Authors & Presenters



posted Dec 21, 2020

John Brown

John Brown is a Senior Landscape Architect at Barge Design Solutions with over twenty-four years of experience in a wide variety of projects including residential, commercial, institutional, and government projects. John obtained a Bachelor of Landsc...


posted Dec 21, 2020

Rick Wood

Rick holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology. He worked as a Project Manager and State Director for The Trust for Public Land ...


posted Dec 21, 2020

George Naslas

George Naslas has 35 years of professional experience and extensive knowledge of Brownfields sites and industrial properties. George has completed over 150 Phase I, II, and III assessments, including most of Weston & Sampson’s EPA Brownfields Ass...


posted Dec 21, 2020

Sarah DeStefano

Sarah DeStefano is an accomplished project manager with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of environmental assessment, remediation, and Brownfields redevelopment, Sarah has spent her entire career in Brownfields. Her past roles at the Rho...


posted Dec 15, 2020

Stanley Carte

Stan started his career with the Forest Service as a SCA backcountry patrol volunteer in 1989. Spent the next 23 years with the United States Forest Service in New Hampshire and Ohio honing his trails, wilderness and recreation skills. Built multiple...


posted Dec 15, 2020

Yohann Hanley

Yohann is an AMC Professional Trail Crew alumnus (2004-2006) and the co-founder of the Ragged Mountain Foundation’s Conservation Crew (2013-16) in Connecticut. He has spent most of his professional career in education, both in classrooms and the outd...


posted Dec 11, 2020

Laurene Hamilton

As an environmental champion, Laurene has worked both at the State and local level protecting Georgia’s natural resources while focusing on sustainability. In the private sector, she assisted in the implementation of the Cox Enterprises' waste minimi...


posted Dec 11, 2020

Christie Bruner

Christie Bruner has a vested interest in health and wellness initiatives in the community and has more than 20 years of experience with sports and fitness for both children and adults. She enjoys combining her passion for wellness and her knowledge o...


posted Dec 11, 2020

Silas Chamberlin

Silas Chamberlin, PhD, is vice president for economic development at the York County Economic Alliance. Silas previously served as CEO of Downtown Inc, executive director of the Schuylkill River National Heritage Area, and in regional leadership role...


posted Dec 8, 2020

Mike Powell

In 2011 Mike Powell a landlubber with a camera went aboard his brothers boat UHURU, an Oyster 62, for two months and headed South from the Falkland Islands, across the Drake Passage to the Antarctic peninsula, around the Horn and up into Chilean Pata...