Seeking new board members!
We are looking for a few good board members as well as members of our new Advisory Board! Our Freshwater Flows Program is informing and motivating elected officials and decision-makers to advocate for sufficient freshwater flows through the estuary. The fit has to be good and work for the estuary, the Board, and you as a Board member. Rewards are great. Interested? Contact Mitch Avalon, Chair of the Board at mitch.avalon @ pw.cccounty.us (no spaces).
Board of Directors
The Friends of the Estuary Board of Directors consists of individuals from environmental, business, industry, state and local government agencies, and other community members.
Mitch Avalon, Contra Costa Count Flood Control & Water Conservation District
Chuck Batts, Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (ret.)
Arthur Feinstein, Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge
Jane Lavelle, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Mike Monroe, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 (ret.)
Barbara Salzman, Marin Audubon Society
Karen Taberski, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (ret.)
Paula Trigueros, San Francisco Estuary Partnership (ret.)
The Board of Friends of the Estuary is currently on hiatus. Normal Board meetings are scheduled to resume in the future.
The Board meets bimonthly. Administrative support is provided by the Association of Bay Area Governments through a cooperative agreement with the US EPA and a memorandum of understanding with the SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Mitch Avalon, Contra Costa Count Flood Control & Water Conservation District
Chuck Batts, Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (ret.)
Arthur Feinstein, Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge
Jane Lavelle, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Mike Monroe, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 (ret.)
Barbara Salzman, Marin Audubon Society
Karen Taberski, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (ret.)
Paula Trigueros, San Francisco Estuary Partnership (ret.)
The Board of Friends of the Estuary is currently on hiatus. Normal Board meetings are scheduled to resume in the future.
The Board meets bimonthly. Administrative support is provided by the Association of Bay Area Governments through a cooperative agreement with the US EPA and a memorandum of understanding with the SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Advisory Board
Jeremy Lowe, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Richard Morat, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (ret.)
Ann Spaulding, consultant
Gayle Vaughan, water educator
Christine Boschen, Communications consulting firm
Richard Morat, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (ret.)
Ann Spaulding, consultant
Gayle Vaughan, water educator
Christine Boschen, Communications consulting firm
In Memoriam: Ted Smith (1937-2016)
Friends of the San Francisco Estuary is proud to dedicate one of the Outstanding Environmental Project Awards in Ted's name. In the future, a particularly remarkable awardee will be honored with the Ted Smith Outstanding Environmental Project Award, to be announced at the biennial State of the Estuary Conference. More information on these awards is available here.
Founding Board member Ted Smith was a dedicated champion of the Estuary. He was "all-in from the beginning," as his fellow Board members recall. He served as president of the organization for a number of years, and held other offices as well. His passion for Friends' mission will be missed.
He is survived by his wife Susan Wiesner, son Edward Mark Smith and his wife Anne, daughter Kirsten Towne Smith, grandsons Edward Raymond Smith and Robert Alexander Smith, and former wife and mother of his children Winifred Clegg Smith.
Donations may be made in his memory to the Santa Rosa High School Foundation (P.O. Box 11006, Santa Rosa, CA 95406), Friends of the San Francisco Estuary, or the East Bay Regional Park Foundation (P.O. Box 21074, Crestmont Station, Oakland, Ca 94620). - See his full obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle here.
Founding Board member Ted Smith was a dedicated champion of the Estuary. He was "all-in from the beginning," as his fellow Board members recall. He served as president of the organization for a number of years, and held other offices as well. His passion for Friends' mission will be missed.
He is survived by his wife Susan Wiesner, son Edward Mark Smith and his wife Anne, daughter Kirsten Towne Smith, grandsons Edward Raymond Smith and Robert Alexander Smith, and former wife and mother of his children Winifred Clegg Smith.
Donations may be made in his memory to the Santa Rosa High School Foundation (P.O. Box 11006, Santa Rosa, CA 95406), Friends of the San Francisco Estuary, or the East Bay Regional Park Foundation (P.O. Box 21074, Crestmont Station, Oakland, Ca 94620). - See his full obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle here.