Across the Watershed - Winter 2001

Karen Parrish, GSWA's Project Director since 1995, has taken an extended leave of absence to prepare to become the mother of twins, expected in February. During her stay with GSWA, she led the long team effort that produced Saving Space: The Great Swamp Watershed Greenway and Open Space Plan (co-authored with planner Anthony Walmsley), which won several regional and national awards.

She edited both Digital Parcel Mapping: Standards and Strategies for New Jersey's Parcel Mapping Communities, which won a 1999 ANJEC publications award and is now being sold nationally; and A Cleaner Whippany River Watershed, published in 2000 by the NJDEP, and distributed throughout the state.

In addition, she helped to write and produce the video Saved But Not Safe: The Second Battle to Save Great Swamp, shown on New Jersey public television and distributed throughout New Jersey. She is married to outgoing GSWA Board Chairman William A. Aiello.

The staff's other Karen - Karen Patterson, formerly Outreach and Education Director and now GIS Analyst - returned in January from a temporary leave of absence to bond with new son Benjamin Patrick, born September 19 and weighing in at 9+ pounds. Karen, her husband Jeff, and Ben are all doing fine, with Ben at a solid 17 pounds as Across the Watershed went to press in January.

Bonnie Gannon, Development Director, reports that the silent auction held at the November 15 annual meeting and dinner raised over $11,000 for GSWA.

Joining GSWA on September 22 for a nine-month local-outreach assignment was Watershed Ambassador Louisa Lubiak. See article.

Derek Christianson, a Drew University senior from Minnesota, and Albert Bozulic, a sophomore from Hoboken, served fall internships with GSWA.

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