1. Richard A. Jacobson, is the Assistant Director for Inland Fisheries Management with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. He is a Certified Fisheries Scientist, and has been distinguished as a Research Fellow by the American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists. He is the Past-President of the American Fisheries Society’s Northeastern Division, and Southern New England Chapter; Past-Secretary/Treasurer and Regional Director of the Instream Flow Council; and Past-President and Board Member of the Connecticut Rivers Alliance. In 2004, Mr. Jacobson received the National Conservation Professional Award from Trout Unlimited for his work in river restoration.
2. Kirt Mayland, Trout Unlimited - is the Director of the Eastern Water Project for Trout Unlimited, a program which focuses on developing and promoting changes to the Eastern state policy related to instream flow protection, regulation of withdrawals of ground and surface water, and water supply planning. Before TU, Kirt practiced at an environmental law firm in Connecticut and as a corporate attorney in New York City. Kirt is also on the board of directors of the Northwest Conservation District and the Sharon Audubon Society, a member of the Fisheries Advisory Council and a participant in the Coverts Forest-Wildlife Conservation Project.
3. Thomas Millette, Mt. Holyoke College - is the founder and director of the GeoProcessing Laboratory at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where he also is an Associate Professor of Geography & Geology. Previously he served as Director of the Laboratory for Spatial Analysis in the Dept. of Geography at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Millette's research interests are in the application of geographic information systems and remote sensing to regional planning and environmental management. In 2005 Millette was part of a three institution research collaboration that was awarded $1.6 million from the National Science Foundation to further develop aerial sensor packages for light aircraft and apply them to detailed forest metrics modeling.
4. Rob Moir, Ocean River Institute - is the Director of the Ocean River Institute with a proven history of institutional management and marine policy success. Dr. Moir has been a leader of the efforts to promote citizen science and environmental monitoring, to advance ecosystem-based management in particular for ocean, coastal and estuarine systems, and to clean up the Boston Harbor, as founder of the Salem Sound Coastwatch (1987), as president of the advocacy organization Save the Harbor/Save the Bay for six years (1990-96), and through his appointment by the Secretary of Interior to the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership (1996-2000). Dr. Moir was awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship and the James Centorino Award for Distinguished Performance in Marine Education by the National Marine Educators Association.
5. Marc Taylor, is Chairman of the Board of River Network. He is a physician and an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He serves as Chairman of the Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition, President of the Housatonic Valley Association and is the Director of Rivers Alliance of Connecticut.
