Contact Information:
California Urban Streams Partnership, project of
Earth Island Institute
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, California
USA 94704
510-859-9197
CUStreams@gmail.com
Who We Are
The Partnership was formed in 2012 by the founders, former staff members, and past board members of the Urban Creeks Council to revitalize the urban streams movement in California. The Partnership is a project of the Earth Island Institute and administered through a Statewide CUSP Steering Committee, a San Francisco Bay Area CUSP Steering Committee, the Sacramento Urban Creeks Council, and the Santa Barbara Urban Creeks Council.
Statewide Steering Committee
- Chair, Mike Vukman, San Leandro
- Jessica Hall, Landscape Architect, GHD, Eureka
- Gregg Bates, Executive Director, Dry Creek Conservancy, Roseville
- Paul Kibel, Professor, Golden Gate University Law School, San Francisco
- Eric Berntsen, Sacramento Urban Creeks Council
- Eddie Harris, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Urban Creeks Council
- Michael Wellborn, President, California Watershed Network, Fountain Valley
- Kevin Jefferson III, Board Member, Urban Releaf, Oakland
- Heidi Perryman, President & Founder, Worth A Dam, Martinez
- Rob Hutsel, Executive Director, The San Diego River Park Foundation, San Diego
San Francisco Bay Area Steering Committee
- Chair, Joshua Bradt, Richmond
- Rachel Kamman, Gallinas Creek Watershed Council, San Rafael
- Claire Elliott, Acterra Environmental Center, Palo Alto
- Michael Gregory, Vice Mayor, San Leandro
- Matt Graul, East Bay Regional Parks District, Friends of San Pedro Creek, Pacifica
- Mondy Lariz, Santa Clara County Creeks Coalition, Federation of Fly Fishers, Guadalupe Coyote Resource Conservation District, San Jose
Advisory Board
- Carole Schemmerling, Co-Founder, Urban Creeks Council
- A.L. Riley Ph.D, Co-Founder, Urban Creeks Council
- Diana Jacobs Ph.D., California Department of Fish and Wildlife (retired)
- Chris Kroll, California Coastal Conservancy
- Roger Leventhal, Marin County Public Works Dept.
- Gerald Snow, California Department of Water Resources
- Brian Trautwein, Environmental Defense Center, Santa Barbara
- Mitch Avalon, Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
- Dale Hopkins, Berkeley
- Jane and Tom Kelly, Berkeley
- Judy Neuhauser, Watershed Educator, San Luis Obispo
- Mark Spencer, Cal Teach, University of California, Berkeley
- Lisa Owens Viani, Raptors are the Solution
- Rich Walkling, Restoration Design Group
- David Larson Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Geography & Environmental Studies, California State University, East Bay
STAFF
- Lisa Owens Viani, Program Manager