Speakers

Keynote Speaker:  Robert W. Sandford, author of "Ethical Water", "Restoring the Flow" and "The Columbia Icefields"; international advisory board member to the Rosenburg International Forum on Water Policy; Co-Chair of Canada's Forum on Leadership for Water (FLOW).

Susan Adams, Executive Director, Washington Water Trust

Michael Barber,  Professor and Director, State of Washington Water Research Center 

David Conlin, GeoEngineers, Inc.

Barb Cosens, Professor, University of Idaho College of Law and Waters of the West Program. Member of Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance

Urban Eberhart, Director, Kittitas Reclamation District

Kathy Eichenberger, P.E., Executive Director, Provincial Columbia River Treaty Review Team, B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines

Dave Fast, Senior Research Scientist, Yakama Nation Fisheries

Michael Garrity, Washington State Conservation Director, American Rivers- Northwest Regional Office

Andrew Grassell, Chelan County PUD and Columbia River Treaty Power Group

Alan F. Hamlet, Professor. University of Washington Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for Science in the Earth System Climate Impacts Group

Deborah Harford, Executive Director, Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT), Simon Fraser University

Jason Hatch, Project Manager, Trout Unlimited - Washington Water Project

Paul Jewell, Commissioner and Chair, Kittitas County; Columbia River County Commissioners Policy Advisory Group

Carson Keeler, Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County, WA

Jonathan Kohr, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Paul Lumley, Executive Director, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

Jason McCormick, Project Manager, Washington Water Trust

Garry Merkel, Chair, Columbia Basin Trust Board of Directors

Ruben Ochoa, Oregon Water Resources Department

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, author of The Geography of Memory

Adam Price, Hydrologic Engineer - Water Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Matt Rea, Treaty Review Program Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or
Nancy Stephan, Treaty Review Program Manager Bonneville Power Administration

Brandon Rogers, Yakama Nation Fisheries

Derek Sandison, Director, Washington State Department of Ecology- Office of Columbia River

Bill Sharp, Research Scientist, Yakama Nation Fisheries

Suzanne Skinner, Executive Director, Center for Environmental Law and Policy

John Tracy, director of Idaho Water Resources Research Institute at the University of Idaho

Julie Vano, PhD Candidate, University of Washington

*Additional speakers will be announced as they are confirmed.  Speakers are subject to change.