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The Watershed Project

Board of Directors

Open Call to join TWP’s Board of Directors

The Watershed Project (TWP) is recruiting for 3-5 new members to join our board of directors, as several members move on from their long-tenured terms. We’re looking for a diversity of candidates, particularly from the East Bay, where our deepest community programming takes place.

Do you share a vision to inspire San Francisco Bay Area communities to understand, appreciate, and protect our local watersheds? In our greater SF Bay watershed, water connects us all, from neighborhoods upstream down to the bay and the Pacific Ocean. It’s a joy to take part in meaningful local work that has a regional impact.

TWP envisions a future where everyone in our neighborhoods has equitable access to a healthy environment that provides clean air and water. We invite you to join us, along with our many community and local group partners. Through educating, community organizing, restoring creeks, shorelines, and native plant communities, and by implementing powerful green infrastructure projects, we are building environmental resiliency and equity in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Carrie Strohl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Board Chair - Tenure Ending

Carrie is an educator, researcher, and community leader. She is the founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering teachers, schools, and communities to grow school gardens that enhance science education, nurture wellness, and foster environmental literacy. She teaches pre-service teachers to embrace science in the K-5 classroom and coaches bilingual teachers at an environmental science magnet school. She most directly supports watershed education as an evaluator for the Salmon to Sanctuary program offered by the Napa County Resource Conservation District. She lives in the Napa River Watershed.

Jeannie Kohl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secretary

Jeannie Kohl is a National Board Certified educator who has worked with Oakland students and teachers for 28 years. She taught in elementary and middle public school classrooms and in pre service teacher programs at Holy Names and St Mary’s Colleges. Currently she supports curriculum and instruction in History/Social Science for the Oakland school district and serves as a Teacher Consultant for the Bay Area Writing Project. Jeannie comes to the Watershed Project by way of her interest in the history of the relationship between humans and the natural world, and the fostering of civic engagement for students. She lives in Berkeley with her family.

Paul Randall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul is a Senior Scientist at EOA Inc. with over 15 years of experience working on NPDES permitting, water quality monitoring, and watershed assessments for storm-water programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has extensive experience in developing monitoring plans and using established protocols to conduct field studies, including biological assessments, aquatic habitat surveys, riparian assessments, and water quality studies in San Francisco Bay watersheds. Paul has managed many projects to investigate potential sources of pollutants and to evaluate impacts to health of aquatic biota and beneficial uses. He lives in the Strawberry Creek Watershed.

Nancy Greenan Hamill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy is a practicing attorney admitted to the State Bar of California and serves as the Chief Campus Counsel for the University of California Santa Barbara campus. Ms. Hamill has a B.A. from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and a J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law. Ms. Hamill is committed to public education and community service as demonstrated by her volunteer work with Thousand Oaks Berkeley Unified School District and the United Way’s Koko Committee, and participation in the annual Coastal Clean Up activities. She lives in the Strawberry Creek Watershed.

Derek Hitchcock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derek is an ecologist who has worked for 25 years in the public, private, non-profit, and tribal sectors managing large restoration and urban greening projects from conception through implementation, currently as a Senior Environmental Project Manager with Surf to Snow ERM, Inc. He was the Greening Urban Watersheds Program Manager at TWP from 2013-2015, engaged in some of the most meaningful work of his career. Derek has conducted watershed assessments and restoration planning and implementation in the Yuba, San Joaquin, and Napa River Watersheds as well as numerous streams in the Bay Area. He lives in the Courtland Creek Watershed.

Recently Retired from the Board

Eric Hyman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Treasurer

Eric considers the oyster on a daily basis as the Purchasing Manager for Waterbar, a popular San Francisco seafood house with a meticulous commitment to sustainability. In addition to working with food for almost two decades, he spent several years providing marketing and development assistance to the San Diego Humane Society and the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA. Eric lives with his dog & chickens in the Schoolhouse Creek Watershed.

Dan Abbott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These days Dan can often be found underwater in California's kelp forests where he manages a citizen science program focused on assessing the health of the nearshore environment.   His involvement in the environmental issues began with a stint working with Greenpeace and continued to UC Berkeley where he studied Environmental Economics and Policy, a program focused on both scientific and economic aspects of the marine environment.  Since then Dan has overseen a large number of marine monitoring projects in San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and along the California Coast. Dan currently lives in the Wildcat Canyon Watershed.

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