The GOMI Guide Team

Loretta B. Chase has coordinated grant projects for the Cocheco River Watershed Coalition for the last five years, including three as the New Hampshire jurisdiction GOMI coordinator. She has been involved with community development and land use planning for thirty-five years, both as a citizen participant and a professional. Her education includes an M.S., Univ. of New Hampshire,1996, Resource Administration and Management (Community Development) and a B.A., Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1961. Recent grant contracts include water quality monitoring, stream assessments, watershed education, shoreland protection, trail design and construction, tidal rivers protection, regional and rural community land use and transportation planning, rural road design and community process facilitation.

Elizabeth B. Duff is the education coordinator for the Gulf of Maine Institute. Elizabeth has extensive experience in coastal education, environmental education, and teacher training. She has trained over 300 student teachers, teachers, and interns to teach environmental lessons. She is proficient in teaching salt marsh ecology, having taught the Salt Marsh Science project for the past 5 years. She has a Masters of Science degree in environmental studies, and has enjoyed a lifetime of living along the coast in a variety of ecosystems. Elizabeth has over 13 years of teaching experience, including a certification in elementary education, and graduate-level teaching in coastal ecology for middle and high school teachers. She is the chair of the Northeast Environmental Education Partnership (NEEP), based in the North Shore of Massachusetts, and is a member of the Secretary's Advisory Group for Environmental Education (SAGEE).

Daniel Earle is coordinator of GOMI Mapping and a Nova Scotia Guide Team Member. Daniel has a BLA and MLA in landscape architecture and a Ph.D. in marine science with a specialization in coastal zone management. He taught landscape architecture at Louisiana State University for 37 years before retiring and becoming a permanent resident of Canada. His teaching focus was on principles of sustainable design within a bio-regional context. Current activities include being VP of TREPA and organizer of atlas mapping projects for the Tusket River and St. Mary's Bay bio-regions. He and his wife, Sue, are members of the core group of the Gulf of Maine Expedition--an environmental awareness and educational venture led by a kayak team paddling from Cape Cod MA to Cape Sable NS from May to September of 2002 with seminar stops in 10 cities around the GOM.

Susan Farquharson is presently employed as the executive director at Eastern Charlotte Waterways Inc., a community-based and operated environmental resource management center and winner of the Gulf of Maine Visionary Award (1998). The center is one of fifteen Atlantic Coastal Action program sites and is located in the coastal community of St. George, New Brunswick. This is a position she has held since November, 1996. As executive director Susan's responsibilities are multifaceted: she is responsible for environmental programs and project development, which aid communities in environmental management; she acts as a government-community-industry liaison and facilitator; she locates and writes grant proposals for site program maintenance; she oversees the management of staff, a diverse number of programs, and is responsible for site public relations and promotions.  In addition Susan is the proprietor of an International Business Management and Data Compilation business (Due South Strategies), which commenced in January-1996. In this role she has successfully completed various digital-mapping contracts and continues to be an employer in the community.

Mil Nickerson is immediate past president and founding member of the Tusket River Environmental Protection Association (TREPA) and currently TREPA's representative on the Gulf of Maine Institute. Mil is also the chair of the Tusket River Gaspereau Dipnetters Association and a member of the Canadian Environmental Network Oceans and Mining working Groups. He served as chair of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network, the Ministers Clean Air Task Force, and as a member of Working Group 6 of the AQUAMIN Project, which was tasked with the review of the Metal Mining Liquid Effluent Regulations.

Mil is retired from the Canadian Armed Forces (Air) and is currently a part time commercial fisherman:

Sally Soule is the Coastal Nonpoint Source Pollution coordinator for the New Hampshire Coastal Program. Sally has an MS in environmental education from Lesley College and the Audubon Expedition Institute. From 1996 to 2000 Sally was the Director of Education for the Nashua River Watershed Association, where she developed and implemented community-based watershed science education programs for youth and adults. Sally also provided oversight for the Association's Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring programs. In her current position, Sally works with communities and partners throughout New Hampshire's coastal watershed to identify and resolve water quality problems resulting from nonpoint source pollution.

Loretta Tatton is currently employed as the projects administrator at Eastern Charlotte Waterways Inc., a community-based and operated environmental resource management center and winner of the Gulf of Maine Visionary Award (1998). Loretta began working with the environmental NGO as a volunteer in 1993; since that time she has taken on various roles and responsibilities from office clerk to the position she presently holds. Loretta is a graduate of the Saint John College where she received a diploma in business administration. She has worked in the field of business holding various management positions. Her responsibilities in this position include the administration of ECW's ongoing educational program with students in grades K-12 throughout the Fundy Composite Watershed in southern New Brunswick. In this role she engages students in environmental projects, which provide them with a hands-on experience in understanding the issues, the potential and actual effects and the role students must play in environmental future.

John P. Terry is the president of GOMI, Inc. and chair of the Guide Team. He has a Ph.D. in Community Social Psychology from Boston College. Until fall, 2002, John was editor-in-chief of CYD Journal and CYD Anthology (see www.cydjournal.org). Previously, he was director of research and evaluation for Associates for Youth Development. His many years of experience in the fields of education, prevention, evaluation, and Community Youth Development include 15 years at MIT, where he taught courses on the role of education in society, supervised the MIT teacher education program, directed the MIT Wellesley College Upward Bound Program, and founded an innovative state-wide teacher training program. While at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell John oversaw the university's comprehensive academic reorganization, was principal investigator for the Lowell Community/University Partnership--a comprehensive, citywide substance abuse prevention program--and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology and primary prevention. In addition, John has taught courses in psychology and human ecology at Boston College and the College of the Atlantic. He is currently a freelance consultant with schools and community-based organizations.