As a professional engineer registered in several provinces, Adam Cooney stays informed of trends and developments in the environmental industry both locally and throughout Canada. Pertaining to Brownfield Development, he has conducted investigations and analysis of chemical compositions to support litigation by evaluating causes of contamination, and has generated site-specific cleanup criteria for complex large-scale sites to ensure human health safety and achieve regulatory compliance.  Mr. Cooney is actively involved with the renewable energy and sustainable building industries within Nova Scotia.

As president, Adam serves to ensure the significant wealth of multi-faceted director resources are coordinated and applied at highest potential to achieve and maintain ESANS position as Nova Scotia's premiere resource for the environmental sector.

John Wanczycki has lived and worked in Halifax since 1998. Over the course of a 25 year career, he has worked across Canada, the U.S. and in 12 other countries, as an environmental executive, consultant and entrepreneur. Since moving to Halifax, he has been engaged primarily in planning and directing multi-year international capacity-building projects in environmental management, capacity-building and environmental technology performance verification. He has also been acting as a consultant to CIDA, the World Bank and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation in the environmental assessment of projects involving the development of infrastructure, clean technology transfer and the transfer of expertise developed in Nova Scotia in the environmental management of industrial parks. He also retains an association with Canada's Centers for Environment Technology Advancement, notably OCETA.

From 1998-2002, he worked as V.P. for Vaughan International Consultants of Halifax, where he managed the Confederation Indian Industry-CIDA Environmental Management Project and also secured business in Atlantic Canada. In the early nineties, Mr. Wanczycki was based in Washington D.C., where he worked as a consultant to U.S. Government and private interests in public-private partnerships for environmental infrastructure, risk analysis and the design of environmental capacity-building projects in Asia. He also represented Canada's Wastewater Technology Centre in Washington D.C. In the mid-to-late nineties, he served as Vice President with Philip Utilities Management Corporation and founded a design-build company in Poland which installs industrial wastewater treatment systems in privatized industrial operations. For Industry Canada, CIDA and others he has carried out policy studies related to green industry, the management of publicly-funded R&D, environmental regulations, and marketing Canadian environmental technology and know-how in emerging markets. For funding agencies like the World Bank and CIDA, he has led training programs in negotiating strategic alliances and in various facets of environmental management.

Mr. Wanczycki is fluent in English and French. He is a past graduate of Yale University's Corporate Environmental Leadership Seminar. He is currently a member of ESANS and Climate Canada Atlantic.

Cameron Ells is a civil engineer, environmental consultant and entrepreneur. His initial structural design, construction, and municipal project experience has been applied to environmental remediation projects for over 15 years. He was an original member of the Atlantic PIRI Committee that developed the Version 1 risk based corrective action documents, tools and approaches, now commonly used in Atlantic Canada. He runs courses on human health risk assessment applications through Dalhousie University Continuing Education.

He is an original member of ClimAdapt - a Halifax based network that developed some climate change adaptation documents, and Climate Canada Atlantic - whose activities resulted in a series of Memorandums of Understanding for climate change projects with several international delegations, at the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal. In May 2006, at the Engineering Institute of Canada's Climate Change Technology Conference in Ottawa, he presented a paper on Incorporating Climate Change Adaptation into Infrastructure based Decision Making.

He founded Cameron Consulting Incorporated in 2000. Clients include a range of Canadian and American engineering and environmental consultants as a subconsultant; industry as a technical and administrative auditor; legal and financial institutions as an expert opinion; and the public sector as a reviewer and provider of policy suggestions. His personal climate change adaptation has been to start growing organic grapes through his other company - Summervine Incorporated.

Andrew Thalheimer has 21 years of experience working in environmental consulting, focusing in phased environmental site assessments, risk assessments, remedial design, remediation and construction management. Currently, he is an Associate and project manager at Dillon Consulting. Prior to join Dillon, Mr. Thalheimer worked in the mid-Atlantic region of the US with a number of environmental consulting firms where he worked on large-scale CERCLA (Superfund) and RCRA remedial projects as well as numerous projects under voluntary state remediation programs.

Mr. Thalheimer is a licensed/certified professional engineer in Nova Scotia and Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in 1988 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Delaware in 1997. During the course of his professional career, he has taken numerous continuing education courses including courses on professional practice, leadership, and various remedial technologies. In addition, he has co-authored two professional papers.

Shannan Murphy is an Environmental Practitioner and Project Manager with Stantec (formerly Jacques Whitford), in the Environmental Planning and Permitting division. Shannan has a diploma in Environmental Technology in Natural Resources complimented by a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry. Ms. Murphy has been working in the environmental field for fifteen years including five years with the New Brunswick provincial government and ten years in environmental consulting.

Shannan has worked with provincial and federal natural resources departments in New Brunswick on field trials for integrated pest management techniques and has also prepared integrated pest management plans and specifications for federal departments and facilities in Ontario and the Atlantic. As an IPM planner she has brought together the various mandates from federal, provincial and municipal directives, regulations, policies and best practices to prepare comprehensive plans that promote a sustainable and measurable approach to maintaining healthy pest free workplaces.

Ms. Murphy's work includes broad experience in environmental permitting, assessment and auditing including construction auditing and federal environmental compliance audits. Her current focus is environmental assessments, project permitting, environmental protection planning, and compliance monitoring and reporting. Shannan has prepared environmental assessments and permitting applications for a wide range of projects and her work is currently largely focused on infrastructure projects.

In addition to her role as an Environmental Practitioner and Project Manager, Shannan has been the division representative on the company's Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee since 2003. In that role Shannan provides a point of contact for her colleagues' inquiries around health and safety in the workplace. She participates in the regular review and audit of the Health and Safety Plan, review of Safe Work Practices, workplace inspections and investigations, and helps coordinate training opportunities for the group.

