​SPECIAL EDITION: New Superintendents Academy Phase 4: Superintendents Panel Discussion - Climate Change Issues Parks are Currently Facing
Tuesday, ​September 22, 2015 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST
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Overview: ​This webinar is the last of a Climate Change Leadership Series, an annual training program for new Superintendents on various aspects of climate change. In this webinar you will hear from three Superintendents on the front lines of climate change. They will discuss how climate change affects their park and how they are responding. On-the-ground insights from Apostle Islands, White Sands, and Marsh-Billings tell different stories with the same urgency.

This interactive presentation presents a unique opportunity to discuss climate change issues facing national parks today.

Bob Krumenaker ​has served as superintendent of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, on Lake Superior, since 2002. Bob has been intensively involved in climate change issues since late 2006. He was a charter member of the NPS national Climate Change Steering Committee and received the region’s Superintendent of the Year award in 2008 for his climate change work. Bob served as the lead author on the NPS Midwest Region Climate Change Response and Green Parks Strategy, which was adopted in 2012. Bob also served almost 5 months in 2014 as the Acting Superintendent at Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks in south Florida, where sea level rise makes these parks the epicenter of climate change impacts and adaptation in the Unites States. Bob and his staff have put climate change and sustainable park operations front and center at the Apostle Islands. The park was awarded the NPS 2013 Environmental Achievement Award for its innovative greening strategies and Environmental Management System.

Marie Frias-Sauter Superintendent of White Sands National Monument since August 2012, began her career with the National Park Service in 1987 as a volunteer in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (NP). Her experience of nearly 28 years includes general Park Ranger and Law Enforcement Ranger (Shenandoah NP and Rocky Mountain NP), 14 years as a natural resources manager (Prince William Forest Park, Virginia and the C&O Canal National Historical Park), and six years as superintendent of Fort Union NM, New Mexico. Marie earned her BA degree in Geography from the University of Georgia (1982). A Mexican and an American, born in Mexico City, Mexico, Marie has traveled and lived abroad in Spain, Germany and Jamaica and has enjoyed tremendously living and working in New Mexico for nine years.

Christina Marts is the assistant superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vermont; and a team member of the NPS Stewardship Institute. The park is dedicated to interpreting the history of conservation and demonstrating contemporary stewardship practices. In her 14-year career with the National Park Service, Christina has served as an outdoor recreation planner and resource manager. She led the park's effort to develop the Forest Management Plan for the Mount Tom Forest, one of the oldest scientifically managed forests in the United States. The park's forest is also one of the first federal lands to be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Prior to joining the NPS, Christina worked as a landscape architect at a community design center in Pennsylvania focusing on sustainable design, ecological planning and youth civic engagement. She has degrees in both environmental resource management and landscape architecture from the Pennsylvania State University.