Saving Our Precious Coastlines
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Our Team
Pamela Fetterman
President & TReasurer
Pamela Fetterman became President of Coastal Resources Group in January of 2024. She has 33 years of experience in environmental and ecological resource management, restoration, permitting, and water use regulation. Ms. Fetterman has extensive experience working in both coastal and freshwater wetland ecosystems throughout Florida and the Southeast beginning in 1989. Ms. Fetterman received her B.A in Environmental Studies from New College of Florida in 1992 and went on to receive her M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from the University of South Florida in 2007. Throughout her career Ms. Fetterman has maintained full-time employment, with a cumulative 17 years of experience in the public sector and 18 years of experience in the private sector. Since 2013, Ms. Fetterman has owned and operated ecoGENESIS, LLC, a wetland consulting firm specializing in wetland restoration and mitigation design, permitting and implementation.
Notable coastal projects that Ms. Fetterman designed, permitted, and provided implementation oversite include the first successful tidal wetland mitigation bank permitted and implemented in Texas, the Gulf Coastal Plains Wetland Mitigation Bank, Phase 1, and Willow Lake Wetland Mitigation Bank within the Louisiana Coastal Zone that restored freshwater and intermediate marsh to historic marsh converted into improved pasture. Ms. Fetterman also has more than 15 years of experience in wetland restoration and mitigation design for freshwater forested and herbaceous systems throughout the Southeast. Over the years, Ms. Fetterman has accumulated broad experience in many water resource, environmental and ecological sectors, with the last 20 years focused on wetland delineation and functional assessment, permitting, and wetland restoration/mitigation design and implementation. She also served on the Ecological Restoration Business Association (ERBA) Board of Directors from 2014 until 2020, a key player in the ecological restoration and wetland mitigation space. Ms. Fetterman deeply appreciates the excellent work that Coastal Resources Group has accomplished over the years in South Florida and will be continuing to build on this legacy of success shepherded by Ms. Flynn and the CRG Board in the coming years as South Florida faces greater coastal resiliency challenges and restoration opportunities.
Steven Martin
INTERIM Vice President & Secretary
Steven Martin joined the Board of Directors in June 2024. He has more than 35 years of experience in aquatic resource policy and management. He has a BS in Biology (Virginia Commonwealth University) and an MS in Fish and Wildlife Sciences (Virginia Tech). Most of his career has been in public service including with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Much of Steve’s career has focused on the regulation of aquatic resources for the Army Corps of Engineers including delineation, permitting, habitat evaluation, resource assessment, and enforcement. He has 30 years of experience in compensatory mitigation and restoration, including both policy and practice. He oversaw the development and operation of 7 commercial non-tidal and tidal mitigation banks and 2 in-lieu fee programs in Virginia.
At the Corps’ Institute for Water Resources, Steve provided technical and policy support in the development and implementation of the 2008 Corps-EPA Mitigation Rule. He led implementation of the Corps’ Regulatory In-lieu fee and Bank Information Tracking System (RIBITS), a national data management system used to track mitigation and conservation banking, In-lieu Fee programs, water quality trading, and other environmental offsets. Since 2007, Steve helped develop and deliver national and regional courses as well as webinars on compensatory mitigation policy and practices and develop tools to improve compensatory mitigation. He co-authored handbooks on financial assurances and site protection of compensatory mitigation projects.
Since retiring from federal service, he works with non-profits and the private sector in evaluating mitigation and conservation projects, mitigation policy, and conducting market analyses. He co-authored EPA’s mitigation bank and In-Lieu Fee Program review workbooks and checklists. Recently he coauthored publications providing quantitative and qualitative analyses of mitigation bank approvals for the Ecological Restoration Business Association and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center.
Dr. Sarah Mack
Director
Dr. Sarah K. Mack is the President and CEO of Tierra Resources, the Executive Director of Tierra Foundation, and Board Member of Coastal Resources Group. She is a leader in the movement to monetize wetland carbon offsets and focuses on innovative approaches to address the global challenges of climate mitigation while reducing climate risks to humans, ecosystems, and infrastructure. Dr. Mack received the American Carbon Registry’s 2013 Innovations Award for her work as the lead author of the methodology, Restoration of Degraded Deltaic Wetlands of the Mississippi Delta. This was the first certified methodology globally for creating and monetizing carbon offset credits from wetland restoration activities.
More recently, Dr. Mack was awarded the American Carbon Registry’s 2017 Innovations Award for her development of a carbon protocol to quantify the carbon reductions from restoring wetlands in California. This methodology led to the development of the first verified wetland restoration carbon offsets in the Unites States. Dr. Mack holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College, a Master of Science in Public Health focusing on Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management, and a Ph.D. in Global Sustainable Resource Management from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Mack also is an ASFPM Certified Floodplain Manager.
Ann Redmond
Director
Ann Redmond is an environmental management professional with decades of broad experience in wetland, habitat, watershed, and landscape issues who loves the challenges presented in integrating science, engineering and policy. Ann specializes in managing complex projects relying on consensus-building approaches and led many assessments of water resource and ecosystem services on projects ranging from the individual landowner to national in scale. From a service perspective she’s participated in numerous committees and advisory councils, including the National Research Council’s Committee on Mitigating Wetland Losses (and subsequent member collaborations), USEPA’s Watershed Approach Handbook, 1000 Friends of Florida’s Wildlife Habitat Planning Strategies, Design Features and Best Management Practices for Florida Communities and Landowners, and many roles and activities with the Florida Native Plant Society over the years. Prior to retirement from the corporate consulting world, she managed a multi-million-dollar portfolio of engineering and ecosystem restoration projects throughout the US. Ann is a Subject Matter Expert for Section 404 permitting, ecosystem restoration, and wetlands/habitat mitigation. She is now concentrating her efforts in the NGO sector.