David Scudder (Chair, LOCI Board of Representatives) was born and brought up in the area. He now lives on land purchased by his parents and grandparents in 1939, Leroy Island, Sodus Bay. David graduated from Clarkson in 1965 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He retired from Kodak in 1991 and has been involved in water quality activities ever since. He was a past president of the Sodus Bay Improvement Association and has chaired the Wayne County Water Quality Coordinating Committee for over ten years. David states “I’m not obsessed with water quality, but I do think that it is extremely important both short term and long term. It drives not only our economy and well being but life itself. I’m the happiest when I’m on the water and depressed when I can’t see it”.
Kevin Smith (Vice-Chair, LOCI Board of Representatives) is the Director of Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development for The New York State Tug Hill Commission. While with the commission Kevin has spearheaded many innovative projects in rural local government technical assistance, and organizational development. Most recently he and his team have been developing watershed approaches to serving local government needs in managing resources critical to economic sustainability.
George Thomas (Secretary/ Treasurer, LOCI Board of Representatives) is CEI’s Executive Director and has 33 years of professional experience in developing and implementing environmental compliance programs, environmental management systems and pollution prevention programs in an industrial setting. He has also taught pollution prevention program development and implementation at the Rochester Institute of Technology for over 7 years.
David Klein (Chair, Outreach Committee) is senior Field Representative at The Nature Conservancy's Central and Western New York Chapter, and focuses on a conservation program for Lake Ontario biodiversity. As part of his duties, he represents the Conservancy in the bi-national process of International Joint Commission to develop a new regulation plan for the levels and flows of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.
Betsy Landre (Chair, Local Implementation Grants Committee) is Program Coordinator for the Finger Lakes - Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance and also serves as Senior Field Representative for the Finger Lakes Land Trust. She holds a MS degree in Natural Resources from Cornell University and resides in Canandaigua, NY.
Dr. Joseph C. Makarewicz (Chair, Research and Monitoring Committee) is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Biology, a new interdisciplinary major at the College at Brockport. Professor Makarewicz, who received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, is a former Senior Fulbright Research Fellow to Germany. He was recently honored by the Chancellor of the SUNY system for outstanding scholarship and grantsmanship, is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and received the Chandler- Meisner Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Journal of Great Lakes Research by the International Association of Great Lakes Research. He has received over $ 8 million in funding from Sea Grant, EPA, NSF, USDA, etc., since joining Brockport’s faculty in 1974. His research has focused on Great Lakes Research in four areas: phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology, the ecology of exotic species and their effect on pelagic food webs, pesticide movement in food webs, and fate and transport of nutrients and herbicides in watersheds. In addition, he has received a National Science Foundation grant that served as a catalyst for a $13 million renovation of Lennon Hall, one of two major science buildings on Brockport’s campus. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers.