Fay Augustyn
Conservation Associate
Department: Conservation
Area of Focus: Fay provides support to conservation staff, specifically working on coordinating our climate change work to protect and restore America's rivers. Healthy rivers boost community safety and security and build resilience in the face of a changing climate.
Background: Fay joined American Rivers in 2010. Prior to that she interned with Wisconsin State Representative Cory Mason, and was the Economic Research Assistant for Clean Wisconsin's water program.
Education: B.S. in Agriculture and Applied Economics and Environmental Studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Favorite River: Kickapoo River
Blog Posts By This Author
Wake Up!
March 14, 2012 | Water Pollution, Floods & Floodplains, Climate Change, Water Supply
In the last month there has been an outcry by members of Congress, states and the insurance industry to wake up and begin preparing for more large scale and extreme weather events. Illinois Senator Dick Durban commented early last week that it’s time we acknowledge the obvious fact that our climate is changing, and it’s time we do something about it.
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Financing Sustainable Water Infrastructure
January 26, 2012 | Water Pollution, Climate Change, Water Supply
In Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address, President Obama reconfirmed his commitment to clean water, “I will not back down from making sure our food is safe, our water is clean…” Our communities and waterways need this commitment more than ever. In the second decade of the 21st century, our nation’s water infrastructure is at a crossroads.
Read more »Are Extreme Weather and Climate Change like a Baseball Player on Steroids?
January 6, 2012 | Water Supply, Water Pollution, Floods & Floodplains, Climate Change
That is the connection Jeff Masters, a meteorologist and cofounder of the Weather Underground, described climate change and its effect on extreme weather events like floods, droughts and heat waves in a recent PBS broadcast; “They all tend to get increased when you have this extra energy in the atmosphere. I call it being on steroids … for the atmosphere.” From record breaking heat and droughts to blizzards, hurricanes, floods and tornados, we saw 12 weather disasters in 2011 that each caused one billion dollars or more in damage.
Read more »Let’s Keep Our Water Clean with The Water Infrastructure Resiliency Act
August 15, 2011 | Water Pollution, Climate Change, Water Supply
This year’s unprecedented storms and flooding are just a glimpse of the changes and challenges our nation will face in the future from a changing climate. Increased extreme drought, severe storms and flooding, and rising sea levels are forecast to be more frequent and damaging and pose big threats to public health and the economy.
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