IWW Staff

Dr. Todd Jarvis

Interim Director, Institute for Water and Watersheds

Telephone: 541-737-4032

Office: 210 Strand Hall
Email: todd.jarvis@oregonstate.edu

Todd has 20 years of experience as a hydrogeologist specializing in groundwater development and source water protection with emphasis in fractured rock and karst terranes. With professional licenses as a Certified Engineering Geologist and Certified Mediator, his interests include transboundary aquifers, environmental conflict resolution, and education in water science and policy. Todd is also a member of the faculty of the OSU Water Resources Graduate Program in Water Resources Science and Water Resources Policy and Management.

Ms. Julie Bain

Assistant to the Director, Institute for Water and Watersheds

Telephone: 541-737-9918
Office: 210 Strand Hall
Email: julie.bain@oregonstate.edu

Julie is the Administrative Assistant and manages the business office for the IWW and Institute for Natural Resources. Julie previously worked for the Native Americans in Marine & Space Sciences Program & Diversity Internship Program.

Dr. Richard A. Meganck

International Program Leader, Institute for Water and Watersheds

Office: 210 Strand Hall
Email: rameganck@gmail.com

Dr. Maganck is on assignment with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (UNESCO-ICIWaRM). Dr. Maganck brings a wealth of knowledge in international development and water resources education to OSU.  From 2003 until 2009 he was rector and professor of the United Nations Institute for Water Education, UNESCO-IHE in the Netherlands.  Dr. Maganck’s career also includes dozens of natural resources and economic development missions to more than 100 countries around the world. Dr. Maganck received his PhD from OSU in 1974.  View a video about one of Dr. Maganck's projects in Brazil.

Ms. Kathy Motter

Manager, Institute for Water and Watersheds Collaboratory

Telephone: 541-737-5120
Lab: 048 Peavy Hall
Email: kathryn.motter@oregonstate.edu

Kathy manages the IWW Collaboratory, a shared laboratory that provides Oregon State University affiliates with access to low cost trace level, fresh water analysis instrumentation and procedures. Kathy also manages CCAL, a cooperative laboratory operated by the OSU Department of Forest Science.

Ms. Maria Wright

Faculty Research Assistant, Institute for Water and Watersheds

Telephone: 541-737-6148
Office: 210 Strand Hall
Email: maria.wright@oregonstate.edu

Maria is the project coordinator for the Willamette Water 2100 project. In the past she has managed websites, edited newsletters and written technology transfer material for the IWW, the Subsurface Biosphere Initiative and other programs.  She has a background in geology and geomorphology and worked as a hydrologist for the USGS in Columbia, Missouri before coming to OSU in 2001.

Ms. Cally Whitman

Student Office Assistant, Institute for Water and Watersheds

Telephone: 541-737-6437
Office: 210 Strand Hall
Email: whitmaca@onid.orst.edu

Cally is a graduate student in the Water Resource Policy and Management program.  Her research focuses on agricultural participation in water markets, effects of land use changes on rural water management institutions and natural resource conflict management.   Cally worked as a chemist and microbiologist for the City of Bend, Oregon before enrolling in the Water Resource Graduate Program in 2009.

Mr. Justin Quinn

Film Series Coordinator, Institute for Water and Watersheds

Office: 210 Strand Hall
Email: quinnjus@onid.orst.edu

Justin is a junior in Geography with a minor in Anthropology.  Justin’s current projects include a reconstruction of an active landslide or slump, occurring within the Quaternary Period, on Orcas Island, WA. His methods were to use dendrochronology in an attempt to date the slide. The project is in association with METRO Centers at Fresno State and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Justin is excited to bring his work to Oregon State and has posted a rough cut of the project on You Tube.  During the second year of his internship he plans to release a final version of the documentary, and will be underway on his first Water documentary starting Winter 2012.