between media, diversity, and environmentalism. As an entrepreneur and climate communications expert, Kristy has educated hundreds of thousands of people across the globe about modern-day environmental issues through speeches and media content as well as facilitates workshops centered around environmental media and storytelling in cities across the United States. She has been invited to the White House multiple times as an on-ground reporter, was featured in Teen Vogue, NY Times, Refinery 29 among many other publications, is a Grist 50 under 50 recipient and a Create and Cultivate Top 100 creator.

Kristy is also the Co-Founder of the Green Jobs Board, a climate tech start-up bridging the equity and inclusion gap within the green economy through conversations, resources, and pathways to bring more diverse talent into the environmental field.

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On today’s episode Nic and Laura talk behind the scenes at EPR!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Kendra Pierre-Louis, climate journalist about Climate Science, Journalism, and Working Backwards to get to Your Career. Read her full bio below.

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1:40 - ChatGpt Weighing in
8:01 - Interview with Kendra Starts
19:44 - What does it mean being a Journalist in this moment
33:19 - Accepting Supremacy of Natural Systems
35:30 - #Fieldnotes with Kendra

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Guest Bio:
Kendra Pierre-Louis is an award-winning climate reporter. She has worked as climate reporter with Bloomberg, a senior climate reporter with the Gimlet/Spotify podcast How to Save a planet, and as a staff writer for Popular Science. She is also the author of the book, "Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet."

Kendra is a recipient of the 2023 New York Press Club Award for the audio story, “Sandy Was Just the Start. Is New York City Building Resiliently Enough for What’s Coming Next?” and a 2022 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award. She received the gold award in the magazine category for her story "How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities in MIT Technology Review.

Kendra has an MS in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in Sustainable Development from the SIT Graduate Institute and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Radhika Bhatt, climate career coach, recruiter, and Founder of Saathe Studio about Coaching, Creative Integration, and Making it as a Solopreneur. Read her full bio below.

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2:38 - Who & how we are hiring
10:49 - Interview with Bhatt Starts
18:47 - Shifts in Administrations affecting the hiring process?
31:57 - Hiring Advice from Bhatt
36:47 - Connections through DJing

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Guest Bio:
Radhika Bhatt is a climate career coach, recruiter, and founder of Saathe Studio, a climate career agency helping people find soul-aligned, impactful work. She has helped 500+ professionals—from recent grads to senior leaders—find their way to purpose-driven careers in climate and social impact. Her holistic approach emphasizes defining your north star, refining resumes and LinkedIn profiles, and also tapping into authentic career stories, cultivating regenerative networks, and strategically uncovering the hidden job market. She’s currently a careers advisor with Terra.do and a part-time recruiter with Fourier, and also runs events with leading climate organizations like The Bloom and MCJ, and has spoken at NY Climate Week, DC Climate Week, Climate Careers Week, the White House, and the UN Global People's Summit. Before running her own business, she worked in various U.S. government agencies for 8 years at the intersection of technology, design, and community building.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Julia Gohlke, Professor of Environmental Health, Department of Population Health Sciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg VA about Environmental and Human Health, Shaping Risk, and Policy. Read her full bio below.

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2:13 - People over animals?
6:15 - Interview with Julia Gohlke begins
12:18 - Managing expectations with Environmental Health
22:37 - Data use in Julia's Work
28:21 - Field Notes with Julia!

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Gohlke is a professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Virginia Tech. She received a PhD from the University of Washington, School of Public Health, Seattle, WA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She has authored over 90 peer reviewed publications using toxicology and spatial epidemiology methods to examine health outcomes associated with chemical exposures, living in close proximity to resource extraction sites, and heat and flood events. She teaches courses in environmental health and risk assessment, and directs a graduate training program in rural environmental health.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Marilyn Waite, lifelong environmental actionist about Going from Sanitation to Nuclear, Financing the Future, and Climate Curiosity. Read her full bio below.

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Time - Nic and Laura dive into marketing yourself
Time - Interview starts
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Guest Bio:
Marilyn currently leads the Climate Finance Fund, supported by the Hewlett Foundation and hosted by the European Climate Foundation.

Previously, Marilyn led energy and cleantech investments at Village Capital, managed nuclear and renewable energy projects at AREVA (now Orano), and served as a Senior Research Fellow at Project Drawdown, where she led a team to analyze, model, and forecast energy solutions to climate change. Marilyn also worked at the intersection of science and policy at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and in economic development at the United Nations in Madagascar.

A multilingual speaker and author of Sustainability at Work: Careers that Make a Difference, Marilyn has addressed audiences across five continents on a number of topics in sustainability, including investing, climate change, water, and energy.

Marilyn holds a Master’s Degree with distinction in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering (magna cum laude) from Princeton University.

Marilyn's vision is a world where sustainability values of social cohesion, environmental consciousness, inter-generational equity, and economic health drive decision-making and business practices.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Natalie Edwards, Owner at Mahogany Environmental & Associates about Navigating Government Careers, Going from Fieldwork to Leadership, and Pursuing Passions. Read her full bio below.

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2:30 - Dealing with Difficult Coworkers
9:36 - Interview with Natalie Edwards Starts
23:22 - Natalies Favorite Work Projects
28:15 - Not enough? Growing in ones Role
48:30 - Natalies #Fieldnotes story!

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Guest Bio:
Natalie Edwards spent her childhood growing up in the Pacific Northwest and then moved South to attend Tuskegee University in Tuskegee Alabama. After graduating from Tuskegee, she started her career as a Park Ranger with the US Army Corps of Engineers (Mobile District) and spent her time in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. She worked on several lake and river projects and a few hurricane relief/clean ups. After 5 years of being a Park Ranger, Natalie went to work for the Savannah District in the Atlanta Metro area. Where she got the opportunity to experience all kinds of projects and some very interesting personalities.

In 2018, Natalie moved back to Portland Oregon and continued working with the Corps for another 2 years before leaving after 20 years of service. In 2022 Natalie founded Mahogany Environmental & Associates where it has allowed her to meet and forge new opportunities.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Andrew Goldberg, ACRA's head of government relations about Architectural Policy, Historic Preservation, and ACRA. Read his full bio below.

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2:04 - Science Communication Evolution
7:02 - Interview with Andrew Goldberg begins
10:51 - Goldberg's multiple roles
29:20 - NEPA & Section 106 Challenges
37:47 - Andrew Goldberg's Field Notes Story

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Guest Bio:
Andrew Goldberg has spent more than three decades leading winning advocacy programs. After serving as a top legislative aide to key members of Congress, he led a press and lobbying program for a British healthcare association in London. As managing director of government relations and advocacy for the American Institute of Architects, Andrew transformed its advocacy program and pushed several landmark bills to enactment. In 2018, Andrew formed Agora, a government relations consulting firm whose clients include the American Cultural Resources Association. Andrew has been quoted in Politico, Roll Call, the Hill, the Washington Post, and others.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Faith Kearns, scientist and science communication practitioner about Building a Career in Science Communication, Listening as a Skill, and Working with Communities. Read her full bio below.

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2:03 - Skills of an Event Planning
9:29 - Interview with Faith Kearns Starts
19:08 - Faith's day to day
29:39 - Faiths Book - Scientific Communication
37:45 - Field Notes with Faith!

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Guest Bio:
Faith Kearns is a scientist-communicator who focuses on water, wildfire, climate, and disasters in the western US. She is the author of the book Getting to the Heart of Science Communication and co-host of the podcast Water Talk. She is currently the Director of Research Communication for the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative in the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Marc Dunkelman, about why nothing works, being a lonely bengals fan, and todays regulatory landscape. Read his full bio below.

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• 1:22 - Power of Positive People
• 8:20 - Interview with Marc Dunkelman begins
• 15:06 - How to navigate the regulatory landscape
• 29:09 - Environmental Laws; how they came to be
• 42:27- How did the book come to be
• 46:53 - Field Notes with Marc!

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Guest Bio:

Marc J. Dunkelman is a fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and a former fellow at NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. During more than a decade working in politics, he worked for Democratic members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives and as a senior fellow at the Clinton Foundation. The author of The Vanishing Neighbor, Dunkelman’s work has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, and Politico.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Chris Moyer, founder and president of Echo Communications Advisors about Climate Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Triathlons. Read his full bio below.

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1:52 - Can getting fired be a good thing?
11:07 - Interview with Chris Moyer begins
16:36 - Communications in the Climate Space
29:10- Working with Clients
38:09 - Field Notes with Chris!

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Guest Bio:
Chris has spent nearly two decades advising high-profile leaders and shaping federal and state policies through strategic communications.

With deep experience across the electoral, legislative, and regulatory landscape, Chris has advised top-tier presidential, U.S. Senate, and gubernatorial campaigns advancing forward-thinking climate policies. He has worked with state attorneys general fighting harmful federal climate rollbacks and supported advocacy organizations accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels.

Chris served as a communications advisor to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, helping to communicate about the implementation of more than $90 billion in renewable energy programs. He has also guided clients seeking inclusion of their priority policies in major federal climate legislation, including the Inflation Reduction Act, and led strategic communications efforts that helped secure a highly competitive $5 billion EPA grant.

Chris has worked for three U.S. Senators, most recently leading communications for Senator Cory Booker’s presidential campaign in New Hampshire before launching Echo Communications Advisors, formerly Moyer Strategies, in 2020. Chris was named one of Washingtonian’s 500 Most Influential People of 2025 for shaping climate and environment policy. His insights on climate and energy policy developments have been featured in Politico, Axios, Bloomberg, E&E News, Heatmap News, Reuters, Inside Climate News, and elsewhere.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Mark Ray, environmental consultant about Wetlands, Habitat Restoration, and a Really Great Field Story. Read his full bio below.

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1:49 - Share your Field Notes!
3:38 - Interview with Mark Ray Starts
12:35 - Mitigation Banking
23:24 - Challenges Starting your own business
31:55 - Mark Rays Field Note!

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Guest Bio:
Mr. Ray has a Master of Science in Environmental Science with a concentration in Applied Ecology from Miami University. He is the Principal of RayEA, LLC. Mr. Ray has been involved with the Habitat Restoration and the Mitigation Banking industry since the late 1980s. He has worked all over the U.S. in varied ecosystems. He has restored mountain streams to coastal wetlands and many ecosystems in between. He has worked directly with 26 mitigation banks in 14 states. He specializes in many types of endangered species surveys. Some current projects include whole forest ecosystem banking and long-term ocean weather monitoring.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sameer Neve, a sustainability strategist, biochar researcher, and environmental justice advocate whose work spans everything from sports to soil science about Biochar, Sustainability in Sports, and Using LinkedIn to the Fullest. Read his full bio below.

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0:35 - Fun Facts about Peppers
3:36 - Nic and Laura talk bad bosses!
12:03 - Interview with Sameer Begins
25:52 - How to connect with your community as an introvert
41:01 - Sameer's Field Story

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Guest Bio:
Sameer Neve is an innovative Environmental Engineer, sustainability advocate, and interdisciplinary researcher with a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. With over 7 years of experience at the intersection of science, policy, and impact, Sameer has led projects focused on decarbonization strategies, ESG frameworks, and advanced environmental site assessments across sectors ranging from energy and infrastructure to education and sports.

Currently serving as an Associate Consultant at WSP USA and Advisory Board Member at HydraEarth Network, Sameer brings his expertise in clean energy and workforce development to shape equitable and resilient environmental solutions. His groundbreaking work in biochar research—particularly the sustainable reuse of spent biomass—has informed innovations in soil remediation, biodiversity restoration, and climate-resilient infrastructure. His efforts have been recognized through multiple peer-reviewed publications and a U.S. patent.

A strong advocate for environmental justice and community-led solutions, Sameer has contributed to national-scale environmental justice datasets, urban decontamination projects, and inclusive sustainability strategies that prioritize historically underserved populations. He also brings sustainability thinking into non-traditional domains like sports, where he explores how athletic facilities, events, and infrastructure can align with low-carbon, nature-positive goals.

From building local water purification systems in India to mentoring future environmental leaders in the U.S., Sameer continues to bridge technical expertise with real-world impact. His mission is clear: to design systems, inspire change, and build a future where biodiversity thrives, equity is embedded, and sustainability is second nature.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Mathy Stanislaus, Vice Provost Executive Director of The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel University about Community Collaboration, Influencing Policy, and Resilience. Read his full bio below.

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1:40 - What drives your passion?
11:34 - Interview with Mathy begins
19:22 - How to find meaningful work
33:30 - Field Notes!
43:27 - Power of experiential learning

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Guest Bio:
Mathy Stanislaus, Esq., is the Vice-Provost and Executive Director of The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel University that partners with community leaders to advance climate justice priorities and solutions.

Mathy served eight years as the Obama Administration Senate-confirmed Assistant Administrator for the U.S. EPA Office of Land & Emergency Management. During his tenure, he spearheaded the nation's first climate emergency preparedness plan and co-chaired President Obama’s Chemical Plant Safety Task that led consultations across the country to establiss to address the impacts on fenceline communities from chemical plant accidents.

Before joining Drexel, Mathy led the establishment of a multi-stakeholder platform at the World Economic Forum to address child labor/force labor in the procurement of critical materials necessary to advance the scale of batteries and EV and renewable energy.

He was a long-term member of the Board of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance. Mathy is an environmental lawyer and chemical engineer.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Sree Ratna Kancherla, Global Sustainability Director for management consulting firm Kearney, Storyteller, Social Impact Innovator, and Futurist about Sustainability, Pineapple Leather Pants, and Writing for TV. Read her full bio below.

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Guest Bio:
Sree Ratna Kancherla is Global Director of Sustainability at Kearney, with 25 years of experience in sustainability and human rights law and policy. She has lived in Africa and India for a decade, building sustainability ecosystems. As a strategic advisor to Fortune 500 companies, she focuses on sustainability impact in supply chains across industries. She integrates ‘eclectic leadership’ into her work, drawing from studies with enlightened Masters and personal experiences. Through her transformative service, "Eclectic Awareness," she empowers individuals and businesses to navigate modern complexities with purpose. A published writer and speaker, she is developing a book and podcast.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk Fred Wagner, Principal Environmental Advisor at Jacobs, Rod Smolla, President of Vermont Law and Graduate School and Siobhan Gordon, Senior Environmental Planner at Mead and Hunt about the future of environmental policy both in South Carolina and at the national level.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ben Shepard, Environmental Lead for the Moving I-4 Forward Program about Consulting, Working on the I-4 Project, and Giving Back to the Community.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with David Schwartz, magazine editor with one foot in the professional audio community and the other in the wonderful world of algae about Music, Algae, and Passion Projects. Read his full bio below.

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Guest Bio:
David Schwartz is a highly accomplished figure in the world of music production and technology, best known for his work as the editor-in-chief of Mix magazine, a premier publication covering music production and recording technology. Additionally, David has been involved with prestigious events like the TEC Awards and NAMM, where he has facilitated discussions and shared his expertise through the TEC Tracks program. For the past 15 years David has maintained a fascination with algae and edits a webzine, algaeplanet.com, showcasing the expanding applications of micro- and macroalgae as well as documenting the news of the developing algae industry.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with John Perona, science/policy analyst, writer and advocate for a healthy climate about Climate Advocacy, Biofuels, and Managing Conflicting Values in Conservation. Read his full bio below.

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1:41- What Motivates You!
6:32 - Interview with Perona Starts
15:03 - Pollution Laws
32:30 - Having Complex Discussions
37:19 - Perona's Field Story; Spaniel Edition

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Guest Bio:
Dr. John Perona was educated in Biochemistry at Yale and UCSF, and served for 30 years on Chemistry faculties in California and Oregon. His research involved synthetic biology and concentrated on environmental problems associated with Earth's carbon cycle. Dr. Perona also holds a degree in Environmental and Natural Resources law. He is author of a comprehensive climate science/policy text for laypersons, From Knowledge to Power, and is presently engaged in advocating for a healthy climate in the Oregon legislature, and working with the Creative Destruction Lab, mentoring startup companies in the carbon removal field.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ted Boling, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP about Updates on NEPA, the IAIA Conference in Italy, and Cumulative Effects. Read his full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode. Perkins Coie is a leading global law firm, dedicated to helping the world’s most innovative companies solve the legal and business challenges of tomorrow. Learn more about our work and values at https://perkinscoie.com/

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Guest Bio:
Ted advises clients on renewable energy and transmission projects, resource development, transportation, and related infrastructure development, building on more than 30 years of high-level public service.

Ted Boling’s experience includes deep involvement in the environmental review and authorization of federal infrastructure projects, environmental mitigation and conservation programs, and leadership of the comprehensive revision of CEQ’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations. He served on the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), in the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Ted’s work at CEQ included the development of the National Ocean Policy, CEQ’s climate change guidance, and the use of environmental management systems in environmental impact assessment. Ted advised on the establishment of numerous national monuments, including the first marine national monuments in the United States and the largest marine protected areas in the world. He represented CEQ as a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the board of directors of the Udall Foundation, and the U.S. delegation to negotiations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. He also assisted in briefing three cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

At DOI, Ted served as a deputy solicitor and counselor to the assistant secretaries for land and minerals management and for fish and wildlife and parks. Ted handled matters involving energy development on the outer continental shelf and the fast-track process for solar and wind energy projects on public lands.

At DOJ, Ted was a senior trial attorney and litigated significant cases involving NEPA, endangered species, marine mammals, wetland protections, and management of public lands. He was involved in litigation concerning the Northwest Forest Plan, National Forest management decisions, and Federal Transit Administration decisions and U.S.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Lauren Schramm, NEPA Manager about AI, Career Pathing, and Pets. Read her full bio below.

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2:12 - Can you get through your day without Coffee?
6:36 - Interview with Lauren Begins
12:12 - Whats new with NEPA
25:53 - AI collecting your info?
36:08- Field Notes with Lauren!

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Guest Bio:
Originally from Northern Vermont, Lauren holds a Bachelor's degree from Alfred University (NY) and earned her MS from Clemson University. Lauren embarked on her career in a Texas freshwater mussel lab before relocating to Atlanta. As a project manager, she successfully led a team of scientists specializing in NEPA work for cell towers across 29 states. Lauren has since transitioned to working with additional lead agencies and Pond and Company, where she serves as the manager of a NEPA team. In her free time, Lauren manages a mini farm, indulges in painting, hand-building ceramic art, and dedicates time to volunteering.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sierra Taliaferro, founder of The Green Obsidian about Community Engagement, the Green Obsidian, and Fostering Kittens. Read her full bio below.

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0:14 - Pelican Fun Facts!
6:12 - Interview with Sierra Taliaferro
16:28 - The Green Obsidian
26:07 - Birding Experience
33:39 - #Field Notes, Sierra's Story

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Guest Bio:
Sierra Taliaferro is known in her network as a motivated outdoor educator, bird nerd enthusiast and Sustainability influencer with intentions to promote diversity in urban conservation, social justice and community advocacy. Over the years she has gained extensive experience in strategic planning, community engagement, urban agriculture, water conservation, and land management practices, in addition to working with various community-centered entities, focused on implementing outdoor education and outreach, ranging from county parks and green spaces to non-profit organizations and commons. Sierra is also the founder of The Green Obsidian, a social media platform designed to bring awareness of diversity within the environmental conservation field. And as a professional millennial and climate change maker, she hopes to continue to make herself an advocate for diversity in conservation and to emphasize the importance of our natural resources surrounding our urban environments that inspires people to view ourselves as part of nature, and not separate from it.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Elva Peppers, President of Florida Environmental & Land Services, Inc. about FAEP, Mentoring, and Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Read her full bio below.

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0:23 - Manatee Fun Fact!
2:13 - Interview with Elva Starts
3:02 - Leadership in the FAEP
12:40 - Mentorship Opportunities
20:20 - Field Story

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Guest Bio:
Elva graduated from FSU in 1990 with biology major and chemistry minor. She worked for 4 years for a large environment consulting company on a natural gas pipeline project in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana doing wetland and species surveys. She started her own firm in 2001 and has been rocking on for the last 23 years with that. Besides being President of Florida Environmental & Land Services, Inc, she has volunteer positions with the state Acquisition & Restoration Council (ARC), Leon county Advisory Committee for Quality Growth, FAEP (Past President) and Tallahassee Area Association of Environment Professionals (past president/treasurer).

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Adam Loewentheil, Founder & CEO of Aldoa, about Starting a Company, Using AI, and Multi-day Trail Hiking. Read his full bio below.

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0:20 - Fun Seal Facts
1:40 - Will AI take my job?
10:30 - Interview starts
25:44- AI in the field
40:30 - Embracing uncertainties

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Guest Bio:
Adam Loewentheil is the founder & CEO of Aldoa, the first all-in-one software platform purpose-built for environmental professionals. Following in the footsteps of three generations of builders, Adam witnessed firsthand the inefficiencies afflicting the environmental consulting & engineering world. Prior to founding Aldoa, Adam was a financial analyst at a leading hedge fund in New York City.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with John Amos, Founder and CEO of the environmental nonprofit SkyTruth, about Starting a Nonprofit, Tracking Pollution, and Developing Public Data. Read his full bio below.

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0:20 - Fun Cheetah Fact!
1:24 - The Importance of Checking In on Others
4:12 - Interview starts
7:21 - Transition from Geology to Environmental Monitoring
35:16 - Future Projects and Initiatives

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Guest Bio:
John Amos is an expert in the use of satellite images and other remote sensing data to understand and communicate local, regional and global environmental issues. Educated as a geologist (at the University of Wyoming for his M.S. and Cornell University for his B.S.), John spent 10 years applying image processing, image analysis, and digital mapping techniques to conduct environmental, exploration and resource assessment studies for the energy and mining industries and government entities.

In 2001, he founded SkyTruth, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to strengthening environmental conservation by illuminating environmental problems and issues through the use of satellite images, aerial photographs, and other kinds of remote sensing and digital mapping. In addition to his role as Chief Executive Officer of SkyTruth, he serves on the board of Global Fishing Watch, a nonprofit organization formed by SkyTruth, Oceana and Google, and on the advisory board of The Ocean Foundation.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode Nic and Laura discuss navigating the current job market.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Sotiria Anagnostou, Head of Climate Risk Technical Services and Executive Director of AZ CleanTech about Climate Sustainability, Carbon Removal, and Clean Tech. Read her full bio below.

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0:20 - Fun Cat Fact!
1:45 - Nic talks giving yourself a break
3:37 - Interview starts
21:01 - Game changers in climate tech
29:45 - Getting her start in climate in Puerto Rico

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Sotiria Anagnostou is a seasoned corporate sustainability executive with over 15 years of experience in ESG and sustainability, focusing on decarbonization strategies and climate risk. She holds a PhD in Climate Risk and Adaptation from Arizona State University and a MA in Energy and Environmental Analysis from Boston University. Sotiria has directed ESG integration and sustainability programs at major corporations, including STORE Capital, Ingevity Corporation, and Whirlpool, along with sustainable investing and ESG initiatives at Federated Investors. Her expertise encompasses climate adaptation, corporate sustainability, and leveraging data for informed decision-making, aiming to foster inclusive growth and resilience.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Samantha Cerwin, Co-founder & CEO at BeReworn about Clothing Swaps, Developing a Startup, and Smash Bros. Read her full bio below.

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1:37 - Nic & Laura talk kicking down doors
9:08 - Interview with Sam Cerwin Starts
15:11 - Clothing Swaps
20:38 - Stigma on Reusing Clothes
35:11 - Super Smash Bros

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Guest Bio:
Samantha Cerwin was born and raised in Mexico and moved to the U.S. in 2021. While struggling to find sustainable clothing options as a young professional, she began swapping clothes through in person events and quickly realized there was a gap in the market for managing and centralizing these events. This insight led her to co-found BeReworn with Lukasz Siatka. She is passionate about community, sustainability, and bringing accessible products to market!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ted Boling, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP about Environmental Executive Orders, Managing Shifts between Administrations, and Sailing. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:
2:29 - Nic and Laura dive into tacking Challenging Work
10:08 - Interview starts with Ted Boing
18: 50 - CEQ Updates
32:15- Changes from the new administration
41:20 - Sailing

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Guest Bio:

Ted advises clients on renewable energy and transmission projects, resource development, transportation, and related infrastructure development, building on more than 30 years of high-level public service.

Ted Boling’s experience includes deep involvement in the environmental review and authorization of federal infrastructure projects, environmental mitigation and conservation programs, and leadership of the comprehensive revision of CEQ’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations. He served on the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), in the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Ted’s work at CEQ included the development of the National Ocean Policy, CEQ’s climate change guidance, and the use of environmental management systems in environmental impact assessment. Ted advised on the establishment of numerous national monuments, including the first marine national monuments in the United States and the largest marine protected areas in the world. He represented CEQ as a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the board of directors of the Udall Foundation, and the U.S. delegation to negotiations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. He also assisted in briefing three cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

At DOI, Ted served as a deputy solicitor and counselor to the assistant secretaries for land and minerals management and for fish and wildlife and parks. Ted handled matters involving energy development on the outer continental shelf and the fast-track process for solar and wind energy projects on public lands.

At DOJ, Ted was a senior trial attorney and litigated significant cases involving NEPA, endangered species, marine mammals, wetland protections, and management of public lands. He was involved in litigation concerning the Northwest Forest Plan, National Forest management decisions, and Federal Transit Administration decisio

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Mike Leahy, Senior Director of Wildlife Policy for the National Wildlife Federation, about National Wildlife Federation, Wildlife Conservation, and Monarch Butterflies. Read his full bio below.

