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 or directing multi-year international projects in infrastructure development, environmental management and capacity-building in Asia, Europe and Africa. He has also been acting as a consultant to the World Bank, CIDA and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation in the environmental assessment or oversight of projects involving new infrastructure, clean technology transfer and the transfer of expertise developed in Nova Scotia in industrial environmental management.

From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Wanczycki served as VP for the Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement, for whom he secured and directed projects and project planning and due diligence assignments, in Asia and Africa, and also participated in industrial energy management initiatives in Canada.

From 1998-2002, he worked as V.P. for Vaughan International Consultants of Halifax, where he managed a multi-year project in India 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 for large projects 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 has installed industrial wastewater treatment systems in privatized industrial operations. For Canadian Government Departments and others, he has also carried out policy studies and program reviews related to green industry, the management of publicly-funded R&D, environmental regulations, and transferring technology and know-how to emerging markets. He has designed and led training programs in negotiating strategic alliances and in various facets of environmental management in China, Central Europe, India, and elsewhere.

Mr. Wanczycki is fluent in English and French. He is a past graduate of Yale University's Corporate Environmental Leadership Seminar.

Norval Collins, President of CEF Consultants Ltd., has worked as a fisheries biologist and environmental planner in the Maritimes for over 35 years. He is a licensed professional planner in Nova Scotia and a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. Mr. Collins has specialized in environmental planning and the synthesis of information covering both environmental and land-use issues, with particular emphasis on freshwater and marine fish habitat. Previous studies have included national implementation plans; suitability of international protocols to address environmental degradation; state-of-the-environment reporting; user needs analysis; preparation of marine overviews; spatial analyses of ecological and socio-cultural factors; seasonal sensitivity analyses for seabird, marine mammals and fish habitat, as well as human use; and estimating resource production and value. Environmental assessment and effects monitoring form much of his base work.

He was previously on the board of the Environmental Industries Association and served as chair of the Development and Training Committee in the late 1990s. He was a founding member of the ClimAdapt team, established by ESANS and had lead many climate change initiatives on behalf of the association over the years. Norval has completed his second year as a Board Member and is interested in continuing to participate on the board for another year.

Trevor Houweling has been with Pinchin LeBlanc Environmental Limited since 1994 and provides a diverse expertise in areas relating to building sciences, hazardous materials, indoor air quality, microbial contamination, and environmental assessments. He is a professional engineer with mechanical and environmental backgrounds and serves as a project manager and senior technical advisor for all Atlantic offices. He is also the Atlantic Canada representative for a number of national clients. His responsibilities include engineering related investigations, construction and demolition project management, audits and design, project documentation, training, and specification design. He also oversees the implementation of the Hazardous Materials Information System (HMIS), which is a networkable database system used to present various hazardous in an easily obtainable format. Currently he is the Group Leader for the Hazardous Materials group and the Building Science group and provides technical review and oversight for all related projects.

Trevor is the principal contact for current standing offer agreements in place with Defence Construction Canada and Nova Scotia Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal.

Trevor has conducted and managed numerous commercial and residential property condition assessments and building envelop assessments throughout Atlantic Canada. He is the firm�s senior technical advisor for building related assessments and investigations and has completed the design and development of specifications and tender packages for building rehabilitation and repair projects. Trevor has also conducted various �specialized� investigations to determine failures or deficiencies in building envelopes. These investigations include deluge testing, thermal imaging, moisture mapping and building pressurization testing.

Charlotte Clark is an Environmental Project Manager with XCG Consultants Ltd. and has been active in the field of environmental consulting and engineering for more than 12 years. Ms. Clark is a registered Professional Engineer in Nova Scotia and Ontario. Her professional experience covers environmental site assessment, soil and groundwater remediation, risk assessment, compliance auditing, groundwater modelling, erosion and sediment control, solid waste management, municipal infrastructure, and field services.

Previously she spent three years working for a consulting firm in Halifax where her work focused on municipal infrastructure within the HRM, including, project management and field services for sanitary and stormwater flow monitoring, completing the 2003 remedial works priority list for wastewater infrastructure, and examining multiple sewer inflow and infiltration issues while working with HRM operational field staff. Ms. Clark joined the Kitchener, Ontario office of XCG in 2004 where her work included directing teams of engineers, technicians, and support staff, and performing a wide variety of environmental investigations including due diligence, site assessment, remediation and waste management projects in Ontario and Alberta. Ms. Clark worked for a local Dartmouth consulting firm as a Registered Site Professional from 2008 to 2011. Her experience included project management, field services for soil, water, sediment, and slate sample collection, data analysis, and reporting for site assessment and remediation projects throughout Nova Scotia.

Ms. Clark rejoined XCG to establish an Eastern Canada consulting presence for the company in April 2011 where she continues to perform environmental site assessment work as a registered site professional. Ms. Clark has recently completed the financial planning and reporting of the Integrated Resource Plan for Halifax Water to define their overall program and resource needs for all of their water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure for the next 30 years.

Shawn Duncan is currently the Vice-President at Strum Consulting based in Bedford, Nova Scotia. In addition to working in the consulting industry, Shawn has also worked for both provincial and federal governments, as well as working for a number of years in the oil and gas industry for Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline. He has worked professionally in the environmental field throughout Canada and internationally for 23 years. His areas of specialization include project planning and management, environmental impact assessment, infrastructure planning and construction, public consultation and regulatory support.

