General Mailing Address:
California Stormwater Quality Association
P.O. Box 2105
Menlo Park, CA 94026-2105
650-366-1042

Board of Directors
Scott Taylor - Chair 
Matt Yeager - Vice Chair
Mark Wills - Treasurer
Jill Bicknell - Secretary
Matt Yeager - Exective Program Coordinator
Lisa Austin
Richard Boon
Sharon Gosselin
Gerhardt Hubner
Scott McGowen
Daniel Rourke
Richard Watson
 

Geoff Brosseau, Executive Director
Geoff has been an environmental consultant since 1989, and he currently also serves as Executive Director of Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association (BASMAA), an organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his BASMAA and CASQA duties, Mr. Brosseau was a principal author of both the 1993 and 2003 California Stormwater Best Management Practice Handbooks as well as the Urban Runoff Manual of Practice published by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He has assisted over 25 municipalities throughout the state in developing and implementing virtually every aspect of their stormwater programs. Geoff has been an active participant on the California Stormwater Quality Task Force / California Stormwater Quality Association since 1992, serving on the Executive Program Committee and chairing a variety of subcommittees and work groups over the years. He was the statewide stormwater representative to the Public Advisory Committee of the Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program. He participated on both the Nonpoint Sources Committee and the Pollution Prevention Committee of WEF for a number of years.  He also participated on two WERF Project Subcommittees overseeing studies of Source Control Program Effectiveness and Stormwater Environmental Indicators, and was the principal author of a national guidance manual on pollution prevention. Originally from Connecticut before moving to Illinois and then to California, Mr. Brosseau has lived throughout California and holds degrees from University of California, San Diego and University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, Mr. Brosseau was a marine biologist for almost ten years, working for aquaculture firms in Santa Barbara and Tiburon/Santa Cruz.

CASQA Committees

• Awards Committee - Jill Bicknell, Chair
• Bylaws Review Committee - Jill Bicknell, Chair
• Executive Program Committee (EPC) - Matt Yeager, Chair
• Finance Committee - Mark Wills, Chair
• Membership Committee - Sharon Gosselin, Chair

Subcommittees of the EPC - Click here to email the Chairs and to learn more about the Subcommittees 

• Best Management Practices - Anna Lantin, Chair
• Conference - Jason Uhley, Chair
• Construction - Sandy Mathews, Chair
• Effectiveness Assessment - Daniel Rourke / Jon Van Ryn, Co-Chairs
• Industrial - Maureen Daggett, Chair
• Legislation - Jason Uhley, Chair
• Monitoring and Science - Armand Ruby, Chair
• Pesticides - Dave Tamayo / Jamison Crosby, Co-Chairs
• Phase II - Gerald Montgomery / Rebecca Winer-Skonovd, Co-Chairs
• Policy and Permitting - Richard Boon, Chair
• Public Information / Public Participation - Sharon Gosselin, Chair
• Training - Daniel Apt / Carmel Brown, Co-Chairs
• Watershed Management and Impaired Waters - Richard Watson, Chair
• Website - Stephanie Reyna, Chair

Board of Directors

Lisa Austin - Director
Lisa Austin is a Senior Water Resources Engineer with Geosyntec Consultants in Oakland.  She received her BS and MS in Environmental Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  Lisa began her career in consulting in the area of industrial wastewater treatment.  She then worked for the Washington State Department of Ecology as an NPDES permit writer and a municipal stormwater coordinator in the Seattle area for almost 10 years.  After leaving the state agency, she worked for the City of Bellevue, WA Utilities Department prior to coming to work with Geosyntec.  Ms. Austin’s previous positions have given her the unique perspective of being both the regulator (the State) and the permittee (the City).  With Geosyntec, Lisa is active in stormwater planning, providing technical assistance to various clients on regulatory issues, developing and evaluating conceptual BMP and TMDL implementation plans, and assessing the significance of potential water quality and hydromodification impacts (CEQA analysis) in California.