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2:15 - Nic and Laura dive into delivering bad news
10:10 - Interview with Mike Leahy starts
17:33 - Navigating new administrations
26: 35 - Endangered Species Act
32:22 - Monarch Butterflies
39:49 - #fieldnotes

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Guest Bio:
Mike Leahy supports the restoration and conservation of wildlife and fish through his work on policy related to wildlife, hunting, and fishing. Mike works to update wildlife conservation strategies for the 21st century and plug gaps in wildlife policy by increasing funding for wildlife programs, establishing policies to address threats such as extinction, habitat fragmentation, disease, and lead, and by representing the conservation interests of hunters and anglers in healthy, abundant wildlife populations and habitat.

Mike’s work is informed by over two and half decades of work to conserve wildlife and natural resources, and an interest in all things outdoors. Mike has been Conservation Director for the Izaak Walton League of America; Rockies and Plains Director and Natural Resources Counsel for Defenders of Wildlife; and Forest Campaign Director for National Audubon Society. Mike enjoys getting out to hunt, fish, hike, and have fun in the outdoors. Mike has a law degree from Georgetown University and studied Natural Resources at Cornell University.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Brian Brandt, Director, Operations Management at Dawson Global, about Confidence, CrossFit, and the Maui Fires. Read his full bio below.

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2:08 - Art of Decision-Making
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26:42 - Maui Wild Fires
46:13 - Job Seekers
48:40 - Crossfit

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Brian Brandt is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and currently lives in Fort Worth, TX working for DAWSON Global as Director, Operations Management. He has a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, an MS in Building Construction from Auburn University and a Professional Engineering License from Ohio.

He recently left the US Army Corps of Engineers – Fort Worth District where he was a Supervisory Civil Engineer with over 15 years of experience in managing large-scale complex construction projects. His direct project experience has been focused on O&M and MILCON projects related to secured facilities, civil works, border infrastructure, large (+$300M) construction projects, and emergency response actions.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law Emeritus at Vermont Law and Graduate School, about Environmental Law, Hard Work, and Whooping Cranes. Read his full bio below.

Thank you to Vermont Law and Graduate School for sponsoring. "Vermont Law and Graduate School is one of the top environmental law schools in the U.S. and is nationally renowned in climate change law, restorative justice, criminal law, and clinical education." Learn more at www.vermontlaw.edu

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Patrick A. Parenteau is Emeritus Professor of Law and Senior Fellow for Climate Policy in the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School. He previously served as Director of the Environmental Law Center and was the founding director of the EAC (formerly the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic) in 2004.

Professor Parenteau has an extensive background in environmental and natural resources law. His previous positions include Vice President for Conservation with the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, DC (1976-1984); Regional Counsel to the New England Regional Office of the EPA in Boston (1984-1987); Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (1987-1989); and Senior Counsel with the Perkins Coie law firm in Portland, Oregon (1989-1993).

Professor Parenteau has been involved in drafting, litigating, implementing, teaching, and writing about environmental law and policy for over three decades. His current focus is on confronting the profound challenges of climate change through his teaching, publishing, public speaking and litigation.

Professor Parenteau is a Fulbright US Scholar and a Fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In 2005 he received the National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to wildlife conservation and environmental education. In 2016 he received the Kerry Rydberg Award for excellence in public interest environmental law.

Professor Parenteau holds a B.S. from Regis University, a J.D. from Creighton University, and an LLM in Environmental Law from the George Washington U.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, Matt Sekol, Sustainability Global Black Belt on Microsoft’s Cross-Industry team and author of ESG Mindset: Business Resilience and Sustainable Growth. Read his full bio below.

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Matthew Sekol is a Sustainability Global Black Belt on Microsoft’s Cross-Industry team. He also serves on the LP Advisory Committee of Morgan Stanley’s Next Level Fund, which invests in diverse-led and founded startups. In 2024, Matthew released a book called “ESG Mindset,” which is a guide for companies to think critically about ESG and take a holistic approach to the business and he joined the Advisory Board of Enzo Advisors, an ESG consultancy.

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Nic Frederick, Fred Wagner, and Jay Johnson discuss the events that unfolded during the commenting session of the Seven County Infrastructure case on December 10, 2024. As well as some other fun topics as usual.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sunny Fleming, Director of Environment, Conservation, and Natural Resource Solutions at Esri about Geographic AI, CEQ Policy Updates, and Developing Industry Standards. Read her full bio below.

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As the Director of Environment, Conservation, and Natural Resource Solutions for state environmental agencies, Sunny is responsible for supporting some of Esri’s longest-standing customers: fish and wildlife agencies, environmental regulation, agriculture, state parks, historical preservation, and natural heritage programs. She loves helping our customers shape their vision and innovate to meet their business challenges.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode we give an update about the show. Tune in to hear about our plans!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sue Fassler, Director of Sustainability at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry about Sustainability, Making Mistakes (and Owning Up To Them), and Snowshoe Racing. Read her full bio below.

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1:43 Nic & Sam talk about post conference follow up
6:06 Interview starts
11:10 Making mistakes
13:48 Sustainability
34:49 Field Notes
38:37 Snowshoe racing

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Guest Bio:
Sue serves as the Director of Sustainability at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She also leads closed loop, responsible purchasing efforts for the Center for Sustainable Materials Management, sits on the Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust Board of Directors, co-chairs the United University Professions (UUP) Environmental Issues & Advocacy Committee, and serves on the SUNY Sustainability Advisory Council.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode we are coming to you live from Minneapolis with Mike Mayer, Hassan Bouchareb, and Fred Wagner!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with David Boyes about NEPA, Music, and the Art of Compromise. Read his full bio below.

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1:38 Nic & Sam try to talk about video games
4:58 Interview with David Boyes starts
6:54 Music
14:38 NEPA
27:48 Field Notes
30:56 The art of compromise

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On today’s episode we give a sneak peak into the NAEP conference!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Kristen Rowe, CEO and Founder of NextGen ESG & LCA about Corporate Sustainability, Human Centric Work Culture, and Starting a Business. Read her full bio below.

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1:13 Nic & Laura talk about personality & work culture
7:00 Interview Starts
10:37 Starting a business
18:22 Corporate sustainability
26:26 Field Notes
33:24 Human centric work culture

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Guest Bio:
Kristen Rowe, CEO and Founder of NextGen ESG & LCA, brings over 16 years of expertise in sustainability and life cycle assessment advising. She's renowned for advancing sustainability initiatives across sectors like consumer products, technology, healthcare, and more. As a thought leader, Kristen specializes in guiding companies of all sizes and stages of maturity on their sustainability journeys. NextGen’s company core values priorities authentic human connections, fostering trust with clients and colleagues, while striving to add substantial business value. Committed to a sustainable work culture, NextGen prioritizes the human experience and integrates technology to support clients on their sustainability journey.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Francis O'Shea, Conservation Project Manager at Trust for Public Land about Project Management, the Appalachian Trail, and the Trust for Public Land. Read his full bio below.

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2:18 Nic & Laura discuss the Appalachian Trail
9:22 Interview with Francis O'Shea starts
14:05 Trust for Public Lands
21:17 Project Management
27:00 Appalachian Trail
34:18 Field Notes

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Francis O'Shea is a Conservation Project Manager at Trust for Public Land. Born and raised in New York, Fran graduated from Skidmore College in 2005. After a decade in a variety of real estate related roles, Francis joined TPL in 2018 and has been working to protect land for people since. TPL is a national non profit that works to connect everyone to the benefits and joys of the outdoors. Since 1972 TPL has protected more than 4 million acres of public land, created more than 5,364 parks, trails, schoolyards, and iconic outdoor places, and raised over $94 billion in public funding for parks and public land. In New York we've created more than 500 schoolyards, parks and green spaces across the state, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. Francis lives in Irvington, NY just outside NYC with his wife Erika, two daughters Margaret (9) and Edith (6) and their dog Molly.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Tom Abdallah, Ron Deverman, Kevin Doyle, Larry O'Neill, and Erica Moulton in our Ask Me Anything segment answering all your academia questions.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wagner, partner with Venable, LLP about NEPA, the Future of the Supreme Court, and the Cherry Blossom Festival. Read his full bio below.

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1:54 Nic & Laura talk about burnout
9:48 Interview starts
10:09 Cherry Blossom Festival
21:35 NEPA
34:11 Future of the Supreme Court

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Guest Bio:
Fred Wagner focuses his practice on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Fred is familiar with the full range of issues surrounding USDOT surface transportation programs, including grant management, procurement, suspension and debarment, and safety regulations. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Soham Adla, a Product Manager and researcher specializing in impact-oriented agricultural sustainability about Agricultural Sustainability, Problem Solving, and The Power of Music. Read his full bio below.

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1:24 Nic & Sam discuss dealing with challenging work
9:37 Interview with Dr. Soham Adla starts
9:52 Agricultural Sustainability
21:25 Problem Solving
29:16 Field Notes
43:36 The Power of Music

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Guest Bio:
Soham Adla is a researcher and product manager who has worked in impact-oriented agricultural sustainability for about nine years. He is a civil engineer specializing in water management, and his work includes farm-level performance and low-cost agricultural technologies. Currently, he focuses on water-efficient agriculture in a drought prone region in India, managing a digital agri-advisory product and studying the factors driving agricultural technology adoption. Soham enjoys stakeholder engagement and and science communication, with practical experience from collaborations with industry and NGOs, offering insights into human-water systems in agriculture. He is energized by music, talking to farmers, and stories.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Lucas Zellers, a multidisciplinary author, podcaster, and marketing professional about Perseverance, Storytelling and the Book of Extinction. Read his full bio below.

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1:30 Nic & Sam discuss Dungeons & Dragons
5:29 Interview with Lucas Zellers starts
11:05 Storytelling
17:41 Perseverance
26:01 Field Notes
33:15 The Book of Extinction

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Guest Bio:
Lucas Zellers is a multidisciplinary author, podcaster, and marketing professional working at the intersection of conservation science and game design. He created Book of Extinction, a monster manual telling the real-life stories of animal extinctions and re-imagining those animals as fantastic monsters fit for tabletop roleplaying games.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Brandon Gabler, Strategic Growth Director at SWCA and Treasurer for ACRA (American Cultural Resources Association) about Networking for your Next Job, Archaeology, and Career Development. Read his full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode SWCA Environmental Consultants - https://www.swca.com/

The SWCA Environmental Consultants (otherwise known as SWCA) has been helping clients across industries navigate environmental challenges for more than 40 years now. Founded in 1981, SWCA has grown from a small team in Flagstaff, Arizona, to become a global, 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm with more than 1,600 employees and 40 offices. Providing a full spectrum of environmental services – planning, natural and cultural resources management, permitting, regulatory compliance, water resources, ecological restoration, and disaster and resilience – SWCA is a recognized leader for bringing sound science and creative solutions to our clients throughout the United States and beyond.

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2:47 Nic & Laura discuss leadership vs. management
9:48 Interview with Brandon Gabler starts
11:25 Networking for your next job
21:58 Archeology
25:39 . Career Development
37:32 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
An archaeologist with 20+ years of experience, Brandon Gabler is well-versed in cultural resources management. He earned a master’s and doctorate of anthropology from the University of Arizona, where he specialized in archaeology and ecological anthropology, and a dual bachelor’s in mathematics and anthropology/archaeology from Mercyhurst University. He has collaborated with State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs) and Tribes in more than 30 states and worked directly with federal agencies during significant projects like the BP Deepwater Horizon spill. After years of honing his technical expertise, Brandon advanced his career in operational leadership, project management, and business development. The best part? Teamwork!

As a strategic growth director at SWCA, Brandon is focused on business development efforts in the upper Midwest and Great Lakes states while providing strategic planning, leadership, and mentorship for cultural resources employees in the region. Brandon also serves on the American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA) executive team as Treasurer and as a part of its Membership Committee.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Alan Kolok, Professor of Ecotoxicology, University of Idaho about Ecotoxicology, Community Involvement, and Writing Books. Read his full bio below.

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2:34 Nic & Laura discuss challenges in leadership
8:35 Interview with Alan Kolok starts
8:50 Ecotoxicology
20:56 Writing Books
26:12 Community Involvement
30:48 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Alan Kolok, Professor of Ecotoxicology, has an undergraduate degree from Miami University, and advanced degrees from the University of Washington the University of Colorado. As an academic scientist, he currently holds positions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Idaho. He has published over 95 peer-reviewed articles and two books, including Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology, and Twist, a science fiction novel that focuses on self-replicating prions that have gone terribly wrong. He is in the process of writing his third book, Generally Regarded as Safe: A Century of Synthetic Chemicals.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Renee Murphy, Sales Director and Environmental Scientist for Intrinsyx Environmental about Marketing Yourself, Career Changes, and the Entrepreneurial Mindset. Read her full bio below.

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2:46 Nic & Laura discuss yoga benefits
8:51 Interview starts
9:05 Career Changes
18:50 Marketing yourself
28:40 Entrepreneurial mindset
42:09 Field Notes

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Formerly a business owner in the fashion industry, Renee made a conscious decision to redirect her career towards advocating for positive environmental change. Following her passion for sustainable gardening, Renee earned a master’s degree in plant science/agriculture from Cal Poly Pomona and combined that with a bachelor’s in entrepreneur business from the University of Southern California, setting off to work in the native nursery and restoration business. As sales director of a prominent San Diego native plant nursery, Renee observed the need for native plant education to her community. She began presenting and teaching courses independently, through community nurseries and with the California Native Plant Society. In addition, she began an ongoing restoration research with and indigenous tribal land establishing native trees on exposed playa at the Salton Sea.

Renee’s journey took a captivating turn when her research was noticed by an environmentally focused biotech company in the Bay Area. Her dedication to making a larger impact cleaning up contaminated sites using nature-based solutions and sustainable practices within the remediation industry as an environmental scientist. Renee has served as a project manager on sites implementing innovative nature-based sustainable solutions for contaminated, fire and salt impacted sites, utilizing cutting-edge endophyte-assisted phytotechnology.

In her current role as Sales Director of Intrinsyx Environmental, Renee’s journey bridges her diverse background with the mission of building an innovative biotech phytoremediation company using nature to heal our environment. Renee has delivered impactful presentations to esteemed audiences, including NASA Ames Green Team, Sustainable Silicon Valley, Alaska Forum for the Environment, National Brownfields Training Conference, and an international keynote at NICOLA.org 2022 Resiliency, Nature & Climate Solutions in South Africa.

Renee continues to teach propagation and native plant workshops online and throughout the state of California inspiring people to change their environment starting in their own backyard. Join Renee on her mission to inspire people to change their environment for the better!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Ellen Prager, Marine Scientist and Author about Writing, Science Communication, and Undersea Research. Read her full bio below.

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2:51 Nic & Laura talk about Nic becoming an Uncle
7:12 Interview with Dr. Ellen Prager starts
12:04 Writing
21:13 Science Communication
28:30 Undersea Research
32:19 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Prager is a marine scientist and author, widely recognized for her expertise and ability to make science entertaining and understandable for people of all ages. She currently works as a freelance writer, consultant, and Chief Scientist for StormCenter Communications, Inc. She was previously the science advisor for Celebrity Cruises in the Galapagos Islands, Chief Scientist for the Aquarius Reef Base program in Key Largo, FL, which includes the world’s only undersea research station, and at one time the Assistant Dean at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Dr. Prager has built a national reputation as a scientist and spokesperson for the earth and ocean sciences and is a sought-after speaker for public-oriented events. She has appeared on The Today Show and NBC News, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News, CBS Early Show, The Weather Channel, in shows for the Discovery Channel and was a consultant for the Disney movie, Moana.

Dr. Prager has participated in research expeditions to places such as the Galapagos Islands, Papua New Guinea, Caribbean, Bahamas, and the deep waters of the Florida Reef tract. She obtained a BA from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, a MS from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, and in 1992, a PhD from Louisiana State University.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Indrayani Thakare, a Environmental Scientist dedicated to sustainability and environmental remediation about Remediation, Environmental Vlogs, and Living Simply. Read her full bio below.

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2:53 Nic & Laura talk about being stuck in the mud
11:41 Interview with Indrayani Thakare starts
16:05 Remediation
28:29 Environmental Vlogs
32:51 Field Notes
37:48 Living Simply

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Guest Bio:

Indrayani Thakare, a spirited Environmental Scientist, orchestrates a symphony of sustainability and environmental remediation, a passion kindled over three transformative years. Her journey, rooted in childhood, bloomed from her parents' sustainable ethos. She fell in love with hiking since the first nature camp she attended with her younger sister, where she realized that nothing would make her happier than working outdoors to preserve Mother Earth. She insists on embracing the cradle-to-cradle philosophy in one’s lifestyle and experiencing the bliss of simple living.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Trent Romer, Sustainability operating partner for Private Equity, Author and Dad about Sustainability, Writing, and Giving Your First Ted Talk. Read his full bio below.

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2:27 Nic & Laura discuss travel & learning the native language
7:35 Interview with Trent Romer starts
10:57 Sustainability
20:43 Writing
43:00 Field Notes/ First Ted Talk

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Guest Bio:
Trent Romer is an author of two sustainability books, TEDx speaker and sustainability consultant. He began his career 30 years ago and was the 3rd generation co-owner of his family’s business Clear View Bag Co., Inc founded in 1961 by his grandfather. The business was sold in 2021 to a private equity firm. Trent continues working for Clear View and serves as a sustainability operating partner for the private equity firm focused on environmental, social and governance issues within portfolio companies.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Mason Miller, AmaTerra Environmental and Environmental Research Group’s Vice President of Innovation and Technology, David Buzan Aquatic Biologist, and Aaron Petty about Mussels, Underwater Surveying and Aquatic Career Paths. Read their full bios below.

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3:41 Nic & Laura talk about Costa Rica
8:03 Interview Starts
11:13 Mussels
17:23 Underwater Surveying
35:04 Aquatic Career Paths

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Connect with Aaron Petty at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-petty-81247311/

Guest Bio:
Mason Miller is AmaTerra Environmental and Environmental Research Group’s Vice President of Innovation and Technology. He earned his archaeology BA from the University of Texas at Austin and his master’s in nautical archaeology from Texas A&M University (though he is an Orange-blood at heart). Mason has >23 years of experience in environmental consulting, working as a terrestrial and underwater archeologist, geophysical specialist, public outreach lead, and as a diver. Mason is an ACRA board member and chairs ACRA’s Continuing Education Committee. Mason lives in Dripping Springs, Texas with his wife, Amanda, and two sons: Davis and Elliott.

Dave Buzan is an aquatic biologist who has worked in Texas on water issues since 1978.

Aaron Petty is an aquatic ecologist that is happiest working in streams, reservoirs, and estuaries for freshwater mussel surveys, oyster reef restoration, and stream bioassessments. Aaron gained much of his professional environmental and regulatory experience through work for consulting firms in Texas, anchored by his graduate work in aquatic science. He has a B.S. in Biology from Texas Tech University, and a M.S. in Environmental Studies from the College of Charleston. As a PADI diver, Aaron has experience using both scuba and surface supplied air systems for the sampling of mussels across Texas.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Eileen Baden, a certified planner specializing in environmental and park planning about Collaboration, Planning, and AZAEP. Read her full bio below.

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2:55 Nic & Laura discuss being a conversationalist
18:04 Interview with Eileen Baden starts
24:53 AZAEP
28:49 Collaboration
36:23 Planning
42:21 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Eileen Baden, AICP, has over 13 years’ experience in environmental and park planning, public outreach, and higher education. She holds a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning degree from ASU and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Virginia Tech. She has been involved with the Arizona Association of Environmental Professionals (AZAEP) since 2013. As the Park and Open Space Planner at Maricopa County she was responsible for park, trails, and open space planning for one of the largest counties in the country. As a Senior Program Coordinator she also taught environmental planning at ASU. In 2023 she was appointed to the Arizona BLM Resource Advisory Council.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sunny Fleming, National Solutions Engineer at Esri about The History of Environmental Policy in the US, The Future of Data and Mountain Biking. Read her full bio below.

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2:36 Nic & Laura discuss where do we go from here
9:51 Interview with Sunny Fleming starts
12:41 History of U.S. environmental policy
16:36 The future of Data
41:37 Mountain Biking

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Guest Bio:
As the National Solution Engineer for state environmental agencies, Sunny is responsible for supporting some of Esri’s longest-standing customers: fish and wildlife agencies, environmental regulation, agriculture, state parks, historical preservation, and natural heritage programs. She loves helping our customers shape their vision and innovate to meet their business challenges.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Jason Old, Historian of twentieth- and twenty-first century US and Latin American history about Nicaragua, Doing What You Love, and the History of Surfing. Read his full bio below.

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3:10 Nic & Laura discuss a pending trip to Costa Rica
9:52 Interview with Dr. Jason Old starts
13:50 History of Surfing
17:31Nicaragua
23:28 Doing what you love
34:36 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Dr. Jason Old is a historian of twentieth- and twenty-first century US and Latin American history. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of South Florida. His research centers around the cultural and economic impacts of surfing and surf tourism in the Tola Municipality of southwestern Nicaragua.

Jason’s research has three principal aims: First, to show how external conditions created an economic framework conducive to buying property and developing this part of Nicaragua. Second, to explain the inextricable link between surfing and Tola's evolution from a rural coastal periphery to an international tourism hotspot. Third, to track the proliferation of a robust surfing subculture among the rural residents along the coast and its evolution into a Nicaraguan national sport as a result of these cultural and economic changes.

In addition to his scholarly work, Jason Old is the host of "The Surfing Historian" podcast, which brings together international scholars from an eclectic range of academic fields to share their most recent research.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Lori Scott, Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Technology & Partnerships at NatureServe about Changes in GIS over time, NatureServe Explorer, and Baking. Read her full bio below.

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4:42 Nic & Laura discuss the NatureServe Explorer website
9:33 Interview with Lori Scott starts
13:23 NatureServe Explorer
27:40 Changes in GIS over time
33:44 Field Notes
37:04 Baking

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Guest Bio:
Lori is the Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Technology and Partnerships for NatureServe, the authoritative source for biodiversity data in North America. She oversees NatureServe’s technology team, with a portfolio that includes software product development, server administration, and user support for mission critical enterprise information management and delivery systems. Since joining NatureServe in 2000, Lori has led the successful transformation of the organization’s core biodiversity data platform Biotics 5 and its public information delivery platform NatureServe Explorer. Lori’s team supports NatureServe’s North American network of biodiversity information centers with implementation of sophisticated online tools to automate environmental review and to manage and direct treatment for invasive species in their jurisdictions. Her team was recognized with the IDG CIO 100 Award in 2016 and the Computerworld Premier 100 Technology Leaders Award in 2017.

Lori’s work experience includes 10 years serving Lockheed Martin Corporation in the field of software integration and information systems development. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Bucknell University in her home state of Pennsylvania. She lives in Arlington, Virginia and enjoys hiking, traveling, and cooking – and she makes a wicked good peach pie!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

To celebrate another successful year we'd like to share the fun we've had behind the scenes with you in an end of year outtakes spectacular! There's no interview, just a long list of mispronunciations, roasts, and mistakes we've accumulated over the year. This show is genuinely so much fun to do and we can't thank you enough for listening!

Happy New Year! See you in 2024!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

We have a new minisode for you today that is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode! There's no interview, just a timely and important message we wanted to share with everyone as we come up on the holiday season. Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Michael Rega, Managing Partner of the Ecliptic Consulting Group. Read his full bio below.

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1:17 Nic & Laura talk about leadership qualities
6:28 Interview with Mike Rega starts
9:45 Social & Psychological aspects of business
39:06 Power of your network
42:06 Politics of business
46:02 Field Notes

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Guest Full Bio:
As a Managing Partner at The Ecliptic Consulting Group, I leverage my 20+ years of experience and expertise in international business and organizational leadership to deliver innovative and impactful talent and business development solutions for ESG centered growth firms. My mission is to help clients achieve their sustainability and profitability goals by enhancing their human capital, operational efficiency, and customer loyalty.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Kris Covey, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Skidmore College, and the Co-founder and President of the Soil Inventory Project about Trees, Applied Ecology, and the Soil Inventory Project. Read his full bio below.

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1:18 Nic & Laura discuss when nature calls
5:53 Interview with Kris Covey starts
12:10 Applied Ecology
20:24 Trees
26:39 The Soil Inventory Project
36:11 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Kris Covey is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program at Skidmore College where he studies terrestrial ecosystems and their role in climate and life. An Applied Ecologist, and a Biogeochemist, Kris works to integrate his research into solutions for managing human dominated landscapes for multiple values. After designing the global study that provided the first robust estimate of number of trees on earth (3.04 trillion), Kris turned his focus to large-scale soil carbon mapping using a novel combination of existing technologies. Prior to joining the faculty at Skidmore College, Dr. Covey was the Lead Scientist at the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative and a Lecturer in Forest Dynamics at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. There, he co-founded the Western Research Fellowship at the Ucross Highplains Stewardship Initiative and the Quick Carbon research program, served as a member of the School's Diversity and Inclusion Strategy Committee, and as a member of Yale University’s Carbon Offset Task Force. As a contributor to the Global Carbon Project's Methane Working Group, Kris authored the vegetation section of the Global Methane Budget. He serves as a member of the Board of Trusties for The Adirondack Nature Conservancy and the New York State Wood Products Development Council.

In 2020 Kris Co-Founded The Soil Inventory Project (TSIP.org) along with Bruno Basso. Together with private, industry, academic, and foundation partners they are building a distributed national-scale soil inventory system to inform soil management and markets. Through a novel combination of app-based automated sampling design, and distributed soil sampling tools allowing anyone to collect near surface soil samples, TSIP is building regional scale models capable of linking individual producer practices to measurable outcomes.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Toyin Ogunfolaju, Director Social Value & Equity Americas at Jacobs about Leadership, Leveraging Your Past, and Slasher Films. Read her full bio below.

