VIEC Speakers

Speaker:
Ellen Gilinsky

Ellen Gilinsky is Director of the Water Division at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), where she oversees a diverse array of water programs including water permitting, monitoring and assessments; water supply planning and water withdrawals; groundwater permitting and assessment; wetlands permitting and assessment; biosolids and land application permitting; and wastewater grant and loan programs and operator training. Prior to assuming this position in September 2004, she served for five years as Manager of the Office of Wetlands and Water Protection at DEQ. Dr. Gilinsky spent twelve years as an environmental consultant at several regional and national environmental engineering firms, focusing on water issues. She also worked at the Virginia State Water Control Board during the formative years of the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program. Dr. Gilinsky received her B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and her Ph.D. in Zoology, with a concentration in Aquatic Ecology, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981.  She is a Past President of the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators ( ASIWPCA).