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Ripple Effect II

Green Development Techniques to Protect our Ozarks Waterways

November 14-15, 2019

Darr Agricultural Center, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri

SPEAKER BIOS

John Chiles, a native of Springfield, is excited to support farmers and the local food entrepreneurs of the Ozarks. John worked for four years with E8 Angels, a startup finance group in Seattle that has funded some of the most innovative clean-tech and renewable energy startups in the and Canada. He oversaw deal screening and investor due diligence for their funded companies, and coached entrepreneurs on how to make effective business pitches to venture capitalists and angel investors.

John Also served as a teaching fellow at Presidio University, a -focused MBA program in Seattle. Prior to this he ran an off-grid hydroelectric power in remote Washington State. He holds an MBA in finance from Presidio University and is a graduate of Missouri State University, where he co-founded Students for a Sustainable Future. He also serves on the Board of Springfield Community .

Mike Chiles is a lifelong entrepreneur who is focused on extending opportunities to young people, veterans, and disadvantaged persons. Mike owns and co-manages Rockspan Farm, while serving as VP of Farmers Market of the Ozarks, and board member on the Springfield Greene County Board, and the regional YMCA Board. Mike holds seven patents, and as founder and past president of Watts Radiant developed, manufactured and brought to market products currently sold in Home Depot, Costco, and Lowes. Mike has two Bachelor of Science degrees, an honorary degree from Missouri Institute of Science and Technology, and an MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio University.

Ron Doetch was raised on a working dairy farm in northern and has worked in food systems his entire career with a bias toward organic, sustainable and restorative . His skill set includes whole systems integrated agriculture and production/marketing. Ron has expansive social and business assets in the agriculture communities of the , farm, university, and food industry sectors.

Currently, Ron is the managing partner for Solutions in the Land, LLC, a for-profit consulting firm offering whole farm and food planning services in both urban and rural environments. Current clients include City of Milwaukee; Palifito Park; Christy Webber , ; Kane County, IL; Farmland Preservation, Geneva, IL; Feed Earth Now, Chicago; Alameda County Sheriff’s Farm in Oakland, CA; Herman Miller, Zeeland, MI; Breton , Dallas Center, IA; and White Earth Nation, White Earth, MN.

Ron served seven years as the Executive Director of the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (MFAI), a research, education and outreach organization founded in 1984. MFAI offered training in all aspects of agriculture production and marketing. Ron opened the first local produce store in the Milwaukee Public Market. Urban Ag has been a major role both while at MFAI and with SITL. He has served as a sustainable agriculture consultant to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, university of Illinois, EPA – Region 5, City of Milwaukee and City of Detroit.

Eric Dove, PE is a Senior Water Resource with HDR, Inc. He has twenty-five years of experience in flood control, water quality and green design and project management. His diverse water resources background includes urban flood control, dredging, detention , infiltration beds, watershed yield, cost-benefit analysis, watershed protection plans and stream restoration . He an extensive modeling background, including HEC- RAS, HEC-HMS, HEC-1, HEC-2BPR, HEC-FFA, HY-8, TR-20, TR-55, WHAT, ECON-1, SITES, Hydraflow, CE-QUAL-W2 and EUTROMOD.

Joe Fearn has thirty-plus years of hands-on commercial experience in many different settings and organizations in Missouri, Tennessee and Missouri. He is an ISA Certified Arborist/Municipal Specialist and a PGMS Certified Grounds Manager. He has an AAS in Technology, BS in General Studies, MA in Communications, and is a proud tree hugger!

Dale Gillespie, the owner of Gillespie Excavating Company, L.L.C., grew up in alongside his dad and developed a passion for operating . After graduating from Southwest Missouri State University with a degree in Industrial Management, he decided to continue in the excavating field and established Gillespie Excavating Company in 1982. Through years of experience in residential and commercial construction, Dale has developed the knowledge to foresee the impact of poor design and where LID can bring construction to a higher standard of environmental consciousness. Gillespie Excavating Company was awarded the first environmental excellence award for and Erosion Sediment Control from the City of Springfield, MO. Dale and his wife Nicki live in Strafford, Missouri and operate the company with their son, Travis.

Jason Hainline is an with the progressive design firm Dake Wells , involved in design and management of a variety of projects. He serves as the firm’s sustainability director, elevating the pursuit of performance with all projects within the fuirmk, and is focused on the elegant marriage of sustainability and design excellence. His experience with a wide range of projects in the US and abroad included federal facilities, public and private institutions, retail developments, low and high-rise offices, laboratories, and educational buildings. Jason is a practices facilitator and a former member of the USGBC’s LEED Faculty. His passion and experience has led to his elevation to LEED Fellow in 2013.