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3:53 Nic & Laura discuss being self-made
13:44 Interview with Toyin Ogunfolaju starts
18:03 Leveraging your past
37:13 Leadership
49:04 Slasher Films

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Guest Bio:
Toyin Ogunfolaju has 20 years’ experience in the infrastructure and government relations industries. She leverages public/private partnership models as the foundation to identify opportunities and practices that promote regenerative social systems. She is the Director, Social Value & Equity Americas at Jacobs. Her role supports the delivery of social-economic & equitable solutions as Jacobs delivers its core services, which may manifest itself through prioritizing equity in capital planning/execution, workforce development, local supply chain sourcing, and community/stakeholder engagement. She has expertise in executive leadership, community engagement, and operations management. She is called upon to analyze critical requirements, identify areas of opportunity, generate solutions, and implement programs. She serves as a member of the Jacobs Global Social Value & Equity Advisory Community of Practice and as a Board Member of the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, as well as chairing the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials Philadelphia Chapter Networking Committee. Recent industry recognition includes the 2021 Jacobs Harambee Black Employee Network Bridges Summit Certificate of Recognition for Contributing to Structural Change in the Broader Society, and the “Corporate Responsibility” Award for the 2023 Women of Color Magazine.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

We are dropping a minisode today! There's no interview, just a timely and important message we wanted to share with everyone as we come up on the Thanksgiving holiday. This is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode on Friday this week, but we will be publishing another full length episode next Friday. Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Thomas Abdallah, Assistant Vice President and Chief Environmental Engineer for the MTA’s Construction and Development (MTA C&D) agency about All Things Mass Transit, Pandemic Lessons, and Career Advice & Experiences. Read his full bio below.

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4:39 Nic & Laura discuss useless knowledge of planes
9:39 Interview with Thomas Abdallah starts
9:51 All things mass transit
25:55 Pandemic lessons
39:12 Career advice & experiences

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Guest Bio:
Thomas Abdallah, P.E. LEED AP, ENV SP is the Vice President and Chief Environmental Engineer for the MTA’s Construction and Development (MTA C&D) agency. Thomas holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University. He is responsible to provide expert environmental engineering services for all MTA capital projects, and ensures that all design and construction projects meet environmental requirements including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the NY State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). He is also a fierce champion of environmental sustainability issues and is responsible for MTA C&D’s certified ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS).

Thomas is also an Adjunct Professor in Columbia University’s Sustainability Management (SUMA) graduate program in the School of Professional Studies, and the Transportation curriculum lead at the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative at the City College of New York CUNY. He is the proud author of the book(s) Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation (1st Edition 2017 & 2nd Edition 2023 Elsevier) and has appeared in an episode of History Channel’s Modern Marvels – Moving America.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Leap Chear, Senior Architect and Partner at EAPC Architects Engineers about Architecture, LEED certification, and Building Strong Company Culture. Read his full bio below.

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2:05 Nic & Laura talk about company culture
11:20 Interview with Leap Cheap starts
13:08 Architecture
19:09 LEED Certification
35:02 Building strong company culture
37:26 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:

Leap Chear, a Senior Architect and Partner at EAPC Architects Engineers, amass over 25 years of experience in architectural practice. A Higher Education sector specialist, Leap skillfully manages complex projects from planning to post-occupancy. He is a LEED Accredited Professional, licensed in 7 states, and a co-founder of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) North Dakota Chapter and active member of AIA South Dakota (past board member). Honored as AIA North Dakota Young Architect of the Year in 2009 and Prairie Business Top 40 Under 40 Professional in 2012, Leap is a community leader, serving on the Sioux Empire Housing Partnership board.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Laurie LaPat-Polasko, Vice President/National Director of Remediation, Matrix New World Engineering about Microbial Bioremediation, Working with your Hero, and Humpback Whale Encounters. Read her full bio below.

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1:24 Nic & Laura talk about animal fears & misconceptions
11:43 Interview with Laurie LaPat- Polasko starts
22:15 Bioremediation
35:26 Working with your hero/ Fieldnotes
44:04 Humpback Whales

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Guest Bio:
Known worldwide, Dr. LaPat-Polasko specializes in environmental engineering and microbiology, developing sustainable ways to biodegrade contaminants. She is involved in a variety of air projects over the years, legionella, hydrogen sulfide issues, etc. Dr. LaPat-Polasko has been the recipient of several prominent honors. She received the GOLD International Stevie Award for Women in Business, Woman of the Year – Technology, was selected as Outstanding Business Woman of the Year by the Phoenix Business Journal for her community leadership, professional accomplishments, and personal achievements and received the Prism Award from the Society of Women, Engineers for Outstanding Leadership in STEM.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Nicole Beck, CEO and Founder of 2NDNATURE about Aquatic Chemistry, Ultimate Frisbee, and Translating Policy. Read her full bio below.

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2:58 Nic & Laura finish discussing their horror movie trilogy
7:39 Interview with Nicole Beck starts
10:11 Aquatic Chemistry
20:10 Translating policy
36:11 Field Notes
41:05 Ultimate Frisbee

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Guest Bio:
Nicole Beck has a PhD in aquatic chemistry and a career long mission to bring science to decision makers. She is motivated to apply her technical knowledge to develop practical science based tools to inform land management decisions that protect our water resources. Her journey has landed her as a CEO of a technology company that offers stormwater GIS software to empower local governments, corporations and other large urban land owners to manage runoff as a resource.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Shannon Oelkers, owner and principal consultant for Integrity Environmental about Starlink, Tank Farm Logistics, and Networking Tips. Read her full bio below.

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1:12 Nic & Laura discuss career next steps
6:26 Interview with Shannon Oelkers starts
7:17 Starlink
26:32 Tank farm logistics
45:25 Networking

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Guest Bio:
Shannon Oelkers is the owner and principal consultant for Integrity Environmental. Shannon previously worked at the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation in the Contaminated Sites and Terminal / Tank Farms division, focusing on industrial environmental compliance. Shannon holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Science and a master's degree in Community Development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has more than a decade of experience inspecting and auditing bulk fuel tank farm operations. Shannon is also an MBA Instructor at Alaska Pacific University. Shannon is well-versed in the unique challenges of completing oil and gas related projects in Alaska.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Chris Whitehead, Leader of ESI’s air compliance practice about Environmental Justice, Air Quality, and Public Speaking. Read his full bio below.

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2:56 Nic & Laura talk about employment gaps
9:56 Interview with Chris Whitehead starts
18:49 Environmental Justice
24:30 Air Quality
28:53 Public Speaking

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Guest Bio:

Chris Whitehead is the leader of ESI’s air compliance practice. He has fifteen years of air quality compliance management consulting experience and has been a national client manager for multiple Fortune 500 companies across numerous sectors. Chris most recently has been heavily involved with environmental justice regulatory developments and has led the air teams for commercial offshore wind projects in New England and the Mid-Atlantic. Over the past 17 years he has been published numerous times in various outlets on the topics of environmental justice, the New Jersey EJ law, and offshore wind project development.

He has an M.S. in Environmental Management and Policy from American Public University, a B.A. in Political Science from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Sustainability Program Management certificate through Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chris lives in southern New Jersey with his wife and two young children, ages six and four.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

We have a new minisode for you today. This is taking place of our regular episode this week. There's no interview but still alot of fun with your hosts Nic and Laura. Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Johna Hutira, Cultural Resources Program Manager at Dawson about Artifacts, the Curation Crisis, and Site Security. Read her full bio below.

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2:13 Nic & Laura talk about their burgeoning horror movie franchise
6:32 Interview with Johna Hutira starts
13:32 Artifacts
24:37 Curation Crisis
28:20 Site Security

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Guest Bio:
Johna Hutira has been an archeologist for over 40 years. She currently is the Cultural Resources Program Manager at Dawson. A native Arizonan, she lives in Tempe, AZ.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Tun Myint, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Carleton College about Democracy, Volunteering, and Home Brewing. Read his full bio below.

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2:43 Nic & Laura talk about video games
8:56 Interview with Dr. Tun Myint starts
16:06 Democracy
29:46 Volunteering
41:59 Brewing
45:38 Field Notes

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Connect with Tun Myintat https://www.carleton.edu/directory/tmyint/

Guest Bio:
Tun Myint is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Carleton College, Northfield, MN. He is the author of Governing International Rivers: Polycentric Politics in the Mekong and the Rhine.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Thomas Easley, Founder Mind Heart for Diversity Consulting about The DEI Project, Mind Heart for Diversity, and Being Your Unique Self. Read his full bio below.

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2:48 Nic & Laura discuss Ghana
7:03 Interview with Dr. Thomas Easley starts
7:42 The DEI Project
29:55 Mind Heart for Diversity
40:25 Field Notes
44:21 Being your unique self

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Guest Bio:
Thomas RaShad Easley, Ed.D., is the child of civil rights activists that protested in the children’s march in 1963 at the height of the Civil Right movement and integrated an all-white school in Toledo, Ohio. Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion at the School of the Environment at Yale University (the first school of forestry, 1900). Dr. Easley has attended Alabama A&M University (B.S.), Iowa State University (M.S.), and North Carolina State University (Ed.D.) Dr. Easley has backgrounds in forestry, genetics, and adult education.

Dr. Easley is a certified diversity, equity and inclusion consultant that works with academic institutions, corporate entities, and other organizations to help them actualize a strong diversity initiative that welcomes everyone and shifts work culture to be equitable.

Dr. Easley is a musical artist, professor, Eagle Scout, and a former campus pastor. He intentionally merges conscious lyrics, ecumenical spirituality, land stewardship, education, diversity/equity/inclusion principles and entrepreneurial thinking in his lectures, workshops and presentations.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wagner, partner with Venable, LLP about Phase II NEPA Regulations, the Future of WotUS, and Upcoming Supreme Court Case. Read his full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode VENABLE, LLP! Check them out at https://www.venable.com/

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Guest Bio:
Fred Wagner focuses his practice on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Fred is familiar with the full range of issues surrounding USDOT surface transportation programs, including grant management, procurement, suspension and debarment, and safety regulations. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Marilu Cristina Flores, Founder, Conservation Key about the Film Industry, Taking Bold Career Leaps, and Conservation Key. Read her full bio below.

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3:03 Nic & Laura talk about bad mentors
9:04 Interview with Marilu Cristina Flores starts
9:20 Film Industry
18:44 Taking Bold Career Leaps
29:48 Conservation Key
48:22 Field Notes
51:11 More Bold Leaps

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Guest Bio:Marilu Cristina Flores is an award-winning filmmaker, coral researcher, and recipient of the 2021 Go Blue Ambassador of the Year Award. Recognized as a Hispanic Ocean Conservation Hero in 2021, she holds a certificate degree from the University of Queensland in Tropical Coastal Ecosystem Resource Management and served the Surfrider Foundation as Regional Coordinator and then Manager from 2018 - 2022.

During her time with Surfrider, Marilu helped community activists pass over 50 ordinances to protect our marine and coastal ecosystems and in 2021, she was appointed to serve the Southeast Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI) as an NGO/nonprofit partner for five years.

Marilu is the founder of Conservation Key, a project-based, IRS recognized nonprofit; founded on the hope that with our intervention, coral reefs can and will survive for the next generation.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Louise Edwards, Aya Walraven and Tiffany Duong, the creative team behind the VR video game Found in the Fjords. Read their full bios below.

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3:18 Nic & Laura discuss video games
8:36 Interview Starts
11:49 Orcas
15:14 Found in the Fjords
33:59 VR Gaming
45:27 Field Notes

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Guests Full Bio:
Dr. Louise Edwards: Team Lead, Developer and 3D Artist

Louise is the team lead, developer and 3D artist for Found in the Fjords. She is a scientist, educator and VR designer/developer based in the Rocky Mountains of western Canada. She specializes in creating immersive and interactive experiences that help people develop a relationship with the Earth and the scientific literacy required to engage with the modern world.

Tiff Duong: Story Design and Producer

Tiff is the story designer and producer of Found in the Fjords, is an explorer and storyteller. Inspired by an epic dive trip, she left corporate law to campaign for our planet. She now writes, speaks and leads from dense jungles to remote oceans to the changing Arctic. Tiff gives voice to what's happening in the natural world in order to inspire meaningful action and lasting change.

Aya Walraven: Technical Director and Sound Design

Aya is the technical director, web3 developer and sound producer for Found in the Fjords. Her background is in emerging tech, such as augmented reality, video streaming, web3 platforms and data analysis. Outside of her work, she is an avid freediver, and has a strong interest in the history of the ocean’s relationship to food and culture, as well as sustainable harvesting.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Mike Mayer, Principal Environmental Project Manager with HDR, Inc. and current NAEP President about NAEP (of course!), the Endangered Species Act, and Field Note Stories. Read his full bio below.

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2:27 Nic & Laura discuss technical writing experience
8:39 Interview with Mike Mayer starts
10:44 NAEP
21:18 The Endangered Species Act
41:15 Greatest Field Story Ever

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Guest Bio:
In his formative years, he was raised in a family led by grandparents that operated a conservation camp and spent time fighting forest fires in Wyoming, Utah, and New York. As a wildlife biologist, he has performed site investigations and applies his ecological knowledge to planning and conservation efforts related to energy development, natural resource management, and water resource management. As a lawyer, he conducts legal research on topics affecting natural resource and energy and water planning efforts, specifically as they relate to management policies and environmental laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act. From endangered salmon issues in the Pacific Northwest to oil spill restoration in the Gulf of Mexico, to large river ecosystem restoration and grizzly bear restoration, he has assisted federal agencies in navigating environmental laws to develop scientifically sound and legally defensible management plans, programs, and strategies. He has contributed to national endeavors such as the Department of the Interior’s initiative on adaptive management. Internationally, he worked with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection for the Republic of Georgia, conducting stakeholder meetings and developing statutory amendments to strengthen the laws and regulations of its protected areas. From these experiences, he has gained valuable insight into both natural resource conservation and energy and water issues, science, policy, and stakeholder perspectives across the country and the world. As a Principal Environmental Project Manager with HDR, Inc., he assists his clients in meeting their environmental missions and regulatory requirements. Mike currently serves as the President of NAEP and leads the biological resources working group. He is a founder, past President, and current Vice President of Minnesota Association of Environmental Professionals.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Antal Borcsok, Co-founder & CEO at Tela Marine about Tela Reef, Living with Purpose, and a Unique Approach to Conservation.

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Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ben Poulter, Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center about Grant Writing, Wetlands and NASA Earth Projects. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:
1:48 Nic & Sam talk about Wetlands
6:38 Interview with Ben Poulter starts
10:21 Grant Writing
18:48 NASA Earth Projects
24:03 Field Notes, Wetlands

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Guest Bio:
Ben Poulter moved to the USA from England as a teenager where he then later went to the University of Connecticut and ended up at the University of Idaho finishing a degree in forest ecology. In his early twenties, he worked at NY Botanical Garden, US Forest Service, and Carnegie Institution of Washington/Stanford University as a field technician. Ben started his PhD at Duke University in 2000-2005, and then moved overseas to Europe (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, Germany), Swiss Federal Research Institute (WSL, Swiss), and Lab for Science, Climate and Environment (LSCE, France)) and worked there from 2006-2013. He also had a short stint as a professor at Montana State University (2014-2016) and joined NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2016 as a Civil Servant where he has been for past seven years.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

Summer is in full swing and we hope you are enjoying it! We have a new minisode for you today. This is taking place of our regular episode this week. There's no interview, we just wanted to share with everyone how our summer has been going and what we have been up to. We also reflect on the show to date and talk about upcoming episodes and plans for EPR. Thank you so much for listening! 

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Christopher Maupin, Research Scientist about Isotopes, Grad School and Caving in Vanuatu. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:
2:13 Nic & Laura talk about caves
7:54 Interview with Christopher Maupin starts
14:04 Isotopes
21:51 Grad School
34:58 Field Notes
36:13 Caving in Vanuatu

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Guest Bio:
Christopher Maupin Maupin was born in Sarasota, FL. He has earned numerous degrees including BS at Eckerd College (chemistry and marine science), MS at USF College of Marine Science (chemical oceanography), PhD at University of Texas at Austin. He is now an Associate Research scientist at Texas A&M University and co-director of the Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility. Chris has done fieldwork in caves and coral reefs and around the world, and severe convective storms in the US.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Spencer Tassone, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences at Michigan Tech about Heatwaves, Researching, and Shiny Apps. Read his full bio below.

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3:08 Nic & Laura talk about travel tips
10:48 Interview with Spencer Tassone starts
1816 Researching
26:00 Heatwaves
34:03 Shiny Apps
41:45 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Spencer Tassone is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences at Michigan Tech. Spencer's research examines disturbances, extreme events, and long-term changes in freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems. Along with publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals, his research has been featured across numerous media outlets including Fox Weather, Utah Public Radio, Science News Magazine, and the Chesapeake Bay Journal. Spencer has also used his research to help inform public policy by partnering with the Chesapeake Bay Program on a Science and Technical Advisory Committee. This committee focused on examining the ecological implications of rising water temperatures and developing management strategies to address these challenges. Spencer's research has provided valuable insights that inform evidence-based decision-making and contribute to the understanding and preservation of U.S. waterways.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Amy Simpkins, CEO of muGrid Analytics about Microgrids, Innovation, and Travel. Read her full bio below.

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1:38 Nic & Sam talk about trains
5:48 Interview with Amy Simpkins starts
14:53 Microgrids
29:45 Innovation
42:00 Travel

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Guest Bio:
As co-founder and CEO at muGrid Analytics, Amy Simpkins solves wicked problems at the intersection of energy technology and economics using math and modeling. muGrid provides bankable techno-economic analysis, optimized control, and project development of renewable energy, energy storage, and microgrids to maximize economic return, increase energy resilience, and promote energy equity in the US and around the world. Amy is the author of Spiral: A Catalyst for Innovation and Expansion and host of the Power Flow Podcast, which amplifies diverse voices in the clean energy revolution. Amy holds Master's in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor's in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ted Boling, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP about NEPA updates, Teaching and CEQ. Read his full bio below.

Thank you to this episode's sponsor Perkins Coie. Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high-value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,200 lawyers in offices across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie provides a full array of legal advice including on environment, energy, and natural resources issues. This year, Chambers USA named Perkins Coie the Environment Law Firm of the Year, as well as ranking the practice Band 1, the highest possible ranking. Check them out at www.perkinscoie.com

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Guest Bio:
Edward (Ted) Boling served as the country’s top National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) attorney as an associate director at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of the President. Ted served at CEQ, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in Democratic and Republican administrations. His experience includes deep involvement in federal infrastructure permitting issues and the first comprehensive revision of CEQ’s NEPA regulations in 40 years.

Drawing on over 30 years of high-level public service, Ted currently advises leaders on transportation and energy development projects, agencies that must hire outside counsel, and the environmental professionals that support them on the development of renewable energy, resource development, transportation, and infrastructure.

Ted’s extensive government experience at CEQ included the development of the National Ocean Policy, CEQ’s climate change guidance, and the regulatory response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He drafted NEPA guidance on mitigation and monitoring, cumulative impacts analysis, and the development categorical exclusions from detailed NEPA documentation. Ted advised the White House on the establishment of numerous national monuments and also assisted in briefing three U.S. Supreme Court cases.

At DOI, Ted handled matters involving energy development on the outer continental shelf, including offshore wind power development, and the fast track for solar and wind energy projects on public lands. He has provided legal and policy advice on environmental issues concerning the Federal Columbia River Power System and the California Central Valley Project. At DOJ, early in his career, Ted litigated significant cases involving NEPA, endangered species, marine mammals, wetland protections, and management of public lands.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Amanda Dwyer Sales and Business Development Managerand Dayna Winchell Conservation Planner/Project Manager with Westervelt Ecological Service about Mitigation and Conservation Banking, Company Culture, and Ecological Work. Read their full bios below.

Thank you to this episodes advanced sponsor Westervelt Ecological Services (WES). Wes is an environmental mitigation company based in the US. They specialize in providing ecological restoration, conservation, and mitigation banking services. WES works with both public and private sector clients to address environmental challenges and achieve regulatory compliance.

WES undertakes a variety of projects related to wetland and stream restoration, habitat enhancement, and species conservation. Their initiatives often involve the creation, enhancement, or preservation of natural habitats to offset the environmental impacts of development projects. These efforts aim to restore or improve the ecological functions of ecosystems, enhance wildlife habitats, and promote biodiversity. Check them out at https://wesmitigation.com

Showtimes:
2:59 Nic & Laura discuss mitigation banking
7:45 Interview with Amanda Dwyer & Dayna Winchell starts
18:56 Mitigation & conservation banking
26:02 Ecological work
29:05 Field Notes
32:10 Company culture

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Connect with Dayna Winchell at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayna-winchell-6a0b8258/

Guest Bio:

Amanda Dwyer currently serves as the Sales and Business Development Manager for Westervelt Ecological Service’s Western Region Office. In this position, Amanda coordinates with a variety of clients to identify their mitigation needs and possible solutions to ensure their projects are completed in a cost-effective and timely manner. Prior to joining Westervelt Ecological Services, Amanda worked at the California Department of Water Resources doing environmental permit compliance for salmonid restoration projects in conjunction with water infrastructure improvements for California’s State Water Project. Amanda received her bachelor’s degree in 2014 from the University of California, Davis, in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning.

Dayna Winchell is a Conservation Planner/Project Manager with Westervelt Ecological Services. As a conservation planner Dayna prepares the mitigation documents and coordinates with the regulatory agencies to get approval of the mitigation and conservation sites. Before working at Westervelt, Dayna worked as a biologist for various environmental consulting firms where she completed species habitat assessments and wetland delineations. She has a master’s in Conservation Biology from the University of Queensland and currently resides in Sacramento, CA.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sam Sutaria, CEO of the WaterBear Network about Waterbear, Nature, and a Three Dog Day at Yellowstone National Park. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:
2:17 Nic & Laura discuss outgoingness vs. shyness
8:20 Interview with Sam Sutaria starts
16:31 WaterBear
37:15 Nature
38:35 Field Notes- Three dog day at Yellowstone

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Guest Bio:
Sam is the CEO of the WaterBear Network: a B Corp certified, award-winning, digital publisher and interactive streaming platform dedicated to our planet. Imagine. If we could transform documentaries into popcorn worthy entertainment. Turn people from passive viewers into active doers. Make people go from doomerism to domoreism. Turn partners into planet partners. Filmmakers into changemakers. And ultimately go from collecting awards to measuring actual impact. Now wouldn't that make for a good story?

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sunny Fleming, Environment and Conservation Industry Specialist at Esri about Moving, WOTUS, and the National Seed Strategy. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
1:38 Nic & Laura discuss movies
9:13 Interview with Sunny Fleming starts
10:24 Moving
12:14 WOTUS
27:47 The National Seed Strategy

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Guest Bio:
As the Environment and Conservation Industry Specialist for state environmental agencies, Sunny is responsible for supporting some of Esri’s longest-standing customers: fish and wildlife agencies, environmental regulation, agriculture, state parks, historical preservation, and natural heritage programs. She loves helping our customers shape their vision and innovate to meet their business challenges.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Deborah Poppel, Senior Project Scientist with RK&K as well as Treasure of PAEP about PAEP, Being a Certified Wildlife Biologist, and the Dark Side of Consulting. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
3:17 Nic & Laura discuss the dark side of environmental professions
10:59 Interview with Deborah Poppel starts
12:04 PAEP
19:24 Being a certified biologist
32:04 Consulting
36:09 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Deborah Poppel is currently a Senior Project Scientist with RK&K and serves on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals (PAEP). Deb is a Certified Wildlife Biologist with over 30 years of professional experience, 26 of which have been as an environmental consultant. Ms. Poppel specializes in assisting clients with compliance under the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and wetlands/Clean Water Act regulations. In her career she has served as a Project Manager, Natural Resources Department Manager, and Protected Species Technical Practice Group Leader. She resides in Pennsylvania.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ron Holcomb, retired hazardous waste clean up professional and author of "Constant Chaos: The Daily Battle to Protect the Environment", about Being an Environmental Medic, Safety Requirements, his Career Accomplishments, his book, and so so many field stories #fieldnotes. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:
3:38 Nic & Laura discuss surfing
8:35 Interview with Ron Holcomb starts
14:59 Being an environmental medic
23:11 Safety requirements
24:53 Career accomplishments
29:10 Field Notes- Constant Chaos

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Guest Bio:
Ron Holcomb worked as a spill responder for the Washington State Department of Ecology before retiring in 2020 after a 40-year public service career dedicated to protecting the environment. He was the Spill Team Lead for Ecology’s Southwest Region and personally handled more than 6,000 oil and hazardous material spill incidents. Prior to being a spill responder, he was a public information officer for Ecology and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He received a Master of Science in Environmental Communications from the University of Wisconsin after graduating with a degree in Journalism, Biology and Natural Resources from Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif. He developed his love of the outdoors and concern for the environment during childhood experiences in national parks and forests, and as a member of The Mountaineers. In retirement he still enjoys climbing peaks in the Olympic and Cascade Mountains.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wagner, Environmental Attorney with Venable, LLP, Eileen Baden, Park and Open Space Planner at the Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department and Pam Hudson, Senior Associate Counsel for Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwest. Read their full bios below.

Thank you to our episode sponsor, SmartComment, Inc check them out at www.smartcomment.com!

