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Southeast
Regional Table

Location: Blue Room
Moderator:
Barbara Doll, PhD, PE, North Carolina State University
 

8:30 am Panel 1: Representatives from government, municipalities, and watershed programs will discuss what they need from consultants, regulators, and funding agencies to solve their stream and watershed problems. Panelist Include:

  • David Woodie, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Stormwater Services

  • Sean Saunders, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

  • John Schwartz, University of Tennessee

  • David Wilson, US Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District

  • Alan Walker, Resource Institute
    Walker’s Presentation

9:30 am             Audience Q&A

9:45 am             Break

10:15 am   Panel 2:  Current Restoration Challenges from the Perspective of Restoration Contractors and Consultants

11:00 am          Audience Q&A

11:30 am          Adjourn


About Barbara Doll, PE, PhD
Dr. Barbara Doll is a licensed professional engineer with over 20 years of experience in ecological restoration. She teaches professional development workshops and academic courses in fluvial geomorphology and ecological restoration. She has secured and managed more than $7 million in external funding to implement water quality and restoration demonstration projects and conduct research at NC State University. She has conducted design, permitting, bidding and construction oversight for several restoration projects in this role. She obtained and managed $8.5 in funding between 1998 and 2011 for restoration of 6000 feet of highly degraded urban channel.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/badoll66/

 

David Woodie
Currently serves as the Storm Water Services Project Manager for Charlotte/Mecklenburg County Government of Charlotte, NC.  David has over 25 years of professional experience in construction, survey, water resources, bridge/hydraulic design, bmp design, and both bmp/stream construction.  Working through private sector, State and Local Government, David has constructed major highway projects, 140+ Best Management Practices across the state of North Carolina as well as implemented over 30 miles of stream restoration in Mecklenburg County.  David is a Professional Engineer.

 

Sean Saunders
Sean Saunders is an American Fisheries Society Certified Fisheries Professional that has a distinguished career in environmental management and wildlife conservation, primarily through his roles at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality. Since 2015, he has been serving as the Northwest Arkansas Stream Habitat Coordinator at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission in Little Rock. In this role, Sean is responsible for surveying, designing, and supervising large scale fish passage barrier removal and stream restoration projects.  Prior to this, from 2012 to 2015, he was a District 10 Water Inspector at the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, where his duties included water sampling, stormwater inspections, and addressing citizen water quality complaints. Sean has been actively involved in various special projects and environmental initiatives, such as the Lake Harrison Dam Removal Project and the Huntsville Lake Dam Removal Project along with multiple other stream restoration and fish passage barrier removal projects. In addition to his professional endeavors, Sean has been a dedicated member of several boards and committees, including the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service Water Quality Subcommittee and the Multibasin Regional Water Council.  Educationally, Saunders is well-grounded with a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Management and Fisheries from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, completed in 2008, and an Associate of Health Science from Arkansas State University - Beebe, earned in 2005. Sean has also continued his education in stream restoration by completing all 4 levels of Wildland Hydrology, 2 courses by Dave Derrick, and the Canadian Rivers Institute Newbury Riffle course.
www.linkedin.com/in/sean-saunders-a06b052aa

 

John Schwartz
Dr. John Schwartz is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, and the Director of the Tennessee Water Resources Research Center.  He joined the CEE Department at UT in 2003 focusing on research in areas of water resources engineering, water quality, and stream restoration.  He received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri Columbia in 1982, his MS in Fisheries Science at Oregon State University in 1991, and his PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2002.  In addition to academia, Dr. Schwartz has worked in both the public and private sectors including US EPA in Region 6 in NDDES Enforcement, and Oregon consulting firms.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-schwartz-88897311/

 

David Wilson
Coming Soon

 

Alan Walker
Alan Walker holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Plant and Soil Science from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.  Alan served 36 years with USDA, NRCS.  He started as a Soil Conservationist and culminated with 6 years as the Assistant State Conservationist for Field Operations in Waynesville, NC. His significant duties included:  providing supervision, guidance, and assistance to the 33 western counties in North Carolina as well as supervising the district conservationists at the field office level, serving as a coach and advisor to the area support staff, coordinating a well-balanced resource conservation program.  He was instrumental in forming a pilot project with federal, state, and a nonprofit partner to accelerate EQIP assistance in western North Carolina.  Alan is continuing to restore streams and wetlands as project manager for Resources Institute, a nonprofit based in Winston-Salem, NC.  He is instrumental in managing the Western NC Stream Initiative.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-walker-a233b151/

 
 

Wade Burcham
Wade Burcham is an engineer with decades of experience teaching, designing, consulting, and representing owners in naturalized stabilization, coastal, development, and energy projects. This experience facilitates a balanced viewpoint from diverse perspectives. Wade also enjoys applying Innovative Design Practices in developing countries through volunteer efforts.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wade-burcham/

 

Brian King
Designed 350,000+ feet of stream restoration in 30 different counties in Georgia, as well as in Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. To date, 150,000+ feet of these designs have been built or are in construction. Provided oversight for the construction of 60,000+ feet of stream restoration. Development of a 60-page detail booklet to help the contractors during the construction phase. Worked as a team member with private mitigation banking and environmental assessment / permitting companies to design and supervise the construction of 28 privately held mitigation banks and 50+ stream restoration / stabilization projects. Identified and then directing the data collection on several “reference reach streams” for use in the on-going and future design of stream restoration and mitigation banks.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-king-pe-9bb9a213/