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ON THE MOVE HART CROWSER HIRES IN HONOLULU OFFICE Jan- ice Marsters has joined as principal and man- ager of Hart Crowser ’s Honolulu office. With a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Univer- sity of Hawaii, and an M.S. in civil engineering, Marsters has more than 20 years of consulting experience in Hawaii and the Pacific, special- izing in stormwater consultation and program management, environmental investigation and cleanup, and environmental planning and permitting. She has managed hundreds of successful environmental and geotechnical projects for private industry and government agencies in Hawaii and the Pacific. Marsters was elected to the American Council of Engineering Companies College of Fellows in 2014, and recently completed a three-year term as chair of ACEC’s Risk Management Committee. She has served ACEC-Hawaii for many years as a policy advisor and was awarded that organization’s Kākoʻo Award in 2014 for her work to benefit the business cli- mate for Hawaii engineering firms. Hart Crowser is an employee-owned, 120-per- son engineering, science, and consulting firm

headquartered in Seattle, with six offices in Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. STEVENSON, HENDRICKS, STANSFIELD, AND WILLE NAMED GTA VICE PRESIDENTS Sam Stevenson has been promoted to vice president of GTA . He has 25 years of project management expe- rience in numerous aspects of environmental investigation, remediation, hazardous waste characterization and disposal, and project planning. Stevenson is responsible for man- aging the environmental services division of GTA’s Laurel, Maryland office. Stevenson’s experience includes developing remedial strategies both under and outside of regulatory agency oversight, preparing human health risk assessments, developing remedial goals, preparing regulatory reports, and more. Many of these projects have been redevelop- ment sites under state Brownfield programs, particularly Maryland’s Voluntary Cleanup Pro- gram. Andy Hendricks is vice president responsible for environmental work performed out of GTA’s Sterling, Virginia office. Hendricks has 25 years of experience achieving environmental solu-

tions with clients in the banking, insurance, legal, and industrial communities. His work includes liability management, cor- rective action, subsurface investigations and remediation, industrial compliance, and litigation support. Specific types of projects Hendricks has managed include RCRA facil- ity investigations, site assessments, remedial investigations, underground storage tank clo- sures, subsurface characterization, asbestos building surveys, and more. Andy Stansfield is a vice president and natu- ral resource group leader at GTA’s Abingdon, Maryland office. With 14 years of experience, he is responsible for the supervision and ex- ecution of natural environmental services in- cluding: wetland delineations, forest stand delineations, forest conservation plans, GPS location of environmental features, and more. Stansfield works closely with project planners, civil engineers, and client representatives to prepare site layouts that identifies, avoids, and minimizes impacts to environmentally sensitive areas, he expedites the review process, and obtains federal and state permits.

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5)An information and education component used to en- hance public understanding of the project. This will en- courage their early and continued participation in selecting, designing, and implementing the nonpoint source manage- ment measures that will be implemented. 6)Schedule for implementing the nonpoint source manage- ment measures identified in this plan that is reasonably expeditious. 7)A description of interim measurable milestones for de- termining whether nonpoint source management mea- sures or other control actions are being implemented. 8)A set of criteria that can be used to determine whether loading reductions are being achieved over time and sub- stantial progress is being made toward attaining water quality standards. 9)A monitoring component to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation efforts over time, measured against the criteria established under Item H immediately above.

causes and sources of impairment. To address these im- pairments, you will set goals that will include (at a minimum) meeting the appropriate water quality standards for pollut- ants that threaten or impair the physical, chemical, or biologi- cal integrity of the watershed covered in the plan. 2)The existing source loads estimated for Element A. On this basis, you will similarly determine the reductions needed to meet the water quality standards. 3)The management measures that need to be implemented to achieve the load reductions estimated under No. 2. You must also delineate measures needed to achieve any addition- al pollution prevention goals called out in the watershed plan (e.g., habitat conservation and protection). 4)Estimate of the amounts of technical and financial assis- tance needed. Also estimate the associated costs, and/or the sources and authorities that will be relied upon to implement this plan.

VIRTUAL WATERSHED SERVES TO EDUCATE Shane Rogers, Ph.D., a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, recently completed a project to build a 3-D virtual watershed exhibit. The prototype is located at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Sanctuaries’ new Sensor Place at Clarkson University. The virtual watershed is an interactive educational tool that combines science, computer technology, and engineering. It works with a projector and a motion-sensing device (a Microsoft Kinect 3-D camera) that is mounted in a case above a sandbox. It is programmed to project a topographical map onto the sand with colors that correspond to elevation. Water emerges as the user digs into the sand. The Kinect and projector are calibrated, so when people dig a hole, the image updates instantly so they see the water filling the hole; the more you dig, what starts as a puddle can grow into a pond, a lake, or a river. The water is a vivid blue and actually shimmers. The Kinect is programmed with actual data, models of fluid dynamics that make this a virtual reality instrument. “We hope to create programs to illustrate other watershed-related processes to heighten people’s awareness of the many important functions that these ecosystems provide,” Rogers says.

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