Jill Bicknell - Officer - Secretary; Bylaws Review Committee Chair; Awards Committee Chair
Jill is a water resources engineer with over 20 years of consulting engineering and project management experience and a registered professional civil engineer in California. She earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Vermont and her M.S. in Water Resources Engineering from Stanford University. Jill is currently a Managing Engineer with EOA, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, where her focus is assisting municipal stormwater programs with implementation of stormwater management plans and control of stormwater pollution, particularly related to new development and construction activities. Through a contract with EOA, Jill serves as Assistant Program Manager for the Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention Program, a program to assist 15 agencies in complying with their joint NPDES stormwater discharge permit, and she represents the Santa Clara Program at CASQA meetings. She has also provided technical assistance to several other countywide stormwater management programs and local agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Richard Boon - Director; Policy and Permitting Subcommittee Chair
Richard Boon has 20 years of experience in environmental management practiced in academia, consulting and in local and national government.  He is currently Supervisor of the County of Orange/OC Watersheds/Stormwater Section which administers the Orange County Stormwater Program.  Previous positions have included environmental policy advisor for the London Borough of Ealing and environment protection officer for the United Kingdom’s Environment Agency.  Richard Boon has BSc from the University of Leeds and a postgraduate diploma from Brunel University.  He is a member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and chair of the California Stormwater Quality Association’s Policy and Permitting Committee.

Sharon Gosselin - Director; PI/PP Subcommittee Chair
Bio coming soon...

Gerhardt Hubner - Director
Gerhardt Hubner has over 20 years experience in water quality, is currently a Deputy Director of Public Works within the County of Ventura, Watershed Protection District, and oversees the Water and Environmental Resource Division.  He is a graduate of San Diego State University; with a Bachelor of Science in Geological Sciences, emphasis in Engineering Geology.  He is Professional Geologist licensed with the State of California.  Gerhardt started his career back in 1990 first at the Los Angeles Regional Board, then later with the Central Coast Region.  Two sections within his Division include the Ventura County Unincorporated Area, and the Ventura Countywide Principal Permittee Stormwater Programs.   Gerhardt also chairs the Ventura Countywide Stormwater Program Management Committee on behalf of all the Co-Permittees. Gerhardt also serves as a Commissioner on the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP).

Scott McGowen - Director
Scott has been working with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for 23 years. He is currently the Chief Environmental Engineer and oversees environmental engineering activities, including two stormwater quality offices, hazardous waste and noise. After beginning with Caltrans in 1984 in Design, he has worked in Traffic Operations, Office Engineer and was the Office Chief for the State Transportation Improvement Program and Office Chief for Special Projects in Design. Prior to his current position, he served as the Chief of Staff to the Director of Transportation. He received a B.S in Civil Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is a registered Civil Engineer.

Daniel Rourke - Director; Effectiveness Assessment Subcommittee Co-Chair
Daniel has been working with the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District since 2001. He is currently the Environmental Resources Manager where he oversees the NPDES stormwater program along with other environmental regulatory programs. After teaching for 5 years, he began his stormwater career in 1987 with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where he initiated projects that included citizen watershed and stream monitoring programs to conducting stormwater pollution prevention outreach to communities and businesses. In 1990 he migrated to California and managed the Water Pollution Prevention Program for the City and County of San Francisco for the next 11 years. The program focused on integrating pollution prevention strategies into wastewater and stormwater control programs.

Mark Wills - Officer - Treasurer; Finance Committee Chair 
Mark is Chief of the Regulatory Division for the Riverside County Flood and Water Conservation District and is responsible for the management of the District's NPDES Municipal Stormwater Program along with its Environmental/Regulatory Services, Floodplain Management and Hydrologic Data Collection Sections.  Mark is a registered professional engineer and received his BS in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo.  Mark began his career with the District in 1990.

