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The NABS established a Taxonomic Certification Committee (TCC) at the annual conference in Athens Georgia (May 2003).  The charge to this Committee is the design, implementation, and management of a certification program for aquatic invertebrate identification in North America. 

 

 

The current members of the committee are: 

Bern Sweeney (co chair)

Stroud Water Research Center

970 Spencer Road

Avondale, Pennsylvania 19311 USA

Telephone # (610) 268-2153 x222

Email sweeney@stroudcenter.org

John Morse (co chair)

Department of Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences
Clemson University
Long Hall, Box 340315
Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0315 USA
Telephone # (864) 656-5049
Email JMORSE@exchange.clemson.edu

Scott Miller

Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012, MRC 105
Washington, DC 20013-7012 
Telephone #  202-633-5132
Email millers@si.edu

Barry C. Poulton
U.S. Geological Survey - Biological Resources Division
Columbia Environmental Research Center
4200 New Haven Road
Columbia, Missouri  65201  USA
Telephone # (573) 876-1873
Email: Barry_Poulton@usgs.gov

Richard Mitchell
USEPA Office of Water
1200 Pennsylvania Ave.NW (4305T) 
Washington, DC 20460
Telephone # 
Email Mitchell. Richard

Stephanie Strachan

Environmental Monitoring Scientist
Pacific & Yukon Water Quality Monitoring Office
Environment Canada

#201 - 401 Burrard Street, Vancouver BC, V6C 3S5
phone: 604-664-4361
fax: 604-664-9126
email: Stephanie.Strachan@ec.gc.ca

Gary Lester

EcoAnalysts, Inc.

1420 South Blaine St., Ste 14

Moscow, Idaho 83843 USA

Telephone # (208) 882-2588

Email glester@ecoanalysts.com

Mark Wetzel

Illinois Natural History Survey 

Center for Biodiversity

172 Natural Resources Building, MC-652

607 E. Peabody Drive

Champaign, Illinois  61820-6917 USA

Telephone # (217) 244-2108

Email mjwetzel@illinois.edu

Seat on the TCC currently open
May, 2011

James (Sam) Stribling

Tetra Tech, Inc.

400 Red Brook Blvd., Suite 200
Owings Mills, MD 21117-5159 USA

Telephone # (410) 356-8993

Email james.stribling@tetratech.com

 

  
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