Pacific Ballast Water Group

State Agency Ballast Water Contacts

Alaska

Tammy Davis
Invasive Species Program, Project Leader
Box 25526
Juneau, AK 99802-5526
(907) 465-6183
tammy_davis@fishgame.state.ak.us

Washington

Allen Pleus
WDFW, ANS Coordinator
600 Capitol Way N.
Olympia, WA 98501-1091
(360) 902-2724
pleusaep@dfw.wa.gov

Pam Meacham
WDFW
600 Capitol Way N.
Olympia, WA 98501-1091
(360) 902-2741
meachpmm@dfw.wa.gov

California

Maurya B. Falkner
California Ballast Water Program Manager
California State Lands Commission
Marine Facilities Division
100 Howe Ave, Suite 100 South
Sacramento, CA 95825-8202
Ph: (916) 574-2568
Fax: (916) 574-1955
falknem@slc.ca.gov

Oregon

Rian C. Hooff
Ballast Water Program Manager
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
811 SW 6th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97204
Ph: (503) 229-6865
Fax: (503) 229-6954
hooff.rian@deq.state.or.us

Federal

Dr. Richard Everett
Environmental Standards Division (G-PSO-4)
United States Coast Guard Headquarters
2100 2nd St. SW, Washington DC 20359
(202) 372-1436
richard.a.everett@uscg.mil

Canada

Bonnie Antcliffe, Manager
Director of Resource Management Program Delivery
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
200 – 401 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 3S4
(604) 666-6931
bonnie.antcliffe@dfo-mpo.qc.ca

Recent News

CSLC Technology Assessment Update (October 2009)

Coast Guard considers new rules to regulate ballast; takes up where Congress left off – Great Lakes Echo (October 2009)

Slimy-skinned ships to slip smoothly through the seas (September 2009)

Bill introduced to implement Anti-Fouling Convention – Clean Hull Act of 2009 (H.R. 3618) (Septmeber 2009)

Proposed Ballast Water Discharge Standard Rulemaking White Paper, USCG (September 2009)

Standards for Living Organisms in Ships’ Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. Waters; Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (September 2009)

IMO News Issue 2, 2009

U.S. Navy Developing Sustainable Biocide To Keep Barnacles At Bay – Green Diary (August 2009)

Funding Secured For World’s Only Fresh Water Ballast Treatment Facility (August 2009)

Research from San Francisco Bay: The role of containerships as transfer mechanisms of marine biofouling species (July 2009)

Archived News