Woolpert's David Wegner Appointed to Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress
TUCSON, Ariz., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Woolpert Senior Strategic Consultant David Wegner has been appointed to the National Academies' Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress (CISREP). The CISREP was established in response to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a joint effort launched in 2000 as a federal-state partnership under the Water Resources Development Act with the objective to reverse the decline of the Everglades ecosystem in South Florida and restore the region's quantity, quality, timing, and delivery of water.
- Wegner will help evaluate the productivity and effectiveness of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan's current actions to restore and protect the region's water resources.
- TUCSON, Ariz., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Woolpert Senior Strategic Consultant David Wegner has been appointed to the National Academies' Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress (CISREP).
- The CISREP is a diverse team of science and ecology experts from universities across the country and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- The committee will provide a biennial independent, peer-reviewed assessment that will detail overall progress made in restoring the Everglades ecosystem, significant accomplishments of the restoration progress thus far, and specific scientific and engineering issues that may impact progress in achieving the natural system restoration goals of the CERP.