The CLERC Board of Directors
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Will Evans - President
Will grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and relocated to California in 2009. He possesses a BS in urban policy studies, as well as a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Georgia State University, where his studies focused on economic development planning and geographic information science (GIS). Will spent nearly a decade employed in various resource management positions with the County of Lake including Deputy Director of Water Resources, Associate Resource Planner in the Community Development Department, and Compliance Coordinator for Special Districts Administration. Over the course of his career, Will has worked on projects in a variety of areas including drinking water, wastewater, flood control, post-fire debris flow mitigation, stormwater management, geothermal resource management, geographic information systems, trail development, surface mining reclamation, current and long-range municipal planning, grant writing, and downtown redevelopment.
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Carolyn Ruttan
Carolyn is a scientist now retired from Lake County government. Working for the county she specialized in invasive species, watershed issues, and land and water use permitting. She managed the Aquatic Plant Management Program for Clear Lake, the Lake County Quagga and Zebra Mussel Prevention Program and participated in the Clear Lake Harmful Algal Bloom Task Force. These positions involved grant writing, grant management, permit monitoring, water, soil and sediment sampling, and in some cases, analysis. Carolyn was educated in England and the US, obtaining BS degrees in Biology and Manufacturing Engineering, and MS degrees in Technology of Crop Protection and Viticulture. Carolyn is a certified lab analyst and holds a Pesticide Control Adviser License.
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David Adam - Vice-President
David Adam is a fourth-generation Californian who has worked on Clear Lake for over 40 years.
He holds a BA degree in anthropology from Harvard, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geosciences from the University of Arizona, and was the first person to develop a fossil pollen record from California postglacial deposits. He was a Research Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey for 25 years, where he developed a climatic history for Clear Lake spanning the last full glacial cycle (130,000 years). Since moving to Lake County in 1998, he has worked for the Lake County Air Quality Management District, the UC Davis Clear Lake Environmental Research Center, and Mendocino College, where he taught physical geology for 15 years. He is a Life Member of the Freshwater Biological Association, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The Ecological Society of America. A list of his many scientific publications is online at www.quercus.org.
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Peggie King
Peggie King moved from Santa Cruz to Lake County in 1983. After graduating from college she lived on the shores of Clear Lake where she developed a passion for the lake and a deep appreciation for its amazing vibrancy and beauty.
Peggie has worked in the environmental field in Lake County since the early-1990’s starting with the County of Lake in the air quality department and then moving on to water resources including working on several projects on Clear Lake and its watershed. Peggie previously worked for the UC Davis Clear Lake Environmental Research Center conducting many research projects focused on understanding the Clear Lake ecosystem and for the County of Lake managing a variety of water and wastewater projects including the Geysers Effluent Pipeline Basin 2000 project.
Peggie has also worked on many high-profile projects while employed at a multi-national consulting firm based in Sacramento where she contributed her knowledge to a wide variety of important water resource and alternative energy projects. Peggie currently works as an independent environmental consultant in Lake County. Peggie is keenly interested in ensuring that the Middle Creek Marsh Restoration and Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine Superfund Site projects move forward in order to enhance and protect the valuable water resource and habitat that Clear Lake offers to the community including residents and wildlife.
Peggie has a BA degree in Environmental Studies and Community Studies from U.C. Santa Cruz. Peggie lives in Lake County with her husband of many years and has raised a family in Kelseyville.
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Jacquelyn Parsons
Jacquelyn Parsons is a marketing, eCommerce and business operations specialist from the Bay Area peninsula that relocated to Lake County in 2019. With a strong background in undergraduate STEM education, physics, data science and planetary sciences, Jacquelyn is a passionate and dedicated member of the scientific community. She is currently in the process of gaining her Lab Analyst Certification and she volunteers as the webmaster for the California Society of Environmental Analysts (CSEA).
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Tom Nixon
Tom was born in Jacksonville, Fla. and graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in history. He later worked with the states of Connecticut (Wilderness School) Florida (Project STEP) involving alternative outdoor experiential education courses modeled on Outward Bound programs. He taught winter mountaineering courses in Maine with Hurricane Island Outward Bound and backpacking, climbing and whitewater courses in North Carolina with NC Outward Bound.
Surfing brought him to California where he spent several years in the Santa Barbara area working for the Deveureux Foundation as a recreation counselor at their campus in Isla Vista. In 1981 he became a California State Park Ranger in Huntington Beach, Ca. later transferring back to the Ventura/ Santa Barbara area and eventually to Lake County at Clear Lake and Anderson Marsh State Parks where he retired in 2007. He began volunteering for Lake County Public Services and Konocti Regional Trails as a project coordinator for Mt. Konocti County Park after retirement. He served as Secretary and President of the Clear Lake Riviera Community Association HOA for several years. He has 20 years experience working with California non-profits and looks forward to helping CLERC grow and prosper. Tom and his Wife, Val, live in Kelseyville Riviera with their Golden Retriever, Buddy. He enjoys bass fishing from his kayak and playing in a local ‘geezer band,’ Indie Groove. |
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Vince Black
California born and raised, Vince Black has had family living in Lake county since 1970.
He has had the benefit of watching the diverse wildlife Lake County offers, in addition to enjoying a world renowned fishing lake that has a rich fascinating history. Vince served in the US Navy in the 1960s and upon honorable discharge he had employment waiting in the Bay Area working for REDCO serving in a variety of management roles in addition to doing tooling design and Sales. He started a California licensed General contracting business in 1984, in addition to working for a California licensed Engineering contractor. He and his wife moved to Sonoma county in the 1980s and continued work in the construction business. In the 1990s he was offered an opportunity to work for OCLI/FLEX in Santa Rosa. Ultimately managing a large off site laboratory. He was then asked to manage various departments as OCLI/FLEX went through reorganization and buyout by JDSU. He retired in 2010 and lives on five acres in Lake County's Jerusalem Valley with his wife, their dog and cat. |
