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.
Amy Armstrong lives in Georgetown where she
is a staff attorney at the South Carolina Environmental
Law Project (SCELP). She serves on the
Board of the Sierra Club’s Winyah Group, the Georgetown
County League of Women Voters and the Winyah Conservancy
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.
Jared Hendrix founded the Grand
Strand Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation and is active with the Myrtle Beach Branch of the
SC Green Building Council. He lives in Myrtle Beach and
works in the environmental division of Earthworks
Group.
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.
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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.
Cynthia Powell lives in Myrtle Beach. She is
past chair of Winyah Sierra Club, a member of Conservation
Voters Education Fund board, and serves on the Environmental
Stewardship Committee of First United Methodist Church in Myrtle
Beach. Powell once
gathered over 2,000 signatures to protest establishment of billboards
on the new Highway 22 from Aynor to Myrtle Beach.
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 LWV. He is a retired professor of Botany and volunteers at
Hobcaw Barony.
Maria Whitehead is The
Nature Conservancy's Project Director for
the Winyah Bay and Pee Dee River Basin. She also serves as adjunct
faculty in the Biology and Masters of Environmental Studies programs
at the College of Charleston.
Staci Williams is a former elementary school
teacher and doctorial degree candidate. She co-authored with
her fifth grade students the book "I,
Caretta,"with
proceeds from sales going to establish signs along beach accesses to
caution beachgoers about sea turtle nests.
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
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