Scott Taylor - Officer - Chair
Scott earned a BSCE from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and an MSCE from California State University at Long Beach, both with an emphasis in water resources engineering.  He has over 22 years of experience in flood control engineering and surface water quality and has taught undergraduate courses in hydrology and hydraulic design at the University of California at Irvine and California State University at Long Beach.  He serves as the course coordinator and an instructor for a Professional Engineer’s (PE) License review course.  Mr. Taylor has served as an instructor for ASCE continuing education for courses in BMP design.  He has presented technical papers on the subjects of flood control and BMP effectiveness at domestic and international conferences and has consulted to the Government of Hong Kong relative to stormwater quality.  He is a registered civil engineer in California, Nevada and Arizona and is a Vice President with RBF Consulting in Irvine, CA.

Matt Yeager - Officer - Vice Chair; Executive Program Coordinator; Executive Program Committee Chair
Matt Yeager is currently the Stormwater Program Manager for the San Bernardino County Flood Control District, where he coordinates all compliance activities under the Municipal Stormwater NPDES Permit. He previously worked with municipal, industrial and construction stormwater permits as an Environmental Scientist and as an Engineering Geologist at the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology, and recently received the degree “Doctor of Environmental Science and Engineering” from UCLA.

Richard Watson - Director; Watershed Management and Impaired Waters Subcommittee Chair
Richard Watson is a certified planner with nearly two decades of stormwater quality management experience. He has consulted to or served on consultant teams for diverse public and private sector clients, including Caltrans, merchant builders, and municipalities. Mr. Watson developed the concept and prepared the successful $1.4 million grant proposal for a Porous Pavement and Model Corporation Yard Demonstration Project for the County of San Diego, Department of General Services, and assisted with development of the Phase II grant proposal of the project, which was also funded.  He has served on numerous technical advisory committees, including the TACs for development of the original CASQA BMP Handbooks and for the Southern California LID Handbook. Mr. Watson was educated at Stanford, UCLA, and the University of Alberta.

See more about our organization and the people behind it by following these links:

• Organizational Structure
• Executive Program Committee
• 2009 Board of Directors

General Mailing Address:
California Stormwater Quality Association
P.O. Box 2105
Menlo Park, CA 94026-2105
650-366-1042

Board of Directors
Scott Taylor - Chair 
Matt Yeager - Vice Chair
Mark Wills - Treasurer
Jill Bicknell - Secretary
Matt Yeager - Exective Program Coordinator
Lisa Austin
Richard Boon
Sharon Gosselin
Gerhardt Hubner
Scott McGowen
Daniel Rourke
Richard Watson
 

Geoff Brosseau, Executive Director
Geoff has been an environmental consultant since 1989, and he currently also serves as Executive Director of Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association (BASMAA), an organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his BASMAA and CASQA duties, Mr. Brosseau was a principal author of both the 1993 and 2003 California Stormwater Best Management Practice Handbooks as well as the Urban Runoff Manual of Practice published by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He has assisted over 25 municipalities throughout the state in developing and implementing virtually every aspect of their stormwater programs. Geoff has been an active participant on the California Stormwater Quality Task Force / California Stormwater Quality Association since 1992, serving on the Executive Program Committee and chairing a variety of subcommittees and work groups over the years. He was the statewide stormwater representative to the Public Advisory Committee of the Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program. He participated on both the Nonpoint Sources Committee and the Pollution Prevention Committee of WEF for a number of years.  He also participated on two WERF Project Subcommittees overseeing studies of Source Control Program Effectiveness and Stormwater Environmental Indicators, and was the principal author of a national guidance manual on pollution prevention. Originally from Connecticut before moving to Illinois and then to California, Mr. Brosseau has lived throughout California and holds degrees from University of California, San Diego and University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, Mr. Brosseau was a marine biologist for almost ten years, working for aquaculture firms in Santa Barbara and Tiburon/Santa Cruz.

