Resource and Land Management Consultants, Savannah, GeorgiaMr. Brown is a graduate of the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forest Resources. His professional career over the past 20 years has focused on environmental consulting. From 1997 thru 2007, he served as project manager and principal for two environmental consulting firms and managed projects in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. In 2007, Mr. Brown co-founded Resource & Land Consultants (RLC) which is a natural resources consulting firm focusing on wetland regulation compliance and permitting. He has and continues to participate in the development and management of both freshwater and tidal mitigation banks in Georgia and South Carolina. He is a Society of Wetland Scientists certified professional wetland scientist (PWS), a member of the Georgia Environmental Restoration Association, a Board of Directors member for the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, and a member of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Advisory Committe.

Nutter & Associates, Inc., Athens, Georgia
Mr. Greco is a principal at Nutter & Associates and an aquatic ecologist and hydrologist focusing on wetland ecology, water quality assessment, watershed planning, water resource projects, and aquatic biology. Throughout his career, he has used geographic information systems (GIS), in conjunction with field and laboratory data collection, to support critical environmental assessments. Mr. Greco is an active member on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Georgia Environmental Restoration Association and is a certified Professional Wetland Scientist by the Society of Wetland Scientists.

Nutter & Associates, Inc., Athens, GeorgiaDr. Hale is a principal and project scientist at Nutter & Associates, an environmental consulting firm located in Athens, Georgia, that specializes in water resource assessment, permitting, and compliance evaluations. He is certified as a professional hydrologist by the American Institute of Hydrology and is also a registered forester in the state of Georgia. Dr. Hale’s technical expertise includes wetland hydrology, surface and groundwater hydrological modeling, water quality, wetland and stream ecology, and land-use change hydrology. He is a member of the Georgia Environmental Restoration Association and has participated in and completed the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership program.

Mitigation Liaison at US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, Regulatory Division

Mitigation Management, Atlanta and Athens, Georgia
Mr. Miller is an aquatic biologist and ecological restoration practitioner. He earned a B.S. degree in Environmental Science and an M.S. degree in Biology from Georgia College and State University. Mr. Miller has ten years of experience with aquatic resources assessments, surveys, and restoration in the Southeastern United States. He has completed all four levels of Dr. Dave Rosgen’s Natural Channel Design courses. He is currently the only Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) in Georgia, and one of only 12 in the Southeast.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ERDCDr. Pruitt has 37 cumulative years of professional level work experience in both private and public sectors. Currently, he is a research ecologist working with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). Dr. Pruitt has lead studies related to ecology, hydrology, and water quality including sedimentology on a diversity of aquatic ecosystems including streams, wetlands, lakes, estuaries, salt marshes and marine settings across numerous physiographies spanning from 20 miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico to inland freshwater ecosystems including the reef tract of the Florida Keys, the Florida Everglades, and the salt marshes of Georgia.

Bill Sapp focuses on protecting the swamps, tidal creeks, and salt marshes of the Georgia and Alabama coasts and leads SELC’s Georgia Coastal Initiative. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School and his Master of Law degree in Environmental Law from George Washington Law School (with highest honors). Before joining SELC, he served as an assistant regulatory attorney with the Chief Counsel’s office of the Army Corps in DC, clerked for Judge Edenfield in federal district court in Savannah, was an associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, and served as the lead wetlands attorney for Region 4 of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Adam G. Sowatzka Partner at King & Spalding in Atlanta, GA
 Mr. Sowatzka is well known for his thorough grasp of environmental issues, gleaned from his experience as an EPA enforcement attorney, general counsel with an international manufacturing company, and lawyer with King & Spalding. With more than 22 years of experience as an environmental lawyer, he has litigated numerous cases in federal and state courts; represented companies in complex, high-stakes enforcement actions, and advocated before EPA and other regulatory agencies on dozens of rules, permits, and other administrative proceedings. Mr. Sowatzka has handled matters in all environmental media — from water, to air, to waste issues.  He has particular expertise in handling matters involving emerging contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”).  He was the lead attorney in one of the first major regulatory matters involving PFAS contamination of a municipal wastewater treatment plant, including the investigation and characterization of a three-county area in Northern Alabama impacted by biosolids from the plant.  Mr. Sowatzka has been recognized as a leading environmental lawyer by Chambers USA. He has also been named a Georgia Super Lawyer by Georgia Super Lawyers magazine.