Contributors
Jamie Benidickson teaches Canadian and international environmental law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where he is a member of the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability. Jamie is the author of Environmental Law 5th (Irwin 2019), The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage (UBC Press, 2007) and Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press, 2019). His other water-related publications include “The Evolution of Canadian Water Law and Policy: Towards the Conservation of Sustainable Abundance,” (2017) 13 McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, 59-108.
Norman Brandson currently consults on resource and
environment issues as President of N2B. He is a member of the Forum for Leadership on Water. For the last 15 years of his career with the
government of Manitoba he served as the Deputy Minister of the
department of Environment and the founding Deputy Minister of the departments of Conservation and Water Stewardship; and was involved in local, inter-provincial and international water issues throughout his government service.
Murray Clamen is currently an Affiliate Professor in the department of Bioresource Engineering at McGill University and a Member of the Forum for Leadership on Water. For 35 years prior to 2011, he was employed in the Canadian Section of the International Joint Commission where he held several positions including engineering adviser and Secretary. He is the author of a number of papers, reports and presentations including a text on integrated water management with Jan Adamowski, Cory Zyla, Eduardo Ganem Cuenca, Wietske Medema, and Paul Reig titled Integrated and Adaptive Water Resources Planning, Management, and Governance published by WRP LLC (2014).
Meredith Denning is a Junior Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary and International History at the University of Toronto, where she is working on a transnational history of water management on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. She received her PhD from Georgetown University in 2018
Frank Ettawageshik lives in Harbor Springs, Michigan. He is a citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and served 14 years, ending in 2009, as the Tribes’ elected Chairman. Since 2009, and currently, he is the Executive Director of the United Tribes of Michigan. He is a member of the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board and the Triennial Assessment of Progress Study Board. During his nearly 45 years of public service he has held numerous Tribal, International, Federal, State and local appointed positions regarding water, climate change, environmental justice, governance, and international relations.
Noah D. Hall is a Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan. He founded the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center and has an active public interest law practice focusing on water and environmental justice. He has co-authored several of the leading books in these fields, “Water Law: Private Property, Public Rights, and Environmental Protection” (2018), “Water Law” (2017), and“Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society” (2016). In 2016, Noah was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General for the Flint water crisis investigation, and served in this role until 2019.
B. Timothy (Tim) Heinmiller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University where he researches and teaches in the areas of Canadian and comparative public policy. His research has been published in such journals as Politics and Policy, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Natural Resources Journal, Review of Policy Research, and Governance. His most recent book is Water Policy Reform in Southern Alberta: An Advocacy Coalition Approach, published by University of Toronto Press in 2016.
John J. Kirton is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, specializing in Canadian foreign policy. He was principle investigator of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s project to assess NAFTA’s environmental effects. He served from 1989 to 2005 as a member of the Foreign Policy Committee of Canada’s National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy. He co-edited The International Joint Commission Seventy Years On (1982), authored Canadian Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (2019, in Chinese) and co-authored The Global Governance of Climate Change: G7, G20 and UN Leadership (2015).
James Kenny is an Associate Professor in the History Department, Royal Military College of Canada. He has published articles on a range of topics related to the political economy and environmental history of New Brunswick. His current research project explores political, social, and environmental factors related to Canada-US attempts to develop hydroelectricity on the St. John River in the postwar era.
Gail Krantzberg is Professor with the Engineering and Public Policy Program at McMaster University offering Canada’s first Master’s Degree in Engineering and Public Policy. Gail completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in environmental science and freshwaters. She worked for the Ontario Ministry of Environment from 1988 to 2001, as Coordinator of Great Lakes Programs, and Senior Policy Advisor on Great Lakes. Dr. Krantzberg was the Director of the Great Lakes Regional Office of the International Joint Commission from 2001 to 2005. She has co-edited/authored 8 books and more than 190 scientific and policy articles on issues pertaining to ecosystem quality and sustainability. Her research interests include investigating Great Lakes governance capacity and methods to better integrate science and engineering in policy formulation and decision making.
Daniel Macfarlane is an Associate Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University. He is currently President of the International Water History Association (IWHA) and a Senior Fellow in the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto. Daniel is the author of Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway (2014) and co-editor (with Lynne Heasley) of Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship (2016), is the author of a forthcoming book on the transborder history of manipulating Niagara Falls, and is working on a co-authored (with Colin Duncan) environmental history of Lake Ontario.
Rich Moy was a US Commissioner on the International Joint Commission (IJC) from 2011 to 2019. Prior to joining the IJC, he worked as a land and water consultant and was a Senior Fellow at the Center of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Montana. For 27 years, Mr. Moy oversaw collaborative, strategic and science-based approaches to water policy, management and planning for the State of Montana. He worked on many Native American, trans-boundary and regional water issues. Other work included serving as a member and chair of the 23-member Flathead Basin Commission; directing Montana’s involvement in the High Plains Research Experiment; and working as a park ranger/ecologist in Glacier National Park.
Don Munton was founding chair of the International Studies Program at the University of Northern British Columbia and a Fulbright Fellow, NATO Fellow and Schlesinger Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. He conducts research and writes in the areas of security, intelligence and environmental policy – including numerous articles on acid rain, the Canada-United States Air Quality Agreement, Great Lakes water pollution and the International Joint Commission. His books include The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History (with David Welch), Canadian Foreign Policy: Selected Cases (with John Kirton), Rethinking National Security (with Hans Rattinger), and Hazardous Waste Siting and Democratic Choice.