CASQA Committees

• Awards Committee - Jill Bicknell, Chair
• Bylaws Review Committee - Jill Bicknell, Chair
• Executive Program Committee (EPC) - Matt Yeager, Chair
• Finance Committee - Mark Wills, Chair
• Membership Committee - Sharon Gosselin, Chair

Subcommittees of the EPC - Click here to email the Chairs and to learn more about the Subcommittees 

• Best Management Practices - Anna Lantin, Chair
• Conference - Jason Uhley, Chair
• Construction - Sandy Mathews, Chair
• Effectiveness Assessment - Daniel Rourke / Jon Van Ryn, Co-Chairs
• Industrial - Maureen Daggett, Chair
• Legislation - Jason Uhley, Chair
• Monitoring and Science - Armand Ruby, Chair
• Pesticides - Dave Tamayo / Jamison Crosby, Co-Chairs
• Phase II - Gerald Montgomery / Rebecca Winer-Skonovd, Co-Chairs
• Policy and Permitting - Richard Boon, Chair
• Public Information / Public Participation - Sharon Gosselin, Chair
• Training - Daniel Apt / Carmel Brown, Co-Chairs
• Watershed Management and Impaired Waters - Richard Watson, Chair
• Website - Stephanie Reyna, Chair

Board of Directors

Lisa Austin - Director
Lisa Austin is a Senior Water Resources Engineer with Geosyntec Consultants in Oakland.  She received her BS and MS in Environmental Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  Lisa began her career in consulting in the area of industrial wastewater treatment.  She then worked for the Washington State Department of Ecology as an NPDES permit writer and a municipal stormwater coordinator in the Seattle area for almost 10 years.  After leaving the state agency, she worked for the City of Bellevue, WA Utilities Department prior to coming to work with Geosyntec.  Ms. Austin’s previous positions have given her the unique perspective of being both the regulator (the State) and the permittee (the City).  With Geosyntec, Lisa is active in stormwater planning, providing technical assistance to various clients on regulatory issues, developing and evaluating conceptual BMP and TMDL implementation plans, and assessing the significance of potential water quality and hydromodification impacts (CEQA analysis) in California.

Jill Bicknell - Officer - Secretary; Bylaws Review Committee Chair; Awards Committee Chair
Jill is a water resources engineer with over 20 years of consulting engineering and project management experience and a registered professional civil engineer in California. She earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Vermont and her M.S. in Water Resources Engineering from Stanford University. Jill is currently a Managing Engineer with EOA, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, where her focus is assisting municipal stormwater programs with implementation of stormwater management plans and control of stormwater pollution, particularly related to new development and construction activities. Through a contract with EOA, Jill serves as Assistant Program Manager for the Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention Program, a program to assist 15 agencies in complying with their joint NPDES stormwater discharge permit, and she represents the Santa Clara Program at CASQA meetings. She has also provided technical assistance to several other countywide stormwater management programs and local agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Richard Boon - Director; Policy and Permitting Subcommittee Chair
Richard Boon has 20 years of experience in environmental management practiced in academia, consulting and in local and national government.  He is currently Supervisor of the County of Orange/OC Watersheds/Stormwater Section which administers the Orange County Stormwater Program.  Previous positions have included environmental policy advisor for the London Borough of Ealing and environment protection officer for the United Kingdom’s Environment Agency.  Richard Boon has BSc from the University of Leeds and a postgraduate diploma from Brunel University.  He is a member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and chair of the California Stormwater Quality Association’s Policy and Permitting Committee.

Sharon Gosselin - Director; PI/PP Subcommittee Chair
Bio coming soon...

Gerhardt Hubner - Director
Gerhardt Hubner has over 20 years experience in water quality, is currently a Deputy Director of Public Works within the County of Ventura, Watershed Protection District, and oversees the Water and Environmental Resource Division.  He is a graduate of San Diego State University; with a Bachelor of Science in Geological Sciences, emphasis in Engineering Geology.  He is Professional Geologist licensed with the State of California.  Gerhardt started his career back in 1990 first at the Los Angeles Regional Board, then later with the Central Coast Region.  Two sections within his Division include the Ventura County Unincorporated Area, and the Ventura Countywide Principal Permittee Stormwater Programs.   Gerhardt also chairs the Ventura Countywide Stormwater Program Management Committee on behalf of all the Co-Permittees. Gerhardt also serves as a Commissioner on the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP).