Jason received a Bachelor of Architecture from Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University. Finding the study of architecture provide too much free time, he simultaneously pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Art History (emphasis on architectural history).

Julie Hawkins, PE has worked for the City of Springfield for three and one-half years in the Department of Public Works. She currently reviews development plans to make sure these plans meet the city’s stormwater requirements. She graduated from Missouri University of Science and Technology with a double major in Civil and Architectural , and is a Professional Engineer licensed in Missouri.

Christina Hoxie With over twenty years of diverse professional experience in interiors, architecture, and community planning, Christina coalesces interdisciplinary teams and works closely with the people of each unique community to build upon their assets, strategize transformational solutions, and fulfill their shared vision. She believes that community planning provides a pathway to greater environmental quality, economic opportunity, and social equity. Christina practices this discipline with an open heart and mind, combining technical expertise with an adaptive community-centered engagement approach.

Jerany Jackson, PLA, MBA is a Professional and Project Manager at Great River Engineering (GRE) in Springfield, Missouri. She earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. She served for eleven years on the Missouri Board for , Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Professional Landscape Architects, the State Licensing Board for those professions. In 2015, she served as the President of the Council of Landscape Registration Boards, the international organization that prepares the licensing exam and develops model law for licensing boards in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.

A Professional Landscape Architect for twenty-seven years, Jerany provides services to develop, enhance or preserve the natural or manmade environment. She specializes in management and team building, low impact development, park and trail planning, and innovative sustainable functional site design for a wide variety of governmental, commercial, industrial, and private client projects. Her career has focused on the design and management aspects of the profession of landscape architecture with much attention to the multi-disciplinary teamwork involved in making projects successful. Laura Lesniewski is a principal with BNIM with thirty years of experience in architecture. She combines a rare blend of attributes that lends a spirit of collaboration and to her work as an architect and is dedicated to pursuing the highest levels of sustainability to build thriving communities. Laura was team leader for the award-winning Packard Foundation Sustainability Report and Matrix, was project leader on the Omega Center for Sustainable Living (first LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge certified building in the world), and contributed to the REGEN tool, created with the U.S. Green Building Council in its explorations on the next generation of sustainability.

Laura co-led the design team for a zero-carbon community redevelopment in Montreal, Quebec and a zero-carbon rural development in upstate New York. She has also engaged with several disaster recovery efforts across the country as part of the BNIM planning team. More recently, she has managed projects with the U.S. Department of State as part of their Overseas Buildings Operations emphasizing design excellence and eco-diplomacy. Closer to home, she contributed to the Mid-America Regional Council’s Playbook and is a member of the newly formed Kansas City’s Tree Champions. She is a graduate of MIT and U.C. Berkeley, and co‐authored FLOW: In Pursuit of a Living Building and The Power of Zero: Optimizing Value for Next Generation Green.

Mike Kromrey grew up in the Ozarks and for most of his life has spent as much time on the water as possible—especially Ozark streams. His lifelong passion for nature developed into a vocation at the Watershed Committee of the Ozarks (WCO), which at its core involves teaching people of all ages about nature and fostering stewardship of the earth and ultimately, each other. He is passionate about the mission of the WCO and leaving a positive mark on our community.

Mike joined the WCO as a staff member in May 2006 and has served as the Executive Director since 2012. He previously worked with the James River Basin Partnership, Missouri Department of Conservation, and Missouri State University (MSU) while earning his degree. At MSU, he earned a Master of Science in biology, focusing on aquatic ecosystems. He currently serves on a variety of local and state committees related to water and sustainability. Mike and his family live in the Rountree Neighborhood and are proud Springfield residents. They enjoy time on the water, traveling, and working to make the community better. Carrie Lamb is the Water Quality Compliance Officer for the City of Springfield Department of Environmental Services. Since starting her career with the city in 2002, she has been involved in developing and implementing many aspects of Springfield's stormwater management program as well as green infrastructure and stream restoration projects. She is a graduate of Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science in and a Master of Science in Natural and Applied Science. Mark Meyer, PE, CFM is President of Intuition and Logic Engineering, Inc. of St. Louis. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in from the University of Colorado-Denver, and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He is registered as a Professional Engineer in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and Arkansas and is a Certified Flooplain Manager. Mark is an expert in urban stormwater analysis, planning and design projects for municipalities and government agencies. He is the engineer or record and Principal in Charge for hundreds of urban drainage designs, flood control facilities, watershed master plans, channel restoration designs, , culverts, stormwater retention and detention basins, and water quality facilities. His experience also includes the planning, analysis and design of , greenways, trails and associated pedestrian facilities such as plazas, overlooks, comfort stations, pavilions, boat docks and ramps, and much more. Jonathan Moler is a Horticulturist with the City of Springfield, Missouri Department of Public Works. He has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Plant Science, is an ISA Certified Arborist and a Certified Applicator.

