Andrew Homsey Appointed to Center for Inland Bays Scientific Advisory Committee

Homsey appointed to Center for Inland Bays Scientific Advisory Committee

2:28 p.m., May 30, 2012--The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (CIB) has appointed Andrew Homsey, associate policy scientist in the School of Public Policy and Administrations Institute for Public Administration (IPA) at the University of Delaware, to a two-year term as a member of its Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC).

STAC is responsible for providing objective scientific and technical advice and guidance to CIBs board of directors and other cooperating agencies that have interests in Delawares inland bays and their watersheds with regard to developing public understanding, interest, and participation in the implementation of CIBs Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan.

Homsey manages the geographic information systems (GIS) laboratory based in IPAs Water Resources Agency.  Homsey has trained over 150 UD undergraduate and graduate students in this GIS lab, which was established by ESRI during the 1970s as the first automated watershed mapping and data-management system in the United States.

About the Center for Inland Bays

Based in Rehoboth Beach, the CIB was established in 1994 by an act of the Delaware General Assembly to protect and enhance Sussex Countys coastal bays, which are the center of a $1 billion tourism economy.  In 1988 Congress designated the inlands bays as an estuary of national significance, as one of just 28 National Estuary Programs in the U.S. authorized by the EPA under the Federal Clean Water Act.

Originally published by UDaily.