Also thanks to Venable, LLP for the long term support and allowing us to chat with Fred each quarter! www.venable.com

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Connect with Eileen Baden at https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileenbadenaicp/
Connect with Pam Hudson at https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamellenhudson

Guest Bios:
Fred Wagner - As Environmental Attorney with Venable, LLP,Fred focuses his practice on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration during the Obama administration. He began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

Pam Hudson - Prior to joining Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwest she served as Counsel for Civil Engineer Corps Officers School. Since 2013, Ms. Hudson has authored fifteen federal agency, academic and peer-reviewed articles. Prior to joining the Office of General Counsel, she practiced at Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, in Atlanta, GA, and Roetzel & Andress in Naples, FL. She interned as a federal clerk for the Northern District of Florida for the Honorable Robert Hinkle. Pam is an alumna of Florida State University School of Law, where she was the Beverly Stout McLear Environmental and Land Use Scholar. She retired from the Navy as Commander (Oceanography). *Ms. Hudson's views are hers alone, and do not reflect the views of the Department of Defense or the Navy.

Eileen Baden, AICP, has over thirteen years of experience as an environmental and park planning professional. She most recently served as the Park and Open Space Planner at the Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department. Eileen graduated from the Master of Urban and Environmental Planning program at Arizona State University in 2012 after completing her undergraduate degree in Economics from Virginia Tech. She worked as an Environmental Planner on NEPA projects from 2012-2018. She returned to ASU from 2018-2021 to help students navigate the program and learn important skills while also teaching courses. She has extensive experience in environmental and park planning as well as conducting public outreach and developing contact lists and surveys.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Tiffany Duong explorer and storyteller at Ocean Rebels, and JD Reinbott, marine conservationist and queer rights advocate about New Career Paths, Handling Toxic Feedback, and Networking. Read their full bios below.

Thank you to our episode sponsor, Center for Open Exploration (C4OE)! Donors can reach out to Erica Moulton at erica.moulton@gmail.com

Showtimes:
2:11 Nic & Laura discuss healthy & unhealthy determination
14:46 Interview with Tiffany Duong & JD Reinbott starts
15:53 New career paths
26:50 Handling toxic feedback
33:58 Networking

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Connect with JD Reinbott at https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-reinbott/

Guest Bios:

Tiffany Duong is a writer, explorer and motivational speaker. She holds degrees from UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Inspired by a dive trip, she left corporate law to campaign for our planet. Now, from dense jungles, remote oceans and her slice of paradise in the Florida Keys, she gives voice to what's happening in the natural world. Her mission is to inspire meaningful action and lasting change. Follow her on Twitter/Instagram @tiffmakeswaves.

As someone who has had an affinity for the marine world from a young age, JD Reinbott has dedicated his life to conserving the numerous ecosystems and organisms found within the ocean. This self-proclaimed coral nerd has worked extensively on restoration projects around the globe but finds the most rewarding aspect of such to be the community-based engagement that is needed to allow these initiatives to succeed. Recently JD has focused his attention on highlighting the need for further representation of the LGBTQIA+ community within the realm of marine science to ensure that diversity is celebrated both above and below the surface.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Jaclyn Wegner, Director of Conservation Action at Shedd Aquarium about Aquarium Conservation, Modeling Behaviors, and Program Accessibility. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
1:53 Nic & Laura discuss nostalgic foods
8:17 Interview with Jaclyn Wegner starts
10:14 Aquarium conservation
21:21 Modeling behaviors
31:54 Program accessibility
37:33 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Jaclyn Wegner is the Director of Conservation Action at Shedd Aquarium where her team mobilizes individuals, communities and businesses to take action through restoring local wetlands and rivers, sourcing sustainably-sourced seafood, tackling the plastic pollution crisis, and more. Jaclyn has led conservation action efforts at Shedd since 2014 and has worked on environmental programming since 2006. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in education.

Music Credits
Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa
Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with CJ Goulding, Founder of Boyz N The Wood about Mentoring, Boyz in the Wood and Mental Health and the Outdoors. Read his full bio below.

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CJ Goulding is a weaver, facilitator, community builder, organizer, and storyteller who invests in the growth of people, the growth of connection between people, and the growth of communities. He is committed to redistributing power and resources to achieve equity and justice. His work involves supporting leaders creating change in their communities, and shaping new narratives about our connection to community and the outdoors, like "Why I Wear Jordans in the Great Outdoors."

CJ is the founder of Boyz N The Wood, which uses nature as a framework where Black men can connect and grow as examples of positive masculinity and positive mental health in their communities. He currently operates as a consultant creating pathways, providing resources, and developing innovative strategies that support the outdoor and environmental sectors in their evolution toward justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Tom Ries, ecologist and President of Environmental Restoration Institute (ERI), about Seagrass, Permitting, and ERI. Read his full bio below.

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Tom is a nationally known ecologist with more than 35 years of experience in restoring natural systems in the southeast. His work has garnered numerous environmental awards and resulted in the restoration of more than 3,800 acres of wetlands. In 2013, Tom received the prestigious National Wetlands Award in Conservation & Restoration from the Environmental Law Institute, in Washington DC.

Tom founded Ecosphere Restoration Institute in 2007 to advance restoration activities through innovative public-private partnerships. He currently also serves as Southeast Biological Services and Restoration Director for Environmental Science Associates (ESA), an environmental science and planning firm with offices throughout the U.S.

Tom graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.A. in Biology and a minor in Geology. In his early career, he mapped wetlands for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and implemented several coastal habitat restoration and stormwater retrofit projects in Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay and Charlotte Harbor while working for the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s SWIM program.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Erica Moulton, STEM Director at St. Petersburg College about The Center of Open Exploration, Women in STEM, and Antarctica. Read her full bio below.

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3:34 Nic & Laura discuss the hazards of fieldwork
8:47 Interview with Erica Moulton starts
9:21 Women in STEM
24:42 Antarctica
35:28 The Center for Open Exploration
44:28 Field Notes

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Erica Moulton has over 20 years’ experience in STEM education and research in the marine technology and biology field. She owns a small business PVC ROV providing kits to classes and programs around the world. Erica created a non-profit Center for Open Exploration (C4OE) for grant allocations to citizen science projects. She has worked across the US and abroad, in the non-profit and for-profit sectors teaching marine technology.

One of 16 Honorees’ named to the Explorer’s Club on the 40th Anniversary of women being admitted to the organization. Erica was awarded NAUI’s Worldwide Environmental Enrichment Award and American Geophysical Union award for Sharing Science.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Joanie Mahoney, President at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry about SUNY ESF, Chasing Opportunities, and Guidance for Student Success. Read her full bio below.

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4:13 Nic & Laura discuss their upcoming AMA
9:25 Interview with Joanie Mahoney starts
10:08 SUNY ESF
22:37 Chasing Opportunities
33:12 Guidance for student success
44:03 Field Notes

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Joanie Mahoney was appointed President at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in November, 2020. Prior to ESF, Ms. Mahoney served as Onondaga County Executive for 11 years and oversaw all aspects of a county government, which served 460,000 residents. During her tenure as county executive, she earned national recognition for her environmentally friendly stewardship.

Before her elective office, Joanie worked as an attorney both in private practice with the Harris Beach law firm and for five years as a criminal prosecutor in the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office. Joanie serves as chair of the New York State Thruway Authority and co-chairs the Governor’s Task Force for Reimagine the Canals.

Ms. Mahoney received her bachelor of science degree from Syracuse University's School of Management and her juris doctor from S.U.'s College of Law.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Matthew Sekol, World Wide Sustainability Industry Advocate with Microsoft about All Things Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). Read his full bio below.

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3:41. Nic & Laura discuss ChatGPT
11:04. Interview with Matthew Sekol starts
11:50. Environmental
17:17. Social
33:26. Governance

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Matt came into sustainability from the perspective of ESG in Financial Services and quickly developed a reputation at Microsoft for being ‘the guy who sees ESG everywhere.’ He guides companies across a range of industries through sustainable transformation by delivering thought leadership and innovative ideas that challenge the status quo. With a 20-year career supporting technology initiatives across financial services, energy, healthcare and life sciences, and semiconductor organizations, Matt now helps global companies understand complex sustainability and ESG concepts while aligning to market expectations.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dwayne Estes, Executive Director at the Southeastern Grasslands Institute (SGI) about Measuring Success, Quantifying Natural History, and Grasslands. Read his full bio below.

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3:23 Nic & Laura discuss time travel
8:19 Interview with Dwayne Estes starts
11:10 Grasslands
20:57 Measuring success
29:45 Quantifying natural history
36:39 Field Notes

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Guest Full Bio:
Dwayne Estes serves as executive director at the Southeastern Grasslands Institute (SGI). He is a Full Professor of Biology, Director of the APSU Herbarium, and Principal Investigator for the Center of Excellence for Field Biology. In January 2017, he co-founded SGI with colleague, Theo Witsell. Under Dwayne's leadership, SGI has secured more than $7 million in funding, and in the past several years he and his collaborators have been awarded three grants from the National Science Foundation. Dwayne’s research interests include the flora, ecology, history, biodiversity, and biogeography of the Southeastern U.S. with emphasis on grasslands. He has published >20+ publications and co-authored the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee published in 2015 by the University of Tennessee Press. He enjoys mentoring his graduate students and working hand-in-hand with a dedicated SGI team. He has been active in building diverse support for Southeastern US grasslands conservation, including bringing together philanthropists, government agencies, non-profits, corporate and small-business partners, private landowners and ranchers, historians, educators, and citizen scientists.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Anita Raman, Research and Policy Development Associate at the Cornell Climate Jobs Institute about Climate Careers, Riding Cross Country, and Mindfulness. Read her full bio below.

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4:01 Nic & Laura discuss applying to senior positions
11:46 Interview with Anita Raman starts
13:29 Climate Careers
34:10 Field Notes- Riding across Country
42:50 Mindfulness

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Guest Bio:Anita Raman is a Research & Policy Development Associate at Cornell University’s ILR School Climate Jobs Institute.

Raman studies the labor implications of climate change, advancing knowledge and policies that help unions engage in public climate debates and advocate for a just worker transition. Raman’s cutting-edge research advances climate jobs campaigns and supports eight states’ high-road climate labor policy development. Raman is a 2022 Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the OpEd Project in partnership with Yale University, and her op-eds on climate jobs have been published in CrainsNY, The Buffalo News, Newsday, the NY Daily News, and more.

Before joining Cornell ILR, Raman implemented climate adaptation projects in the Global South at UNDP and published reports analyzing national climate plans and global agreements at the U.N. Secretariat. Raman also managed data and reporting for a NYS program that helped low-and-middle-income families migrate away from climate coastline hazards after Hurricane Sandy.

Raman received her M.A. in Climate and Society from Columbia University and her B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, our fabulous legal guru, Fred Wagner, Partner with Venable, LLP., is back for the 6th time! Tune in to hear our conversation about Music Theater, Waters of the U.S., and Green House Gas Reporting Disclosures. Read his full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode VENABLE, LLP! Check them out at https://www.venable.com/

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2:36 Nic & Laura discuss the Expendables movie franchise
7:17 Interview with Fred Wagner starts
7:43 Music Theater
21:07 Waters of the U.S.
38:23 GHG reporting disclosures

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Guest Full Bio:
Fred Wagner focuses his practice on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Fred is familiar with the full range of issues surrounding USDOT surface transportation programs, including grant management, procurement, suspension and debarment, and safety regulations. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Daron Duke, Principal Investigator archaeologist at Far Western Anthropological Research Group about Archeology, Ancient Footprints, and Working Collaboratively. Read his full bio below.

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3:44 Nic & Laura discuss their flawless sense of direction
9:25 Interview with Daron Duke starts
13:52 Archeology
23:31 Ancient Footprints
35:14 Working collaboratively

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Guest Full Bio:
Dr. Daron Duke is a Principal Investigator archaeologist at Far Western Anthropological Research Group, a California-based Cultural Resources Management (CRM) consulting firm. He serves as the company's Chief Operating Officer and the Director of its Desert Branch office in Henderson, Nevada. With 25 years of experience in the Desert West, His expertise spans a wide range of industry sectors and archaeological techniques. He works closely with Native American tribes on both archaeological and ethnographic projects. Dr. Duke is an active researcher, and clients benefit from his scientific expertise when faced with evolving standards in cultural resource evaluation. He actively disseminates scientific findings, including publications in American Antiquity, Journal of Archaeological Science, PaleoAmerica, and Nature Human Behavior.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Veena Singla, Senior Scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council about Plastics, GHGs, and Networking. Read her full bio below.

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2:50 Nic & Laura talk about decision fatigue
8:59 Interview with Dr. Veena Singla starts
15:34 Networking
24:29 Plastics
32:10 GHGs
37:45 Field Notes

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Veena Singla is a Senior Scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Adjunct Assistant professor at Columbia University. Her work seeks to address health disparities linked to harmful environmental exposures using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating environmental health, exposure science, public health and policy expertise. Her research investigates how toxic pollution from systems of materials use, production and disposal threaten the health of impacted communities.

She serves on the US EPA Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors, the Board of Directors for Clean Production Action, and as Associate Director for the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Program.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Juan Rovalo, Senior Ecologist and Nature-based Solutions Strategist at Jacobs about The Urban Land Institute, Biodiversity, and Biomimicry. Read his full bio below.

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3:37 Nic & Laura talk about Puerto Rico adventures
12:58 Interview with Juan Rovalo starts
21:30 The Urban Land Institute
25:27 Biodiversity
31:44 Biomimicry
47:55 Field Notes

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Juan Rovalo is a Skilled Ecologist and Nature-Based Solutions Strategist with 20 years of experience in ecological assessments, multidisciplinary, nature-based design projects, scientific studies, Biomimicry, and geospatial analysis, working to enhance and recover ecosystem processes and functional multi-benefit landscapes. He has a successful track record managing multi-faceted projects in 10 countries and 15+ unique ecological regions. Juan Rovalo is fluent in English and Spanish.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Daniel Hill, Senior Manager of Innovation at Environmental Defense Fund and Creator of #OpenDoorClimate about The Environmental Defense Fund, Open Door Climate, and Career Advice. Read his full bio below.

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2:50 Nic & Laura discuss airplane movies
9:24 Interview with Daniel Hill starts
9:35 The Environmental Defense Fund
16:43 Career Advice
21:45 Open Door Climate
27:28 Field Notes

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Daniel Hill is currently a Senior Manager of Innovation at Environmental Defense Fund, where he created EDF’s Innovation Fund - an internal incubator to unleash creative solutions to protect the environment. Previously, he led corporate partnerships and an entrepreneurship initiative for EDF's Climate Corps fellowship program. Prior to EDF, Daniel cofounded Green Impact Campaign, a nonprofit that trained students to conduct energy assessments for small businesses. Daniel is an Echoing Green fellow, Halcyon Incubator fellow, Clean Energy Leadership Institute fellow, and recipient of the Alliance to Save Energy's Rising Star of Energy Efficiency Award and Net Impact's Force for Change Award.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Jessica Yaquinto, Founder and Principal Investigator of Living Heritage Anthropology about Ethnography, Following your Passion, and the Heritage Voices Podcast. Read her full bio below.

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2:22 Nic & Laura discuss Ethnography
7:17 Interview with Jessica Yaquinto starts
8:40 Ethnography
16:35 Following your passion
29:28 Heritage Voices podcast
32:37 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Jessica Yaquinto is the Founder and Principal Investigator of Living Heritage Anthropology, which focuses on collaborative ethnographic research and tribal consultation. Additionally, she is the President and CEO of the 501c3 non-profit, Living Heritage Research Council, as well as the host of the Heritage Voices podcast on the Archaeology Podcast Network. She has a Masters from Northern Arizona University in Applied Socio-Cultural Anthropology.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sierra Taliaferro, outdoor educator and bird enthusiast about The Green Obsidian, the Creative Process, and Birds. Read her full bio below.

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3:24 Nic & Laura try to talk about birds
8:28 Interview with Sierra Taliaferro starts
9:30 The Green Obsidian
16:45 The creative process
27:35 Field Notes

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Sierra Taliaferro is a motivated outdoor educator and bird enthusiast with intentions to promote diversity in urban conservation, social justice and community advocacy. Her previous work experience consists of community engagement, urban agriculture, water conservation awareness, and land management practices. Her aim as a millennial in urban environmental conservation is to involve the public in decisions concerning natural landscapes through citizen stewardship and help bridge a lost connection between people and nature in an urban setting. She hopes to continue to make herself an advocate for diversity in conservation and to emphasize the importance of our natural resources surrounding our urban environments.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ethan Brown, Founder and Host of The Sweaty Penguin Podcast about Curiosity, Climate Change Engagement, and the Sweaty Penguin. Read his full bio below.

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2:03 Nic & Laura discuss annual reviews
6:39 Interview with Ethan Brown starts
9:19 The Sweaty Penguin
17:34 Climate change engagement
20:55 Curiosity

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Ethan Brown is a writer, commentator, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Host of The Sweaty Penguin, a comedy climate podcast presented by PBS/WNET's national multiplatform climate initiative "Peril and Promise" aimed at making climate change less overwhelming, less politicized, and more fun. The Sweaty Penguin has released nearly 200 episodes, interviewed world-renowned professors from 15 countries and 6 continents, and was named an Official Honoree at the 2022 Webby Awards and won a 2022 Signal Listener's Choice Award. Brown is also a Contributor for Young Voices, and his writing has been featured in the Orange County Register, Real Clear Energy, C3 Newsmag, and Counterpunch. He earned a dual degree in Environmental Analysis & Policy and Film & Television from Boston University.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Jason Shiflet, PhD, PG, Restoration Senior Program Manager for Dawson about Continuing Education, Geology, and Field Notes. Read his full bio below.

Today's sponsor is Dawson! DAWSON is a Native Hawaiian global business enterprise serving Federal clients through construction, PTS and environmental services. Operating worldwide, DAWSON is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi with offices across the U.S. Rooted in the Hawaiian values of aloha (embodying humility, respect, and compassion for all) and ʻohana (family), DAWSON carries forward a kuleana (responsibility) to benefit the Native Hawaiian community. DAWSON's environmental branch brings science, solutions, and sustainability to planning, compliance, munitions and remediation. With a permanent 8(a) status, DAWSON is the perfect solution to all of your business needs.

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1:56 Nic & Laura discuss personal growth
8:47 Interview with Dr. Jason Shiflet starts
9:01 Continuing Education
18:25 Geology
27:56 Field Notes

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Dr. Jason Shiflet has over two decades of technical, managerial and research experience in a variety of academic, munitions response, environmental and engineering investigations, assessments, and remediations. Following graduation from Clemson University (Geology B.S.) and University of Georgia (Geology M.S.), Dr. Shiflet began his career in the environmental consulting industry in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1998. Since then, he has performed numerous roles (e.g., Principal Investigator, Program Manager, Site Geologist) for restoration work, primarily for federal clients. He is a registered Professional Geologist and active in numerous industry organizations. In 2016, Dr. Shiflet completed his doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte focusing on compound specific isotope analysis and fate-and-transport modeling of chlorinated solvents. Dr. Shiflet is married to his high school sweetheart, Becca and has three children, Will, Evan, and Sarah Layton.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Bridget John, Chief Operating Officer and currently the acting CEO at the International Association for Impact Assessment about Renewable Energy Guidance, The International Association for Impact Assessment and Conference Planning. Read her full bio below.

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3:12 Nic & Laura discuss 2023 EPR updates
8:39 Interview with Bridget John starts
11:13 IAIA
20:11 Renewable Energy Guidance
26:37 Conference Planning

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Bridget is from the International Association for Impact Assessment, or IAIA. She is the Chief Operating Officer and currently the Acting CEO. Bridget has been with IAIA for 23 years and manages IAIA’s financial and general operations. Working at a small non-profit, she wears many hats and also orchestrates IAIA’s marketing, communications, and sponsorship efforts.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! 

To celebrate another successful year we'd like to share the fun we've had behind the scenes with you in an end of year outtakes spectacular! There's no interview, just a long list of mispronunciations, roasts, and mistakes we've accumulated over the year. This show is genuinely so much fun to do and we can't thank you enough for listening!

Happy New Year! See you in 2023!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! 

We have a new minisode for you today! There's no interview, just a timely and important message we wanted to share with everyone as we come up on the holiday season. This is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode on Friday this week, but we will be publishing a very special outtakes episode next Friday. Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Laura Thorne, entrepreneur, environmental career coach, and co-host of EPR about Managing Burn Out, Embracing Challenges, and What it Means to be a Role Model. Read her full bio below.

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1:59 Nic & Laura discuss managing burnout

18:36 Embracing Challenges

26:14 What it means to be a role model

37:12 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:
Laura is an entrepreneur, she co-owns a media company, a publishing company, and environmental career coaching service, and conducts business strategy consoling. She has over 25 years experience in management, executive board leadership, creating and managing programs, and helping others succeed. She has developed programs for international companies, managed and created programs, written awards for excellence, and helped companies of all sizes make a bigger impact. In 2020, she received a nomination for Economic Champion from CenterState CEO in Syracuse, NY.

Laura holds a BS in Biology from the University of South Florida, is a certified Project Management Professional, certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, is a certified career coach, and previously served on the board of the National Association of Environmental Professionals. For 10 years she was an environmental scientist working in habitat restoration, GIS, seagrass monitoring, and grants management. When she is not consulting or creating she is teaching photography, curating art shows, hosting visitors in her unique Airbnb, or traveling.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Matt Gray, Senior VP of Program for the Student Conservation Association about The Student Conservation Association, Community Networking, and Sailing Around the World. Read his full bio below.

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2:53 Nic & Laura discuss their college choices
8:19 Interview with Matt Gray starts
8:45 Student Conservation Association
18:08 Sailing around the world
22:17 Community networking

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Guest Bio:
In March 2021, Matt began serving as Senior VP of Program for the Student Conservation Association, the U.S.’s oldest and largest climate corps. Before this position, he served as Chief of Sustainability for the City of Cleveland to create a thriving green city on a blue lake.

Prior experience includes a Fulbright Fellowship in Mauritius focused on climate adaptation and four years with the US Department of Energy, where he served as Chair of the Interagency Sustainability Working Group.

Matt has bachelor degrees in Industrial Engineering and Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and a Masters in Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ron Deverman, Vice-President and National Environmental Planning Leader for STV about Indigenous Knowledge, Music, and the Family Farm. Read his full bio below.

Today's episode is sponsored by STV. STV is an award-winning professional firm consistently ranking among the country's top companies in education, justice, highways, bridges, rail and mass transit sectors. STV attributes its success as the direct result of their employees' commitment to innovation and quality. Throughout the United States and Canada, STV’s professional, technical and support personnel offer services to a broad and expanding client base. https://stvinc.com/

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2:15 Laura & Nic talk about getting work done in between meetings
10:23 Interview with Ron Deverman Starts
14:43 Indigenous Knowledge
35:19 Music
41:48 Family Farm

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Ron is Vice-President and National Environmental Planning Leader for STV, a national planning, engineering, and architecture firm. Ron has over 35-years-experience managing NEPA environmental impact assessment projects for transportation infrastructure improvements, such as transit, passenger and freight rail, highways, and bridges, with special expertise in community impact assessment, cumulative effects analysis, and other federal environmental regulations. Ron is a Past President of NAEP and IAEP and he is the current Chair of NAEP’s Leadership Development Initiative. Ron is a Certified Environmental Professional by Eminence and a NAEP Fellow for his exemplary service and over 30-year commitment to NAEP and the environmental professions. Ron is also an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University teaching a Masters’ course in NEPA and Context Sensitive Solutions. He is a published poet and has spoken nationally and internationally on many subjects, including key competencies for environmental professionals, environmental stewardship, and the public health impacts and benefits of our transportation choices. Ron comes from generations of farmers in Illinois’ heartland and farmed for a living while attending college. Ron’s education includes a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana, a MA in English from the University of Illinois in Springfield, and post-graduate studies in NEPA and related environmental studies.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! 

We are dropping a minisode today! There's no interview, just a timely and important message we wanted to share with everyone as we come up on the Thanksgiving holiday. This is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode on Friday this week, but we will be publishing another full length episode next Friday.  Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Boran Ma, Postdoctoral Researcher at Duke University about Materials Science, Comedy, and Communications. Read her full bio below.

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3:38 Nic & Laura talk about communication strategies
7:16 Interview with Boran Ma Starts
7:41 Material Science
23:44 Comedy
33:30 Communications

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Bo is currently a Postdoc Associate at Duke University. Starting January 2023, she is joining the faculty of the School of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi as an Assistant Professor. Bo got her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. Prior to that, she got her Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology.

Bo does computational research on polymer materials. She uses molecular modeling and simulation to understand the underlying physics and mechanisms and to better design polymeric materials and systems, specifically for energy and sustainability applications.

In her free time, Bo enjoys doing standup comedy, running, hiking, paddle boarding, and playing ultimate frisbee. Due to her passion about both science and comedy, Bo has been working on a science communications workshop where she helps students integrate comedy writing skills into science communications.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sunny Fleming, National Solutions Engineer at ESRI about Getting the Most out of Conferences, ESRI Updates, and get her Latest Thoughts on the Infrastructure Bill. Read her full bio below.

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2:15 Nic & Laura talk about getting the most out of conferences
13:03 Interview with Sunny Fleming Starts
15:15 Benefits of attending conferences
23:31 ESRI updates
40:08 Sunny's thoughts on the Infrastructure Bill after reading it word for word

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As the National Solution Engineer for state environmental agencies, Sunny is responsible for supporting some of Esri’s longest-standing customers: fish and wildlife agencies, environmental regulation, agriculture, state parks, historical preservation, and natural heritage programs. She loves helping our customers shape their vision and innovate to meet their business challenges.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Kylie Johnson, Southwest Ohio Regional Director for the Ohio Environmental Council about Environmental Advocacy, Pageants, and Transitioning from Country to City Life. Read her full bio below.

