Mark Breederland

Mark Breederland, District Extension Agent with the Michigan Sea Grant College Program, has served the Greater Detroit and Southeast Michigan area on a variety of urban Great Lakes waterfront and conservation issues since 1995. In 1997, he co-chaired the application team which nominated the Detroit River to President Clinton and led to subsequent designation as one of 14 American Heritage Rivers in July, 1998. Mark is founding chairman of the Greater Detroit American Heritage River Initiative steering committee and has worked collaboratively with numerous federal agencies on a variety of environmental conservation projects. He has recently been recognized for his work by the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Program Leaders (Outstanding Program Award, April 2000) and Michigan State University Extension (Excellence in Individual Programming, December 1999). Mark's additional experience includes a detail to the International Joint Commission's Great Lakes office in Windsor, Ontario, from 1992-1995 where he worked on Great Lakes Areas of Concern and from 1986-1992 as Environmental Programs Director for the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments in Traverse City, Michigan. A native of southeast Michigan, Mark has a B.S. (Biology-1984) from Taylor University and a M.S. degree (Environmental Science/Water Resources-1987) from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.