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Annalisa Peace, Executive Director, holds an MS in Urban Administration from Trinity University and has over fifteen years experience working with non-profit and governmental organizations in a variety of capacities, including as a City Council aide, grants administrator with the City of San Antonio's Office of Cultural Affairs, Executive Director of Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, and Director of Development for the Carver Community Cultural Center. She has been instrumental in organizing citizens' campaigns in her hometown of San Antonio, including Aquifer Guardians in Urban Areas
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(AGUA), the Salado Nature Trail Project, and Smart Growth San Antonio, serving, as well, on the steering committee of the Bexar Land Trust, and on numerous governmental boards and ad-hoc committees, including the City of San Antonio's Open Space Advisory Board, the Water Quality Task Force that drafted San Antonio's water quality rules, and as Community Co-Chair of the Kelly AFB Restoration Advisory board. Ms. Peace currently serves on the boards of the Happy Foundation and the San Antonio League of Women Voters and is a member of the American Planners Association, the Association of Professional Fundraisers.
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Carol Mendoza Fisher, Technical Director, has a BS in Resource and Environmental Studies from Texas State University at San Marcos. Carol has woorked as a Federal Contractor specializing in Hazardous Waste Management; as Technical Director for Aquifer Guardians in Urban Areas (AGUA) advocating aquifer protection in the San Antonio area; and most recently for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), where she specialized in air, water, and waste rules, permitting and compliance. During her time at TCEQ, she became the Region 13 Edwards Aquifer Liaison. In this capacity she developed a great appreciation for the investigators and permit writers with whom she worked. |
The partnerships Carol established at TCEQ in conjunction with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are still active and serve her well in her current role as GEAA Technical Director. Carol joined GEAA staff in January 2009. Her primary focus is on developing and advocating better regulation to protect our water resources. Carol also plans educational workshops for local regulators, developers, and building professionals on topics pertinent to aquifer protection, and plays an active part in reviewing upcoming development plans that will impact the Edwards Aquifer.
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Eric Mendelman, Developmental Specialist. For the last 23 years, Eric Mendelman has pursued a career in water resource protection with specializations in outreach and education, scientific data collection, watershed planning and coordination, and grassroots issue and election campaigns. His leadership roles include Canvass Campaigns Director for Clean Water Action, Statewide Program Director for the Texas Stream Team, and Program Manager for the River Systems Institute’s Initiative for Watershed Excellence. In 2011, Mr. Mendelman joined the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance Technical Team as a Development Specialist, writing grants and editing technical publications. In his spare time, Eric enjoys bike riding, swimming in the San Marcos river, playing guitar and hanging out with his fun and inspirational family. |
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Marita Roos RLA, LEEDAP, is a Landscape Architect and Urban Planner, specializing in ecological design, community revitalization and climate adaptation for institutions, municipalities and regional agencies. Marita has developed urban parks, restored historic sites and planned urban riverfronts, achieving triple bottom-line outcomes through a clear articulation of issues, solid best practices and community engagement. Marita has over ten years experience as a planner/landscape architect, developing and managing business for HNTB’s Washington DC urban planning practice and the ecological design firm Andropogon in Philadelphia. |
| Her work has focused on creating green infrastructure for urban communities, with projects such as the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in Washington DC, Central Delaware Waterfront in Philadelphia and Three Rivers Park in Pittsburgh. |
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Robert (‘Bob’) Moyer, PE moved to San Antonio when his father was transferred to Kelly AFB in 1957. He attended public school in the Northside ISD and later earned three degrees from UT at San Antonio in Applied Science, Natural Resources Management and Civil Engineering. He first learned to appreciate the outdoors from his parents and then while exploring Central Texas as a Boy Scout. His experiences with federal environmental law enforcement on marine fishery and oil pollution patrols in the US Coast Guard in Alaska and Houston in the mid 1970s helped him decide upon a lifetime career as an environmental scientist. Since graduating with his BS in 1980 he has worked as a geoscientist-engineer on oil exploration crews, as a research
chemist with Southwest Research Institute (JACADS project), and as a contractor environmental investigator, consultant and engineer on many projects within the US and abroad. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Government Canyon State Natural Area, serves on its Education Committee, and is the Children and Nature Liaison with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He is also training to obtain his secondary science teacher certification and works at Northside ISD both as a guest teacher and volunteer. At GEAA he helps the staff with technical research and public education programs.
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Jim Smyle, is an Independent Consultant in Environment, Natural Resources and Rural Development. His areas of specialty include sustainable natural resources management; watershed management; forestry and agricultural development; community and rural development; environmental policy and regulation; and governance and rural institutions. He earned an MSc. in Forest Hydrology from the University of Georgia and a BSc. in Forest Management from Stephan F. Austin State University. Mr. Smyle worked for the World Bank from 1988 to 2006 as a forestry, watershed and natural resources management specialist in both Asia and Latin America. During his last 10 years with the World Bank, as a Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist in the Latin America Region, he was responsible for numerous rural development and natural resources investment projects in Central America and Mexico. |
| Mr. Smyle has served as a member of the International Advisory Council for Nicaragua’s Program for the Promotion of Investment in Sustainable Forestry, as a member of the Technical Advisory Council to Central American Commission on Environment and Development for the Management of the Tri-national Trifinio Watershed, as the co-manager for the World Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership Program facility for Watershed Management, and as Vice-Chairman of the City of San Antonio Citizen’s Environmental Advisory Council. He currently serves as President/Board Chairman of a non-profit (The Vetiver Network International) and as a member of the City of San Antonio Watershed Improvement Advisory Committee. |
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