Jim Patchett, FASLA, RLA, LEED AP Considered one of the innovators in melding art, science and engineering in design, Jim is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading pioneer in the design and promotion of sustainable site planning methodologies that integrate innovative water resource management and ecological restoration measures into building and natural environments. Trained both as a landscape architect and hydrologist, Jim has served on a variety of national technical advisory committees, including the ASLA Sustainable Sites Initiative and is a highly sought-out speaker and educator on the subject. After twenty-five years serving as the founder and president of Conservation Design Forum, LLC, Jim has transitioned into a new role as a Principal Partner of Solutions in the Land, LLC, a firm that he co-founded with noted agronomist Ron Doetch in 2011.Solutions in the Land, LLC is a for-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of watershed-scale sustainable restorative agricultural practices throughout . Jim was also a co-founder of Conservation Research Institute and Conservation Land Stewardship.

Jim is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional. He received, along with his CDF colleagues, the Natural Leader Award from the Chicago Chapter of the U.S. Green Building council in 2008. In 2012, Jim was the recipient of the prestigious Christian Petersen design award, the highest award recognition given annually by the Iowa State University College of Design.

Jim received an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture and master’s degrees in both landscape architecture and civil engineering (water resources) from Iowa State University and has complete the necessary course work towards a PhD in landscape architecture.

Thomas Price is a Water Resources Engineer and Senior Manager at Environmental Consulting & Technology. ECT recently acquired Conservation Design Forum, a multi-disciplinary planning and design firm composed of engineers, landscape architects and ecologists focused on sustainable green infrastructure solutions that integrate rainwater and landscape systems. ECT is also involved in a wide variety of aquatic and terrestrial landscape restoration and permitting activities for a range of organizations from forest preserve districts to power companies.

A significant focus of Tom’s career has been on sustainable rainwater management approaches that address both the hydrologic and water quality impacts of development. Projects are designed to integrate water management systems throughout the site and into every surface rather using more typical end-of-the-pipe solutions that collect and then detain stormwater. Integrated water management strategies include: bioretention systems such as green roofs, rain gardens, and bioswales; porous paving; rainwater collection and reuse; and naturalized conveyance and detention.

Kristin Riott has been executive director of Bridging The Gap, an environmental non-profit serving greater Kansas City, for over ten years. In 2007 she trained with Al Gore to become a spokesperson for , giving hundreds of talks on the subject. Under her leadership, Bridging The Gap has tripled in size and funding, and added new programs addressing water efficiency, energy efficiency, and workforce development in green infrastructure. In 2018, she led the creation of the City of KCMO's Master Tree , involving forty private citizens and city leaders. She also serves on the board of Deep Roots, a native plant initiative, the steering committee for the Climate Protection Plan of Kansas City, MO, and as an active leader in the Metro Kansas City Climate Action Coalition.

Caleb Sanders currently serves as the Director of the Watershed Conservation Corps, which was formed under the auspices of the Watershed Committee of the Ozarks. He has eight years of ecological restoration experience across the United States. He is a Missouri Forest Products Professional Timber Harvester and a Certified Pesticide Applicator.

Tim Smith is currently serving as the Interim Director of the James River Basin Partnership, a non-profit water quality advocacy organization in Springfield, Missouri. Prior to joining JRBP, Tim formerly served as the Deputy City Manager for the City of Springfield, Greene County Administrator, and as the Greene County Stormwater Engineer.

Ted Spaid, FASLA is a Founder and Partner at SWT Design. Known around the country for his tacit knowledge of park planning, , horticulture, , and landscape best maintenance best practices, Ted brings more than thirty years of experience to SWT Design and the profession of landscape architecture. He was a leader and practitioner in developing the Sustainable SITES rating system during its pilot phase in 2010, and subsequently led the design of two SITES-certified projects. He currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board for the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design, and is an active community philanthropist.

Ted’s devotion to the profession of landscape architecture is evident in his attention to sustainability and environmental stewardship, creating outdoor spaces that span generations and educate on the importance of conservation. The firm’s diverse portfolio of projects, from higher education and healthcare to parks, greenways and trails, share in the commonality that good design is a living, breathing thins.

Ted has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University (cum laude), Dean’s Advisory Council, Kansas State University College of Architecture Planning and Design, American Society of Landscape Architect’s Council of Fellows (FASLA), Professional Landscape Architect (PLA), Gateway Greening Advisory, Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Board (CLARB).

Partial funding for this conference is provided by the Environmental Protection Agency Region 7 through a MO Department of Natural Resources grant, under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act.