People
Anita Milman
Professor
Anita Milman is Professor of Water Governance in the Department of Environmental Conservation (ECo) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Milman’s research examines on the multi-level governance of water resources, with a focus on human responses to hydro-climatic and other sources of environmental change. She earned a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley and an M.Eng from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to joining ECo, Milman was a Senior Research Associate with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Milman serves on the editorial board of the journal Environmental Research Letters and is a member of the NAS Study Board for the NYC Watershed.
Andrea Gerlak
Professor
Andrea K. Gerlak is a professor in the School of Geography and Development and Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on institutions for governing water resources. She examines cooperation and conflict around water, including questions of institutional change and adaptation to climate change in rivers basins, and human rights and equity issues in water governance. Gerlak is a senior research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project, and serves as a co-editor for the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning and an Associate Editor for Climatic Change.
Kelsey Wentling
Master's Student
Kelsey Wentling is a Master's student in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the interface of science and policy in transboundary water governance. Before beginning her Master's work, Wentling completed an AmeriCorps service year in Vermont and worked in outdoor education in the mountains of Southern California. Wentling graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in Environmental Studies, with a focus on policy, and a minor in Journalism.
Workshop Participants
- Tamee Albrecht, PhD student, School of Geography & Development at the University of Arizona
- Mark Colosimo, Engineering Advisor, U.S. Section of the International Joint Commission
- Ken Conca, Professor, School of International Service at American University
- Gabriel Eckstein, Professor, School of Law at Texas A&M University
- Anoulak Kittikhoun, Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer, Mekong River Commission
- Rémy Kinna, Principal Consultant, Transboundary Water Law Global Consulting
- Peter Kovács, Head of Department of the River Basin Management and Water Protection, Ministry of Interior of Hungary
- Daniel Mcfarlane, Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University
- Rich Moy, U.S. Commissioner, International Joint Commission
- Hatda Pitch An, Director of Planning Division, Mekong River Commission
- Alberto Pistocchi, Scientific Project Officer, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
- Susanne Schmeier, Coordinator for Transboundary Water Management, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
- John Shurts, General Counsel, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
- Bill Werick, Werick Consulting (Previously Army Corps of Engineers)
- Ivan Zavadsky, Executive Secretary, International Commission for the Protection of the Danube
- Jim Ziegler, Regional Manager, Northwest Regional Office of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency