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Emily Porter-Goff, PhDCoordinatorI was born and raised in Vermont. I spent much of my childhood playing on my grandparents beautiful dairy farm in Cambridge. Sugaring and farming was and is a way of life for the Porters. When at my own home, I spent all my free time splashing in the stream or tromping through the woods in my mud boots. Destined to spend my life enjoying the out-of-doors, I earned a BS from Russell Sage College (Troy, NY) in Environmental Biology. Then I moved up the hill to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for a PhD in Freshwater Ecology. After nearly a decade of life in the city, in search of something new, I spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Finally, the stars aligned to bring us back to our Vermont roots. Over the last few years we have enjoyed large projects on our 1880 farm house. Here I have taken part in the most fascinating science project of my life: watching my two children grow. I have loved being home with them but I have also missed working for the environment. I am so excited to join the Franklin Watershed committee in their fight for Lake Carmi. Lets do some great projects together and reduce those nutrients!
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Catie Bartone
ECO AmeriCorps Member 2018-19
Catie is our 2018-19 ECO AmeriCorps member!
I am originally from Darien, Connecticut, about 45 minutes outside of Manhattan! I went to school at the University of Vermont, where I studied environmental engineering and environmental studies. I graduated in 2016, left Vermont to move back home and work for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, where I worked on improving the complicated and vast water and wastewater infrastructure within the city. I then left suburbia and moved into the heart of Queens, working for a small environmental engineering firm working on brownfield sites using top-notch bioremediation technologies. I missed the beauty of Vermont, and I missed my ability to ski, hike, backpack, and swim all in one place - quite a beautiful one, I might add! I decided to return last fall and took on a position with Trudell Consulting Engineers as an environmental scientist working on wetland restoration projects, water infrastructure upgrades for Jay Peak & Smuggler's Notch Resort, as well as the GIS analysis of natural resources. I took a bit of a turn and worked with Resource Systems Group and worked on a few transportation planning projects, including an awesome project involving the Winooski Avenue Corridor Study with the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission. Just this fall, after a whirlwind of awesome opportunities in the engineering and science world for the past two years, I took on a position with ECO AmeriCorps through the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, who paired me up with the Franklin Watershed Committee and the Northwest Regional Planning Commission! I am delighted about this opportunity to become a part of a larger cause, and am excited to apply my engineering and scientific background to a varied, multi-faceted issue.
I am originally from Darien, Connecticut, about 45 minutes outside of Manhattan! I went to school at the University of Vermont, where I studied environmental engineering and environmental studies. I graduated in 2016, left Vermont to move back home and work for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, where I worked on improving the complicated and vast water and wastewater infrastructure within the city. I then left suburbia and moved into the heart of Queens, working for a small environmental engineering firm working on brownfield sites using top-notch bioremediation technologies. I missed the beauty of Vermont, and I missed my ability to ski, hike, backpack, and swim all in one place - quite a beautiful one, I might add! I decided to return last fall and took on a position with Trudell Consulting Engineers as an environmental scientist working on wetland restoration projects, water infrastructure upgrades for Jay Peak & Smuggler's Notch Resort, as well as the GIS analysis of natural resources. I took a bit of a turn and worked with Resource Systems Group and worked on a few transportation planning projects, including an awesome project involving the Winooski Avenue Corridor Study with the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission. Just this fall, after a whirlwind of awesome opportunities in the engineering and science world for the past two years, I took on a position with ECO AmeriCorps through the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, who paired me up with the Franklin Watershed Committee and the Northwest Regional Planning Commission! I am delighted about this opportunity to become a part of a larger cause, and am excited to apply my engineering and scientific background to a varied, multi-faceted issue.
Kate Longfield
ECO AmeriCorps Member 2019-2020
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Kate is our 2019-20 ECO AmeriCorps member!
I am originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I grew up exploring Harvard Square, the Charles River, and Boston. In search of mountains, I went to school at the University of Vermont, where I studied Environmental Studies, concentrating in environmental justice and land use planning. While at UVM I interned with Toxics Action Center, a nonprofit that provides community organizing strategies and legal expertise to neighborhoods facing toxic threats across New England. Following my internship, I won a research grant to study Vermont’s land use law, Act 250, and how it could better address climate change and social equity. I also worked as a Transportation Planning Intern at the Burlington Department of Public Works, improving bike and pedestrian infrastructure and conducting community outreach on projects city-wide. I have always loved the outdoors and have spent extended periods of time whitewater canoeing in Canada, backpacking in New Hampshire, and even winter camping in northern Maine. Last summer I got the opportunity to complete a 21-day thru-hike of Vermont’s Long Trail. Currently, I am working as a Transportation Intern Technician for the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, focusing on road erosion and traffic data collection and analysis. I care deeply about clean water, protecting wild places, creating art, poetry, human relationships, and cooking. Looking to the fall, I am excited to have taken a position with ECO AmeriCorps through the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, where I will have a dual position at the Franklin Watershed Committee and the Northwest Regional Planning Commission. Eager for all that’s to come! |
Meet Our Board Members
Robert Evans, President
Pete Benevento, Vice President
Marion Benevento, Treasurer and Secretary
Steve Comeau
Pat Hayes
Hal Bill
Greg Tatro
Casey Robinson
Judith McLaughlin
Robert Cormier
Susan Prasch
Pete Benevento, Vice President
Marion Benevento, Treasurer and Secretary
Steve Comeau
Pat Hayes
Hal Bill
Greg Tatro
Casey Robinson
Judith McLaughlin
Robert Cormier
Susan Prasch
The Franklin Watershed Committee is proud to work with the following organizations that share our common goals of a health lake and community.
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Thanks to our latest grant funder for supporting our work! The New England Grassroots Environment Fund energizes and nurtures long-term civic engagement in local initiatives that create and maintain healthy, just, safe and sustainable communities using stories, tools and dollars to fuel local activism and social change. Since 1996, the Grassroots Fund’s core grant making program continues to fund nearly 150 grants annually, giving more than $4 million in 20 years to more than 2,000 community groups and initiatives covering more than 60 percent of New England’s cities and towns. For more information, please visit grassrootsfund.org or call 603-905-9915.
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