National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC)

Purpose: The National Water Monitoring Council (NWQMC) provides a national forum for coordination of consistent and scientifically defensible methods and strategies to improve water quality monitoring, assessment and reporting.

Contact information:

Name: Michael Yurewicz, Co-Chair
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Phone: 703-648-5811
Email address: mcyurewi@usgs.gov

Name: Susan Holdsworth, Co-Chair,
Organization: Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds
Phone: 202-566-1187
Email address: holdsworth.susan@epa.gov

Name: Cathy Tate, Executive Secretary
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Phone: 303-236-6927
Email address: cmtate@usgs.gov

Methods and Data Comparability Board (MDCB)

Purpose:The NWQMC Methods and Data Comparability Board provides a forum for exploring, evaluating, and promoting methods that facilitate collaboration and further comparability between water monitoring programs.

Contact information:

Name: Daniel J. Sullivan, Co-Chair
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Phone number: 608-821-3869
Email: djsulliv@usgs.gov

Name: Steven C. Wendelken, Co-Chair
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Phone: 513-569-7491
Email: wendelken.steve@epa.gov

Name: Cheryl A. Buchwald, Executive Secretary
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Phone: 608-821-3873
Email: cabuchwa@usgs.gov

National Liaison Committee for NAWQA (NAWQA)

Purpose:The National Liaision Committee (NLC) for the National ongoing national liaison process for external organizations to work interactively with NAWQA Program in joint problem solving on the water quality issues.

Contact information:

Name: Donna N. Myers, Chair
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Email address: dnmyers@usgs.gov

Subcommittee on Ground Water (SOGW)

Purpose: The overall goal of the SOGW is to develop and encourage implementation of a nationwide, long term ground-water quantity and quality monitoring framework that would provide information necessary for the planning, management, and development of ground-water supplies to meet current and future water needs, and ecosystem requirements.

Contact information:

Name: Robert P. Schreiber Co-Chair,
Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Phone number: 617-452-6251
Email address: SchreiberRP@cdm.com

Name: William L. Cunningham, Co-Chair,
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Phone: 617-452-6251
Email address: wcunning@usgs.gov

Subcommittee on Hydrology (Hydrology)

Purpose: The Subcommittee on Hydrology desires to improve the availability and reliability of surface-water quantity information needed for hazard mitigation, water supply and demand management, and environmental protection.

Contact information:

Name: Richard Raione, Chair,
Organization: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Office of New Reactors
Phone: 301-415-7190
Email address: richard.raione@nrc.gov

Name: Victor Hom, Vice Chair,
Organization: NOAA/National Weather Service
Phone number: 301-713-0006 ext 173
Email address: Victor.Hom@noaa.gov

Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data (SSWD)

Purpose: The Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data jointly sponsored with the Federal Geographic Data Committee develops water-resources components of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Contact information:

Name: Robert R. Pierce, Co-Chair
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Phone: 770-903-9113
Email address: rrpierce@usgs.gov

Name: Thomas (Tod) Dabolt, Co-Chair
Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Phone: 202-564-1450
Email address: dabolt.thomas@epa.gov

Subcommittee on Sedimentation (SOS)

Purpose: The Subcommittee on Sedimentation of the Advisory Committee on Water Information promotes collaboration on the sediment issues and advances in information gathering, storing, and sharing; for decision making about natural resources management and environmental protection. (see Terms of Reference for details).

Contact information:

Name: Marie Garsjo, Chair, Representing
Organization: NRCS, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Phone number: 517-509-3757
Email address: Marie.Garsjo@ftw.USDA.GOV

Name: Amanda Cox, Vice-Chair Representing
Organization: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
Phone number: 970-491-8099
Email address: Amanda.Cox@colostate.edu

Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable (SWRR)

Purpose: The Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable serves as a forum to share information and perspectives that will promote better decision making in the United States regarding the sustainability of our nation's water resources.

Contact information:

Name: Rick Swanson, Co-Chair,
Organization: US Forest Service
Email address: rswanson@fs.fed.us

Name: Robert Wilkinson, Co-Chair,
Organization: Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Email address: wilkinson@es.ucsb.edu

Name: John Wells, Co-Chair,
Organization: Minnesota Environmental Quality Board
State of Minnesota
Email address: jrwells2411@gmail.com

Name: David Berry, Manager and Facilitator
Phone number: 703-741-0791
Email address: davidberry@aol.com

Former subgroups

ACWI Contact

Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI)

Purpose: The ACWI represents the interests of water-information users and professionals in advising the Federal Government on Federal water-information programs and their effectiveness in meeting the Nation's water-information needs.

Contact information:

Name: Anne Castle, Chair,
Organization: Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Email address: N/A

Name: Bill Werkheiser, Alternate Chair,
Organization: Associate Director for Water, USGS
Email address: N/A

Name: Wendy E. Norton, Chief
Organization: Water Information Coordination Program, U.S. Geological Survey
Phone number: 703-648-6810
Email address: wenorton@usgs.gov

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