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2:44 Nic & Laura Talk about writing a good email
9:18 Interview with Kylie Johnson Starts
11:04 Pageants
15:29 Environmental Advocacy
21:12 Transitioning from Country to City Life
25:31 Field Notes

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As the Southwest Ohio Regional Director for the Ohio Environmental Council (OEC), Kylie Johnson works to advance environmental justice and make protection of Ohio’s land, air, and water a priority of local and state leaders. She began her career with the national nonprofit Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) where she educated high school students about the science, consequences, and solutions of climate change and empowered them to take action. Prior to joining OEC in 2021, Kylie managed the Green Learning Station - a retrofitted gas station transformed into a LEED Platinum certified environmental education center and green infrastructure demonstration site. Kylie earned her B.S. in Conservation Science from Muskingum University and M.S. in Environmental Studies from Ohio University, where she was funded by the USDA Forest Service and Georgetown University to conduct urban composting research in Edinburgh, Scotland; Washington, D.C.; and Baltimore, Maryland.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Wesley Knapp, Chief Botanist at NatureServe about NatureServe, Extinct Plants, and Field Stories. Read his full bio below.

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2:03 Nic & Laura talk about Industry Innovations
7:45 Interview with Wesley Knapp Starts
12:16 NatureServe
15:45 Extinct Plants
33:15 Field Stories

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Wesley Knapp is the Chief Botanist at NatureServe. Wes has over 20 years of experience working in the NatureServe Network as a Botanist and Ecologist with both the Maryland and North Carolina Natural Heritage Programs. He has extensive field experience across much of the United States and numerous other countries. His research interests include identifying and preventing plant extinction events and describing undescribed plant species. Wes has a B.S. from Catawba College, a M.S. from Delaware State University, and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ryan McClean, Terrestrial Invasive Species Project Manager about Scouts, Trail Building, and Invasive Plants. Read his full bio below.

Today's episode is sponsored by The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation https://www.stoneandholtweeksfoundation.org/

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2:22 Nic & Laura talk about the do's & don'ts of submitting resumes
11:25 Interview with Ryan McClean Starts
12:01 Scouts
14:15 Trail Building
18:04 Invasive Plants
31:02 Field Notes

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Ryan’s love for nature was fostered at a young age through years of outdoor activities with the Boy Scouts. In an effort to better understand what he loved, he received his B.S. in Biology with a minor in Environmental Studies from The College of New Jersey in 2017. He got involved with invasive species by spending time in a research lab that focused on how invasive species and deer interact with the native forest plant communities. After three years in the lab, including two summer experiences, he completed his capstone project researching interactions between invasive plants and invasive earthworms. Since graduating, he spent two years serving with AmeriCorps. His service included managing invasive plants with the Invasives Strike Force, building trails in Sterling Forest, and restoring and protecting aquatic resources in Montana. Ryan spent 2019 as the Trail Conference's Conservation Corps Invasives Strike Force Crew Leader before transitioning to the position of Terrestrial Invasive Species Project Manager. When he’s not waging war against invasive plants, you can find him looking for interesting bugs and fungi, cooking for friends and family, and unwinding through gaming.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ryan Hathaway, Environmental Justice Coordinator for the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, about the DOI, Reinventing Yourself, and Workplace Culture. Read his full bio below.

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1:44 Nic & Laura talk about Managing Social Media
8:41 Interview with Ryan Hathaway Starts
9:12 The Department of the Interior
20:18 Reinventing Yourself
27:53 Workplace Culture
36:07 Field Notes

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Ryan Hathaway is the Environmental Justice Coordinator for the Department of the Interior (DOI). Previous he led the Department's Major Infrastructure and Renewable Energy Program, and prior was the Branch Chief for National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Land Use Planning at the Bureau of Land Management. Ryan has his Bachelor's in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Delaware; and a Master's in Natural Resource Management, and in Sustainable Development and International Policy both from Virginia Tech University. In his free time, Ryan is adjuct faculty and sits in an advisory board at Virginia Tech Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability and University of Delaware Biden Center for Public Policy, he sits on the boards of several animal shelters and NGOs around the world, and coaches and mentor's youth soccer goalkeepers entering the US Olympic Development Program. He enjoys travelling, playing slide guitar, smoking BBQ, managing his hobby farm with his wife, and being barefoot and outdoors whenever possible.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Nicolas Holm, entrepreneur about GIS Tools, Following your Passions, and Being an Adrenaline Junkie. Read his full bio below.

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2:29 Nic & Laura discuss EPR
8:27 Interview with Nicolas Holm Starts
17:17 GIS Tools
22:03 Following your Passions
36:50 Being an Adrenaline Junkie

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Guest Full Bio:
Nicolas is a self-taught GIS mastermind and lifetime entrepreneur. He is mission focused, having assembled and given away over 2000 free GIS tools, maps and dashboards for Defense, Public Safety, Oceans, Hydrology, Oil Spills, Natural Disasters, Geo-AI. Nicolas creates Centralized Intelligence platforms called GIS Superclusters for Earth surveillance, that transform data into decisions. His work is focused on helping others, by raising awareness around key issues and tackling climate change. He is multi-lingual, world citizen and traveler, yogi, gemstone photographer, pianist, drone pilot, windsurfer, horseman, expert skier. Nicolas is a proud and grateful father who can be found at home on a beach or mountain biking in nature.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wagner, Partner with Venable, LLP about Court Cases, the CEQ Phase II Rule, and Monza. Read his full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode VENABLE, LLP! Check them out at https://www.venable.com/

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1:40 Nic & Laura talk about what makes a good storyteller
5:58 Interview with Fred Wagner starts
20:02 Court Cases
36:05 CEQ Phase II Rule
57:28 Monza

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Fred Wagner focuses his practice on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Fred is familiar with the full range of issues surrounding USDOT surface transportation programs, including grant management, procurement, suspension and debarment, and safety regulations. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Chris Whitehead, Air Practice Leader at Enviro-Sciences (of Delaware), Inc. and NAEP member, about Air Quality, Environmental Justice and Cumulative Impacts. Read his full bio below.

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1:59 Nic & Laura talk about Puerto Rico
8:04 Interview with Chris Whitehead Starts
10:59 Environmental Justice
17:35 Cumulative Impacts
24:13 Air Quality

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Guest Bio:
Chris Whitehead is the leader of ESI’s air compliance practice. He has fifteen years of air quality compliance management consulting experience and has been a national client manager for multiple Fortune 500 companies across numerous sectors. Chris most recently has been heavily involved with environmental justice regulatory developments and has led the air teams for commercial offshore wind projects in New England and the Mid-Atlantic. Over the past eighteen months, he has been published six times in various outlets on the topics of environmental justice, the New Jersey EJ law, and offshore wind project development.

He has an M.S. in Environmental Management and Policy from American Public University, a B.A. in Political Science from Loyola University of Chicago, and a Sustainability Program Management certificate through Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chris lives in southern New Jersey with his wife and two young children, ages five and three.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Larry Selzer, President and CEO of The Conservation Fund about Conservation Economics, Carbon Capture, and Climate Change. Read his full bio below.

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2:31 Nic & Laura Talk Briefly about Conservation Economics
3:36 Interview with Larry Selzer Starts
8:06 Conservation Economics
23:17 Climate Change
37:30 Carbon Capture

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Guest Bio:
Larry Selzer is president and CEO of The Conservation Fund, one of the nation’s top-ranked environmental nonprofits, based in Arlington, VA. The only environmental group in the country chartered for both conservation and economic development, the Fund has protected more than 8.5 million acres since 1985.

Prior to being named president and CEO in 2001, Selzer led the Fund’s efforts to integrate economic and environmental goals, including its efforts in mitigation, working forest conservation and small business investing.

Selzer began his career at the Manomet Center for Conservation Science, conducting research on marine mammal and seabird populations on the eastern outer continental shelf. He serves as the chairman of the American Bird Conservancy, vice chairman of Leading Harvest, and is on the board of Weyerhaeuser. He served as chairman of the Outdoor Foundation and twice served as chair of the Sustainable Forest Initiative, Inc.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Ryan Emanuel, about Hydrology, the Lumbee Tribe and Kombucha. Ryan is an associate professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and was formerly a professor in the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University. He is a hydrologist who also studies environmental justice and Indigenous rights in North Carolina. Emanuel is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe.

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1:54 Nic & Laura talk about integrating a planner
8:17 Interview with Dr. Ryan Emanuel Starts
11:25 Hydrology
16:57 The Lumbee Tribe
27:56 Kombucha

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Mehmet Secilmis, Global account manager with Esri's AEC & Environmental practice team, about Tech Careers, Turkish Culture, and Ecotourism. Read his full bio below.

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2:21 Nic & Laura talk about employees making counteroffers during the hiring process
10:51 Interview with Mehmet Secilmis Starts
18:25 Ecotourism
20:29 Tech Careers
31:16 Turkish Culture
36:19 Field Notes

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Guest Bio:Mehmet Secilmis is a global account manager for Esri, a leading geospatial software company. He is with Esri's AEC & environmental practice team and based in San Antonio, TX. He works with the engineering and environmental firms to discover the power of GIS and solve the real problems they have. He has over 20 years of diverse experience in environmental science/engineering and GIS. His educational background includes an MS degree in Environmental Technology and an MS degree in Management with a concentration in Management of Technology.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Clinton Johnson, Racial Equity & Social Justice Solutions Lead at Esri, the global market leader in GIS mapping technology and the founder and a leader of NorthStar of GIS, a 501c3 nonprofit working to create a more racially-just world through more racially-just GIS, geography, and STEM fields, about equity, starting a non-profit, and Dr. Who. Read his full bio below.

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1:50 Nic & Laura talk about Recruiter roles/ Hiring Process
7:29 Interview with Clinton Johnson Starts
13:58 Equity
31:00 Starting a on-profit
38:29 Doctor Who

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Clinton Johnson is the Racial Equity & Social Justice Solutions Lead at Esri, the global market leader in GIS mapping technology. At Esri, he connects individuals and organizations from all sectors with geospatial data, technology, and methodologies to advance equity at the intersection of all systems of oppression. Clinton is also the founder and a leader of NorthStar of GIS, a 501c3 nonprofit working to create a more racially-just world through more racially-just GIS, geography, and STEM fields. Essentially, Clinton remains focused on racial equity, social justice, and innovation for and through collaboration, community, and compassion throughout all his work.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Antoine Thompson, Executive Director of Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition about Leadership, Environmental Justice, and Electric Vehicles. Read his full bio below.

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1:52 Nic & Laura's Segment: Never Apologize
8:47 Interview with Antoine Thompson Starts
10:45 Electric Vehicles
22:10 Environmental Justice
45:41 Leadership

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Antoine M. Thompson is the former National Executive Director of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) the largest organization of African-American real estate professionals in the United States. He is a partner with Creative PMO Solutions, a consulting firm that focuses on diversity, inclusion and advocacy work. He is also a licensed real estate agent with Mootry Murphy & Burgin Realty Group. Antoine is a staunch champion of fair-housing and community re-investment by local and national financial institutions. He has had a significant public service career in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. His positions have included election to the Buffalo Common Council where he authored the Buffalo’s Fair Housing Law and secured over $75 million for community development projects. He was elected to the New York State Senate in 2006 and 2008 and served as the Senate Deputy Majority Whip and Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Environmental Conversation and Co-Chair of the Senate Minority and Woman Business Enterprise Task Force. He authored the NYS MWBE Mentor/Protégé Law. He is a former delegate to the Democratic National Convention; and was a member of the 2004 Electoral College. Thompson currently serves on the Board of Unity 9 PAC. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and First Baptist Church of Glenarden. He serves on numerous boards, taskforces and working groups. In 2021, Antoine was ranked on the Swanepoel Power 200 list ranking of the most influential and powerful leaders and executives in the residential real estate brokerage industry.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Cinder Miller, Vice-President at Gray & Pape, Inc. about Archaeology, Field Work and ACRA. Read her full bio below.

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1:41 Nic & Laura Segment: The Interviewing Process
10:27 Interview with Cinder Miller Starts
19:54 Archaeology
35:32 Fieldwork & Field Notes
48:06 ACRA

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Dr. Cinder Miller brings more than 25 years of experience managing large multi-agency, multistate Heritage Resource Management projects. She thrives when working on projects with fast paced permitting and consultation requirements and she seeks to help her clients identify and achieve the delicate balance between preservation and development. Since joining Gray & Pape in 1998 she has specialized in energy and development projects throughout the United States, working for both the public and private sectors. Dr. Miller has managed complex projects requiring permits from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, and many branches of the Department of Defense. Dr. Miller regularly attends training workshops focused on permitting and is fully current on all USACE rules and guidelines governing linear project compliance. She presents regarding industry best practices to both public and private audiences, including appearance on panels for Leaders in Energy and the Southern Gas Association. As vice president of operations, Dr. Miller is knowledgeable of all the firm’s projects and the best use of resources. She has served on the board or as a committee chair for the American Cultural Resources Association since 2005 and is the President Elect for the Organization.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Nadean Carson, Owner and Founder of Oya Construction about Smart Construction, the Air Force, and Stormwater Management. Read her full bio below.

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1:33 Nic & Laura Segment: Fixed vs. Growth Mindset
8:58 Interview with Nadean Carson Starts
10:03 Air Force
16:14 Smart Construction
23:03 Stormwater Management
36:14 Workplace Inclusivity

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Nadean is a self-professed stormwater nerd. She started working with stormwater compliance in the Air Force and quickly realized how important stormwater pollution prevention was to the ecosystem. During her military career, she focused on construction and other civil engineering operations duties. When she separated from the military, she initially worked as a Geotechnical Engineer (that is a fancy way of saying that she worked in dirt) but found her way back to her true love of stormwater management in 2014. She created a Stormwater Management division at a local engineering firm, focused on helping clients manage the stormwater regulations that affect their development, as well as ensure that the sites are limiting their contribution to Stormwater Pollution. She saw another stormwater need developing and decided to tackle it next. She started up Oya Construction as a way to properly install and maintain stormwater controls on construction sites, reducing the sediment deposition into waterways. She is passionate about keeping waterways clean and our environment beautiful.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Shannon Oelkers, Owner and Principal Consultant for Integrity Environmental about Alaska, Problem Solving, and PFAS/PFOA. Read her full bio below.

This episode is sponsored by Integrity Environmental. Integrity Environmental is the premiere environmental permitting and consulting group in Alaska and Arctic regions. They have been in business for over a decade. Integrity performs high quality tank inspections to American Petroleum Institute standards, and are the 'go to' firm industrial operators turn to for help navigating complex regulatory compliance issues. They love tanks as much as you do! Check them out at www.integrity-env.com.

Showtimes:3:42Nic & Laura Segment: Mist Netting
8:24 Interview with Shannon Oelkers Starts
16:22 Problem Solving
21:18 Alaska
33:51 PFAS/ PFOA

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Shannon Oelkers is the owner and principal consultant for Integrity Environmental. Shannon previously worked at the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation in the Contaminated Sites and Terminal / Tank Farms division, focusing on industrial environmental compliance. Shannon holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Science and a master's degree in Community Development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has more than a decade of experience inspecting and auditing bulk fuel tank farm operations. Shannon is also an MBA Instructor at Alaska Pacific University. Shannon is well-versed in the unique challenges of completing oil and gas related projects in Alaska.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Kevin Doyle, Executive Director of Career and Professional Development at Yale School of the Environment about Career development, Mentorship, and the Future of Environmental Careers. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:2:04 Nic & Laura Segment: Getting the Most out of a Mentor Relationship
9:56 Interview with Kevin Doyle Starts
11:55 Mentorship
18:12 Career Development
27:13 Future of Environmental Careers

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Guest Bio:Kevin Doyle is Executive Director of the Office of Career and Professional Development, and a member of the leadership team at the Yale University School of the Environment (YSE), one of the world’s leading environmental graduate schools, with ten specializations and twenty Centers and Programs.

Before coming to YSE, Kevin was President of Green Economy, an independent environmental consultancy in Boston, from 2007-2019, serving dozens of public, private and nonprofit clients throughout the US and its territories, with a focus on coastal management, clean energy, and environmental workforce/professional development. He continues to serve as a professional development consultant for NOAA’s Coastal Management, Digital Coast Management, and Coral Reef Conservation Fellowship Programs.

Prior to 2007, he was National Director of Program Development for the former Environmental Careers Organization (ECO), a national nonprofit organization that organized and managed more than 12,000 employer-paid internships and fellowships, including a national Diversity Initiative paid internship program.

Kevin is the co-author of four popular environmental career guides for Island Press in Washington, DC.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Sierra Taliaferro, outdoor educator and bird enthusiast about Birding, Environmental Justice, and Green Obsidian. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:1:58 Nic & Laura Segment: Channelling Frustration into Posivity
6:59 Interview with Sierra Taliaferro Starts
11:27 Birding
18:38 The Green Obsidian
27:07 Environmental Justice
33:42 Field Notes Segment

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Guest Full Bio:Sierra Taliaferro is a motivated outdoor educator and bird enthusiast with intentions to promote diversity in urban conservation, social justice and community advocacy. Her previous work experience consists of community engagement, urban agriculture, water conservation awareness, and land management practices. Her aim as a millennial in urban environmental conservation is to involve the public in decisions concerning natural landscapes through citizen stewardship and help bridge a lost connection between people and nature in an urban setting. She hopes to continue to make herself an advocate for diversity in conservation and to emphasize the importance of our natural resources surrounding our urban environments.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Matthew Sekol, World Wide Sustainability Industry Advocate with Microsoft, about ESG, Finance and Investing, and Technologies. Read his full bio below.

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1:31 Nic & Laura Segment: Roe v. Wade
3:51 Interview with Matthew Sekol Starts
12:02 ESG
20:39 Finance & Technology
35:51 Comics

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Matt came into sustainability from the perspective of ESG in Financial Services and quickly developed a reputation at Microsoft for being ‘the guy who sees ESG everywhere.’ He guides companies across a range of industries through sustainable transformation by delivering thought leadership and innovative ideas that challenge the status quo. With a 20-year career supporting technology initiatives across financial services, energy, healthcare and life sciences, and semiconductor organizations, Matt now helps global companies understand complex sustainability and ESG concepts while aligning to market expectations.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Ted Boling, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP about Career Development, Offshore Wind, and NEPA. Read his full bio below.

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1:29 Nic & Laura Segment: Living in DC
10:34 Interview with Ted Boling Starts
10:49 Career Path
28:13 Offshore Wind
41:21 NEPA

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Edward (Ted) Boling served as the country’s top National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) attorney as an associate director at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of the President. Ted served at CEQ, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in Democratic and Republican administrations. His experience includes deep involvement in federal infrastructure permitting issues and the first comprehensive revision of CEQ’s NEPA regulations in 40 years.

Drawing on over 30 years of high-level public service, Ted currently advises leaders on transportation and energy development projects, agencies that must hire outside counsel, and the environmental professionals that support them on the development of renewable energy, resource development, transportation, and infrastructure. Clients are drawn to working with him because they know that by tapping into his experience, they will be able to prudently manage and effectively defend the choices they make, resources they commit, and risks to which they expose their organizations.

Ted’s extensive government experience at CEQ included the development of the National Ocean Policy, CEQ’s climate change guidance, and the regulatory response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He drafted NEPA guidance on mitigation and monitoring, cumulative impacts analysis, and the development categorical exclusions from detailed NEPA documentation. Ted advised the White House on the establishment of numerous national monuments, including the first marine national monuments in the United States and the largest marine protected areas in the world. He also assisted in briefing three U.S. Supreme Court cases.

At DOI, Ted handled matters involving energy development on the outer continental shelf, including offshore wind power development, and the fast track for solar and wind energy projects on public lands. He has provided legal and policy advice on environmental issues concerning the Federal Columbia River Power System and the California Central Valley Project.

At DOJ, in the first 10 years of his legal career, Ted litigated significant cases involving NEPA, endangered species, marine mammals, wetland protections, and management of public lands. He was involved in litigation concerning the Endangered Species Act, National Forest Management Act, and U.S. Coast Guard and Federal Transit Administration actions.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Godfrey Oyema, Assistant Environment Officer with the UN Refugee Agency about Biodiversity, Wildlife, and Sustainability. Read his full bio below.

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1:32 Nic & Laura Segment- Fishing
7:41 Interview with Godfrey Oyema Starts
11:06 Sustainability
13:33 Biodiversity
20:06 Sustainability cont.-(ESG)
23:08 Wildlife & Field Notes

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In his professional life, Godfrey has over 10 years implementing successful sustainability programs in tourism, science and technology, environmental services, agriculture, construction, and humanitarian sectors. Presently he is an Assistant Environment Officer for the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Godfrey is working on sustainability initiatives for providing refugees with sustainable and clean cooking solutions, also works on sustainable environment initiatives including tree planting and soil conservation.

Godfrey is an experienced professional in sustainability and corporate social responsibility initiatives. He has designed and implemented several successful sustainability projects using
Environment, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Strategies.

Trained as a Biodiversity Conservationist and Environment Ecologist, Godfrey has a master’s degree in Environment and Human Ecology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is a Chartered Member for Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management of London, UK. And the Winner of The Sustainability Leader Award of the 2022 for the Planet Calls Magazine, www.theplanetcalls.com/magazine

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On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Ricardo Calvo, Partner at Environmental Resources Management about ESG, International Careers, and Life Advice. Read his full bio below.

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1:15 Nic & Laura Segment: NAEP Conference
9:25 Interview with Dr. Ricardo Calvo Starts
12:02 International Careers
29:47 ESG
37:26 Life Advice

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Dr. Ricardo Calvo is a Partner at ERM, Environmental Resources Management. He has 32 years of experience as an environmental and social (E&S) consultant in the US and abroad. Dr. Calvo started as a field biologist, doing wetlands delineations and wildlife inventories in Florida. Later, he started working on Environmental Impact Assessments throughout Latin America, worked for almost 10 years as a business development/marketing manager, and now is a Partner at a global sustainability firm, supporting clients mainly in navigating the environmental and social risks of their projects and operations and helping them develop and implement ESG strategy.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

We are so thrilled to be releasing this special episode of EPR! In this first ever special LIVE recording, we bring back our amazing guests, Sunny Fleming, Fed Wagner, JD Reinbott, and Tiffany Duong to talk about diversity, ESG and environmental law as part of the NAEP Annual Conference and Training Symposium. We had a lot of fun bringing everyone together, so we hope you enjoy it!

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1:08 Nic & Laura Segment: Bad Advice
4:10 Tiffany Duong and JD Reinbott
18:54 Sunny Fleming
36:00 Fred Wagner

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On today’s episode, we talk with Rachel Crane, Science Communicator, Explorer, and Mentor about Ecotourism, Bubble-Netting, and National Geographic. Read her full bio below.

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2:07 Nic & Laura Segment: Amazon trips
7:56 Interview with Rachel Crane Starts
8:59 National Geographic
23:17 Ecotourism
39:30 Field Notes: Bubble-Netting

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Guest Bio:Rachel works for herself in a variety of roles that take advantage of her knowledge and certifications as a Marine Ecologist, PADI Master Scuba Instructor, and licensed Captain so she can share her passion for the ocean.

She works remotely as the Director of Education and Training for Diveheart, she can be found locally as the captain onboard vessels working to restore the coral reefs of the Florida Keys or educating visitors on the importance of the world’s marine ecosystems, and she travels the ocean as a member of the Field Staff Team aboard Lindblad Expedition and National Geographic vessels.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Mehgan Heaney-Grier, US Freedive Pioneer about Freediving, Empowerment and being an Imperfect Conservationist. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:2:04 Nic & Laura Segment: Diving Nerves
9:47 Interview with Mehgan Heaney-Grier Starts
19:51 Freediving
30:12 Being an Imperfect Conservationist
40:59 Empowerment

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Champion Freediver, Ocean Explorer, Educator & Conservationist

At the age of 19, Mehgan established the first USA freedive record for both men and women in the constant weight category to 155 feet. She works as a professional speaker, marine educator, stunt diver, expedition leader, and television personality. Mehgan holds a degree in Ecology Evolutionary Biology, and Anthropology, is an original inductee in the Women Divers Hall of Fame and Fellow in The Explorers Club. As a long-time conservationist Mehgan is dedicated to raising awareness on issues facing our oceans today. Recently she developed an original web-series called, “The IMPERFECT Conservationist”, offering bite-sized and impactful ways to easily work conservation action into everyday life. Mehgan’s also a mom, student mentor, and regularly collaborates with conservation organizations, including 2°C, Ocean First Institute, and Safer, Cleaner Ships.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Erik Neugaard, Environmental Program Manager for Broward County Port Everglades about Port Everglades, Coral Restoration, and Certifications. Read his full bio below.

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1:25 Nic & Laura Segment- The State of Florida

10:20 Interview with Erik Neugaard Starts

10:39 Port Everglades

18:38 Coral Restoration

30:31 Certifications

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Guest Bio:
Erik Neugaard has more than 30 years of experience as an environmental professional and is currently the Environmental Program Manager for Broward County Port Everglades. Previous experience includes positions at Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management, Florida Department of Transportation, and as a consultant. He holds a BS degree in natural sciences and a MD degree in marine biology, as well as certifications as a land use planner, wetland scientist, wildlife biologist, fisheries professional, protected species observer, GIS professional, scientific diving safety officer, trimix scuba instructor, and USCG master captain. He is also very active in the South Florida Chapter and is helping establish community coral nursery, oyster gardening, and seagrass nursery programs.

