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Lon Hachmeister

Lon Hachmeister
Director

Lon serves as an expert consultant for coastal and freshwater resource planning and management.  He was associate director for Battelle Memorial Institute's Marine Science Laboratory and managed their Coastal Resources and Environmental Management Division water and natural resources program. Previously, he served as the Foster Wheeler Environmental national director for water and natural resources. His career has focused on: multidisciplinary resource evaluations; water basin planning, management, and restoration; coastal and estuarine process studies related to ecological systems; and sustainable natural resources development.  He recently co-managed the Merrimack River Users Survey to determine the perceived impacts of CSO releases into the river on overall river health and quality.  He currently serves with the Merrimack Conservation Partnership/The Nature Conservancy Conservation Planning Advisory Committee, the Merrimack River Collaborative, and the ACES Board of Directors.

Commentary

Diversity is Strength

Members of the ACES Leadership Team
Commentary

Perseverance Pays Off

by Lon Hachmeister
Project

Merrimack River Users Survey

Supporting a broad-based, multi-state coalition to raise community, state, and federal awareness for maintaining a clean, safe Merrimack River
Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash
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Biodiversity creates food webs

The importance of biodiversity is the large variety of food webs that it allows. That’s why ACES advocates for the importance of the variety of life in our area. We need also to describe how diversity impacts resilience and the ability of life to adapt to changes.
Photo by Daniil Silantev on Unsplash
Commentary

Collaborative Public Action Needed to Clean up the Merrimack

Lon Hachmeister discusses the results of the Merrimack river survey
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