The 2009 Judges
Thank you to all our judges who put so much time and effort into
making our Awards Program such a success.
Therese Carpenter
is an Environmental Scientist with seven years experience encompassing a broad spectrum of environmental issues.
She has been actively involved in Brownfields since 2005, working as a community liaison and sponsored project
representative at local, regional, and national levels, in addition to performing site assessments and investigative work.
Ms. Carpenter's interests include sustainable redevelopment and community infill
projects with an emphasis in social justice issues. Ms. Carpenter is currently finishing her
Master of International Environmental Management and Sustainability at Arizona State University,
and is looking toward pursuing her Doctorate in Environmental Social Science.
Todd S. Davis
Todd S. Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of Hemisphere Development, a nationally recognized
brownfield development firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his bachelor of business
administration from the University of Michigan, with Distinction, and his law degree from The George
Washington University, with Honors. Mr. Davis also was formerly a partner in Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan &
Aronoff LLP and was Co-Chairman of the firm's Environmental Practice Group.
Mr. Davis has been widely published in treatises, periodicals and newspapers. He is the principal author of an
extensive 1,100-page treatise on redeveloping brownfield sites nationally, entitled Brownfields: A Comprehensive
Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property (2d Ed. 2002), published by the American Bar Association
(ABA). This treatise has been the most successful book published by the ABA's Environmental Section. He has
contributed to a number of national publications on environmental law, including the Urban Land Institute's
book on brownfield redevelopment. He lectures often on topics related to the brownfield industry.
Josephine Faass
has a Ph.D. in environmental policy from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and
Public Policy at Rutgers University. Dr. Faass' experience in the field of remediation includes working as a
Petroleum Cleanup Site Manager with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and as a Research
Associate at the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment.
She has also been involved with a number of redevelopments throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has
organized and moderated sessions at Drexel University's "Greening the Post-Industrial City" conference, interned
with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Office of Smart Growth, and published on various
redevelopment-related topics in popular and peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Faass currently works as a Research
Associate at the Center for Transportation Safety, Security and Risk at Rutgers University.
Whitney Hawke
currently attends Lewis & Clark law school, where she plans to focus on land use and
environmental law. In May 2009, Ms. Hawke graduated with honors from Occidental College in Los Angeles,
and obtained degrees in both Politics, and Urban & Environmental Policy. Her senior comprehensive project
researched case studies of interim-use brownfield projects and their feasibility in the United States.
While attending Occidental, she worked for the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness where
she co-authored a report on homeless deaths in Los Angeles County titled "Dying Without Dignity". Ms. Hawke
also worked as a research assistant to Professor Peter Dreier, during which time she researched School and City
Partnerships in California.
Colleen Kokas
is the Brownfield Manager within the Office of Brownfield Reuse at the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection. With many years of experience in project financing, cleanup
negotiations, litigation and cost recovery support, and brownfield policy development, Ms. Kokas is recognized
as one of the state's most knowledgeable experts on brownfield redevelopment and financing.
In her current role, Ms. Kokas administers all of the Department's brownfield incentive programs, including the
Brownfield Development Area initiative, the Landfill Redevelopment Program, the Hazardous Discharge Site
Remediation Fund, Prospective Purchaser Agreements, the Brownfield Reimbursement Program and the Federal
Taxpayer Relief Act. She advises developers and municipalities on all aspects of brownfield remediation,
including the application of the most suitable brownfield incentives for a project.
Ms. Kokas sits on the Executive Committee of the NJ Society of Women Environmental Professionals and on the
Board of the Institute of Brownfield Professionals. She is also an adjunct professor at the NJ Institute of
Technology teaching a graduate course on Brownfields, as well as an instructor of Continuing Education Courses
at Rutgers University.
Thomas Muscarello
is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at DePaul University's College
of Computing and Digital Media and is the College's Director of External Research. This position focuses on
building strategic relationships with business and government. In this job and in private industry he has met
and worked with economic development officers of dozens of countries with a focus on economically and
environmentally distressed areas. He has created economic incubator plans for 4 municipalities, raised
brown-field/economic development funding, and been a member of numerous redevelopment commissions
including the Waukegan, IL New Harbor City Renaissance Committee and Harvard, IL Economic Development
Incubator project.
Mr. Muscarello has developed working relationships with the EDA, EPA, DOL, HUD, and local, state, and
Federal agencies and elected officials and has developed several earmarked grants. He was founder and Executive
Director of DeTech, DePaul's startup "incubator" facility. He was also a charter member of Chicago's Mayor's
Council of Technology Advisors (co-chairing the Technology Commercialization committee).
Chris Olson
has over 29 years of experience in the Petrochemical Industry with Amoco/BP where he has
held a wide spectrum of roles and responsibilities, including domestic and international oil and gas exploration,
directing worldwide environmental compliance and management system audits, developing environmental
permitting strategies, acquisition and divestment due diligence support, to managing complex, multi-party
environmental remediation projects and associated stakeholder relations.
From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Olson held the position of Real Estate Reuse Manager for BP. In this global role, he
directly managed the centralization, and prioritization of non-operating land assets across BP's diverse business
lines, provided strategic advice to the operating businesses, and managed real estate transactions and associated
risk transfer, ultimately placing more than 3000 acres of BP's environmentally impaired real estate back into the
marketplace for new sustainable development.
In September 2009, Mr. Olson joined Entrix as Senior Consultant, Land Asset Management to assist other
corporations and large landowners with strategies and divestment solutions for their environmentally challenged
real estate portfolio and to incorporate Entrix' natural resource valuation mitigation, and management strengths
into that offering
Gary Rozmus
P.E. is a Vice President of Gannett Fleming where he directs a firm-wide team that provides
nation-wide turnkey Sustainable Brownfield redevelopment services. He is also the First Chairman
of the Board of Directors for the New York City Partnership of Brownfield Practitioners.
Mr. Rozmus has obtained a BS in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College and an MS in civil
engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York. Mr. Rozmus has more than 34 years of
experience in the environmental consulting services field. He directs a broad range of
services including site investigation and remediation, pre-purchase/pre-sale assessments
and due diligence, hazardous waste materials management, underground storage tank programs,
rapid response to hazardous materials spills, and environmental compliance. He directs
construction, demolition, and facility decommissioning / infrastructure rehabilitation
services; develops and manages risk-based corrective action (RBCA) programs at closed or
abandoned industrial and hazardous waste sites; and provides litigation-related services for clients and their attorneys.
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Timothy Murray
Lieutenant Governor, state of Massachusetts
Boston, Mass. |
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Linda Lannen
Chief Information Officer, Kleinfelder
San Diego, Calif. |
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Jason Seyler
Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality
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Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
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 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
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