Mr. Duncan has been involved in dozens of EAs, both federally and provincially. He has worked on a number of linear projects, providing environmental planning, EA support, environmental permitting and construction oversight. He has extensive knowledge of both federal and provincial environmental legislation and has been involved in acquiring environmental approvals and permits for a number of large infrastructure projects in Atlantic Canada.

Chris Milley is Senior Environmental Consultant with AMEC. He is an environmental scientist and marine resource manager with over 27 years of experience. Mr. Milley has an intimate familiarity of the human and environment-related issues of aboriginal and non-aboriginal coastal fishing communities with a specific emphasis of the relationships between tradition, culture and local environment. He has significant experience with planning and research on community resource management.

Chris has specialized in designing, and implementing community-based resource and environmental management activities that promote sustainable social and economic development. Mr. Milley has managed international development and resource management projects in the Caribbean, Central America and with the First Nations in Canada. Mr. Milley has liaised actively with regional and national First Nations organizations, international agencies and organizations, such as the Assembly of First Nations, the UNPFII, UN FAO and UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, and coordinated co-operative support for international development assistance projects. Chris is a member of the International Institute for Public Participation and a member of the World Congress on Legal Pluralism.

Mr. Milley is a graduate of Mount Allison and Dalhousie Universities and is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University where he teaches graduate courses in Fisheries Management, Culture & Resource Management, and Indigenous Rights-based Fisheries Management. He is currently involved as an investigator on a joint Dalhousie University-Assembly of First Nations SSHRC-funded research initiative on Traditional Knowledge and Coastal Resource Governance.

Tara Oak is Senior Environmental Scientist and Group Lead of Environmental Sciences & Regulatory Services at CBCL Limited. Drawing on extensive experience in both federal government (Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and Public Works and Government Services Canada) and private sector consulting (CBCL, Stantec and Jacques Whitford/Axys), Tara Oak benefits from a broad awareness of diverse perspectives, pressures and challenges at all stages of the project lifecycle, from environmental permitting, regulatory requirements, and public and Aboriginal consultation, to environmental management plans, schedule, budget and contractor relations, to follow-up and monitoring. This experience has helped her facilitate communication and cooperation between project proponents; regulatory authorities; and stakeholders such as Aboriginal groups; special-interest groups; the public; and non-governmental organizations.

As group lead, Tara engages her knowledge and experience in the environmental field as a project manager, coordinator, technical researcher, author and editor for environmental impact assessments. Ms. Oak has extensive experience managing and authoring screening-level environmental assessments (EA) under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and has managed and coordinated multi-jurisdictional comprehensive studies in mining and marine oil and gas infrastructure. She has conducted EAs in several provinces and is comfortable working within various provincial legislative frameworks, coordinating these, where required, with the federal EA process and attendant regulations such as the Fisheries Act, the Species at Risk Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, and the Navigable Waters/Navigation Protection Act. Ms. Oak reviews, synthesizes and continually adapts to changing regulatory frameworks, legislation and interpretations.

Darren Parker is an Environmental Planner and Associate with Dillon Consulting Limited in Halifax Darren currently manages Dillon�s Halifax Office, a position he has held since October 2009. Since joining Dillon in 1999, he has managed many multi-disciplinary environmental projects for a wide-variety of public and private sector clients, and led the Environment, Health and Safety Practice in the east from the early to mid-2000s. Darren began his consulting career with Nolan Davis and Associates (Halifax) in 1989 as a draftsman and field technician, working on such exciting projects as Westray Coal, Heath Steele Mine and Fundy Gypsum. He returned to school in 1990 and completed a Bachelor of Design in Environmental Planning from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1994, while continuing to work with Nolan Davis during their transition to ADI Limited. From 1994 to 1999, he managed several environmental aspects of ADI Nolan Davis business in Halifax before joining Dillon in late 1999.

Darren has managed and conducted a variety of multi-phase environmental projects during his career. Clients have included the Department of National Defence, Public Works and Government Services Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada, Transport Canada, and Nova Scotia Departments of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal, and Nova Scotia Environment; as well as hundreds on private sector clients. In 2009, Darren obtained his LEED Accredited Professional designation from the Canada Green Buildings Council.

Scott Preston is the General Manager of Environmental Operations (Atlantic Canada) for AGAT Laboratories. He leads the management team in operational, technical, and business development functions. The majority of Mr. Preston�s experience is in environmental consulting, having been the Site Assessment Lead and Project Manager on a multi-year, multi-million dollar remediation project for Canadian Forces Base 5 Wing Goose Bay; and Business Operations Manager for AMEC�s Nova Scotia and Goose Bay offices.

Mr. Preston�s primary areas of technical expertise are in environmental site assessment and remediation. He has managed hundreds of projects ranging from Phased Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) to complex large scale programs involving the management and coordination of dozens of staff, subcontractors, and resources being deployed simultaneously. He provided service to clients seeking solutions for various issues ranging from information management to assessment and remediation of contaminants, dumpsites, unexploded ordinance, and hazardous materials.

Mr. Preston has worked for both Public and Private sector clients, ranging from Federal to Municipal governments, from military facilities to commercial retail, and from industrial complexes to airports. His experience extends to a broad geographic range, including the Canadian high arctic and subtropical overseas locations.