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- EBC Program Greening Transportation in Massachusetts Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Wilmer Hale LLP
- Senior Environmental Planner, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. 8:15 a.m. Greening Transportation: From Funding to Sustainability
- 8:50 a.m. MassDOT Aeronautics Carbon Neutral Airport Program
- 9:30 a.m. By Sea and By Air: Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives at Massport
- 10:10 a.m. Driving Toward Disaster Facing the Hard Facts About Transportation and Climate
- 11:00 a.m. Adjourn Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc. 375 Harvard St, Suite 2 Brookline, MA 02446 617-505-1818 //
- SPEAKERS Kate Bowditch
- Catherine Cagle, MBA, LEED AP, AICP, RLA
 
EBC Program Greening Transportation in Massachusetts Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Wilmer Hale LLP Boston, Massachusetts Agenda 8:00 a.m. Welcome: Daniel K. Moon, President & Executive Director, EBC Introduction: Susan Nichols, Program Chair and Moderator Senior Environmental Planner, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. 8:15 a.m. Greening Transportation: From Funding to Sustainability Richard A. Davey, Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, MassDOT 8:30 a.m. Implementing GreenDOT Sustainability Policy into Performance at MassDOT Catherine Cagle, Manager of Sustainable Transportation, MassDOT 8:50 a.m. MassDOT Aeronautics Carbon Neutral Airport Program Katie Riley Servis, Airport Planner/Env. Analyst III, MassDOT Aeronautics Division 9:10 a.m. MassDOT-FHWA Pilot Project: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Options of the Central Artery Steven Miller, Environmental Section, EMS and Sustainability, MassDOT 9:30 a.m. By Sea and By Air: Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives at Massport Brenda Enos, Assis. Director, Capital Programs & Env. Management, Massport 9:50 a.m. Gateway to Green: Mode Shift Through Regional Transit Michael Lambert, Deputy Administrator & Assistant to the GM MassDOT Rail & Transit/MBTA 10:10 a.m. Driving Toward Disaster? Facing the Hard Facts About Transportation and Climate Seth Kaplan, VP for Policy & Climate Advocacy, Conservation Law Foundation 10:30 a.m. Turning the Battleship Kate Bowditch, Director of Projects, Charles River Watershed Association 10:50 a.m. Open Discussion 11:00 a.m. Adjourn Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc. 375 Harvard St, Suite 2 Brookline, MA 02446 617-505-1818 // ebc@ebcne.org // www.ebcne.org PROGRAM CHAIR Susan Nichols, LEED AP, Senior Environmental Planner Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. 101 Walnut Street, Watertown, MA 02472 (617) 607-2596 // snichols@vhb.com Ms. Nichols is a Senior Environmental Planner and Project Manager at VHB who specializes in environmental regulation and permitting. She assists in the production of Environmental Impact Statements and other environmental reports and permit applications for transportation projects including work for federal agencies, airport authorities, and state departments of transportation. SPEAKERS Kate Bowditch, Director of Projects Charles River Watershed Association 190 Park Road, Weston, MA 02493 (781) 788-0007 x227 // kbowditch@crwa.org Kate is responsible for CRWA's many science, research and modeling projects, including the Upper Charles River Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) project, water quality testing programs, and streamflow modeling efforts. She created CRWA’s Blue Cities® Initiative, which has expanded to include Blue Cities National and CRWA’s river twinning project with partners in the Dominican Republic as the winner of the 2011 International Riverprize. A recognized expert on hydrology, stormwater, green infrastructure and low impact development, her work with Conservation Law Foundation led to U.S. EPA New England’s decision to expand stormwater regulation and successful suit against MA Highway Department for stormwater violations. Kate has been at CRWA since 1994, and serves on many environmental committees and boards, including the Brookline Conservation Commission (Chair) and Boston's Complete Street Advisory Committee, which recently issued Boston’s Complete Streets Guidelines. A hydrologist by training, she graduated cum laude from Cornell University and received her MA in Geography/Water Resources Management from Boston University. Catherine Cagle, MBA, LEED AP, AICP, RLA, Manager of Sustainable Transportation MassDOT
10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 (857) 368-9800 // catherine.cagle@state.ma.us Catherine Cagle serves as the Manager of Sustainable Transportation for Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), launched November 1, 2010. At MassDOT she oversees Sustainable Transportation that includes the GreenDOT policy, the Healthy Transportation Compact, bicycle and pedestrian transportation planning. Under the leadership of MassDOT’s Secretary and CEO, Richard A. Davey, Catherine and her 10,000 colleagues are knitting together the cultures and responsibilities of the former transportation agencies into a new, unified organization that operates as one – one transportation agency with one mission: to provide a safe, reliable and efficient transportation network for citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Catherine has been involved in livability and sustainability issues for over 19 years and joined the State team several months before the launch of MassDOT. She holds an MBA from Simmons College, a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota with a Massachusetts license, AICP and is a LEED accredited professional. Her professional background blends private land development and public planning and economic development experience in site planning, capital project delivery and brownfield permitting/redevelopment. In Massachusetts she has served as the Assistant Planning Director for City of Waltham and Director of Economic Development for Town of Brookline. Richard A. Davey, Secretary and Chief Executive Officer MassDOT
10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 Governor Deval Patrick appointed Richard A. Davey MassDOT Secretary and Chief Executive Officer in September 2011. Secretary Davey leads a 10,000 person organization that operates with a single mission: to provide a safe, reliable and efficient transportation system for the citizens of the Commonwealth. Secretary Davey and his team are implementing a strategic investment and operations plan focused on the five priority areas of the Governor: safety, customer service, employee engagement, fiscal responsibility and innovation. Prior to his current appointment, Secretary Davey served as MBTA General Manager and MassDOT Rail & Transit Administrator, where he was responsible for managing the MBTA and overseeing the Commonwealth's 15 Regional Transit Authorities and MassDOT's rail program. With his energetic leadership style, he was able to implement sustainable and impactful initiatives that improved operations and safety, strengthened customer service, and changed the culture within the MBTA. Prior to joining MassDOT, Secretary Davey served in a variety of capacities, including General Manager, at the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad (MBCR), the company that operates and maintains the MBTA's commuter rail service. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross, a Juris Doctorate summa cum laude from Gonzaga University School of Law and proudly served as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Hillsboro, Oregon. Secretary Davey and his wife live in Boston, where they are regular users of the MBTA system and live car free. Brenda Enos, Assistant Director Capital Programs and Environmental Management Massport Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 200N, East Boston, MA 02128-2909 (617) 568-5963 // benos@massport.com Brenda is the Assistant Director, Capital Programs & Environmental Management for the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), an entity that includes Boston-Logan International Airport, two general aviation airports, the Port of Boston and several landholdings on Boston’s rapidly developing waterfront. She is responsible for Massport facilities’ compliance with local, state and federal policies and programs for environmental, health and safety. Brenda is managing the preparation of several cutting edge plans including the Logan Airport Climate Adaptation/Infrastructure Resiliency plan (that will ensure Logan Airport’s critical operations during and after events such as Superstorm Sandy) and the Logan Airport Sustainable Management Plan that is being funded by one the FAA’s largest grants as part of a nation-wide pilot program. These two plans will be models for the nation in dealing with the current challenges to airports. Brenda has extensive experience in greenhouse gas inventories and air monitoring programs, hazardous waste management and training, stormwater, sustainability and ISO 14001 implementation. She began her aviation career at the Rhode Island Airport Corporation (RIAC) the highlight of which was managing the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement for an airport-wide improvement program at T. F. Green Airport that included a runway extension, terminal and roadway improvements, and upgrades to the cross-wind runway RSAs. That EIS included consideration of everything from federally-protected wetlands, impacts to historic resources, and Native American cultural resources. Brenda also developed and managed a long term air monitoring program and coordinated a health study with the Rhode Island Department of Health that is viewed as precedent setting. Brenda has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and a MBA in Business Management. She has served on numerous committees for the Airport Cooperative Research Program including the ground breaking Report 71 “Guidance for Quantifying the Contribution of Airport Emissions to Local Air Quality”. Seth Kaplan, Vice-President for Policy and Climate Advocacy Conservation Law Foundation 62 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02110 (617) 850-1721 // skaplan@clf.org Seth Kaplan is the Vice President for Policy and Climate Advocacy at the Conservation Law Foundation. A graduate of Wesleyan University and Northeastern University School of Law he worked as a real estate and environmental attorney in private practice in New York City before his return to CLF (where he had previously worked as a law student) in 1998. He oversees policy development and advocacy at CLF that ranges from issues regarding public transit expansion, clean renewable energy infrastructure, energy efficiency and regulation of emissions from automobiles as well broader legal advocacy regarding greenhouse gas emissions and energy policy. Michael Lambert, Deputy Administrator & Assistant to the GM MassDOT Rail & Transit/MBTA 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 (857) 254-1997 // Michael.J.Lambert@dot.state.ma.us After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross in 1997, Michael spent five years working at community based organizations in Worcester, Boston, and Chelsea. After becoming intrigued by the role of municipal government in many of his programs, Michael went back to school to learn more about the field. After receiving a Master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School, he helped begin a performance management/data analysis program for the City of Somerville and eventually became Chief of Staff and Transportation Director for Mayor Curtatone. Michael now serves as Assistant to the General Manager and Deputy Administrator at MassDOT Rail and Transit. In this capacity, he helps oversee the Commonwealth’s Regional Transit Authorities, promotes statewide mobility coordination, and manages the THE RIDE paratransit program for the MBTA. Steven Miller, Environmental Section, EMS and Sustainability MassDOT
10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 (857) 368-8809 // steven.j.miller@state.ma.us Steven Miller is a Supervisor overseeing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Highway Division’s Environmental Management System and Sustainability efforts. He is also the Project Manager for the MassDOT-Federal Highway Administration Climate Change and Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Options of the Central Artery. This novel project is based on earlier work completed by The Boston Harbor Association which shows that the present 100-year coastal storm event could easily render the Central Artery tunnel system impassible or, even worse, could flood the tunnel system completely. With this project MassDOT is taking proactive steps to determine the Central Artery’s specific vulnerabilities to Climate Change and will prepare plans to mitigate or prevent damage from future storm events, along with managing potential impacts to traffic patterns and evacuation routes in response to predicted storm events. He participated in drafting polices to help mitigate the effects of green house gases and participated in the development of the adaptation strategies for the Key Infrastructure Subcommittee/Roadway Sector for the Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report required by the Global Warming Solutions Act. Throughout his 19 year career at MassDOT he has worked closely with the US Department of Transportation’ s Volpe National Transportation Center, FHWA, the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials, The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, and state DOT on various important environmental concerns. Prior to joining MassDOT he worked as an Environmental Consultant for 10 years focusing on the assessment and remediation of soil and groundwater contamination for the US Superfund program, and helping clients navigate through the Massachusetts Contingency Plan relative to release of oil and hazardous materials. Steven holds a B.S. in Geology from Northeastern University. Katie Riley Servis, Airport Planner/Environmental Analyst III MassDOT
Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 205N, East Boston, MA 02128-2909 (617) 412-3680 // katie.servis@state.ma.us Katie Servis is an airport planner/environmental analyst with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Aeronautics Division in Boston. In addition to managing and reviewing airport environmental planning and permitting projects for the 36 public use airports within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Katie also provides technical assistance to airports, acts as MassDOT/Aeronautics Division liaison with federal and state environmental agencies/groups, responds to inquiries concerning aeronautics and environmental matters, and creator, writer and editor of the Aeronautics Division’s newsletter, On the Approach. Over the past several years, Katie has been a member of the GreenDOT committee, developed to help green our transportation system. Katie’s most recent project is managing the Carbon Neutral Airport Program that began in December 2012, and the topic of today’s discussion. Prior to joining the MassDOT Aeronautics Division office in 2009, Katie spent four years as an airport planner at Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB) in Watertown MA assisting in the implementation of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reporting for proposed airport projects. From 2000 – 2005 Katie work at Hoyle Tanner and Associates where she served as Project Manager/Senior Airport Planner completing several airport master plan updates, airport studies, and integrated noise modeling analyses. Katie also has an airport operations background from various positions held at Logan Airport, Hanscom Field, and Paine Field Airport in Washington State. Katie is a certified pilot and has a B.S. from Bridgewater State College (now Bridgewater State University) in Aviation Science with an Aviation Management Concentration. Download 45.17 Kb. Share with your friends:
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