Maryland Eastern Shore R C & D Council, Inc.

R C & D Staff

COORDINATOR

Dave Wilson has 30 years experience with USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service. He has been the RC&D Coordinator for the past 14 years. He graduated from University of Maryland with a BS in Agriculture and has completed 15 credits toward a Masters Degree in Soils. He served in the Peace Corps, Guinea, West Africa teaching agricultural courses in French and served with the U.S. Army 82^nd Airborne in Vietnam. He has completed two grant writing and grant management seminars with Bader and Carr Community Systems, Bozeman, Montana, and written a number of grants for government agencies and private organizations, as well as taught an Introductory Grants Writing seminar.

NATURAL RESOURCE PLANNER

Audra E. Luscher graduated from California State University at Long Beach with a B.S. degree in Marine Biology and a minor in Chemistry. She entered the graduate program in Marine Science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1999 focusing on estuarine ecological and geological processes. She started working on coastal hazards and resource management related issues at the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management in 2001. Audra joined ESRC&D in January 2003 and works as a liaison between the State and Local Governments in developing shore erosion management strategies. The State is developing a Shore Erosion Response Assessment Tool that is trying to strike a balance between the need to protect infrastructure with the need to maintain natural shoreline habitat.

NATURAL RESOURCES SPECIALIST

Jerry Walls was hired as the RC&D Natural Resources Specialist in December 1987. He services the entire Eastern Shore, Calvert County, and Charles County on shore erosion control projects for DNR 0% loan program. Jerry also worked for USDA Soil Conservation Service for 31 years.

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGER

Dr. Bhaskaran (Bass + Karen) Subramanian is from India. He graduated in May 2006 with a Ph.D from University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Bhaskaran earned his B.S. in Chemistry, M.S. in Environmental Chemistry (both from India) and Ph.D. in Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences, with special emphasis in Environmental Science. Dr. Bhaskaran has presented in many conferences, seminars. He presented a paper in an International Conference (in India), has published a paper related to his research and is currently working on publishing two more papers. Dr. Bhaskaran joined MD Eastern Shore RC&D Council, Inc. in June and has since worked on assessing shoreline erosion control projects of RC&D in the past 20 years. He has created a GIS database in association with Johann Martinez for RC&D. PP

PROGRAM ASSISTANT

Nancy Basil is the part-time staff secretary. She has 25 years experience in the secretarial field and 9 years experience in bookkeeping and accounting. She has earned 12 credits in Business Administration from Chesapeake College. Nancy also works as USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Payment Processing Assistant.