Interdisciplinary Water Resources Seminar
Monday, November 9, 2009, 04:00 PM
Clark, Room A206

GRAD 592: Interdisciplinary Water Resources Seminar

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Title: "Environmental Protection and Water Supply Development: Legal Tools and Constraints"

Speaker: Melinda Kassen

Location: Clark, Room A 206

Date/time: Monday, Nov. 9, 4-5 p.m.

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Speaker Bio

Melinda Kassen directs Trout Unlimited’s Western Water Project, whose staff work in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest to protect, reconnect and restore healthy stream flows primarily through state level advocacy and landowner partnerships. She opened TU’s Water Project with the Colorado office in 1998. stints:

- Prosecuting domestic violence and other crimes in Los Angeles;

- Representing the Colorado Water Quality Control Division and Commission, State Engineer and Water Conservation Board with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office

- Handling water– including the Two Forks Dam campaign – and toxics matters at the Environmental Defense Fund

- Teaching environmental and administrative Law at the University of Denver’s College of Law

- Serving as Environmental Counsel to the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee

- Working for ICF Kaiser and Kaiser-Hill on cleaning up and funding federal facilities, primarily the Rocky Flats Plant

She serves as the Governor’s environmental and recreation water user appointee to the Inter-Basin Compact Committee, a legislatively established body whose mission is to foster agreement among Colorado water interests.

Previously, she served on the Rocky Flats Citizens Monitoring Council, created by Colorado’s Governor and the US Representative for Colorado House District #2. She is a frequent speaker on water and other matters and has published nine articles on water and federal facilities issues.

Raised in Ohio, she received her AB from Dartmouth College magna cum laude and her JD from Stanford Law School.

Abstract - none

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Event Contact: Reagan Waskom can be reached at (970) 491-6308

Sponsored by the CSU Water Center.