bill.crowell@ncdenr.gov
919-715-1327
APNEP, 1601 Mail Service Center • Raleigh, NC 27699-1601
William L. Crowell Jr. (Bill), AICP, has been the director of the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program, or APNEP, since 2002. Bill previously served as the senior policy analyst for the N.C. Division of Coastal Management, where he formulated coastal and ocean policies and regulations for the state of North Carolina. He received two bachelor of science degrees from N.C. State University in Zoology and in Biological Sciences (1988) and his master of science degree in Resource Management and Administration for Antioch University (1996), with research on Southern Appalachian montane bogs. He has conducted wetland and endangered species monitoring and research with the Southeast Regional Office of the Nature Conservancy. Bill also worked with the New Hampshire Natural Heritage Inventory Program with endangered species mapping, and the New Hampshire Chapter of The Nature Conservancy with conservation planning and ecosystem research. He also has been a researcher at the N.C. State College of Veterinary Medicine and an environmental educator in New Mexico. Bill is a certified planner (American Institute of Certified Planners), North Carolina certified environmental educator, a fellow of the N.C. Natural Resources Leadership Institute and a charter member of Center for Green Space Design.
dean.carpenter@ncdenr.gov
919-715-7735
APNEP, 1601 Mail Service Center • Raleigh, NC 27699-1601
Dean joined the staff as the new science coordinator in November 2003. His current responsibilities are coordinating and administering APNEP’s Science & Technology Program and providing staff support to APNEP’s Science & Technical Advisory Committee. Prior to joining APNEP, Dean served as a project manager for the Water Environment Research Foundation (Alexandria, Va.) from 2000-03, and from 1989-99 as an environmental scientist with ManTech Environmental Technology, a federal contractor with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research & Development. His career interests are improving ecological risk assessment methods at regional scales and facilitating their application in support of ecosystem-based management. A native of California, Dean received a bachelor of science degree with honors in Environmental Science and Biology at the University of California, Riverside; a master of science degree in Ecology at the University of California, Davis; and a doctorate in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.
scott.gentry@ncdenr.gov
919-715-4196
APNEP, 1601 Mail Service Center • Raleigh, NC 27699-1601
As APNEP Project Coordinator Scott manages the program’s contracting and projects. He is also involved in the implementation of the CCMP and serves as APNEP’S lead on climate change. Scott joined the staff at APNEP after completing a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree at Virginia Tech. In graduate school, Scott studied natural resources and land use planning and also obtained a Graduate Certificate in Watershed Management. His major paper investigated the codes and regulations being used by municipalities within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to mitigate the effects of nonpoint source pollution. Scott graduated from North Carolina State University in 2001, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. He has served as an AmeriCorps volunteer, working as a crew leader for the Montana Conservation Corps. Prior to attending graduate school, Scott worked as a project development engineer at NC DOT, preparing NEPA documents and managing projects in the Section 404 NEPA merger process.
jimmy.johnson@ncdenr.gov
252-948-3952
NC DENR, 943 Washington Square Mall • Washington, NC 27889
As the North Carolina field representative for APNEP, Jimmy’s responsibilities include the implementation of the Coastal Habitat Protection Plan, or CHPP, and the recommendations it contains. He also works with the APNEP Advisory Committees and represents the program on various committees in the APNEP region. Jimmy works closely with several regulatory agencies in the state and their respective commissions to help implement the goals of the Albemarle Pamlico National Estuary Program. In 1981, Jimmy graduated from N.C. State University with a bachelor of science degree in Agricultural Engineering. After working for Cargill for 3½ years, Jimmy and his wife returned to North Carolina to run a family-owned blue crab processing plant. For the next 15 years, they operated and owned Washington Crab Co., Inc. During those 15 years, Jimmy was active in many industry groups in the state and nation. From 1997 to 2004, he served as chairman of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission. During Jimmy’s tenure as chairman of the Marine Fisheries Commission, the CHPP was written and adopted.
todd.herbert@dcr.virginia.gov
757-925-2319
VA DCR Albemarle, Chowan, and Coastal Watersheds Office
1548-A Holland Road, Suffolk, VA 23434
As the Virginia field representative for APNEP, Todd’s responsibilities include providing coordination and support to APNEP, DENR, and the Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation (VA DCR), and enhancing implementation of the CCMP in the Roanoke, Chowan, and Pasquotank river basins. Todd received a Master of Science degree in Biology in 2002 from Old Dominion University where he worked as a research assistant on a DOE funded project investigating long term belowground responses to elevated carbon dioxide in a Florida scrub oak ecosystem at Kennedy Space Center. Upon completion of his graduate coursework, Todd worked as a contract biologist at the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, LA where he studied belowground responses to climate change in salt marsh and mangrove field and greenhouse experiments in Louisiana (NWRC) and Florida (Rookery Bay NERR). Todd has also worked as an environmental specialist for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and more recently as a staff scientist in the Center for Coastal Resources Management at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science where he provided tidal wetland and marine resources advisory services for federal, state, and local government staff. In addition to his APNEP duties, Todd is responsible for the review of TMDL studies and implementation plans for the Suffolk watershed office of DCR and is a faculty research associate in the Center for Wetland Conservation at Christopher Newport University where he will be continuing his interests in the study of wetland ecosystems and environmental education.
http://www.ecu.edu/icmr/cmn/
smithmich@ecu.edu
252-328-1747
East Carolina University, ICMR/Maime Jenkins Bldg. • Greenville, NC 27858
Chad Smith serves as the coordinator for the APNEP Citizens’ Monitoring Network. His job is to recruit and train private citizens in water quality testing and aquatic ecology. Chad contributes to public outreach by speaking to museum summer camps, neighborhood associations, schools and university student organizations. He also designed and maintains the Citizens’ Monitoring Network Web site. His office is in the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy Department on East Carolina University’s campus in Greenville. Chad received his bachelor of science in 2002 and master of science degree in Biology in 2006 from East Carolina University. In 2005, he received the Martha N. Jones Scholarship from the East Carolina University Department of Biology, which is given to those with interest and commitment to a career in ecology. His thesis research, which was partially funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, focused on habitat use and the potential impacts of physical obstructions (dams, highway culverts, etc.) on anadromous fishes in the lower Tar River in North Carolina. Chad is also an active member in the American Fisheries Society, or AFS, which is a nationally-based professional society for fisheries scientists. He has presented his thesis research at several AFS conferences, including the 2005 National Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. He also served as president for the ECU Student Subunit of AFS for the 2004-05 academic year. Aside from APNEP, Chad serves as an adjunct faculty member for Shaw University, where he teaches weekend courses in general biology and physical science.
lori.brinn@ncdenr.gov
APNEP, 1601 Mail Service Center • Raleigh, NC 27699-1601
Lori is responsible for coordinating and managing the APNEP website, calendar and social network pages. Lori has undergraduate degrees in biological sciences and botany (2005) from N.C. State University. She earned a master's degree in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida. Her thesis project examined the effects of beach nourishment on loggerhead sea turtles in the Florida panhandle. Lori was a scientific contributor to the University of Florida Levin College of Law’s Conservation Clinic in 2007, where she researched the feasibility of strategic retreat as a coastal management response alternative in Florida.
maria.vozzo@ncdenr.gov
919-715-4074
Maria Vozzo is interning with the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program for the summer of 2010. As a summer intern, Maria is responsible for writing project summaries for APNEP’s current and past projects and creating maps of these projects for the website. She has also been working on environmental outreach components and assisting with the annual Teacher Institute in the Office of Environmental Education. Maria is a Raleigh native and just received a bachelor of science degree in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2008 Maria worked as an intern in the Genetics Research Lab with the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, assisting with conservation genetics research on freshwater mussels and fish. Last summer, Maria participated in a study abroad seminar in Brazil, where she completed research and studied Field Ecology in the Amazon Rainforest, and Conservation Biology and City Planning in Curitiba, Paraná.