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William Werick, P.E.
Mr. Werick was a
senior planner at the Corps’ Institute for Water Resources
(IWR) until his retirement in 2004.
He has spoken at Yale, Harvard, Johns Hopkins,
Cornell, the University of Washington,
the World Bank, United Nations, and the National Academy of
Sciences. He
provided expert opinion on water management to the White
House Council on Environmental Quality and Congressional
subcommittee staff interested in water issues, and has been
interviewed on a variety of radio talk shows on water
issues. He developed shared vision planning in the early
1990s and has applied and refined it in water conflicts ever
since. He has represented the State Department on water
conflict issues in the Middle East and
Morocco.
Mr. Werick holds a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics (Canisius
College, Buffalo, 1970) and a bachelor of science degree in
civil engineering (State University of New York at Buffalo,
1985). He is a
registered engineer in New York State.
In April 2006, Mr. Werick was selected as an inaugural board
member of the Great Lakes Observing System Regional
Association, the Great Lakes
node of the national Integrated Ocean Observing System.
The board elected him its first chair in June, 2006.
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