Our Vision
Promoting a culture of sharing that guides river restoration
Our Mission
Developing and advancing best practices, funding sources, regulatory solutions, and the workforce for restoring the environment by restoring rivers.
Our “SHARED” Philosophy
Share knowledge with humility
Have patience and discernment for innovation
Advocate excellence
Respect the risk and uncertainty in river systems
Empower, challenge and question
Document and learn from unexpected results
Bylaws
RiverSHARED bylaws can be found at the following link, RiverSHARED Bylaws.
Board of Directors
Gina Crowder Levesque
President
Gina Crowder Levesque has worked with endangered species and habitats as a professional biologist for 35+ years. She holds degrees focused on restoration ecology/conservation biology from Purdue University and the University of Arkansas, with additional graduate work from Oklahoma State University. She is currently a riparian ecologist with Five Smooth Stones Restoration.
George Kelly
Vice-President
Josh Gilman
Treasurer
Matt Stahman
Treasurer
Eric Cromwell
Secretary
Ellen Incelli
Assistant Secretary
Monday Talks Coordinator
Molly Pace
Website & Social Media
Josh Allen
Member at Large
Mr. Kelly is a graduate of Tulane University (B.A.) and a cum laude JD and MSL (Masters in Environmental Law) graduate of the Vermont Law School. He is the founding member of Bespoke Mitigation Partners, a customized environmental business and project advisory firm.
He also served as the Chief Markets Officer from 2014-2019 and remains as a strategic advisor to the Board of Resource Environmental Solutions (RES). Prior to joining RES, Mr. Kelly was the founder and director for Environmental Banc & Exchange, LLC (EBX) from 1997 to 2014.
Mr. Kelly served on the Board for almost ten years and was elected as the President of the National Mitigation Banking Association (US) in 2009 and was recently appointed to serve on the EPA Financial Advisory Board.
Josh Gilman is a Stantec stream restoration design engineer and environmental scientist with 28 years of experience. His passion for good stewardship has been applied in the US and Canada on projects throughout various sectors ranging from stream/wetland mitigation and urban stream enhancement to other less conventional out-of-sector projects (such as community development, industrial asset management, and progressive hybrid transportation practices).
Josh strives to understand and align with project sponsor-specific interests toward seeking a balanced approach to problem-solving. Mr. Gilman’s experience-based knowledge enables meaningful contributions throughout the process, from planning/conceptualization through construction, contract administration and monitoring. Sample career experience includes serving the Colorado River as a research scientist, implementing experimental fish passage design, dam removal, and mitigation while all the meanwhile regularly performing associated stream restoration. Currently, Josh primarily provides operational and technical leadership on ecological restoration projects.
Matt Stahman has over 25 years of professional experience in the environmental consulting and mitigation, and ecological restoration industries. Matt serves as Director of Regulatory for RES, an ecological restoration firm providing client-focused wetland, stream, and species mitigation offsets, green stormwater infrastructure, and corporate sustainability solutions nationwide. He serves as RES project manager on the ~17,000-acre ecological restoration and enhancement project for North Texas Municipal Water District’s Bois d’Arc Lake, one of the largest permittee-responsible mitigation projects in the Nation. Matt previously served as an environmental consultant conducting environmental permitting for the oil & gas, electric transmission, generation, land development, water resources, and transportation sectors. Matt specializes in Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act permitting, compliance, and mitigation and is a Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS) through the Society of Wetland Scientists and a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) through the Society for Ecological Restoration. He is also currently Chairman of the Board for Houston Wilderness, a non-profit devoted to restoration, education, and promotion of our local Texas Gulf Coast ecosystems.
Eric Cromwell is Coordinator of Elementary Science for Baltimore County's 115 elementary schools. With 27 years in education, Eric is a national leader in the use of geospatial technologies to support instruction and is a lifelong environmental education advocate. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in education from Shippensburg University. He also holds a masters degree in School System Administration from Notre Dame University of Maryland and a masters in Geographic Information Systems from Penn State University.
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Josh Allen works for SWCA Environmental Consultants as a Principal Restoration Engineer. Based in SWCA's Charlotte, North Carolina office, he focuses on engineering and design support for ecosystem restoration projects across the country. HIs experience as a consulting civil/environmental engineer spans more than 16 years. Of note, he has served as project manager/lead design engineer for numerous fluvial geomorphological assessment and stream restoration, wetland restoration, stormwater quality, and flood control design projects spanning across North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Vermont, Massachusetts, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. These projects have been implemented in numerous physiographic settings across the country, including the mountain, piedmont, prairie, coastal and central plains, and estuarine provinces.
Mr. Bidelspach is a nationally recognized river restoration specialist with a broad range of experience restoring damaged ecosystems. Mr. Bidelspach’s academic and research background includes five years with the Stream Restoration Program at North Carolina State University (NCSU), where he provided assessment, design, and construction oversight services on many restoration projects and taught courses related to river assessment, restoration design, and construction administration. He also worked for nine years as the river restoration technical leader for a large engineering consulting firm. He has completed more than 100 river restoration/stabilization projects in 29 states, 6 Canadian Provinces/Territories, and Costa Rica. Mr. Bidelspach was mentored at NCSU by Dr. Greg Jennings and at Wildland Hydrology by Dr. Dave Rosgen. He specializes in using Natural Channel Design (NCD) coupled with a traditional engineering framework for river restoration designs to achieve optimal project goals and objectives. The MCDA framework has been utilized and taught by Mr. Bidelspach and incorporates NCD, three-dimensional (3-D) stream design, limiting factors analysis for fisheries, flood risk, geomorphic assessment, river resiliency, cost analysis, changing points of diversion, and stakeholder involvement into a design optimization scheme.
Brad Fairley has more than 35 years of professional experience involving both the public and private sector. With a strong background in water resources management, including water quality and watershed planning, Brad has focused on stream restoration for the last 20 years of career. During that time, he has managed more than 100 fluvial geomorphology and stream restoration projects throughout North America. All these projects have been developed to improve streams, stream corridors and the habitat they provide. Mr. Fairley has established several habitat banks and provides advice to numerous public and private agencies regarding the development of habitat banks. Mr. Fairley has authored many reports and presented technical and management papers related to stream restoration and habitat banking at conferences across North America. In addition, he has provided expert testimony in court.
