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Director of Programs
tcdoan@coastalws.org
Program Coordinator
volunteer@coastalws.org
Program Assistant
cnsutter@coastalws.org
Urban Watch Coordinator
urbanwatch@coastalws.org
Staff Bios
Tamara Doan
Tamara Doan currently is the Director of Programs for the Coastal Watershed Council (CWC). Tamara holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in Environmental Studies. She has been employed with CWC since 2000, first as a Volunteer Coordinator, then Program Manager, and now Director of Programs. Tamara has worked in all of CWC’s program areas, including the Snapshot Day, Clean Streams, Urban Watch, and First Flush volunteer programs, as well as coordinating aspects of the Gazos and Aptos Watershed Assessments. She is the Quality Assurance lead for the organization, and leads the professional services monitoring for work conducted by the organization.
Debie Chirco-Macdonald
Debie Chirco-Macdonald is the Program Coordinator for the Coastal Watershed Council (CWC). Debie holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in Environmental Studies. She began as a volunteer in 2000 in the Watsonville Sloughs and has been employed with CWC since 2002. Debie has worked as the Program Coordinator for the Clean Streams Volunteer Program and is currently managing water quality studies on Carneros Creek and a volunteer water quality monitoring program on Harkins Slough. A recent BWET Grant through NOAA has Debie working at Valencia Elementary School in Aptos engaging 4th, 5th and 6th grade students (and assisting parents) in water quality monitoring of Valencia Creek, a tributary to Aptos Creek. As well, Debie is the volunteer and intern coordinator and has performed vegetation studies on Aptos Creek and pebble counts on Soquel Creek; coordinated the annual Snapshot Day events, and authored annual summary reports for the Clean Streams and Urban Watch programs.
Colleen Sutter
Colleen Sutter is a Program Assistant for the Coastal Watershed Council (CWC). Colleen holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in Environmental Studies. She began volunteering for CWC in the Winter of 2005 as an intern at UCSC, and has been employed since July 2006. This fall (2006) she was in charge of photo monitoring, and provided assistance for sediment monitoring for the Santa Cruz County Resource Conservation District’s (SCCRCD) Rural Road Erosion Control Assistance Program. She is currently working with Debie on the BWET Get Outdoors (GO!) Program at Valencia Elementary.
Tamara Myers
Tamara Myers began working with CWC as a high school biology teacher taking part in the Clean Streams program with her students in 2005. She continued that year (with her teenage daughter) as a volunteer in the Urban Watch, First Flush, and Snapshot Day programs, and in 2006 was hired as the volunteer coordinator for the Capitola Urban Watch/First Flush program. Her background in environmental science includes working as a docent and naturalist in the Santa Cruz Mountains State parks, crewing on a whale watching vessel, taking classes in environmental science at Cabrillo, and attending several environmental education workshops. She received her BS degree from UCDavis in zoology, and has been teaching at several alternative education programs in Santa Cruz for the past 6 years. Recently she decided to pursue a master's degree in environmental science and will be entering the Coastal Watershed Science and Policy graduate program at CSUMB in the fall of 2007. She also works as a volunteer for the Marine Mammal Center.
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