Tracy Streeter is the Director of the Kansas Water Office, the state’s water planning and coordination agency. Streeter was appointed to the position by Governor Kathleen Sebelius in 2004. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the State Conservation Commission. Tracy has 24 years of experience dealing with Kansas’ water resources. Streeter also represents the State of Kansas on the Missouri River Association of States and Tribes (MoRAST) Board of Directors and currently serves as Secretary.

A native Kansan, he grew up as part of a family farming operation in Brown County. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture from Missouri Western State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Kansas.
 
Streeter and his wife, Denise reside in Valley Falls, KS and have two children, Mitchell and Morgan. He served eight years on the Valley Falls Board of Education and enjoys flying, hunting, fishing and golfing.

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Jason Goeckler is an Environmental Scientist with the Kansas Dept. of Wildlife and Parks. After the discovery of zebra mussels in Kansas, Jason led the group that drafted the Kansas Aquatic Nuisance Species Management Plan. Governor Sebelius’s approval of the plan in 2005 has led to his current work to implement the ANS plan for Kansas.

His professional philosophy is to balance natural resource protection with human benefits. Using his biological training in addition to becoming a certified Human Dimension Specialist, Jason has a broad perspective that enables him to wholly address the invasive species issue.

In his capacity as Kansas Aquatic Nuisance Species Program Coordinator, Jason serves on several state, regional, and national coordinating groups. Currently, he is the Co-chair of the Mississippi River Basin Panel on ANS, and just completed a term as Vice-chair of the Western Regional Panel on ANS. An active member of the American Fisheries Society, Jason has been an officer at the sub-unit, state chapter, and divisional level and currently serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of the North Central Division.

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David Barfield graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1978. Following graduation, he worked for three years in consulting in Minnesota and three years in a developing nation of southern Africa as a water resources engineer.

In 1984, David returned to Kansas and joined the staff of the Division of Water Resources (DWR), Kansas Department of Agriculture. David earned a Master of Science in Water Resources Engineering in 1991, also from the University of Kansas.

At DWR, from 1984 to 1987, David performed special studies to guide water management decisions; from 1987 to 1992, served as head of the Dam Safety Unit; and from 1992 to 2007 lead technical efforts related to Kansas’ interstate water issues, primarily working on disputes regarding the Republican River, the Arkansas River, and the Missouri River.

During June 2007, David was appointed Acting Chief Engineer with the retirement of long-time Chief Engineer David Pope. During November 2007, David was appointed DWR’s fifth Chief Engineer since its inception in 1927.

In his capacity as chief engineer, David directs the Division of Water Resources with a staff of over 100 employees. He has broad responsibility over the state’s water resources including administration of four interstate water compacts, over 32,000 active water rights, and the safety of thousands of dams and other water structures. Governor Sebelius appointed David to several additional posts including the State Conservation Commission, Western States Water Council, and the Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee.

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Andy Ziegler graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a Master of Science in Urban Environmental Geology in 1988. He began his career with the USGS as a student hydrologic technician and hydrologist in Independence, Missouri in 1985. In Missouri, Andy conducted numerous water-quality studies related to acidic mine drainage and geochemistry, reservoir sedimentation and quality surveys, and transport of agricultural chemicals in ground and surface water.

He transferred to Lawrence, Kansas in 1992 as the Water Quality Specialist. In 1994, he was selected as the Chief of the Hydrologic Investigations Section in Kansas overseeing activities of about 40 hydrologists and technicians. Andy has participated in and overseen studies of reservoir sediment and quality, water quality and sediment transport in numerous watersheds, and has been project chief of USGS efforts on the Wichita aquifer storage and recovery project since 1994. He is part of a team researching algal taste and odor compounds and toxins. Lastly, he is an animated advocate in the national environmental monitoring community for the use of real-time water-quality monitors and statistical analysis to compute constituent concentrations and loads. With these time-dense data, we can directly measure water quality and improve our understanding of the effects of hydrology and land-use characteristics, leading to implementation of effective management practices that truly improve water quality.

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