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FRWA Staff Bios

Eileen Fielding, Executive Director
Ms. Fielding comes to FRWA from her position as Executive Director of the Hoosic River Watershed Association in Williamstown, MA, and has many years’ experience in other environmental organizations as well. She holds a doctorate in ecology from the University of Connecticut and has taught at Trinity College, St. Joseph College, Wesleyan University, and the University of Chicago.

Aimee Petras, Outreach and Education Coordinator
Ms. Petras has a B.S. in Geology from SUNY – Stonybrook and has also worked as a hydrogeologist for an environmental consulting company.  Aimee returned in January from Morocco where she was working as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Environment/Agriculture Program. While overseas she helped 11 communities plant 7,500 olive trees, taught environmental education lessons at local youth centers, and helped a women’s cooperative with bottling and marketing of their traditionally extracted oil. Please contact Aimee if you have any questions on Membership and Education initiatives, or if you would like to hear some stories of her time overseas in Morocco.

Alisa Phillips-Griggs, Water Quality and Projects Coordinator
Alisa Phillips-Griggs holds an M.S. in Geology from Southern Methodist University and a B.S. in Geology from Michigan State University. She grew up in Collinsville and has a “deep” connection to the watershed. Since joining FRWA in March, 2006, she has expanded the water quality monitoring program to include comprehensive macroinvertbrate research and an in-house bacteria testing laboratory, and has also initiated numerous programs designed to improve water quality including the State’s first unwanted medication collection and several buffer enhancement projects. When she is not working to preserve and protect rivers, Alisa is an alpine and Nordic ski patroller; Farmington River sculler, and plays Celtic fiddle.

Jeff Bolton, GIS Manager
Jeffrey, a native of Windsor and current resident of Granby, was FRWA’s first GIS intern way back in 1998 and has honed his technical skills over the years through his work with the Santa Monica, California Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, with the UConn Cooperative Extension Center in Haddam, with Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc., and with the CT Department of Public Works.