Our vision: helping citizens find their voiceCoastMatters believes in helping citizens find their voice to confront urgent conservation challenges in Georgetown and Horry Counties. Rapid and unmanaged growth threatens the integrity and livability of our rural and coastal communities. By providing necessary tools, education and promoting cooperative efforts between diverse groups of citizens, we believe through synergy of voice we can achieve common goals such as well-planned growth, safe and abundant water, and a clean energy future. |
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Dan Abel directs the Sustainability
Initiative at Coastal Carolina where he teaches marine science
and studies the ecology of sharks in coastal South Carolina.
He lives with his family at Litchfield and has co-authored two
books on sustainability and the marine environment. Nancy Cave runs the North Coast office of the Coastal Conservation League in Georgetown. Pam Creech owns an antique store near Conway and is Senior Vice President of Wildlife Action. She is also an active member of Sierra Club, presides over the Horry League of Women Voters and serves on the Horry County Zoning Board of Appeals. Christine Ellis is the Waccamaw
Riverkeeper, a program of the Winyah Rivers Foundation, located
at Coastal Carolina. She is also on the Executive Committee of
the Winyah Group of Sierra Club and lives with her husband in
North Myrtle Beach. Susan Libes holds a PhD in chemical oceanography from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She directs Coastal Carolina’s Waccamaw Watershed Academy, which engages in research and public outreach to meet regional needs for protecting water quality in the rivers and coastal waters of Horry and Georgetown. Pamela Martin is a professor of Politics and International Relations at Coastal Carolina University. Her research integrates conservation, international policies, and their local impacts. She lives in Pawleys Island with her husband, Bill, and their daughter Gabriella. |
Ernie Nance and his
wife, Kay, live in Georgetown. In addition to volunteering
for the Georgetown League of Women Voters and Winyah Sierra Club,
he serves on the Santee-Wateree Resources Conservation and Development
Council, the Morgan Park Committee and Scenic Great Pee Dee River
Advisory Board. He formerly directed the Georgetown Parks
and Recreation Department. Bob Schuhmacher lives at Pawleys Island and
serves on the Executive Committees of both the Winyah Group and
the SC Chapter of Sierra Club and the Education Committee of
the League of Women Voters. He is a retired professor of Botany
and volunteers at Hobcaw Barony. Carol Winans founded the Georgetown Chapter of the League of Women Voters and also serves on the boards of Service Over Self (SOS) and the newly formed Safe Families Initiative. She and her husband, Garvey, live in Georgetown. Amelia Wood is active with the Winyah Group of the Sierra Club, the Waccamaw River Keeper and the Horry County League of Women Voters. She lives in the Tilly Swamp community near Lewis Ocean Bay. Project Director Staci Williams is a former elementary school
teacher and doctorial degree candidate. She co-authored with her
fifth grade students the book |
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