Mark Ellard is a senior principal engineer based in Geosyntec’s Orlando, Florida, office. He has more than 27 years of Florida experience in water resources and environmental engineering. His water resources expertise includes diverse stormwater management and water quality assessment projects, including watershed management, master planning, floodplain management, pollutant load assessment, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Total Maximum Daily Loads regulatory compliance, environment resource permitting, hydrologic and hydraulic and groundwater flow modeling, and water quality monitoring. He has extensive experience in the application of low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure (GI) practices for urban stormwater management.

Jonathan P. Huels is a shareholder in the Orlando law firm of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. Mr. Huels has a broad background in environmental law, land use and zoning, and litigation. He focuses his legal practice on working with local governments and other regulatory authorities in order to address the needs of his clients related to environmental permitting and compliance, zoning, comprehensive plans, concurrency, administrative law, developments of regional impact, due diligence and property rights. Mr. Huels serves on the Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge and Education Center Board of Directors and is a member of the Coastal Conservation Association. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Environmental and Land Use Section of The Florida Bar, the Orange County Environmental Protection Commission, and the Central Florida Association of Environmental Professionals. Mr. Huels has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in environmental science from the University of Florida and the University of Idaho, and he has a law degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Larry G. Schmaltz, PE, GC, FLAC is Senior Vice President – Florida Environmental Services Manager with NOVA in Tampa, Florida. Mr. Schmaltz has over 30 years’ experience in engineering and construction management with the past 29 years devoted to the hazardous materials industry. During his career he has been responsible for well over $250 million of assessment, remediation and civil/environmental engineering projects for commercial, industrial and governmental clients. His experience includes project operations management, personnel management, development of site contamination assessments and remedial action plans, review of remediation plans and reports, and review of geotechnical engineering reports, indoor air quality reports and asbestos reports. Further, he consults on regulatory compliance matters.

Christine Senne is of counsel to Manson Bolves Donaldson Varn, PA, and president of Senne Law Firm, PA. She practices environmental and water resources law throughout Florida. Ms. Senne received her law degree from the Florida State University College of Law and her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College. She is a member of The Florida Bar’s Environmental and Land Use Section, the American Water Resources Association’s Florida Section, and Highlands County, Florida’s, Natural Resources Advisory Committee. She resides in Lake Placid, Florida.

Ronald L. Weaver is of counsel with Stearns Weaver Miller in Tampa, Florida. Mr. Weaver has extensive experience in advising landowners, development companies and occasionally local governments in environmental, land use and property rights law and real estate acquisition and financing. He has conducted land use, environmental, zoning, developments of regional impact (DRI), comprehensive plan, and concurrency due diligence for the acquisition and development of over $3 billion worth of Florida property in 30 different counties and 50 cities, including a $600 million due diligence of 12 properties for one acquisition/ financing. Mr. Weaver speaks regularly on land use issues and has written over 200 articles in national, local and regional publications, law journals and newsletters. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal on growth management, concurrency, property rights and takings cases. Mr. Weaver has published commentaries and articles in NAIOP’s Development magazine and the Urban Land Institute’s Urban Land magazine.