Officers and Directors
Officers
President Chris Neill
Vice President Jeff Williams
Treasurer Matt Arsenau
Secretary Mary Little
Directors
Apicella. Joe
Joe retired from his business in 1999 and became active as a volunteer with WBNERR. He has been monitoring water quality in Waquoit Bay since then. He was President of Seacoast Shores Assoc. for five years. He is presently a Town Meeting Member and is on the Falmouth Coastal Pond Mgm't. Committee. As a Board member he started and manages the FACES Pond Monitoring program as seen in the Falmouth Enterprise weekly.
Arsenault, Matt
Matt Arsenault is a contractor with the U.S. Geological Survey and a private GIS consultant. He has done lichenology, glaciology, geochemistry, geophysics and software development, but is happiest as a dad.
Balan, Barry
Design packaging specialist for Pacific Packaging products, 22 years as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Chelmsford Sewer Commission, Falmouth sub-committee for communications for Nutrient Management Committee. Member NEWEA (New England Water and Environmental Assoc) Past President of the Great Harbors Residence Association.
Barnes, Jack
Jack Barnes served more than twenty-two years as a senior executive in financial management, external relations and strategic planning at Ford Motor Company. He is presently a member of the Town of Falmouth Nutrient Management Working Group, President and Director of Association to Preserve Cape Cod, and Governor and Steering Committee Member for the Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative. He has also served as: past Chairman, Town of Falmouth Ashumet Plume Citizens Committee; past Chairman, award-winning Falmouth Friendly Lawn Certification campaign; past Trustee and Life Member, Salt Pond Areas Bird Sanctuaries, Inc; and, past President and Director, Saconesset Hills Association.
Blase, Jim
Jim Blasé is a retired Army Officer, serving in numerous management assignments to include the Pentagon and White House. Retired VP/General Manager from GTE/General Dynamics. Under graduate degree in Biology and an MBA. Current President of The Old Stone Dock Association.
Brown, Doug
Buesseler, Wendi
Wendi Buesseler is the executive assistant to the Oyster Pond Environmental Trust (OPET) where she monitors the Pond's water quality, maintains open passage for the resident herring population, and works to eradicate exotic invasive plants from the watershed. She is also the Chair of the Natural Resources Committee for the Falmouth League of Women Voters and is a member of the Falmouth Climate Action Team.
Contos, Greg
Geist, Maggie
Maggie Geist, Association to Preserve Cape Cod - Executive Director. Maggie works to promote policies and programs that foster the preservation of the resources of Cape Cod, pass better laws, stop harmful development, create better communities and inspire residents to be activists and stewards. Prior to coming to APCC in January 2000, Maggie was the Research Translator at the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. There it was her responsibility to make scientific information understandable to policy makers and the public. While at the Reserve, her work centered on the problem of excessive nitrogen delivery to coastal ecosystems.
Herbst, Ralph
Ralph Herbst is a retired airline pilot who now coaches high school tennis. He is a town meeting member and serves on the Falmouth Planning Board and the Community Preservation committee. He also builds houses for Habitat for Humanity, is a past president and board member of the Cape's Orenda Wildlife Land Trust and a past board member of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod.
Holdren, Cheryl
Cheryl is a population biologist with a PhD from Stanford University with expertise in the adverse effects of pesticides on human health. She is coauthor of the book, “Toxics from A to Z” and the lead author on a revision to that book. She has served on the Falmouth Conservation Commission, Falmouth League of Women Voters, The 300 Committee and is a founding member of the Falmouth Climate Action Team.
Leschen, Alison
Alison Leschen is a Marine Biologist with the Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries. She has spent the last 3 years successfully restoring eelgrass in Boston Harbor, and now manages the horseshoe crab fishery for the state, among other things. She still marvels that she gets to go scuba diving and zooming around beautiful water bodies in boats, and call it work.
Little, Mary
Mary Little is a retired Administrative Assistant for the state. She is a town meeting member for Precinct 3. She served as President of the Teaticket Civic Association and is acting Vice-President/Secretary. She was an original member of the Land Bank Committee and currently is the secretary for the Community Preservation Committee.
Moor, Priscilla
Priscilla Moor is a long time resident of Davisville, East Falmouth, a retired science teacher, naturalist and "birder". She is Vice President of Davisville Civic Association and an advocate for environmental protection of our open space and water resources.
Muller, Joan
As the Education Coordinator at Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Joan has coordinated education efforts for teachers, students and community members since the mid-1990's. She initiated the early “Water from the Ground Up” adult education, which offered teacher training on watersheds, estuary, and groundwater. She enjoyed working with the Falmouth Friendly Lawn Committee.
Neill, Christopher
Christopher Neill is an environmental scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory's Ecosystems Center who studies how changes in land use influence the movements of water and nutrients in ecosystems from the Amazon to coastal Massachusetts. He has written a monthly column on the environment for the Falmouth Enterprise since 1995.
Palmer, Dave
Dave Palmer spent around thirty years as a senior executive and Board member of Merrill Lynch Pierce, Fenner and Smith. Twenty more years were spent as an entrepreneur and leader in private bank marketing services. In the late nineties he became President of FACES and recruited Brad Stumcke and Jack Barnes and others to help refocus FACES efforts and build its capabilities for assisting associations, organizations and individuals protect their Falmouth property values and quality of life by reversing nitrogen pollution of Falmouth waters. He lives on the shores of Waquoit Bay.
Parks, Lynn
Lynn Parks is a retired science teacher of 35 years, one of the people who began the Shivericks Pond project at the Lawrence School, is involved with many other environmentally based programs at the school, and is currently a volunteer and on the Board of the People for Cats organization.
Ross, John
John D. Ross lives on West Falmouth Harbor and is active in the West Falmouth Boat Club where he was instrumental in the club's successful activism regarding the restoration of the harbor's water quality. Prior to retirement, he was a Management Consultant to non-profit organizations and an Investment Banker. Currently, John serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Coalition for Buzzards Bay. For the past thirty years he was an active member of United States Sailing, serving on their board and more recently their Executive Committee.
Schmuhl, Edward (Ted)
Ted Schmuhl has an engineering background and spent most of his career in the development of medical instrumentation systems, mostly with Hewlett Packard. For the past 6 years since moving to the Cape full time he has been working as a Real Estate Appraiser. Along with the FACES board his community activities include membership on the Falmouth Affordable Housing Committee. He lives near Waquoit Bay and is an active sailor and member of Waquoit Bay Yacht Club.
Schwarzman, Beth
Beth Schwarzman is back in Falmouth for the first summer in six years after sailing to northern Europe and back. She is a geologist, recently retired from the USGS in Woods Hole, and is the author of The Nature of Cape Cod. With her husband, Gary, she has 2 daughters, both of whom live in the San Francisco Bay area.
Stumcke, Brad
Retired Naval Officer (pilot) and Aerospace Engineer with GE Aircraft Engines. Original member of Ashumet Plume Citizens Committee studying Bournes, Green and Great Ponds for nitrogen overloading and past President FACES.
Taylor, Julia
Julia Taylor works at Falmouth Academy. She serves as a Falmouth Town Meeting member and as the Falmouth Delegate to the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates where she chairs the Natural Resources Committee.
Williams, Jeff
Jeffress Williams is a coastal scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who does research on coastal and wetland change due to processes such as storms and sea-level rise. He was a member of the Falmouth Conservation Commission and the Coonamessett River Restoration working group for 3 years and frequently gives public lectures on coastal issues facing Falmouth and Cape Cod.