Workshop 6 Speakers

David Bell is a senior water resources scientist and project manager with Jacobs Solutions based out of Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and has over 15 years of consulting experience focused on water resources planning and permitting, supporting engineering and design, and developing sustainability and resilience strategies for both public and private sectors clients. Some of David’s recent diverse client and project work include The City of Miami Beach, Georgia Tech, The Nature Conservancy, Tyndall Air Force Base, and Nike.

As the founder and president of Biohabitats, Keith Bowers leads a multidisciplinary mission driven organization focused on conservation planning, ecological restoration, and regenerative design. Keith has applied his expertise to more than 1,000 projects throughout North America. Keith’s work spans the scales from site-specific nature-based design projects that conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change, and address environmental injustices, to regional landscape level projects that conserve habitat, sequester carbon and restore ecosystem processes. Keith served on the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and currently serves on the board for the University of Pennsylvania’s Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. Keith also served on the boards of the Society for Ecological Restoration and the Wildlands Network.

Kim Morganello is a Water Resources Associate for Clemson Extension, based in Charleston, South Carolina. Kim focuses her work on community resiliency and adaptation as it relates to water quantity and quality concerns. Kim has developed tools, resources and programming to broaden the application of landscape-level best management practices, in particular rain gardens, vegetative buffers, rainwater harvesting, living shorelines, stormwater pond retrofits and native plant landscaping. Kim Coordinates Clemson Extension’s Carolina Clear program, providing support to the six regional stormwater education consortiums in the state and the 42 participating local governments. Kim also serves as the Assistant Program Team Leader for Extension’s Water Resources Team and enjoys collaborative development of innovative Extension pedagogy and strategic planning to better steward water resources for current and future generations.

Joshua is a licensed professional engineer with 18 years of experience in analyses, planning, design, and implementation of natural resources and living infrastructure engineering projects across the Southeast. Joshua founded Robinson Design Engineers in 2008 in an effort to provide ecologically-based engineering analyses and design for low impact development projects, and to integrate ecosystem restoration into urban and rural communities.

Joshua also serves as adjunct faculty at the College of Charleston’s environmental geosciences department, where he teaches on watershed hydrology and advises graduate students on research projects involving tidal hydrology, rainfall hydrology, water quality, and ecosystem restoration. Joshua was recently an instructor in NOAA’s ”Nature-Based Infrastructure for Coastal Hazards” training workshop, and Clemson’s Coastal Low Impact Development workshop series.