Marc Dunning, has been involved in Nova Scotia's environmental services industry since 1997. He spent over 7 years working for a national environmental consulting firm where his work focused on the assessment and clean-up of contaminated sites and hazardous materials.

He is currently an associate with the Halifax law firm of Wickwire Holm.His practice is litigation focused, with particular emphasis on environmental, construction, professional liability, occupational health & safety and labour & employment law.

Actively involved in the local environmental community, Marc lecturers in the Business & Environmental Law course at Dalhousie Law School and co-authors articles for the Environmental Policy & Law (EPAL) journal.

Linda Lusby is Professor of Environmental Science at Acadia University in Wolfville. Her academic background includes degrees in both science and law and she builds on this in her teaching, research and public involvement. Professor Lusby has been centrally involved in the Environmental Science Program at Acadia University since its inception in 1995 and has served as Coordinator, Assistant Dean and Department Head.

Her current research projects include investigations of environmental and human health interconnections, regulatory approaches for biotechnology and ecological services assessments. She is actively involved in a project with Uniterra and WUSC that links members of the Agriculture and Rural Development sector in Malawi with Nova Scotia communities and farmers. She has served in numerous capacities for ECO Canada including current work on program accreditation and was a founding co-chair of the Canadian University Environmental Science Network.

Professor Lusby has been an active participant in national, regional and international standards organizations for many years. She served as the Chair of the Standards Council of Canada from 1998 - 2001 and in that capacity represented Canada on the Council and Technical Management Board of International Standards Organization (ISO) and chaired an international ad hoc committee on privacy. During her tenure as Chair she was instrumental in the development of Canada's first National Standards Strategy. In 2001 - 2002 she served as President of the Pan American Standards Commission. Currently she is a member of the Board of Directors of Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Group and serves on and/or chairs a number of standing committees and sub-boards of that organization.

Professor Lusby was appointed to the Challenge Advisory Panel for Health Canada and Environment Canada's Chemical Management Plan in 2008 having recently completed a term as Vice-Chair of the Science Advisory Board for Health Canada. She has also served on the Science and Technology Advisory Board Panel on Environment and Health for Environment Canada. On behalf of Health Canada, she served on the Federal Government's Council of Science and Technology Advisors until it was disbanded in June 2007. She was appointed to the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee in 2003 and was a member of the Expert Working Group on Biotechnology and Sustainable Development. She is a Fellow of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) International and served for a term as a member of the Board of Directors of LEAD Canada. She received a University of Alberta Alumni Honours Award in 2000 for distinguished professional and community service.

Russell Dmytriw graduated with a BSc. in geology from the University of Manitoba in 1984 and worked as exploration geologist until the early 1990s. He obtained a Masters degree in soil and water chemistry from McGill University in 1994. Russell worked for a local environmental firm in Montreal until starting his own company with two colleagues in 1998.

This company, called Strate Environment was acquired by Gartner Lee Limited in 2003, and Russell managed their Montreal office from 2006 to 2008. Upon the merger of Gartner Lee, EarthTech, UMA and TSH into AECOM 2008, Russell was transferred to Halifax where he currently manages the company's Halifax office.

As a newcomer to the Maritimes, Russell is keen to contribute to and learn from ESANS' business and social activities. He is looking forward to working with ESANS in your mandate to encourage and support development of the environmental industry in Nova Scotia.

Al Ramsay is General Manager of AGAT Laboratories Ltd. located in the Burnside Industrial Park, Dartmouth. AGAT's Environmental Division works with Environmental Consultants, Industry and Governments to deliver a wide variety of environmental related analyses in support of remediation, environmental monitoring and drinking water projects and is accredited by CALA (formerly known as CAEAL) to ISO 17025.

Prior to joining AGAT to expand their environmental operations into Atlantic Canada in 2006, he was a Project Manager with an advertising agency focusing on the consumer packaged goods and retail sectors to deliver non-traditional marketing programs in Northeastern US markets and later as Field Operations Rep for an international brand during their expansion into Atlantic Canada.

Al holds Bachelor of Science and Business Administration degrees from St. Francis Xavier University and is also an NFPA certified Firefighter and Medical First Responder with HRM Fire, Station 50 Hammonds Plains.

Nova Scotia born, Joyce Mac Donald graduated from Mount Saint Vincent University in 1987 with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Chemistry and has been working in the environmental industry ever since.

After graduating from university Ms. MacDonald moved to Ontario and worked in the environmental laboratory industry for fifteen years. Her career began as a lab technician in the air quality department and eventually progressed to the management of that Group. Ms. MacDonald continued to work in the analytical field assuming a more senior project management, technical sales role.

The smell of salt water and the Halifax waterfront were enough to lure Ms. Mac Donald back to Nova Scotia where she is currently employed as a Project Manager with Conestoga Rovers and Associates (CRA) Ms. Mac Donald specializes in air quality services. Her main responsibilities include, soil vapor intrusion, ambient air monitoring for background noise and air emissions, as well as Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) investigations for mould and industrial hygiene applications. More recently Ms. Mac Donald has been certified in radon measurement and mitigation. Her previous experience in the analytical environment gives her a keen understanding of analytical methods and quality control processes, knowledge that is utilized in providing support services in developing sampling strategies and overall project data review.

Although the growth of the Air Quality Group is her main focus, Ms. Mac Donald is also involved in a number of groundwater and surface water monitoring programs, as well as compliance monitoring and reporting in support of Environmental Assessment and Industrial Approval applications.

Ms. Mac Donald is still a registered Charted Chemist of Ontario, and is a member of the American Association of Radon Scientist and Technologists (AARST).