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On today’s episode, we talk with Sunny Fleming, National Solutions Engineer at Esri about Science Communication, NFTS, and Metaverse. Read her full bio below.

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1:14 Nic & Laura Segment: GIS in the Workplace

7:51 Interview with Sunny Fleming Starts

13:07 Science Communication

39:38 NFTs

44:23 The Metaverse

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As the National Solutions Engineer for state environmental agencies, Sunny is responsible for supporting some of Esri’s longest-standing customers: fish and wildlife agencies, environmental regulation, agriculture, state parks, historical preservation, and natural heritage programs. She loves helping our customers shape their vision and innovate to meet their business challenges.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Kimberley Miner, Scientist and Systems Engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab about Extreme Environments, Climate Change and Permafrost. Read her full bio below.

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2:05 Nic & Laura Segment: Guinness Book of World Records
14:27 Permafrost
17:26 Climate Change
20:10 Extreme Environments

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Guest Bio:

Dr. Kimberley R. Miner is a Scientist and Systems Engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in California, where she researches and forecasts climate risks. Her work has taken her to the most extreme environments in the world- from Antarctica to Mt. Everest- where her team secured a Guinness World Record for identifying the highest altitude pollutants. Dr. Miner’s research has been highlighted by CBS, the New York Times, Washington Post, GQ, and Sports Illustrated. Before coming to NASA, she worked with the Department of Defense in Washington DC, assessing climate risks to national interests.

Dr. Miner is a Fellow at the Center for Climate and Security and Co-chair of the NASA HQ Interagency Forum on Climate Risks, Impacts, and Adaptation. She is a graduate of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (MPA) and the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute (Ph.D.), where she was a Fulbright, Switzer, and Department of Defense fellow. She is a Black belt, certified Wilderness Firefighter and First Responder, and mom to a lively cattledog.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Anthony Wilson, Graduate Student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, about early career success, equitable opportunities, and finding confidence. Read his full bio below.

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1:21 Nic & Laura's Segment: Writing Resumes
9:35 Interview with Anthony Wilson Starts
12:06 Early Career Success
16:22 Equitable Opportunities
28:16 Finding Confidence

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Anthony is currently pursuing his PhD degree at Scripps Institute of Oceanography where he hopes to attain a doctorate degree in Physical Oceanography with a focus in climate science. He is actively doing research at NOAA through the Pathways program to further his interest and desire to study marine heatwaves and connecting them to how they impact the Arctic and the societal ramifications of them.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Larry O’Neill, Associate professor with Oregon State University and Oregon State Climatologist, about Oceanography, Heat Domes, and Getting "Stranded" at Sea. Read his full bio below.

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3:06 Nic & Laura Segment- Changing Careers in your 30s
13:59 Interview with Larry O'Neill Starts
16:25 Oceanography
24:59 Heat Domes
39:16 Getting "Stranded" at Sea

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Since he was very young, Larry always knew that he wanted to work in weather, other than that time in fourth grade where he toyed with the idea of becoming the governor of Arizona. His fascination with weather came about when he born in South Dakota, a state which basically gets every type of weather except for tropical storms; the weather also changed a lot and quickly, which annoys many but added to the mystery. After high school, Larry went to community college in California and transferred to the atmospheric science program at the Univ. of California at Davis. There he hit a bit of indecision whether he wanted to forecast or do research. He heard there were those who studied how weather and ocean interacts, and immediately had this romantic notion of setting up instruments on some warm tropical beach drinking Mai Tai's. As an undergraduate, Larry did a research program at the University of Hawaii which hooked him on the topic. For many reasons, he chose to go to graduate school at Oregon State Univ. His thesis work unfortunately did not have anything to do with long stretches of time on warm tropical beaches. The thesis project mainly dealt with using new sets of satellites to characterize how the ocean affects the weather and vice versa. Larry worked with the Navy for some time after graduate school at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA. He was fortunate there to be working with a group on essentially pure research projects with some interactions on their operational weather forecasting systems and their use of satellite observations. He wanted to teach and advise students, so decided to return to Oregon State Univ as a faculty member. Since then, Larry has expanded his research and outreach focus, which includes activities as State Climatologist of Oregon and the Director of Oregon Climate Service.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wager, partner with Venable, LLP about Waters of the US, GHG Emissions, and the Supreme Court. Read his full bio below.

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2:19 Nic & Laura's Segment- Illustrious Theater Careers
7:03 Interview with Fred Wagner Starts
12:55 Supreme Court
18:22 Waters of the U.S.
29:17 GHG Emissions

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Guest Bio:

Fred Wagner focuses his practice on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Fred is familiar with the full range of issues surrounding USDOT surface transportation programs, including grant management, procurement, suspension and debarment, and safety regulations. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with David Corsar, Manager for Career Development Programs at the National Wildlife Federation about Peace Corps, NWF EcoLeaders, and the National Wildlife Federation. Read his full bio below.

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1:21 Nic & Laura's Segment- Reframing Mindsets
13:35 Interview with David Corsar Starts
13:55 National Wildlife Federation
23:06 Peace Corps
29:48 EcoLeaders

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Guest Bio:David Corsar is the Manager for Career Development programming at the National Wildlife Federation. He is responsible for developing the online career center portion of the EcoLeaders community and managing the annual EcoCareers Conference.

Before joining NWF, David completed a full 2-year Peace Corps service in the Republic of Armenia where he focused on professional and organizational development for local community-based NGOs. Prior to his Peace Corps service, David worked as an environmental engineer and project manager at a global engineering consulting firm, CDM Smith. David received Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA and a Master of Public Administration from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ted Janulis, Founder and Principal of Investable Oceans about Finance, Investable Oceans, and Blue Economy. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:1:32 Nic & Laura Segment
11:12Interview with Ted Janulis Starts
13:07 Investable Oceans
23:54 Finance
31:03 Blue Economy
35:32 Field Notes

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Ted is Founder & Principal of Investable Oceans, a platform that seeks to simplify and accelerate market-based sustainable ocean investing across all asset classes and sectors of the Blue Economy

Ted has served in various executive positions, including CEO, at a number of financial institutions over a 30+ year business career. He is President Emeritus of The Explorers Club in New York City.

The oceans have been one of Ted’s passions since he was young, including a life-changing year after college when he worked with scientists, explorers and filmmakers as the 1981 Rolex Scholar of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Chelle Gentemann, Senior Scientist at Farallon Institute, about Coding, Open Science and Physical Oceanography. Read her full bio below.

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1:58 Nic & Laura Segment: Math v. English & Coding
7:20 Interview with Chelle Gentemann Starts
14:02 Open Science
21:28 Coding
33:17 Field Notes
36:52 Secret sport

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Guest Bio:

I am a passionate advocate for open science, open source software, and inclusivity. As a physical oceanographer focused on remote sensing, I have worked for over 25 years on retrievals of ocean temperature from space and using that data to understand how the ocean impacts our lives. More recently, I am focused on Butterfly, a proposal for a new NASA mission, and advancing open science for societal benefit.

I have an open by default policy for all my research, teaching, and speaking. I try to post talks and presentations on this website and my code is all freely available, with a permissive license, online.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with JD Reinbott, Marine Conservationist, about Corals, Antarctica, and Embracing Representation. Read his full bio below.

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1:47 Nic & Laura Talk about Animal Encounters
10:02 Interview with JD Reinbott Starts
13:24 Corals
33:09 Embracing Representation
42:43 Antarctica

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Guest Bio:

As someone who has had an affinity for the marine world from a young age, JD has dedicated his life to conserving the numerous ecosystems and organisms found within the ocean. This self-proclaimed coral nerd has worked extensively on restoration projects around the globe but finds the most rewarding aspect of such to be the community-based engagement that is needed to allow these initiatives to succeed. Recently JD has focused his attention on highlighting the need for further representation of the LGBTQIA+ community within the realm of marine science to ensure that diversity is celebrated both above and below the surface.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Scott Breen, Vice President of Sustainability at the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) about Recycling and Creator and Co-Host of the Sustainability Defined podcast, Circular Economy, and Building Sustainability. Read his full bio below.

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1:43 Nic & Laura talk about Field Safety

11:12 Interview with Scott Breen Starts

13:22 Recycling

19:19 Circular Economy

24:14 Sustainability

39:13 Recycling-continued

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Guest Bio:

Scott Breen is Vice President of Sustainability at the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI). CMI represents U.S. metal can manufacturers and their suppliers. His responsibilities include promoting the can as a sustainable/circular package, advocating for federal and state legislation and regulation that reflect the can’s sustainability advantages, and leading the can industry’s efforts to build upon its leading recycling rates.

Scott is also the creator and co-host of the podcast Sustainability Defined. Previously, Scott was associate manager of the Sustainability and Circular Economy Program at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and attorney-adviser at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Retired Vice Admiral Sandra Stosz, servant and author about Coast Guard, Character Leadership and Box Turtles. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:1:29 Nic & Laura Discuss Box Turtles
9:12 Interview with Vice Admiral Sandra Stosz Starts
16:40 Coast Guard
24:39 Character Leadership
28:22 Coast Guard & Environmental Stewardship
40:58 Box Turtles

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Guest Bio:

Admiral Sandy Stosz started out in the US Coast Guard as an ensign serving aboard polar icebreakers, conducting national security missions from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Her forty-year career was filled with leadership lessons gleaned while breaking ice and breaking glass as the first woman to command an icebreaker on the Great Lakes and to lead a US armed forces service academy. Along the way, Sandy served for 12 years at sea, commanding two ships, and led large Coast Guard organizations during times of crisis and complexity. She finished her career as the first woman assigned as Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, directing one of the Coast Guard’s largest enterprises. She has lectured widely on leadership, and has been featured on CSPAN and other media outlets. In 2012, Newsweek’s “The Daily Beast” named Sandy to their list of 150 Women who Shake the World. She volunteers in leadership roles for several organizations, including serving as a trustee for the Coast Guard Academy Institute for Leadership and as chair of the Coast Guard Academy Sailing Council. She is the author of Breaking Ice & Breaking Glass: Leading in Uncharted Waters.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Callie Veelenturf, marine biologist, conservationist and National Geographic Explorer about Sea Turtles, Rights of Nature, and the Right to a Safe Working Environment. Read her full bio below.

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2:00 Nic & Laura discuss women in STEM
7:32 Interview with Callie Veelenturf Starts
9:21 Sea Turtles
13:07 Rights of Nature
18:48 Right to a Safe Work Environment
26:05 Current Projects

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Callie Veelenturf is a marine biologist, conservationist and National Geographic Explorer. She is the Founder and Executive Director of a nonprofit organization called The Leatherback Project and launched an international conservation advocacy campaign called Rights for Nature. Callie is also a 2020 National Geographic Society Early Career Leader, United Nations Youth Representative and Fellow for The Explorers Club, and a Young Professional with the United Nations Harmony with Nature Programme. She is actively working in the field in Panama with local communities and government agencies to document new sea turtle foraging and nesting grounds in the Pearl Islands Archipelago and in Ecuador to reduce unsustainable fisheries bycatch. She works to bridge the gap between science and policy and is collaborating with senators in Panama on new marine conservation legislation.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Jeff Ollerton, Professor and author about Pollination, Writing, and Finding Your Niche. Read his full bio below.

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2:27 Nic & Laura's Segment
14:16 Interview with Jeff Ollerton Starts
21:29 Pollinators & Pollination
42:13 Writing
49:00 Finding Your Niche

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Guest Bio:
During a career spanning more than 30 years, Professor Jeff Ollerton has established himself as one of the world’s leading experts on pollinators and pollination. The author of more than 135 articles and book chapters, his highly-cited, ground-breaking research has been used by national and international agencies to support efforts to conserve pollinators and their pollination services. Jeff is also in demand as an advisor and consultant to governments, local authorities, printed and broadcast media, and funding organizations.

Although he is based in the UK, Jeff’s field work in support of his research and advisory activities has been conducted across Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and Australia. He received his PhD in pollination ecology in 1993 from Oxford Brookes University, and holds Visiting Professor positions at the University of Northampton in the UK and Kunming Institute of Botany in China. Jeff has previously held visiting researcher positions at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil and the University of New South Wales in Australia.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Justin Taberham, Author, Editor and Consultant about Career Curves, Environmental Policy in UK and Working Globally. Read his full bio below.

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1:37 Nic & Laura's Segment

9:55 Interview with Justin Taberham Starts

14:06 Field Stories

17:25 Career Curves

22:25 UK Environmental Policy

30:07 Books & Global Careers

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Guest Bio:

Justin Taberham is an Author, Editor and Consultant, with over 30 years’ experience in the environmental publications, policy, government, trade, regulation, and green careers sectors. He started work in fisheries monitoring, then moved to strategy, lobbying, policy, consulting and finally environmental and technical books.

His new book ‘Global Environmental Careers – the Worldwide Green Jobs Resource’ is out now and is his payback for a great green career. He lives in London, UK.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Jennifer Walker, President and CEO of Watearth, Inc. about Small Business Opportunities, Nationwide Projects, and Vegan Eating. Read her full bio below.

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1:17 Nic & Laura Segment
8:51 Interview with Jennifer Walker Starts
13:12 Small Business Opportunities
15:41 Nationwide Projects
22:55 Veganism & Travel
28:07 Policy & Field Stories

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Guest Bio:

Jennifer Walker, President of Watearth, Inc., has an earned reputation for bringing unique insights to projects, whether the focus is green infrastructure or gray. As a water resource engineer chiefly concerned with developing sustainable and resilient solutions, 30 years of practice producing foundational environmental documentation and master plans, nuanced and complex hydraulic and hydrologic models, and civil designs grounded in solid science and reality have prepared Walker to work on a variety of project types. Walker is widely considered an expert in stormwater, water quality, flood control, green infrastructure, hydrology and hydraulics, water resources, and complex projects with multiple stakeholders.

Walker has provided operations training and continuing education to more than 10,000 client staff and engineers the world over through programs at ASCE, CASQA, FMA, USACE, and Stanford University. For the truly sensitive matters of litigation, Walker has been called upon time and time again as an expert witness. Walker excels in environmental science and water resources largely because due to understanding the value of niche focus. Walker and the adept team at Watearth provide efficient project management, operating within their expertise at a capacity and level of elegance that suggests a larger firm. By understanding systems at both ends of the spectrum, Walker has routinely proven an asset to project teams in need of a nuanced approach that addresses upstream and downstream project concerns.

Walker’s resume includes highlight projects across our nation’s geography. Walker has consulted at a principal level for more than a dozen years, with projects for major municipal clients in California and Texas carrying fees and construction costs over $22M. Walker navigates grant funding and regulatory policy deftly and will provide your project with the same on-budget and on-schedule success provided to clients like Los Angeles County, Texas Water Development Board, San Francisco Estuary Institute, City of Houston, Caltrans, and City of Austin. Walker is looking to the future and developing solutions accordingly. Walker is ahead of the curve at integrating climate change adaptation into projects and assessing cost-benefit.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Thomas Abdallah Assistant Vice President and Chief Environmental Engineer for the MTA’s Construction and Development (MTA C&D) agency about Mass Transit, Seizing Opportunities, and Teaching Sustainability. Read his full bio below.

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1:22 Nic & Laura talk about career strategies
8:35 Interview with Thomas Abdallah starts
15:03 Teaching Sustainability
26:36 Mass Transit
35:05 Seizing Opportunities

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Guest Bio:

Thomas Abdallah, P.E. LEED AP, ENV SP is the Assistant Vice President and Chief Environmental Engineer for the MTA’s Construction and Development (MTA C&D) agency. Thomas holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University. He is responsible to provide expert environmental engineering services for all MTA capital projects, and ensures that all design and construction projects meet environmental requirements including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the NY State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). He is also a fierce champion of environmental sustainability issues and is responsible for MTA C&D’s certified ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS).

Thomas is also an Adjunct Professor in Columbia University’s Sustainability Management (SUMA) program in the School of Professional Studies. He is the proud author of the book Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation (2017 Elsevier) and recently appeared in an episode of History Channel’s Modern Marvels – Moving America.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Martina Sestakova, Textile Designer, Art Educator, Abstract Painter about Art, the Beauty of Nature and Overcoming Your Fears. Read her full bio below.

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1:40 Nic & Laura talk about personality tests
6:49 Interview with Martina Sestakova starts
10:01 Martina talks about Art
19:27 Beauty of Nature
25:25 Overcoming your fears

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Guest Bio:

Martina Sestakova engages in textile design, painting, and art education. Martina creates scarves that invoke stories from life experiences. Her scarves have been featured on Voice of America and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC). In her watercolor paintings, she communicates words through colors and shapes. Her artworks have been shown at the Adah Rose Gallery (MD) and Latela Curatorial (DC) and other art institutions. As an art educator, Martina offers workshops and brings creativity to the public and communities with limited access to the arts, such as individuals in correctional institutions. Martina Sestakova resides in Kensington, MD.

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Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Robert Young, Director of Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines about Big Data, National Parks and Academia. Read his full bio below.

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1:24 Nic & Laura discuss cruises
14:10 Interview with Dr. Robert Young starts
17:22 National Parks project
21:21 Dr. Young talks about Big Data
31:04 Field Notes: Hurricane Hugo
43:41 Academia

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Guest Bio:

Robert S. Young is the Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, a joint Duke University/Western Carolina University venture. He is also a Professor of Geosciences at Western Carolina University and a licensed professional geologist in three states (FL, NC, SC). The Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) is a research and policy outreach center serving the global coastal community. The primary mission of PSDS is to conduct scientific research into coastal processes, storm impacts, hazard vulnerability and sea level rise and to translate that science into management and policy recommendations through a variety of professional and public outreach mechanisms. The Program specializes in evaluating the design and implementation of coastal engineering and restoration projects and helping communities develop coastal adaptation strategies.

Dr. Young is a frequent contributor to the popular media. He has written numerous articles for outlets like the New York Times, USA Today, Architectural Record, the Houston Chronicle, and the Raleigh News and Observer, among others. He regularly appears on programs like PBS Now, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, National Public Radio, and many others. He is co-author of two books, The Rising Sea and co-editor of Geologic Monitoring, both released in 2009. Finally, Dr. Young has testified before congress and numerous state legislatures on coastal issues. He currently serves State of South Carolina as a member of the Governor’s Flood Commission and the State of Virginia on the Technical Advisory Committee for the state’s Coastal Master Plan.

He is leading a major project for the National Park Service to identify the vulnerability of all coastal park assets to coastal storms, erosion and sea level rise for the purpose of adaptation planning.

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Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! 

To celebrate our first successful year we'd like to share the fun we've had behind the scenes with you in an end of year outtakes spectacular! There's no interview, just a long list of mispronunciations, roasts, and mistakes we've accumulated over the year. This show is genuinely so much fun to do and we can't thank you enough for listening!

Happy New Year! See you in 2022!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

We have a new minisode for you today! There's no interview, just a timely and important message we wanted to share with everyone as we come up on the holiday season. This is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode on Friday this week, but we will be publishing a very special outtakes episode next Friday. Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Sunny Fleming, National Solutions Engineer at Esri about Botany, Innovation, and the Infrastructure Bill. Read her full bio below.

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1:36 Nic & Laura discuss how they grew up
9:19 Interview with Sunny Fleming starts
11:56 Sunny talks about Botany to GIS
14:03 Field Stories
19:54 Innovation & Data
24:49 Infrastructure Bill

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Guest Bio:

As the National Solution Engineer for state environmental agencies, Sunny is responsible for supporting some of Esri’s longest-standing customers: fish and wildlife agencies, environmental regulation, agriculture, state parks, historical preservation and natural heritage programs. She loves helping our customers shape their vision, and innovate to meet their business challenges.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Nic Frederick, co-host of EPR, NAEP Board Member, and Director of Conservation and Planning at Dawson about Public Speaking, Travel, and Anatomy. Read his full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode DAWSON.
DAWSON is a Native Hawaiian global business enterprise serving Federal clients through construction, PTS and environmental services. Operating worldwide, DAWSON is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi with offices across the U.S. Rooted in the Hawaiian values of aloha (embodying humility, respect, and compassion for all) and ʻohana (family), DAWSON carries forward a kuleana (responsibility) to benefit the Native Hawaiian community. DAWSON's environmental branch brings science, solutions, and sustainability to planning, compliance, munitions and remediation. With a permanent 8(a) status, DAWSON is the perfect solution to all of your business needs.

Showtimes:

2:45 Nic & Laura discuss Citizen Science

9:04 Interview with Nic Frederick starts

13:58 Nic talks about public speaking

19:34 NEPA career advice

25:50 Nic's Field Notes

29:04 Travel

33:42 Nic's almost career in Anatomy

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Guest Bio:Nic has been a member of NAEP since 2013, initially through the North Carolina Chapter (NCAEP) prior to joining the national chapter. He served as the technical chair for NAEP's first ever virtual conference and has supported the Publications, NEPA, and Water Resources committees. He is now an at-large board member and leads the Communications Committee.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wager, partner with Venable, LLP about Iceland, Justice 40 and CEQ Rulemaking. Read his full bio below.

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2:30 Nic & Laura talk about the Northern Lights
11:05 Interview with Fred Wagner starts
13:07 Fred talks about Iceland
16:55 CEQ Rulemaking, Phase I
33:33 Phase II
41:29 Justice 40

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Guest Full Bio:

Fred Wagner focuses his practice on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Fred is familiar with the full range of issues surrounding USDOT surface transportation programs, including grant management, procurement, suspension and debarment, and safety regulations. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

We are dropping our second minisode today! There's no interview, just a timely and important message we wanted to share with everyone as we come up on the Thanksgiving holiday. This is taking place instead of our regularly scheduled episode on Friday this week, but we will be publishing another full length episode next Friday. Let us know what you're thankful for on our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWdUhbtalnA) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/naeptweets) pages! Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Tiffany Duong, writer, explorer and motivational speaker about Chasing Your Dreams, Environmental Storytelling and Adventuring. Read her full bio below.

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1:57 Nic & Laura talk about rejection

8:36 Interview with Tiffany Duong starts

10:45 Tiffany chases her dreams to the Galapagos

19:39 Connecting the dots in the Amazon

28:25 Environmental storytelling

34:18 Adventuring

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Guest Bio:

Tiffany Duong is a writer, explorer and motivational speaker. She holds degrees from UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Inspired by a dive trip, she left corporate law to campaign for our planet. Now, from dense jungles, remote oceans and her slice of paradise in the Florida Keys, she gives voice to what's happening in the natural world. Her mission is to inspire meaningful action and lasting change. Follow her on Twitter/Instagram @tiffmakeswaves.

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Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Shannon Oelkers, owner and principal consultant for Integrity Environmental about Alaska, Fuel Tanks and Science Literacy. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:

0:17 Shannon's special "And Finally"

2:52 Nic & Laura discuss gender workplace challenges

13:00 Interview with Shannon Oelkers starts

16:21 Alaska

31:11 Fuel Tanks

40:42 Field Notes: Not so regal eagles

51:23 Science Literacy

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Guest Bio:

Shannon Oelkers is the owner and principal consultant for Integrity Environmental. Shannon previously worked at the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation in the Contaminated Sites and Terminal / Tank Farms division, focusing on industrial environmental compliance. Shannon holds a bachelor's degree in Biological Science and a master's degree in Community Development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has more than a decade of experience inspecting and auditing bulk fuel tank farm operations. Shannon is also an MBA Instructor at Alaska Pacific University. Shannon is well-versed in the unique challenges of completing oil and gas related projects in Alaska.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Michael Smith, the Director of Environmental Process & Policy with WSP USA, about working in a National Park, Photojournalism, and Consulting. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:

2:09 Nic & Laura discuss career exploring

5:19 Interview with Michael Smith Starts

9:09 Michael talks about being a park ranger & bears

18:58 Accidental photojournalism

26:08 Env. impacts of legalizing marijuana

35:12 Michael talks about env. consulting & current projects

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Guest Bio:

Michael Smith is a nationally-recognized leader in environmental policy and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, with more than 28 years of experience in environmental impact assessment, environmental justice analysis, project and program management, policy development, land use planning, business development, group leader, and training/education with the federal government, private sector, academia, and non-governmental organizations. He is currently a Director of Environmental Policy and Process at WSP USA, an arm of one of the world's leading engineering and professional services consulting firms. His technical areas of expertise include environmental justice analysis; socioeconomic analysis; greenhouse gas emissions and climate change/climate adaptation analysis; cumulative impact analysis; and designing strategies for streamlining NEPA and related permitting processes and reviews.

Michael has managed and provided environmental compliance review for some of the nation's largest, most complex, and highly controversial projects, including major energy, transportation, and water resources infrastructure projects, approval of genetically engineered plants, commercial space transportation operations, legalized cannabis regulatory programs, and approval of new fuel economy standards for all vehicles operated in the United States. He frequently provides training and strategic advice for NEPA compliance for public and private sector clients through the National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP), and as a faculty member at the University of California Los Angeles Extension Environmental Studies and Sustainability Programs, the University of California Davis Extension Land Use and Natural Resources Program. He has also served on a White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Task Force on National Environmental Policy Act training.

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Intro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace Mesa

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Hollie Schmidt, Director, Resilient + Sustainability Business Advisory at Jacobs about Career Advice, Coastal Projects, and Navigating the Workplace. Read her full bio below.

