Wayne Miller is a long-time board member of CCCR providing consultation and cooperative support relating to one of our primary missions–saving wetlands and expanding lands that ultimately are under the protection of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge).
Wayne provides significant expertise based on his educational and work experience in areas pertaining to water chemistry, ocean science, hydrology, microbiology, and analytical biochemistry. His interests and research with CCCR emphasize climate science/climate disruption and its increasing impacts on the Refuge and our planet.
Researching climate change, sea level rise and extremes of atmospheric storms affecting bay environments has become a pressing concern. Changing environments of aquatic regions and their surrounding lands impact migratory birds, native species and their habitats. Long-term protection of habitats will be crucial for species survival and resilience.
Wayne, on behalf of CCCR, provides review of regulatory and guidance documents authored by government institutions, and review of the impacts of projects from private business, and planned local agencies on the Bay’s shoreline and wetlands and plant and animal life.
Specifically, provides peer-reviewed scientific evidence with critiques on EIRs, California Environmental Quality Act, and San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission regulations and their applications. Emphasis continues to be focused on water quality (chemistry) standards and Clean Water Act regulations, ‘The Endangered Species Act’, ‘The Migratory Bird Treaty Act’.
Wayne is interested in sustainable development, conservation and transition towards alternatives that provide energy efficiency. These issues are pertinent to climate resilience concerns and could contribute to longer-term resilience of Bay waters, wetlands and the life they support.
Wayne has provided consulting and research on selective chemical and biological toxicity of pollutants in the environment. He bolsters CCCR comments with science and references targeting projects or developments that create risks associated a potential toxicity towards air, water, soils, and biological species.
Wayne also volunteers in protecting and saving wildlife, injured or in peril, preserving and saving both plant and animal species from extinction through his support of refuges and other wildlife organizations.