Puget Sound Chapter, Pacific Northwest International Section

2007-2008 OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

 

Claude Williams, Board Position Chair (2008 – 2009)
Last year Claude finished a three year tour as a chapter board member but has continued as a volunteer to take care of the PNWIS and PS Chapter web pages and the section’s Email List Serve.  Claude received his Mechanical Engineering degree in 1978 from the University of New Mexico . He was commissioned as a Naval Officer and became Main Propulsion Assistant on a Navy Frigate after washing out of flight school. (The Navy’s planes are rated for 10-G’s, … just not on the landing gear). After 3 years at sea he became a Naval Engineering Instructor in Rhode Island . He eventually rejoined the real world as a facilities engineer at GE (Syracuse NY), as an environmental engineer at GE, and later as a Mechanical Engineering consultant in Bellevue, WA . Claude has been with the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency as an air permit engineer since 1990.  Claude received “Best Presentation” at PNWIS 2006, but really wanted the “Bent Black Banana”.  He is able to leap street curbs in a single bound but falls off Mechanical Bulls. He now lives in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle because he figures the hill will become another San Juan island, if global warming continues at its present pace. Claude says, "Anything worth doing, is worth doing to excess".

 

Chris Drechsel, Board Position Past Chair (2008 – 2009)
Mr. Chris Drechsel is a Senior Environmental Professional for Tesoro Companies, Inc.  Mr. Drechsel has worked in the air quality compliance/permitting field for over 10 years.   His experience includes Title V, Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), and state construction permitting and compliance, emission inventory development, and facility compliance audits and inspections. As a Managing Consultant for Trinity Consultants and a Regulatory Specialist for Puget Sound Energy, Mr. Drechsel managed permitting and compliance programs/projects for various types of industrial facilities.  In addition, Mr. Drechsel has served as a compliance inspector for two different local air pollution authorities (Northwest Air Pollution Authority & Olympic Region Clean Air Agency).   Mr. Drechsel holds a Bachelor and Masters degree in Environmental Science/Environmental Studies from Western Washington University and The Evergreen State College, respectively.

Maggie Corbin, Vice Chair (2008-2009)

Maggie Corbin is a Senior Air Quality Consultant for Aware Consulting.   She previously managed that air quality program at the Port of Seattle’s Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and worked for over 10 years with the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.  She has been active in the Puget Sound Chapter and PNWIS for several decades.  She is a past chair and this is her 2nd round through this position.

 

Alan T. Butler, Treasurer (2008 - 2009)

Alan is a P.E. (Mechanical Engineering), who though theoretically retired, now finds himself working for Bellevue office of Parametrix, Inc. He was a former air pollution engineer for the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, and earlier for the Washington Department of Ecology. Prior to joining the Department of Ecology, he washed Greenburg-Smith impingers and ran an air monitoring station for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.   Mr. Butler completed his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1976 at Heald Engineering College .   Alan says, “Protect the environment; keep it simple; make it happen” and, of course, “Ride free“.   --[Here is a Picture of Alan's famous Motorcycle  ( 190 K download )]  

Steve Rybolt, Secretary (2008 - 2009)

Steve Rybolt is an Environmental Management Specialist with the Port of Seattle . His experience include project management, compliance assessments, air quality planning, strategic planning, SEPA/NEPA permitting and sustainability. Additionally, Mr. Rybolt has served as a compliance inspector for two different local air pollution authorities (Northwest Air Pollution Authority & Olympic Region Clean Air Agency). Currently, he serves as the Chair of the Student Programs Committee for PNWIS and Chair of the Student Programs and Development Committee for A&WMAs Education Council. Steve has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Economics and a Master of Science in Resource Management and Environmental Policy from Western Washington University ’s Huxley College of the Environment. In his spare time he enjoys “playing” in the mountains, cleaning and baking cookies.

Judith Aasland, Board Position #1 (2007 – 2009) 

 By unanimous applause during the May chapter meeting we appointed Judith Assland of TRC to fill in for Carole's remaining term. 

Stacia Dugan, Board Position #2 (2006 - 2009)
Stacia Dugan has worked for CH2M HILL since 1995 as an Air Quality Engineer. Prior to joining CH2M HILL she worked for AmTest - Air Quality, Inc. as a Project Engineer. She received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington in 1988 and graduate studies in Civil Engineering, Department of Environmental Health and the Department of Chemical Engineering and the University of Washington . She is also on the steering committee for the Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition.

Stephen Nelson, Board Position #3 (2007 – 2010)

Steve is the President and founder of Coal Creek Environmental Associates (CCEA), an environmental consulting firm based out of Bellevue, WA .  Before starting CCEA, Steve worked as a Senior Engineer and Principal for several consulting firms in California and Washington .  Prior to that, Steve worked for 9 years as Sanitary Engineer with the California Department of Health Services. Steve has been active in local A&WMA activities for more than 10 year, and he has been particularly in organizing many of our technical programs, such as the Environmental Managers Bootcamp and Citizens Lawsuits and retrospective PSD permitting evaluations. Steve is also a past President of the Puget Sound Chapter.  Steve says, "I may be free, but I'm not cheap"

 

Toby Allen, Board Position #4 (2007 – 2010)

Toby has a Chemical Engineering degree (Biosciences emphasis) from the University of North Dakota 1994 – (Nutrition lab rat and swing dancer), a MS in Chemical Engineering (Toxicology emphasis) from Colorado State University 1997  - ("slacker grad student with a serious ski habit"). She has worked for the  Environmental Protection Agency - National Enforcement Investigations Center 1997-2003 as a Field investigator for civil and criminal air quality projects  ("Vail rat – turned pro"), then she crossed over to where the rubber meets the road at NWCAA, 2003 – present.  There she is a permit engineer  and a Title 5 (air operating permit) compliance evaluator – ("I play therefore I am"). She "enlisted" and has served with distinction in A&WMA since 2004.

 

Madonna Narvaez (EPA) Board Position #5 (2008 – 2011)

Madonna Narvaez has 5 years experience in the air toxics program and over 16 years as a permit writer and whole effluent toxicity expert in NPDES. Currently she is the Air Toxics Team leader and the Climate Change Sublead staff coordinator. She graduated from the University of Kansas as a chemical engineer. In her free time, she enjoys designing and making jewelry, traveling, and being at peace with the knowledge that the KU Jayhawks are actually the best men's basketball team and that Memphis may soon learn that as well.

 
Jeromy Adams Board Position #6 (2008 – 2011)

Jeromy Adams is an Environmental Engineers with Nucor Steel Seattle, Inc. His experience in the environmental field includes hazardous and non-hazardous waste reuse, recycle, and disposal management, ISO program development and certification, and project management. Trying to delay entry into the working world, Jeromy received a BS in Microbiology and Chemistry from Washington State University . When he’s not trying to reduce the environmental footprint of the steel operations he likes to spend his time playing on and under the water.