Planning Committee

Planning Partners

  • Penn State Cooperative Extension
  • Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC)
  • Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP)
  • Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center, Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law
  • County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP)
  • Penn State's Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research (MCOR)
  • Cornell University Cooperative Extension
  • Ohio State University Extension

Planning Committee 

  • Dave Messersmith (Co-chair) — Extension Educator, Penn State Cooperative Extension 
  • Amy Childers (Co-chair) — Federal Projects Manager, IOGCC 
  • Ross Pifer — Director, Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center, Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law 
  • Jon Laughner — Beaver County Extension Director, Penn State Cooperative Extension 
  • Carol Loveland — Program Assistant, Lycoming County Cooperative Extension 
  • Mike McDavid — Northeastern Regional Director of Cooperative Extension, and County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania Fellow 
  • Tom Murphy — Co-director, Penn State's Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research
  • Kristen Saacke-Blunk — Director, Agriculture and Environment Center, Penn State 
  • Charles Abdalla — Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Penn State 
  • Tiffany Batdorf — Communications Manager, IOGCC 
  • Stephen W. Saunders, Esq. — Attorney, Tressler-Saunders, LLC
  • Brett Chedzoy — Senior Natural Resource Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County, New York
  • Mike Lloyd— Extension Agent, Community Development, Ohio State University Cooperative Extension