Emma S. Norman is Department Chair of the Native Environmental Science program at Northwest Indian College, located on Lummi Nation, Coast Salish Territory. Emma works alongside and with Indigenous communities to increase diversity in the STEM field and open up space for multiple ways of knowing. Her writing and teaching engages with critical geographies of space, specifically decolonizing borderlands and Indigenous water governance. She is the author of Governing Transboundary Water: Canada, the United States and Indigenous communities, which won the Julian Minghi award for best book in Political Geography in 2015. She is also the co-editor of Water without Borders: Canada, the United States and Shared Waters (with Alice Cohen and Karen Bakker), and Negotiating Water Governance: Why the Politics of Scale Matter (with Christina Cook and Alice Cohen).
Kim Richard Nossal is Professor of Political Studies and Director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University. He is the author of a number of works on Canadian foreign and defence policy, including The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 4th ed., co-authored with Stéphane Roussel and Stéphane Paquin (2015), Charlie Foxtrot: Fixing Defence Procurement in Canada (2016), and The Politics of War: Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan, 2001–14, co-authored with Jean-Christophe Boucher (2017).
Jonathan O’Riordan was a senior public servant in environment and natural resource policy with the BC Provincial Government. He was a technical advisor to the IJC on the review coal mine development in the Flathead River.
Allen Olson was raised on a diversified North Dakota farm approximately 3 miles from the Manitoba border, approximately 70 miles south of Winnipeg. He received his B.S.B.A in 1961 and J.D. in 1963 from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Allen served as North Dakota Attorney General (1972-80) and Governor (1980-84) as well as on the International Joint Commission (2002-10).
Ralph Pentland is currently President of Ralbet Enterprises Incorporated, a Member of the Forum for Leadership on Water, a Board Member with LakePulse, and a Member of the Advisory Committee for Environmental Defense Canada. For 13 years prior to 1991, he was Director of Water Planning and Management in the Canadian Federal Government, where he was responsible for negotiating and administering numerous federal-provincial and Canada-US Agreements, and was the primary author of the 1987 Federal Water Policy. Since 1991, he served as a water and environmental consultant in numerous countries, served as Canadian Co-Chairman on several IJC Boards and Committees, collaborated with several non-governmental and academic organizations, helped negotiate major intergovernmental agreements in the Great Lakes and Mackenzie Basins, and was co-author of the 2013 book Down the Drain: How We Are Failing to Protect our Water Resources.
Jennifer Read is Director of the University of Michigan Water Center where she brings regional decision makers and university expertise together to address some of the biggest challenges in the Great Lakes region. Jen has held positions at the Great Lakes Commission, the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor, and as Assistant Director and Research Coordinator of Michigan Sea Grant. From 2008-14 Jen served as the first Executive Director of the bi-national Great Lakes Observing System, a regional node of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). Jen currently serves on the US IOOS federal advisory committee as well as the Environmental Information Services Working Group reporting to NOAA’s Science Advisory Board, and has served on various IJC water quantity working groups.
A. Dan Tarlock is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Illinois-Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law. Dan has written and consulted extensively on United States and international water management. During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked with Great Lakes governors and the IJC on a wide range of diversion-related issues.
Owen Temby is an associate professor in the School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). He is an environmental policy specialist with current research in air pollution and fishery policy. Before joining UTRGV Dr. Temby worked as a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and Carleton University. He is the author of numerous articles in respected journals and editor (with Peter Stoett) of the book, Towards Continental Environmental Policy? North American Transnational Networks and Governance (SUNY Press, 2017). One of his recent journal articles won the Ontario Historical Society’s Riddell Award for the best article of the year on Ontario History. Presently Dr. Temby serves as editor for English-language content of Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine.
Marcia Valiante is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor. Her teaching and research have focused on Canadian environmental law, water law and Canada-US environmental policy. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal.
Debora L. VanNijnatten is Professor, Political Science and North American Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and Associate Faculty in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her current research focuses on the design and application of indicators for assessing the performance of transboundary institutions and networks aimed at managing water disputes in North America.
Brittaney Warren is the Director of Compliance Research and Lead Researcher for Climate Change for the G7 and G20 Research Groups, based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Brittaney is a co-author of “G7 Governance of Climate Change: The Search for Effectiveness” in The G7, Anti-Globalism and the Governance of Globalization (2018), and co-author of “G20 Governance of Digitalization” in the International Organisations Research Journal (2018). She has a scholarly background in International Relations at the University of Toronto and in Environmental Studies at York University.
David Whorley is the Director of Resource Management Operations at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). His work with the federal government at DFO, the Privy Council Office, Global Affairs Canada, and Environment and Climate Change Canada has included extensive involvement in Canada-US relations in the areas of joint fisheries, shared waterways, regulatory cooperation, and migratory wildlife. He has published widely on Canadian public policy and administration, and Canada-US diplomatic history.
Ted R. Yuzyk worked for more than 27 years on the a broad range of water programs at Environment Canada. In 2006, he left Environment Canada to become the Canadian Chair of the International Upper Great Lakes Study, a five year binational study responsible for developing a new water regulation plan. After completion of the study, he continued on at the International Joint Commission as Director of Science and Engineering until he retired in 2014. He continues to contribute his expertise to many IJC initiatives, the most current being the International Lake Champlain-Richelieu River Study.