Small Business Opportunities, Nationwide Projects, and Vegan Eating with Jennifer Walker

Share your Field Stories!Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! On today’s episode, we talk with Jennifer Walker, President and CEO of Watearth, Inc. about Small Business Opportunities, Nationwide Projects, and Vegan Eating.   Read her full bio below. Help us continue to create great content! If you’d like to sponsor a future episode hit the support podcast button or visit www.environmentalprofessionalsradio.com/sponsor-form  Showtimes: 1:17  Nic & Laura Segment8:51  Interview with Jennifer Walker Starts13:12  Small Business Opportunities15:41  Nationwide Projects22:55  Veganism & Travel28:07  Policy & Field Stories Please be sure to ✔️subscribe, ⭐rate and ✍review. This podcast is produced by the National Association of Environmental Professions (NAEP). Check out all the NAEP has to offer at NAEP.org.Connect with Jennifer Walker at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferwalker-watearth/Guest Bio:Jennifer Walker, President of Watearth, Inc., has an earned reputation for bringing unique insights to projects, whether the focus is green infrastructure or gray. As a water resource engineer chiefly concerned with developing sustainable and resilient solutions, 30 years of practice producing foundational environmental documentation and master plans, nuanced and complex hydraulic and hydrologic models, and civil designs grounded in solid science and reality have prepared Walker to work on a variety of project types. Walker is widely considered an expert in stormwater, water quality, flood control, green infrastructure, hydrology and hydraulics, water resources, and complex projects with multiple stakeholders.Walker has provided operations training and continuing education to more than 10,000 client staff and engineers the world over through programs at ASCE, CASQA, FMA, USACE, and Stanford University. For the truly sensitive matters of litigation, Walker has been called upon time and time again as an expert witness.  Walker excels in environmental science and water resources largely because due to understanding the value of niche focus. Walker and the adept team at Watearth provide efficient project management, operating within their expertise at a capacity and level of elegance that suggests a larger firm.  By understanding systems at both ends of the spectrum, Walker has routinely proven an asset to project teams in need of a nuanced approach that addresses upstream and downstream project concerns. Walker’s resume includes highlight projects across our nation’s geography. Walker has consulted at a principal level for more than a dozen years, with projects for major municipal clients in California and Texas carrying fees and construction costs over $22M. Walker navigates grant funding and regulatory policy deftly and will provide your project with the same on-budget and on-schedule success provided to clients like Los Angeles County, Texas Water Development Board, San Francisco Estuary Institute, City of Houston, Caltrans, and City of Austin. Walker is looking to the future and developing solutions accordingly. Walker is ahead of the curve at integrating climate change adaptation into projects and assessing cost-benefit. Music CreditsIntro: Givin Me Eyes by Grace MesaOutro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs MullerSupport the showThanks for listening! A new episode drops every Friday. Like, share, subscribe, and/or sponsor to help support the continuation of the show. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all your favorite podcast players.