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1:37 Nic and Laura discuss career paths
6:54 Interview with Hollie Schmidt starts
13:55 Hollie's career advice
19:31 Hollie discusses her coastal projects
32:27 Hollie talks about navigating the workplace

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Guest Bio:
Hollie Schmidt is Director of the Resilience + Sustainability Business Advisory. In her 26 years of practice, she has honed an integrated planning and delivery approach, with a particular focus on master planning and site selection. Serving a broad range of projects, she leads large, diverse teams of planners, architects and the full spectrum of engineers and technical experts to assist with decision-making, scenario evaluation and implementation plans. With a strong foundation in facilitation, coordination, communication, and problem solving, she has a long history of successfully leading mega, complex projects for clients with large real estate and facilities holdings and delivering sustainable and resilient solutions.

Hollie’s area of practice includes a focus on resiliency planning either as a preventative or recovery service for larger-scale clients who are experiencing vulnerabilities to natural or man-made disasters particularly as it relates to climate change. She has led inter-disciplinary teams that deliver sustainable solutions across the natural and man-made environments for multi-billion-dollar programs as well as more moderate facilities. She also supports resilient and sustainable solutions through extremely compelling business case analysis focused on life-cycle savings and non-financial benefits such as wellness, environmental and community impact and market recognition.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet PhD, CEO and Founder of Ocean STL Consulting about Naval Science, Oceanography, and the Blue Economy. Read his full bio below.

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2:11 Nic and Laura talk Halloween

8:51 Interview with Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet starts

10:08 Tim talks about Naval Science

14:43 Tim discusses Oceanography

34:18 Tim's leadership advice

38:57 Tim talks about blue economy and his podcast

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Guest Bio:

Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, PhD is the CEO and Founder of Ocean STL Consulting and host of the American Blue Economy Podcast. Between 2017-2021, he served as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and before that he served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy retiring as the Oceanographer of the Navy.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Caryn Brookman, Principal at Blackwater Environmental Group, LLC about Running a Small Business, Challenging Projects, transportation projects, and the Grateful Dead. Read her full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode Blackwater Environmental Group! www.blackwaterenvironmentalgroup.com

A certified Minority and Disadvantaged Business, Blackwater Environmental Group has over 20 years of experience working with private sector firms and governmental agencies—especially in the transportation industry—managing environmental programs, interpreting environmental policy, and developing unique solutions to project coordination and environmental documentation tasks. In addition to our project management and NEPA capabilities, our professional staff of planners are committed to utilizing asset management tools, performance measurements, and reporting methods to help our clients assess and adapt to changing climate and extreme weather conditions that impact transportation needs. With everything we do, Blackwater strives to remember the original intent of national environmental policy—environmental protection, conservation, and enhancement—and seeks innovative ways to streamline the ever-changing regulatory process.

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2:15 Nic & Laura's discuss providing feedback to supervisors
12:52 Interview with Caryn Brookman starts
15:47 Caryn talks about running a small business
25:13 Caryn discusses managing challenging projects
33:29 Caryn talks about her secret love for the Grateful Dead

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Guest Bio:
Caryn J. G. Brookman is Principal of Blackwater Environmental Group, LLC. Ms. Brookman has over 20 years of experience working with governmental agencies interpreting
policy and developing unique solutions to daunting project coordination and environmental documentation tasks. Prior to starting Blackwater, she worked for the Federal Highway Administration and the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) and, therefore, brings a distinct and balanced perspective to the table. Recently her experience has expanded to advising clients on environmental matters related to alternative project delivery methods such as Public-Private Partnerships (P3). Ms. Brookman is currently leading a major environmental study under MDOT SHA’s I-495 & I-270 P3 Program Office which is considered the largest P3 highway imitative in North America at an estimated $9-11 Billion. The NEPA study is one of the first major infrastructure projects under Executive Order 13807-One Federal Decision and is currently on an accelerated schedule.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with April Cummings, Director of Mitigation Division Federal Emergency, about Disaster Recovery, Covid-19 and Foster Fails. Read her full bio below.

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1:34 Nic and Laura discuss disaster recovery stories

11:02 Interview with April Cummings starts

12:41 April talks about her foster fails

14:25 April describes her work with FEMA

19:46 April discusses the disaster recovery process

36:44 April talks about FEMA's Covid-19 mission

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Guest Bio:

April Cummings oversees programs that strive to make communities safer by reducing risks to life and property by using risk analytics, floodplain management and insurance, community planning, various grant programs, and environmental and historic preservation compliance.

She serves as a collateral-duty Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) Lead. In this role, she and her team provide the initial coordination and response capability prior to and in the immediate aftermath following a serious incident.

Prior to this position, she was the Deputy Director for the Mitigation Division at Region 3 and the Deputy Regional Environmental Officer for FEMA Region 4 in Atlanta. Ms. Cummings holds an MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Bruce Harvey, architectural historian and documentation photographer about Photography, HABS/HAER Reports and Working in Remote Places. Read his full bio below.

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2:35 Nic and Laura discuss Pitch your Pivot

10:00 Interview with Bruce Harvey starts

14:50 Bruce talks about photography

17:09 Bruce discusses taking photos for HABS/HAER reports

27:15 Bruce talks about working in remote places

28:17 Bruce describes his favorite photos

38:09 Bruce discusses volunteer photography

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Bruce G. Harvey is a historian, architectural historian, and documentation photographer, located in Syracuse, NY. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (1998), an M.A. in Applied History from the University of South Carolina, Columbia (1988), and a B.A. in History from Allegheny College, Meadville, PA (1985). He has over thirty years of experience as a public historian, and as a specialist in cultural resource management for twenty-five years. He has participated in and directed hundreds of cultural resources and historic preservation projects since 1995, including historic architectural surveys throughout the east coast and the Midwest, successful NRHP nominations in multiple northeastern and Middle Atlantic states, and historical, architectural, and engineering evaluations of hydroelectric plants and historic canals throughout the nation. As a photographer, using both large-format black and white film and digital platforms, he has documented dozens of historic buildings and structures throughout the east coast for HABS/HAER and other documentation purposes, and has exhibited his photographs in multiple venues in New York State. From 1995 to 2003 he served as the Senior Historian and Architectural Historian with Brockington and Associates in Mount Pleasant, SC, and from 2003 to 2009 as the Senior Cultural Resources Specialist with Kleinschmidt Associates in Syracuse, NY. He began working as an independent cultural resources consultant in 2009 under the business name of Harvey Research and Consulting, specializing in HABS/HAER documentation, Section 106 consultation, and National Register of Historic Places nominations. Since 2014 he has also served as the Senior Historian with Outside the Box LLC, where his work has included the completion of four book-length administrative histories of National Park Service units.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Tom Ries, Vice President with Environmental Science Associates, nationally known ecologist, and longtime member of TBAEP about Living Shorelines, Scholarships, and Rattlesnakes. Read his full bio below.

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1:44 Nic and Laura discuss conservation on military bases

8:34 Interview with Tom Ries starts

10:29 Tom talks about scholarships

12:21 Tom discusses living shorelines

21:56 Tom's current projects

32:37 Field Notes segment- Rattlesnake encounter

35:05 Tom talks about TBAEP and the importance of getting involved with local NAEP chapters

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Tom is a nationally known ecologist with more than 35 years of experience in restoring natural systems in the southeast. His work has garnered numerous environmental awards and resulted in the restoration of more than 3,800 acres of wetlands. In 2013, Tom received the prestigious National Wetlands Award in Conservation & Restoration from the Environmental Law Institute, in Washington DC.

Tom founded Ecosphere Restoration Institute in 2007 to advance restoration activities through innovative public-private partnerships. He currently also serves as Southeast Biological Services and Restoration Director for Environmental Science Associates (ESA), an environmental science and planning firm with offices throughout the U.S.

Tom graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.A. in Biology and a minor in Geology. In his early career, he mapped wetlands for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and implemented several coastal habitat restoration and stormwater retrofit projects in Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay and Charlotte Harbor while working for the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s SWIM program.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! 

Today we're doing a little something different. We're releasing our first minisode! There's no interview, just a timely and important message we wanted to share with everyone as we come to the end of the fiscal year. We hope everyone is managing it well and we look forward to publishing another full length episode this (and every) Friday. Thank you so much for listening!

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Laura Lopez-Hoffman, professor at the University of Arizona, and Dr. Aaron Lien, Assistant Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Adaptive Management, about NEPAccess, Big Data and Academia. Read their full bios below.

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0:00 Intro

1:29 Shout outs

2:03 Nic and Laura discuss Big Data

11:41 Interview with Dr. Laura Hoffman and Dr. Aaron Lien starts

15:38 Dr. Laura Hoffman and Dr. Aaron Lien talk about NEPAccess

19:43 Drs. Hoffman and Lien also talk about Big Data's role in NEPAccess

30:38 Drs. Hoffman and Lien discuss Academia's part in NEPAccess

42:41 Outro

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Dr. Laura Lopez-Hoffman is an environmental scientist working at the intersection of natural science and environmental policy. She is a champion of using data-driven approaches to evaluate the outcomes and performance of environmental laws and policies. Laura oversees all aspects of the NEPAccess endeavor.

Dr. Aaron Lien's bio will be coming soon.
Connect with Dr. Lien at linkedin.com/in/aaron-lien-9a1b2114

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Tracy Fanara, Environmental Engineer, Scientist, Investigator, Public Speaker & Marvel Comic Agent of G.I.R.L., about NOAA, Public Speaking, and the Joy of Science. Read her full bio below.

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0:00 Intro

1:24 Shout outs

2:21 Nic and Laura discuss the Imposter Syndrome

9:28 Interview with Dr. Tracy Fanara starts

22:23 Tracy talks about her work with NOAA

28:10 Tracy shares details about being considered for the SpaceX Challenge project

34:22 Tracy discusses more cool projects she's working on

36:53 Tracy talks about public speaking

38:19 Tracy, Nic, and Laura discuss about the joys of science

43:24 Tracy's shout outs

46:11 Outro

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Dr. Tracy Fanara is an environmental engineer, scientist, public speaker and television host with a BS, ME, and PhD from the University of Florida’s College of Environmental Engineering. In research, Tracy has developed water treatment technology, strategies for sustainable design, aquaponics for space travel, and citizen science programs with over 1.6million users to obtain publicly available environmental data. Tracy has international media recognition due to her expertise and science communication efforts during the Florida Water crises. Tracy is now the Coastal Modeling Manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where she manages US coastal ocean modeling efforts to gain a better understanding of our earth systems and threats to human lives and livelihoods in a changing world. You may have seen Tracy on Science Channel, Weather Channel, Fox or CBS; in Marvels Unstoppable Wasp, or on the recent cover of Xylem YSI’s Mission Water.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we bring back Fred Wager, partner with Venable, LLP to talk about Practicing Law, Policy Updates, and Infrastructure. Read his full bio below.

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0:00 Intro

1:35 Shout outs

2:48 Nic and Laura's talk about phobias

10:17 Interview with Fred Wagner starts

15:12 Fred talks about practicing law

25:33 Fred delves into the history of environmental law

32:28 Infrastructure Bill

38:01 NEPA policy updates

46:35 Fred provides a summary of environmental justice updates

50:18 Outro

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Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Taiwo Ogunwumi, GIS and DRR Consultant, and president of the GEO Hazard Risk Mapping initiative, about flooding in Nigeria, GIS, Fighting COVID, and Getting Lost in the field. Read his full bio below.

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0:01 Intro

0:52 Shout outs

1:42 Nic and Laura talk about the Olympics

10:43 Interview with Taiwo Ogunwumi starts

16:00 Taiwo talks about flooding in Nigeria

22:37 Taiwo discusses his Geo hazard risk mapping initiative

26:19 Taiwo talks about GIS and Covid-19 response effort

29:43 Taiwo shares his interesting "getting lost" story

32:20 Taiwo talks about his current location, travel and free time

44:46 Outro

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Guest Full Bio:
Taiwo Ogunwumi is a geo-information management professional, DRR Consultant and Environmental Researcher specialized in disaster risk and vulnerability assessment, emergency planning, and humanitarian response.

He had his first degree in Geography and is currently studying for a master's in Environmental risks at the United Nations University. In addition, he is a tutor at the University of Bonn, Germany teaching over 15 International students on the use of Geographic Information systems to address climate change impacts (natural hazards). Taiwo has published on International journal topics related to Flooding, Drought and Climate Change and is also a GIS consultant to the UN-Migration supporting their Covid-19 response program for Internally Displaced Persons in Northeastern Nigeria. Taiwo is also an active contributor to the Africa Youth Advisory Board for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Founder of an Initiative called Geohazard Risk Mapping Initiative (www.georiskmap.org), coordinating over 30 Geospatial Analyst Volunteers (Nigeria and Africa), and steering the organization towards its vision of promoting sustainability and reducing the vulnerability of communities to natural hazards and other environmental risks through the creations of hazard maps and vulnerability assessment to support the national emergency institutions.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Michelle Rau, Environmental Project Manager and NEPA Practice Lead at Jacobs, and NAEP Secretary as well as Education Committee co-chair, about NASA NEPA, working on the move, and celebrity fails! Read her full bio below.

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0:00 Intro

1:00 Shout outs

1:49 Nic and Laura talk about stand up comedy

9:03 Interview with Michelle Rau starts

12:29 Michelle discusses career transitioning and gives career advice

19:56 Michelle talks about NEPA's role in her projects

23:20 Field Notes Segment-Michelle's celebrity fails

28:01 Michelle talks about the importance of down time

33:03 Working on the move

38:11 Outro

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Guest Full Bio:
Michelle Rau has nearly 25 years of experience as an environmental planner and project manager. At Jacobs she currently serves as the NEPA practice manager and leads a group of nearly 200 environmental practitioners. She works as a project manager, sales lead and technical lead on Federal environmental compliance projects, including large scale and controversial EISs, which involve individual projects with more than a billion dollars of infrastructure. She has managed nearly all aspects of the environmental compliance process, including NEPA, Executive Order (EO) 12114 (international NEPA), Clean Water Act 404 permits, ESA Section 7 consultations, NHPA Section 106 consultations and state, county, and regional permits. She has worked for many federal clients, including DoD (Army, Air Force, USACE, DARPA and NGA), NASA, BLM, FEMA, FHWA and NSF.

Michelle has been an active member of NAEP for over 10 years, and currently serves on the NEAP Board of Directors, where she is the NAEP Secretary. She also serves as the education committee co-chair, is the executive sponsor for the Environmental Justice Working Group and actively engages with the conference planning committees.

Michelle currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida and works in the Jacobs Tampa office.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dory Larsen, Electric Transportation Program Manager for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), about clean energy, electric vehicles, and giving back to the community! Read her full bio below.

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0:00 Intro

0:56 Shout outs

1:49 Nic and Laura's segment- Methods of transportation and their benefits

7:33 Interview with Dory Larsen starts

12:34 Dory Larsen talks about electric vehicles

20:35 Why Dory feels it's important to get involved and give back to the community

23:02 Dory's hobbies

31:25 Dory discusses clean energy

43:16 Outro

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www.cleanenergy.org
www.electrifythesouth.org

Guest Full Bio:
Dory joined the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy in 2017 and was named Electric Transportation Program Manager in 2020. She is working to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles by promoting the growth of electric vehicle ownership and supporting EV friendly policy and programs. Central to her work is educating and engaging stakeholders, identifying strategic policy to propel EV usage, and advocating for comprehensive EV infrastructure. She serves on the Board of Drive Electric Florida and Chairs the Tarpon Springs Sustainability Advisory Committee.

Before joining SACE, Dory worked as an instructional trainer and as a science educator in the public-school system. She also led a community action campaign to keep massive development from changing the landscape of the Anclote River. She is a graduate of the University of South Florida with a Master of Public Health degree and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Florida Southern College. She is passionate about helping people see the strength in working collectively to solve problems. She is an avid reader and lover of the Florida sunshine where she and her husband are raising their two sons.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Scott Deitche, Senior Vice President with GPI, about water, business development, and the Tampa Mafia and the books he's written about them! Read his full bio below.

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1:51 Shout outs

3:32 Nic talks about his recent trip to Hawaii...and yes, we are jealous!

11:49 Interview with Scott Deitche starts

14:04 Scott Deitche talks water quality and spending time on the water

16:40 Scott Deitche discusses his shift to business development and resiliency projects

20:10 Scott Deitche talks about writing and the Tampa Mafia

31:54 The importance of networking

39:44 Outro

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scottdeitche.com

Guest Full Bio:
Scott M. Deitche is a Senior Vice President and Director of Environmental Specialty Services for GPI’s Southeast operations. He has over 27 years of experience in various aspects of environmental management, water quality permitting/compliance, water quality monitoring and analysis, environmental monitoring programs, and project management. Scott is also an author who has written nine books and over 50 articles on organized crime as well as case studies for books on sustainability.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Gary Kelman, Independent Consultant & NAEP Board Member representing the Mid-Atlantic Regional Environmental Professionals about the history of NAEP, Maryland Farm Policy, and Finding a Good Map. Read his full bio below.

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1:31 Shout outs

3:08 Nic and Laura discuss agricultural BMPs

8:06 Interview with Gary Kelman starts

8:56 Gary Kelman talks about the history of NAEP

21:45 Gary Kelman discusses Maryland farm policy

28:02 Field Notes segment- The Bethesda trash incident

33:48 Gary Kelman shares his insights on collecting and finding a good map

44:12 Outro

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Guest Bio:

Gary Kelman’s professional career began in 1977. It includes heading the CAFO Program, Office of Permitting and Customer Services, the Maryland Pretreatment Program, and developing industrial and municipal discharge permits during a 40-year career at the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Prior to MDE, Gary was an environmental consultant. He was MDE’s Employee of the Year in 2010, was named a Fellow NAEP in 2010, and received the Richard J. Kramer Memorial Award for Environmental Excellence from ABCEP in 2015. He was named a Life Member of ASCE in 2018. Gary received a MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland and a BS in Life Sciences from Philadelphia University. He was credentialed as a Certified Environmental Professional (CEP) in 2005. Gary Kelman is currently enjoying being an independent consultant.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Desireé Martinez, a Tongva Tribal Archaeologist and the President of Cogstone Resource Management, about Preservation, Tribal Relationships and Having Fun. Read her full bio below.

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2:25 Shout outs

4:13 Nic and Laura discuss leadership and employee retention

11:55 Interview with Desiree Martinez starts

13:22 Desiree discusses preservation of Native American sacred and cultural sites

17:00 Desiree talks about the importance of tribal relationships

30:48 The relation of Desiree's work to NAGPRA

38:10 Desiree's idea of having fun

41:11 Outro

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Guest Bio:

Desireé Reneé Martinez is a Tongva Tribal Archaeologist and the President of Cogstone Resource Management. She has dedicated her life to obtaining skills and knowledge to combat the wanton destruction of Native American sacred and cultural sites, especially those of her community. Ms. Martinez received her BA in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA in Anthropology from Harvard University. She is a co-Director of the Pimu Catalina Island Archaeology Project, and her field of work is to remind the Southern California community of the Tongva’s vibrant heritage and continuing contribution to the Southern California region.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Edward John Kertis, Acting Executive Director with Dawson about USACE, Transitioning to Civilian Work, and his passion for Parrot Heads. Read his full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode to DAWSON!

DAWSON is a Native Hawaiian global business enterprise serving Federal clients through construction, PTS and environmental services. Operating worldwide, DAWSON is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi with offices across the U.S. Rooted in the Hawaiian values of aloha (embodying humility, respect, and compassion for all) and ʻohana (family), DAWSON carries forward a kuleana (responsibility) to benefit the Native Hawaiian community. DAWSON's environmental branch brings science, solutions, and sustainability to planning, compliance, munitions and remediation. With a permanent 8(a) status, DAWSON is the perfect solution to all of your business needs.

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1:24 Shout outs
3:11 Nic and Laura discuss drought in the West
7:51 Interview with Ed Kertis Starts
11:28 Ed talks about USACE
15:00 Ed's transition to civilian work
22:26 Field notes segment
31:45 How to be a Parrot Head

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Guest Full Bio:
Ed joined DAWSON in November 2012 as a business development director. He became Chief Operating Officer in February 2019. In March 2020 Ed was asked to serve as the first Executive Director of the Hawaiian Native Corporation (HNC), a non-profit corporation founded in February 2004 and controlled entirely by Native Hawaiians. HNC is recognized by the Department of Defense under Federal statutory authority as a “Native Hawaiian Organization” (NHO) 8(a). It is the parent corporation of the DAWSON Companies.
Ed graduated from Stetson University in 1984 with a B.S. in Biology and later earned a M.S. in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida, majoring in wetlands ecology and hazardous waste management. He was a

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with SunTemple Helgren, Certified Environmental Professional and Member Board Of Directors at National Association of Environmental Professionals about Challenging Projects, Travel, and Soccer. Read his full bio below.

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1:56 Shout outs
2:46 Nic and Laura weigh in on sports
10:28 Interview with SunTemple Helgren starts
12:50 SunTemple discusses his rep for accepting challenging projects
26:29 Field notes segment-Bats!
30:59 SunTemple talks about his favorite travel spots
33:59 SunTemple's "illustrious soccer career"

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SunTemple Helgren is a Certified Environmental Professional (CEP) with 25-years of experience as an environmental consultant. He has a diverse background providing a vast array of environmental services to a myriad of clients. His experience includes, but is not limited to, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) studies and documentation including Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), Environmental Assessments (EAs), and Categorical Exclusions (CEs); Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 consultations, and the Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401/404 permitting process.For over a decade he has focused on providing environmental planning services to the Department of the Navy. This has included all forms and functions of Environmental Program and Project Management services to a variety of Navy and Marine Corps installations and commands worldwide. Outside of work SunTemple enjoys spending time with his family. His activities include coaching youth sports, volunteering, and keeping the local orthopedic and physical therapy industry afloat by playing in a soccer league in on the weekend.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ron Deverman, NAEP Fellow, and Vice-President and National Environmental Planning Leader for STV, a national planning, engineering, and architecture firm about Farming, Career Advice, and Poetry. Read his full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode STV: https://stvinc.com/

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1:14 Shout out

2:34 Nic and Laura talk about travel in the time of covid

9:19 Interview with Ron Deverman starts

11:37 Ron talks about Farming

27:54 Field notes segment

30:39 Ron's career advice

34:29 Ron discusses poetry

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Full Guest Bio:

Ron is Vice-President and National Environmental Planning Leader for STV, a national planning, engineering, and architecture firm. Ron has over 35-years-experience managing NEPA environmental impact assessment projects for transportation infrastructure improvements, such as transit, passenger and freight rail, highways, and bridges, with special expertise in community impact assessment, cumulative effects analysis, and other federal environmental regulations. Ron is a Past President of NAEP and IAEP and he is the current Chair of NAEP’s Leadership Development Initiative. Ron is a Certified Environmental Professional by Eminence and a NAEP Fellow for his exemplary service and over 30-year commitment to NAEP and the environmental professions. Ron is also an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University teaching a Masters’ course in NEPA and Context Sensitive Solutions.

He is a published poet and has spoken nationally and internationally on many subjects, including key competencies for environmental professionals, environmental stewardship, and the public health impacts and benefits of our transportation choices. Ron comes from generations of farmers in Illinois’ heartland and farmed for a living while attending college. Ron’s education includes a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana, a MA in English from the University of Illinois in Springfield, and post-graduate studies in NEPA and related environmental studies.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Amanda Roberts, Partner and Chief Marketing Strategist at Avid Core, a woman and minority owned strategic communications company about Public Engagement, Marketing, and Morel Hunting. Read her full bio below.

Special thanks to our recurring sponsor Dawson - https://www.dawsonohana.com/

DAWSON is a Native Hawaiian global business enterprise serving Federal clients through construction, PTS and environmental services. Operating worldwide, DAWSON is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi with offices across the U.S. Rooted in the Hawaiian values of aloha (embodying humility, respect, and compassion for all) and ʻohana (family), DAWSON carries forward a kuleana (responsibility) to benefit the Native Hawaiian community. DAWSON's environmental branch brings science, solutions, and sustainability to planning, compliance, munitions and remediation. With a permanent 8(a) status, DAWSON is the perfect solution to all of your business needs.

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1:04 Shout outs

2:48 Nic and Laura talk about giving back to the community

9:53 Interview with Amanda Roberts starts

14:11 Amanda talks about public engagement

31:29 Amanda discusses marketing strategies

33:02 Morel hunting

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Guest Bio:

Amanda co-founded Avid Core in 2020 with Virginia Quiambao Arroyo. For more than a decade, Amanda has worked as a federal government contractor on a wide range of outreach and communications projects. Amanda managed a contract with the Department of the Interior for environmental collaboration and conflict resolution where Amanda led public involvement projects for environmental planning. She started supporting environmental planning with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2018.

Amanda grew up in Northern Virginia and currently lives in Fairfax with her husband and two young children.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Thomas Easley, Assistant Dean for Community and Inclusion at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies about Diversity, Hip Hop, and Environmental Racism. Read his full bio below.

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1:10 Shout outs
1:48 Nic and Laura talk about extreme accountability
7:41 Interview with Dr. Thomas RaShad Easley starts
18:41 Dr. Easley's path from Forestry to Diversity
36:36 Dr. Easley talks Hip Hop
41:47 Dr. Easley discusses his projects focusing on environmental racism

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Guest Bio:
Thomas RaShad Easley, Ed.D., is the child of civil rights activists that protested in the children’s march in 1963 at the height of the Civil Right movement and integrated an all-white school in Toledo, Ohio. Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion at the School of the Environment at Yale University (the first school of forestry, 1900). Dr. Easley has attended Alabama A&M University (B.S.), Iowa State University (M.S.), and North Carolina State University (Ed.D.) Dr. Easley has backgrounds in forestry, genetics, and adult education.

