Speaker Biographies
Barbara Doll, PE, is a licensed professional engineer and the water quality specialist for North Carolina Sea Grant. She specializes in urban stream restoration, and is responsible for leading a multi-million dollar, three-phase project to restore Rocky Branch, a creek that runs a mile through the North Carolina State University campus and is a tributary to the Neuse River. Doll has both a bachelor’s and a master’s in civil engineering from NC State, and she has authored a number of publications on stream restoration and stormwater runoff, including Stream Restoration: A Natural Channel Design Handbook; Stormwater Runoff Best Management Practices for Marinas: A Guide for Operators; and Urban Waterways: Designing stormwater wetlands for small watersheds. She also has been published in Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Journal of Shellfish Research and Water Environment and Technology. back to agenda
Mark Senior, PE, is a Senior Project Engineer and leader of the Surface Water Quality Group for the City of Raleigh's Stormwater Utility within the Public Works Department. Mark has been employed with the City of Raleigh in various water resources positions since 1984. Mark's recent projects include water quality retrofits involving stream daylighting, stream restoration/stabilization, constructed wetlands, green roofs, rain gardens and cisterns. He is a member of the State Sediment Control Technical Advisory Committee and the Upper Neuse Technical Advisory Committee. He has a bachelor of science degree from Rutgers University and a master's of science degree from NC State University.
Curtis Richardson, Ph.D., is Professor of Resource Ecology at Duke University in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences (www.nicholas.duke.edu/) and is Director of the Wetland Center (www.env.duke.edu/wetland/). He earned his Ph.D. in Ecology from University of Tennessee. At Duke he has taught courses in wetland ecology and management, wetland restoration and applied ecology for nearly 3 decades. He is an internationally acclaimed ecologist and wetland soil scientist who has dedicated his research career to conducting studies on phosphorus biogeochemistry and wetland restoration ecosystems around the world. Major research efforts have focused on wetlands as nutrient sinks and transformers on the landscape. He has spent considerable efforts translating this research into realistic management techniques that can be used to sustain ecological functions in wetland ecosystems on the landscape. He has directed research on some of the most important wetland issues of our time, including long-term studies on the effects of wastewater in wetlands in Michigan, Pocosin peatlands losses in North Carolina, the restoration of the Everglades of Florida and more recently scientific assessment of wetland restoration in the Iraq marshes. He is author or co-author of over 150 peer reviewed papers and reports. His recent book is published by Springer is entitled “the Everglades Experiments: Lessons for Restoration. He has been listed in Who’s Who in Science annually since 1989 and was elected President of the Society of Wetland Scientists in 1987-88. In 2006, he received the National Wetlands Scientist of the Year Award from the Environmental Law Institute. Dr. Richardson is a Fellow of the Society of Wetland Scientists, the Soil Science Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. back to agenda
Chuck Flink, PL, is founder and owner of Greenways Incorporated, and is recognized as a leading national authority for the planning, design and implementation of greenway and trail systems and facilities. He has worked on greenway projects in 125 communities and 35 states. He has also worked on greenway projects in Argentina, Canada, Japan and the Island of St. Croix. Chuck has shared his extensive knowledge on greenway design development as a featured and keynote speaker at more than 100 national and international conferences. As a registered landscape architect in three states, Chuck has been involved in planning for more than 1,500 miles of multi-use greenway corridors throughout the United States.
Dick Everhart is a retired District Conservationist with the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in Stanly & Surry Counties, NC. For 28 years, Dick focused on natural resource inventory, and conservation planning and application working with both private landowners and state and local governments. Partnered with many state, local and non-profit programs, Dick has inventoried and monitored bog turtles and developed better management programs for their wetland habitats in Surry and neighboring counties. In addition, Dick was a founding member and has served as a key leader for the Mitchell River Coalition, where he has worked to implement stream restoration and land protection programs. Dick received a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Hobart College, Geneva, NY.
Dave Rosgen, Ph.D., P.H., is the owner of Wildland Hydrology Consultants, a fluvial geomorphology training and design firm located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Dave has 43 years of experience in stream morphology, restoration, sedimentology, stream classification development and applications, grazing and riparian systems management, cumulative water resource impact assessment and modeling, and fish habitat enhancement. He has assessed, designed, constructed and monitored hundreds of large scale river restoration projects since 1968. Dave also conducts short courses for government agency personnel, universities, and consulting firms in watershed management, river morphology, river stability assessment, restoration and applications. back to agenda
