Jamie has more than 30 years' experience in U.S. and international environmental consulting, policy, teaching and research. He has conducted a series of complex and controversial programs and projects involving environmental evaluation of wastewater, hazardous waste, transportation, water resources, and major military projects. He directed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) support program for U.S. EPA, Region I Water Branch, for 6 years. Jamie has published numerous articles on environmental science and policy and he published one of the first reference/text books addressing ecological risk assessment. He recently completed a book on environmental analysis (Environmental Analysis: Process and Methods, CRC Press to be published November 2013) which is based on his long consulting career and 10 years of teaching graduate courses on the topic. His career includes active work with environmental advocacy organizations including on-site environmental review of petroleum development projects in Peru. International environmental evaluations have also been one of Jamie’s interests. He spent over 20 years working on the environmental evaluation and decision making on numerous U.S. AID water and wastewater projects in Egypt. He has also worked closely with top Hungarian government officials to understand and implement the concept of holistic environmental system management and he worked with Hong Kong to develop water quality standards. He spent most of 2008 and 2009 in the United Arab Emirates directing the environmental analysis and public relations aspects for the total redevelopment of the Abu Dhabi wastewater management system. He has also recently completed a NEPA Environmental Assessment for a U.S. AID funded comprehensive irrigation and transportation project in Haiti. Jamie served as Board Member and interim Executive Director for Global Village Engineers, a non-profit environmental/culturally appropriate infrastructure advocacy group, which has provided technical support for infrastructure, environmental analysis, flood control and water resource projects in South America, Central America, and Asia. He also managed the water, wastewater, ecological restoration, and storm water aspects for conversion of a 1,400 acre former military installation to a Smart Growth-Environmentally Sustainable mixed use development. The US EPA and state regulatory agencies mandated that the planned development meet a high Smart Growth standard as a condition for redevelopment of the former Naval Air Station. Jamie was selected to coordinate the water resource related aspects of the development to incorporate state of the art sustainable development concepts and practices. He is working closely with the former EPA Regional Administrator and former state Secretary of Environmental Affairs to produce a nationally recognized prototype for Smart Growth. Jamie has a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island and a Master of Science in Aquatic Ecology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He worked until recently at CH2M Hill, where he achieved the top level of responsibility as Vice President and National Ecological Risk Delivery Leader.