Dr, Easley is a certified diversity, equity and inclusion consultant that works with academic institutions, corporate entities, and other organizations to help them actualize a strong diversity initiative that welcomes everyone and shifts work culture to be equitable.

Dr. Easley is a musical artist, professor, Eagle Scout, and a former campus pastor. He intentionally merges conscious lyrics, ecumenical spirituality, land stewardship, education, diversity/equity/inclusion principles and entrepreneurial thinking in his lectures, workshops and presentations.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Laurel Glass Lees, a multi-passionate entrepreneur, stakeholder capitalist, and environmental professional about Geothermal Energy, Lithium mining, and the Power of Love. Read her full bio below.

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2:06 Shout outs

3:04 Nic and Laura discuss when work doesn't align with personal beliefs

8:35 Interview with Laurel Glass Lees Starts

12:49 Laurel discusses Geothermal Energy and Lithium

24:46 Intersecting passions and balance

38:20 The power of love

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Guest Bio:

Laurel Glass Lees is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, stakeholder capitalist, and environmental professional. She serves on the Board for the California Association of Environmental Professionals while growing her business at A STELLAR CO -- a pending certified BCorp -- and developing a power and minerals project in Lithium Valley as part of the Controlled Thermal Resources executive team. Laurel also enjoys her role on the advisory board for Geosite, a geospatial tech startup in Silicon Valley. She believes in staying true to her core values and principles, earning to give, and pushing society toward a more regenerative and harmonious life.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with John Jamison, Western Regional Team Lead at North Carolina Department of Transportation about Transportation NEPA, Conference Planning and Golf. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:1:18 Shoutouts
2:10 Nic and Laura discuss books and reading
9:14 Interview with John Jamison starts
9:15 Conversation about golf starts
19:00 Transportation review board info
22:32 Field Notes: Stories from the field
26:28 NAEP Volunteering experiences
30:00 Art of conversation and keeping in touch

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Guest Full Bio:
John Jamison has worked for more than 20 years in consulting and the public sector, helping to advance infrastructure projects while also conserving our environmental resources. He is currently the western region environmental policy lead for the North Carolina Department of Transportation. In this role John provides policy oversight as well as project-level quality control for NEPA/SEPA documentation and other regulatory permitting activities. John and his wife, Jennifer, enjoy getting outdoors whenever they can with their teenage daughters (Reya and Ella), especially to the beautiful mountains of North Carolina.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Tim Kendzia, Technician at U.S. Environmental Rental Corporation about College, the Student Chapter of NAEP, and Permaculture. Read his full bio below.

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00:40 Shoutouts
01:07 Nic and Laura talk about their early career paths
09:17 Interview with Tim Kendzia starts
14:41 Tim's funny park ranger story
17:44 Permaculture
20:21 Student chapter involvement

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Guest Bio:

Tim is a graduate student at American Public University and an emerging environmental professional. He is earning a Master’s of Science in Environmental Policy and Management and has completed the graduate certificate in National Environmental Policy Act and Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science also at APU.

He has been an active member in the APUS NAEP Student Chapter serving as President since 2018 and attending the 2019 and 2020 national conferences. He’s had several years of experience in energy and environmental fields, currently working as a technician at US Environmental Rental.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two young daughters. Any free time of his is usually spent working on permaculture gardening.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Katie Cannon, Education Director at Carolina Tiger Rescue about the exotic pet trade, Tiger King, and the power of a good nap. Read her full bio below.

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01:16 Shoutouts
02:20 Nic and Laura ramble about animals and stuff
11:15 Interview with Katie Cannon starts
22:45 Tiger King challenges
34:15 Funny working with tigers story

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Guest Bio:
Katie Cannon, Education Director at Carolina Tiger Rescue is a graduate of Appalachian State University. She has worked at Carolina Tiger Rescue for 6 years overseeing education programs including field trips, summer camp, adult day camp, and most recently, virtual field trips and tours. Katie is a former teacher who has always had a love for animals and decided to make the leap to the Rescue after 5 years in the classroom.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Heather Miller, VP Business Development and Principal Historian with HRA and author, about Cultural History, Heavy Metal, and the Green Bay Packers. Check it out and read her full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode Dawson! https://www.dawsonohana.com/
DAWSON is a Native Hawaiian global business enterprise serving the U.S. Department of Defense and other Federal Government clients. The DAWSON companies— collectively known as DAWSON—are subsidiaries of the Hawaiian Native Corporation (HNC), a Native Hawaiian Organization (NHO) Federally-certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration since 2004.

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01:03 Shoutouts
02:57 Nic and Laura discuss learning new things
09:53 Interview with Heather Miller starts
16:31 About cultural resources
24:31 Transitioning out of the field into management
26:36 Field Notes: Stories from the field
32:10 Heather's music interests
38:00 Heather's family history with the Green Bay Packers

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Guest Bio:
After earning a PhD in comparative women’s history from the Ohio State University, Dr. Heather Lee Miller joined HRA in 2005 and has since worked in both HRA’s History and CRM divisions. On the history side of the house, Heather has worked on complex research and writing projects pertaining to federal, state, and local environmental and tribal litigation. On the CRM side of the house, Heather works on projects related to cultural resources management, Section 106/110 and NEPA/SEPA compliance, the development of historic contexts, inventory and evaluation, and mitigation reports. She was also made vice president of business development in 2018.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Marie Campbell! Marie is the sole owner and president of Sapphos Environmental, Inc., a successful environmental consulting business, about Women-Owned Environmental Consulting, Leadership, Diversity, and her love of Art. Read her full bio below.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode Historical Research Associates, Inc.! https://hrassoc.com/

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Showtimes:
00:42 Shoutouts
01:41 Nic and Laura discuss the challenges of making leadership decisions
06:39 Interview with Marie Campbell starts
11:40 Marie on business ownership
22:50 Diversity and Innovation
28:33 Marie's funny workshop story
35:00 Marie's art collection

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https://sapphosenvironmental.com/

Guest Full Bio:
Marie Campbell is the sole owner and president of Sapphos Environmental, Inc., a successful environmental consulting business. As a Hispanic woman, she is very appreciative for the opportunity to have served her community as an instructor in the University of California system, through her work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and ultimately, by building her own consulting practice. She finds great joy in working with similarly dedicated environmental professionals and is proud of her firm's recognitions including the Governor’s Economic and Environmental Leadership Award, Minority Business Development Agency 2012 Green Environmental Consulting Firm, and California Air Resources Board Climate Action Leader. She received her MA and BA from UCLA and is the mother of two accomplished daughters, Sarah and Katherine, and grandmother to Kenneth (11), Campbell Claire (3), and Mary Grace (1). In her free time, Marie enjoys cooking, wine tasting, gardening, and cycling.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, Nic interviews our returning environmental policy expert, Fred Wagner, a partner with Venable, LLP., about policy, the congressional cabinet and Biden's Infrastructure Plan. Fred is a highly distinguished environmental and natural resources attorney. His practice focuses on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining, and energy project development. Read his full bio below.

If you're interested in learning more, here's an article recommended by Fred from the Washington Post.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode Venable, LLP!

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01:40 Shoutouts
01:58 Venable LLP Sponsor Spot
02:44 Nic and Laura talk about rescuing pets
08:34 Interview with Fred Wagner Starts (fostering dogs)
11:48 Growing up in Brooklyn
15:08 Policy rollback updates
22:08 CEQ case review
29:47 Congressional cabinet people to watch
36:43 Biden's infrastructure plan

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Guest Full Bio
Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Sp

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ted Boling, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP and previous associate director at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of the President, about NEPA Policy, Offshore Wind, and National Parks. We had a great time catching up with him! Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:
1:00 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
1:34 - Nic and Laura discuss National Parks - Do you know how many there are?
6:35 - Interview with Ted Boling starts
23:57 - Ted's Yellowstone stories
30:00 - Ted's work with the proposed road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

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YouTube Video referenced:
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https://www.perkinscoie.com/en/professionals/edward-boling.html

Ted Boling Full Bio:
Edward (Ted) Boling served as the country’s top National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) attorney as an associate director at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of the President. Ted served at CEQ, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in Democratic and Republican administrations. His experience includes deep involvement in federal infrastructure permitting issues and the first comprehensive revision of CEQ’s NEPA regulations in 40 years.

Drawing on over 30 years of high-level public service, Ted currently advises leaders on transportation and energy development projects, agencies that must hire outside counsel, and the environmental professionals that support them on the development of renewable energy, resource development, transportation, and infrastructure. Clients are drawn to working with him because they know that by tapping into his experience, they will be able to prudently manage and effectively defend the choices they make, resources they commit, and risks to which they expose their organizations.

Ted’s extensive government experience at CEQ included the development of the National Ocean Policy, CEQ’s climate change guidance, and the regulatory response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He drafted NEPA guidance on mitigation and monitoring, cumulative impacts analysis, and the development categorical exclusions from detailed NEPA documentation. Ted advised the White House on the establishment of numerous national monuments, including the first marine national monuments in the United States and the largest marine protected areas in the world. He also assisted in briefing three U.S. Supreme Court cases.

At DOI, Ted handled matters involving energy development on the outer continental shelf, including offshore wind power development, and the fast track for solar and wind energy projects on public lands. He has provided legal and policy advice on environmental issues concerning the Federal Columbia River Power System and the California Central Valley Project.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Justin Krebs, Vice President, Offshore Wind Program Manager, and fish ecologist at AKRF about essential fish habitat, and offshore wind. He also gives us some notes on how one home project turned into his growing suburban farm. Read his full bio below.

Be sure to listen for Tobie the Podcat, as he makes his debut near the end of our interview.
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Showtimes:
1:47 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
2:57 - Nic and Laura chat about NAEP benefits
10:50 - Interview with Dr. Krebs starts
15:56 - Essential Fish Habitat
22:28 - The Basics of Offshore Wind
25:12 - Field Notes: Lightning Almost Strikes
30:13 - Justin's Farming Adventures

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Dr. Krebs' Full Bio:
Dr. Justin Krebs is a Vice President, Offshore Wind Program Manager, and fish ecologist at AKRF. He has over 2c0 years’ experience as an environmental consultant and research scientist. Dr. Krebs provides clients and teaming partners with technical and regulatory guidance to support sustainable human activities while contributing to the conservation of biodiversity in coastal systems, focusing on fish and fish habitat. Over his career, he has evaluated the potential impacts of changing land use, construction of transportation infrastructure, waterfront development, operation of power plants and hydroelectric dams, and construction and operation of offshore wind farms on the ecology of aquatic systems.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dennis Peters, Environmental Manager with Hart Crowser, Inc. now a division of Haley & Aldrich, about his work with military ordinances in Hawaii, how the pandemic has impacted the islands, and his experience flying planes. Dennis has over 29 years of experience conducting a wide range of environmental planning, site investigation and cleanup, and solid and hazardous waste management projects in the U.S. and around the Pacific Rim. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:
0:41 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
1:33 - Nic and Laura's bad travel stories
10:57 - Interview with Dennis starts
24:13 - Dennis' military ordinance work
31:42 - Dennis' pilot stories

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Dennis Peters is an Environmental Manager with Hart Crowser, Inc. now a division of Haley & Aldrich. He has over 29 years of experience conducting a wide range of environmental planning, site investigation and cleanup, and solid and hazardous waste management projects in the U.S. and around the Pacific Rim. Mr. Peters is a 1988 graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (B.S. Chemistry). He has served on the Hawaii Association of Environmental Professionals (HAEP) Board of Directors since 2003, as HAEP President from 2007-2008, and as the Chapter Representative to NAEP from 2009 to 2015, and 2018 to present.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (aka Esri), a world-leading geographic information system (GIS) software and data science company. Core to Esri’s mission is to inspire and enable people to positively impact their future by connecting them with the geoanalytic knowledge needed to make the critical decisions shaping the planet. Hence, Esri believes that geography is at the heart of a more resilient and sustainable future. We talked to Dr. Wright about being a scientist for Esri, her love of the deep sea, and her passion for LEGOs! Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
0:58 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
2:17 - Nic and Laura discuss where internet comes from
9:30 - Interview with Dr. Dawn Wright starts
14:18 - Dr. Wright talks about studying the deep sea
25:40 - We hear what inspired Dr. Wright's passion for science
37:10 - Dr. Wrights love for LEGOs

Websites mentioned on this episode:
Esri's apps for science: https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/science/maps-apps
GIS for Climate Hub: https://climate-arcgis-content.hub.arcgis.com/
Biden-Harris transition, a general story map: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a68973822394482d97c06e0e1b40ac59
A great book, GIS for Science https://www.gisforscience.com

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Guest Full Bio:
Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (aka Esri), a world-leading geographic information system (GIS) software and data science company. Core to Esri’s mission is to inspire and enable people to positively impact their future by connecting them with the geoanalytic knowledge needed to make the critical decisions shaping the planet. Hence, Esri believes that geography is at the heart of a more resilient and sustainable future.

As Chief Scientist, Dawn is responsible for strengthening the scientific foundation for Esri software and services, while representing Esri to the scientific community. As such, she has served on many advisory boards including the NOAA and EPA Science Advisory Boards, the National Academy of Sciences Ocean Studies Board, and the Science Advisory Boards of Conservation International, COMPASS Science Communication, and the Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. Dawn is also a Professor of Geography and Oceanography at Oregon State University. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of America, The Oceanography Society, and the California Academy of Sciences, as well as Stanford’s Leopold Leadership Program. She enjoys road cycling, 18th-century pirates, her dog Riley, and SpongeBob Squarepants. Follow her on Twitter @deepseadawn.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Lauren Staniec, owner of re-habitat, an interior/sustainable design group that also provides project management services, about her work, her food forest, and her involvement with Green Drinks.

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0:44 - NAEP Member Shoutout
1:46 - Nic pleads for you to attend the NAEP Conference May 17 - 20
2:30 - Nic and Laura talk about improv and how to use it professionally
10:35 - Interview with Lauren starts
19:28 - Food forests
23:33 - Green Drinks

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenstaniec
www.rehabitat-cny.com/

Lauren's Full Bio:
Lauren Staniec is the Owner of re-habitat, an interior/sustainable design group that also provides project management services. To date projects have included the historic renovation of the RE Dietz Lantern building, sustainability consulting for Destiny USA and OGS, as well as design and project management work for the Destiny USA Embassy Suites Hotel, The Crossgates Mall Tru + Homewood Suites, Seneca Savings, Town of DeWitt, Indium Corporation, and various additional commercial and residential projects.
Prior to starting her own company, Lauren was the Sustainability Coordinator and Enhancement Project Manager for the Pyramid Management Group (“Pyramid”). She was responsible for tenant interaction with LEED at Destiny USA the largest LEED Gold Certified retail commercial project in the United States. Lauren has overseen the implementation of a campus plan at Destiny USA and has directed the lease required tenant LEED program at Destiny USA under which over 60 businesses have become LEED certified. She also managed $50M of development efforts for existing buildings and new construction across Pyramid’s 18-center portfolio across New York and Massachusetts.
Lauren currently an adjunct interior design professor at both Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. She also organizes Green Drinks Syracuse and is a volunteer with On Point for College. Lauren also sits on the Clean Communities Syracuse board promoting fossil-free transportation within Central New York. Additionally, Lauren is Past Chair of the US Green Building Council New York Upstate Chapter.
Initially, a student of Interior Design at Rochester Institute of Technology, Lauren completed a Bachelor of Fine Art. Several years later Lauren completed a Master of Science at SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry in Construction Management and Green Building. Lauren’s focus throughout both programs was in progressive sustainability for the built environment.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Gabriella Balsam, staff environmental scientist at Southwest Florida Water Management District, where she currently evaluates Environmental Resource Permits in the regulation division of SWFWMD. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
0:36 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
2:34 - Nic and Laura invent the Environmental Bachelor show
7:07 - Interview with Gabriella starts
9:28 - Why join a local NAEP chapter
10:54 - Women in STEM
15:00 - Field work in Florida
23:05 - Gabriella's vintage clothes hobby

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Gabriella Full Bio:
Gabriella Balsam is a staff environmental scientist at Southwest Florida Water Management District, where she currently evaluates Environmental Resource Permits in the regulation division of SWFWMD. Gabriella received a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from USF. While completing her degrees, she has also worked in various aspects of water resource management, including NPDES Inspector with Angler Environmental and Student Lab Technician at Tampa Bay Water. She has been a member of the TBAEP BOD for three years. While on the board, she has served on the student chapter committee, Women in STEM committee, and 2019 FAEP conference committee. Additionally, she has served as President and Events Coordinator of the USF chapter of TBAEP, and Communications Chair for the 2014 NAEP Conference committee.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Stacey Gold, an office administrator with Arcadis. Stacey is the office Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Community Local Chair and the ARCADIS North America, DE&I Steering Channel Community Workstream Lead and Committee Member. She is a committee member of the Office Interview DE&I Bar Raiser Optimizer and was also the recipient of the Arcadis Peoples First Award 2020! Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
1:08 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
1:15 - Nic & Laura review podcast feedback so far
8:51 - Interview with Stacey starts
15:53 - Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.
22:38 - Determining and maintaining goals for DEI
28:33 - Stacey and cooking!

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Guest's full bio:
Stacey has been with Arcadis for 10 years in Office Administration. She is the Local Office Purchaser (LOP) Coordinator, New Hire Onboarding Coordinator, Notary and Finance Assistant, keeping track of the office yearly budget, as it relates to project billable and office overhead and reviews AP Invoices and prepares Unit Billing Invoices. Stacey supports the office, clients, and is the main contact for vendors. Stacey prepares client proposals, bidding packages and client reporting. She coordinates office meetings and travel plans for staff. She is the Wheels Fleet Vehicle Toll and FedEx Bulk Mapping Coordinator. This year Stacey was placed on a special COVID-19 PPE and PSI requests as a PPE Coordinator. She is the office Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Community Local Chair and the ARCADIS North America, DE&I Steering Channel Community Workstream Lead and Committee Member. She is also a committee member of the Office Interview DE&I Bar Raiser Optimizer. Stacey was the recipient of the Arcadis Peoples First Award 2020. Outside of work, Stacey enjoys vacationing with her family and reading great and best seller novels.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Fred Wager, partner with Venable, LLP. Fred is an environmental and natural resources attorney. His practice focuses on environmental and natural resources issues associated with major infrastructure, mining and energy project development. Read his full bio below.

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0:35 - NAEP Member Shoutouts (submit yours on the website - NOW!)
2:05 - Nic and Laura delve into their past for early-career mistakes
5:50 - Interview with Fred starts
15:10 - Fred's funny field story
18:50 - Fred talks NEPA changes during the Biden transition
26:54 - We discuss the September 2020 Final Rule

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linkedin.com/in/fred-wagner-59043019

Guest Full Bio
Fred helps clients manage and then defend in court environmental reviews performed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or equivalent state statutes. He works with public agencies and private developers to secure permits and approvals from federal and state regulators under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). Fred is familiar with the full range of issues surrounding USDOT surface transportation programs, including grant management, procurement, suspension and debarment, and safety regulations. During his career, Fred has handled a wide variety of environmental litigation in federal trial and appellate courts across the country, from citizen suits, to government enforcement actions, to Administration Procedure Act (APA) challenges.

Fred was appointed Chief Counsel of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) during the Obama administration. He managed all legal matters involving the $40 billion Federal-Aid Highway program, including environmental and natural resources issues for highway and multimodal transportation projects. Among other high-profile projects, he oversaw the agency’s defense of the following: New York's Tappan Zee Bridge, San Francisco's Presidio Parkway, Chicago's Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kentucky and Indiana's Ohio River Bridges, North Carolina's Bonner Bridge, Alabama's Birmingham Northern Beltline, Wisconsin's Zoo Interchange, and Washington's State Road 520 Bridge. He represented the FHWA on government-wide Transportation Rapid Response Team, a multi-agency task force focused on improving project delivery and environmental review reforms.

Fred began his career as a trial attorney in the Environment Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Misdemeanor Trial Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Venable, he spent more than 20 years in private practice at a national law firm focusing on environmental and natural resources issues.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Ron Kamen. Ron is the CEO of EarthKind Energy Consulting and the host of The AWESome EarthKind Podcast. Ron’s life mission is to empower everyday people to make clean energy transitions to reduce their carbon footprint... Read full bio below.

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Showtimes:
0:46 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
1:49 - Nic educates Laura about the invasive Cocaine Hippos of Colombia
5:48 - Interview with Ron starts
24:50 - Ron's Weather Time Fun story

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Guest Bio:
Ron Kamen is the CEO of EarthKind Energy Consulting and the host of The AWESome EarthKind Podcast. Ron’s life mission is to empower everyday people to make clean energy transitions to reduce their carbon footprint– and save them money. For more than three decades, Ron has energized communities, governments, non-profits, and businesses to take their next step and increase energy efficiency, use renewable energy, and lower electricity, heating & transportation costs.

Connect with Ron at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkamen/
www.EarthKindEnergy.com

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts and environmental nerds - Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Rona Spellacacy! Rona is the NAEP President-Elect and senior environmental project manager primarily focused on managing the NEPA process and documentation for a wide variety of projects. She has demonstrated abilities managing diverse teams and delivering projects on time and on budget. Rona manages a team of environmental scientists and planners in Seattle, Washington.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode AKRF! https://www.akrf.com/

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Showtimes:
0:40 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
2:27 - A not to be missed impersonation
3:50 - Nic and Laura on what we think about birds
9:00 - Who you spend time with
10:04 - Interview with Rona starts
19:20 - Cormoramp bridge design story
25:57 - Travel talk

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Asti Davis. Asti is a Baton Rouge native who works at the intersection of law and environmental justice with a focus on green economies, environmental justice, urban forestry and agriculture, and policy making. Read her full bio below.

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Showtimes:
0:31 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
1:43 - We learn about Nic's job
9:43 - Interview with Asti starts
13:01 - What Asti likes to do for fun
19:00 - How to get young people more engaged in environmental policy

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Asti Davis Bio - Baton Rouge native Asti Davis works at the intersection of law and environmental justice with a focus on green economies, environmental justice, urban forestry and agriculture, and policy making. She believes her work in environmental justice is an integral component of the continuing civil rights movement. Previously Asti served at the Arbor Day Foundation, Green For All, and WE Act. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Dillard University and a juris doctorate from Loyola University of New Orleans.

You can find Asit on Instagram @environista and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/astidavis/

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Tim Perry! Tim is an experienced Environmental, Land Use and Utility Law attorney practicing in Florida and Alabama. He serves on the Boards of the National, Florida, and Tallahassee Associations of Environmental Professionals.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode HDR Inc. www.hdrinc.com!

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Showtimes:
1:47 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
2:32 - Nic and Laura dive into taking care of yourself during the pandemic
13:38 - Interview with Tim starts
20:16 - How to pronounce Matlacha

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we talk with Betty Dehoney, the President of NAEP, owner of Dehoney Consulting, LLC and chief bottle washer at Dragonflylady Brews. Read her full bio below.

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1:35 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
2:01 - Nic and Laura dive into marketing yourself
6:27 - Interview with Betty starts
9:26 - Betty on being NAEP President
15:23 - Betty tells us about her brewing!

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Betty Dehoney CEP, PMP, ENV SP is President of NAEP, owner of Dehoney Consulting, LLC and chief bottle washer at Dragonflylady Brews. Self-professed science nerd both by vocation, building a career using science to identify solutions to environmental challenges, and avocation using scientific principles for experimenting with homebrewing beer and using billion-dollar technology to look for plastic boxes in the woods (geocaching).
Betty provides key strategic guidance/program management in the development of environmental studies and acquisition of permits specializing in complex, controversial projects.
Her focus as NAEP president is on providing information needed for our members to keep knowledgeable of the changing regulatory environment.

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, the only show designed to connect you with the environmental professionals' community through conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode we talk with Mike Mayer, a natural resource professional with over 20 years of experience, Mike has worked on complex and controversial energy and natural resource related management issues regionally, nationally, and internationally as both a federal employee and an environmental consultant. Read his full bio below.

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Showtimes:
0:00 - NAEP Member Shoutouts
2:57 - Nic and Laura dive into marketing yourself
9:40 - Interview with Mike starts
13:47 - Mike on environmental policy
17:58 - Mike on his secret novel writing hobby
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Mike Mayer full bio: In his formative years, he was raised in a family led by grandparents that operated a conservation camp and spent time fighting forest fires in Wyoming, Utah, and New York. As a wildlife biologist, he has performed site investigations and applies his ecological knowledge to planning and conservation efforts and energy development. As a lawyer, he conducts legal research on topics affecting natural resource and energy planning efforts, specifically as they relate to management policies and environmental laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act. From endangered salmon issues in the Pacific Northwest to oil spill restoration in the Gulf of Mexico, to large river ecosystem restoration and grizzly bear restoration in National Parks, he has assisted federal agencies in navigating environmental laws to develop scientifically sound and legally defensible management plans, programs, and strategies. He has contributed to national endeavors such as the Department of the Interior’s initiative on adaptive management. Internationally, he worked with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection for the Republic of Georgia, conducting stakeholder meetings and developing statutory amendments to strengthen the laws and regulations of its protected areas. From these experiences, he has gained valuable insight into both natural resource conservation and energy issues, science, policy, and stakeholder perspectives across the country and the world. As a Senior Environmental Planning lead with HDR, Inc., he assists his clients in meeting their environmental missions and regulatory requirements. Throughout, he has sought to evaluate and consider the “triple bottom line” (environmental, social, and economic costs and benefits) for difficult challenges in order to reach sustainable decisions.

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Welcome to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick!

On today’s episode, we dive into what inspired us to start the podcast, attempt to define Environmental Professionals and Laura asks Nic about his favorite movie.  Don't laugh, it might be yours too!

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