John Gallo, Ph.D
Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) is an independent non-profit organization that provides scientific information, analyses, and online mapping to help communities, agencies, and businesses determine how to meet their various needs in an environmentally sound manner. Dr. John A. Gallo, Senior Scientist at CBI with a Ph.D. in Geography, was raised locally and has returned home to settle here with his wife to raise their family. He will represent CBI and assist the Parties with the mission of the Memorandum of Collaboration as needed and available, via his knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS), planning, ecology, and facilitation.
David Jensen
David Jensen brings a depth of environmental experience to the Consortium. He is the retired Environmental Health Director of Mendocino County. He was an enforcement officer for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. David provided years of technical support at a Department of Energy Superfund site in Ohio. He is also the president of the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society and has served six years on the Audubon California board of directors. He is a dedicated environmental educator and leads monthly bird walks at the former mill site property. He has also founded three successful local businesses in the construction, retail and manufacturing, and consulting arenas and is dedicated to promoting the economic health of the community.
Leslie Jan Kashiwada, Ph.D
Leslie Jan Kashiwada obtained a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from UCSD-Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She has done research in marine invertebrate ecology in a variety of habitats including kelp forests, bays and estuaries, hydrothermal vents, and the deep sea. As part of her graduate training she reviewed numerous Environmental Impact Statements/Reports. Dr. Kashiwada spent two years teaching at San Diego State University and 13 years teaching at MiraCosta Community College where she developed a Biotechnology Cer ficate Program. This included writing grants to work with other community colleges and the biotech industry to promote technical training of community college students for work in laboratories as technicians. As a result of these efforts she was named director of the Southern California Biotechnology Center (three years) and also Chair of Biological Sciences Department (1 year), before moving north to Fort Bragg. She brings to the Consortium a unique combination of skills and interests,including her technical expertise, especially with regards to review of EIRs, grant writing, copy editing, education, and outreach.
Bill Lemos, PhD
The Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC) is a national non-profit organization that works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC’s Ocean Program protects important marine habitat and seeks to secure protec ons for vulnerable marine species, as well as providing support for monitoring and researching areas vulnerable to ocean acidification. NRDC also helps identify strategies to mitigate and adapt to a changing ocean chemistry. The organization also works to ensure effective implementation and monitoring of the network of marine protected areas in California’s coastal waters. William Lemos, has been working with the Natural Resources Defense Council as a consultant on marine conservation since 2009, and will assist the Consortium by bringing his skills, expertise, and network of connections.
George Reinhardt
As a founding Associate of the Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group, George has been the unflagging in his passion and determination to realize the restoration of the Noyo Headlands for the past 16 years. George Reinhardt brings proven sustainable concepts to the discussion of the mill site’s restoration and redevelopment. He is a member of the Mendocino County Energy Working Group and helped steer the Mendocino Coast Economic Outlook Conference toward themes of sustainability as well as spearheading the Mendocino Coast Native — Summit. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the Noyo Center encouraging the study of the local ecology from the headwaters to the sea. He is an advocate for a department of Restoration Ecology at the local community college. He believes community scale restoration efforts can play an important role in responding to a changing climate.
Cal Winslow PhD
Cal Winslow has a PhD in social history and is a retired academic historian, having taught many years at the City University of New York, with visiting appointments at York University, UK and the Evergreen University in Washington State. Here in California he has been a Fellow in Environmental Politics at UC Berkeley for ten years. He is Director of the Mendocino Institute. He is author or editor of a dozen books as well as many articles in academic Journals (Labor History), popular online magazines (Jacobin) and mainstream press (Press Democrat). His latest book is Radical Seattle, the General Strike of 1919 (Monthly Review Press). Others include West of Eden, Communes and Utopia in Northern California (PM Press), River of Fire, Commons, Crisis and the Imagination (Pumping Station Press, and E.P. Thompson and The Making of the New Left (Verso). He is co-author with the late E.P. Thompson of Albion’s Fatal Tree, Crime and Society in the Eighteenth Century (Penguin and Pantheon). He lives with his wife, Faith Simon, a Nurse Practitioner, near Caspar on the Mendocino Coast.
James Schoonover
James Schoonover is recently retired from his position as environmental Health and Safety Advisor to the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. Prior to that his career spanned two decades in C-level engineering and management roles including that as Principal Consultant at Schoonover and Associates, specializing in Environmental Health and Safety. He brings significant relative expertise and experience to the Consortium, including research, data analysis, environmental science and compliance, chemistry, sustainability, management, and organizational development,.
Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) is an independent non-profit organization that provides scientific information, analyses, and online mapping to help communities, agencies, and businesses determine how to meet their various needs in an environmentally sound manner. Dr. John A. Gallo, Senior Scientist at CBI with a Ph.D. in Geography, was raised locally and has returned home to settle here with his wife to raise their family. He will represent CBI and assist the Parties with the mission of the Memorandum of Collaboration as needed and available, via his knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS), planning, ecology, and facilitation.
David Jensen
David Jensen brings a depth of environmental experience to the Consortium. He is the retired Environmental Health Director of Mendocino County. He was an enforcement officer for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. David provided years of technical support at a Department of Energy Superfund site in Ohio. He is also the president of the Mendocino Coast Audubon Society and has served six years on the Audubon California board of directors. He is a dedicated environmental educator and leads monthly bird walks at the former mill site property. He has also founded three successful local businesses in the construction, retail and manufacturing, and consulting arenas and is dedicated to promoting the economic health of the community.
Leslie Jan Kashiwada, Ph.D
Leslie Jan Kashiwada obtained a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from UCSD-Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She has done research in marine invertebrate ecology in a variety of habitats including kelp forests, bays and estuaries, hydrothermal vents, and the deep sea. As part of her graduate training she reviewed numerous Environmental Impact Statements/Reports. Dr. Kashiwada spent two years teaching at San Diego State University and 13 years teaching at MiraCosta Community College where she developed a Biotechnology Cer ficate Program. This included writing grants to work with other community colleges and the biotech industry to promote technical training of community college students for work in laboratories as technicians. As a result of these efforts she was named director of the Southern California Biotechnology Center (three years) and also Chair of Biological Sciences Department (1 year), before moving north to Fort Bragg. She brings to the Consortium a unique combination of skills and interests,including her technical expertise, especially with regards to review of EIRs, grant writing, copy editing, education, and outreach.
Bill Lemos, PhD
The Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC) is a national non-profit organization that works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC’s Ocean Program protects important marine habitat and seeks to secure protec ons for vulnerable marine species, as well as providing support for monitoring and researching areas vulnerable to ocean acidification. NRDC also helps identify strategies to mitigate and adapt to a changing ocean chemistry. The organization also works to ensure effective implementation and monitoring of the network of marine protected areas in California’s coastal waters. William Lemos, has been working with the Natural Resources Defense Council as a consultant on marine conservation since 2009, and will assist the Consortium by bringing his skills, expertise, and network of connections.
George Reinhardt
As a founding Associate of the Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group, George has been the unflagging in his passion and determination to realize the restoration of the Noyo Headlands for the past 16 years. George Reinhardt brings proven sustainable concepts to the discussion of the mill site’s restoration and redevelopment. He is a member of the Mendocino County Energy Working Group and helped steer the Mendocino Coast Economic Outlook Conference toward themes of sustainability as well as spearheading the Mendocino Coast Native — Summit. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the Noyo Center encouraging the study of the local ecology from the headwaters to the sea. He is an advocate for a department of Restoration Ecology at the local community college. He believes community scale restoration efforts can play an important role in responding to a changing climate.
Cal Winslow PhD
Cal Winslow has a PhD in social history and is a retired academic historian, having taught many years at the City University of New York, with visiting appointments at York University, UK and the Evergreen University in Washington State. Here in California he has been a Fellow in Environmental Politics at UC Berkeley for ten years. He is Director of the Mendocino Institute. He is author or editor of a dozen books as well as many articles in academic Journals (Labor History), popular online magazines (Jacobin) and mainstream press (Press Democrat). His latest book is Radical Seattle, the General Strike of 1919 (Monthly Review Press). Others include West of Eden, Communes and Utopia in Northern California (PM Press), River of Fire, Commons, Crisis and the Imagination (Pumping Station Press, and E.P. Thompson and The Making of the New Left (Verso). He is co-author with the late E.P. Thompson of Albion’s Fatal Tree, Crime and Society in the Eighteenth Century (Penguin and Pantheon). He lives with his wife, Faith Simon, a Nurse Practitioner, near Caspar on the Mendocino Coast.
James Schoonover
James Schoonover is recently retired from his position as environmental Health and Safety Advisor to the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. Prior to that his career spanned two decades in C-level engineering and management roles including that as Principal Consultant at Schoonover and Associates, specializing in Environmental Health and Safety. He brings significant relative expertise and experience to the Consortium, including research, data analysis, environmental science and compliance, chemistry, sustainability, management, and organizational development,.