Scott McGowen - Director
Scott has been working with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for 23 years. He is currently the Chief Environmental Engineer and oversees environmental engineering activities, including two stormwater quality offices, hazardous waste and noise. After beginning with Caltrans in 1984 in Design, he has worked in Traffic Operations, Office Engineer and was the Office Chief for the State Transportation Improvement Program and Office Chief for Special Projects in Design. Prior to his current position, he served as the Chief of Staff to the Director of Transportation. He received a B.S in Civil Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is a registered Civil Engineer.

Daniel Rourke - Director; Effectiveness Assessment Subcommittee Co-Chair
Daniel has been working with the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District since 2001. He is currently the Environmental Resources Manager where he oversees the NPDES stormwater program along with other environmental regulatory programs. After teaching for 5 years, he began his stormwater career in 1987 with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where he initiated projects that included citizen watershed and stream monitoring programs to conducting stormwater pollution prevention outreach to communities and businesses. In 1990 he migrated to California and managed the Water Pollution Prevention Program for the City and County of San Francisco for the next 11 years. The program focused on integrating pollution prevention strategies into wastewater and stormwater control programs.

Mark Wills - Officer - Treasurer; Finance Committee Chair 
Mark is Chief of the Regulatory Division for the Riverside County Flood and Water Conservation District and is responsible for the management of the District's NPDES Municipal Stormwater Program along with its Environmental/Regulatory Services, Floodplain Management and Hydrologic Data Collection Sections.  Mark is a registered professional engineer and received his BS in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo.  Mark began his career with the District in 1990.

Scott Taylor - Officer - Chair
Scott earned a BSCE from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and an MSCE from California State University at Long Beach, both with an emphasis in water resources engineering.  He has over 22 years of experience in flood control engineering and surface water quality and has taught undergraduate courses in hydrology and hydraulic design at the University of California at Irvine and California State University at Long Beach.  He serves as the course coordinator and an instructor for a Professional Engineer’s (PE) License review course.  Mr. Taylor has served as an instructor for ASCE continuing education for courses in BMP design.  He has presented technical papers on the subjects of flood control and BMP effectiveness at domestic and international conferences and has consulted to the Government of Hong Kong relative to stormwater quality.  He is a registered civil engineer in California, Nevada and Arizona and is a Vice President with RBF Consulting in Irvine, CA.

Matt Yeager - Officer - Vice Chair; Executive Program Coordinator; Executive Program Committee Chair
Matt Yeager is currently the Stormwater Program Manager for the San Bernardino County Flood Control District, where he coordinates all compliance activities under the Municipal Stormwater NPDES Permit. He previously worked with municipal, industrial and construction stormwater permits as an Environmental Scientist and as an Engineering Geologist at the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology, and recently received the degree “Doctor of Environmental Science and Engineering” from UCLA.

Richard Watson - Director; Watershed Management and Impaired Waters Subcommittee Chair
Richard Watson is a certified planner with nearly two decades of stormwater quality management experience. He has consulted to or served on consultant teams for diverse public and private sector clients, including Caltrans, merchant builders, and municipalities. Mr. Watson developed the concept and prepared the successful $1.4 million grant proposal for a Porous Pavement and Model Corporation Yard Demonstration Project for the County of San Diego, Department of General Services, and assisted with development of the Phase II grant proposal of the project, which was also funded.  He has served on numerous technical advisory committees, including the TACs for development of the original CASQA BMP Handbooks and for the Southern California LID Handbook. Mr. Watson was educated at Stanford, UCLA, and the University of Alberta.

See more about our organization and the people behind it by following these links:

• Organizational Structure
• Executive Program Committee
• 2009 Board of Directors