The Observer, March 2005
New faces join council offices in Anchorage and Valdez
Two new employees have been added to the council’s staff roster.
Roy Robertson, of Olympia, Wash., was hired to serve as project manager for drill monitoring and oil-spill preparedness. He replaces a contractor who had performed the monitoring services for several years.
Robertson most recently worked for the state of Washington’s Department of Ecology in the area of oil spill response. Among the spills he was involved with were last year’s mystery spill in Dalco Passage, when he served as chief of the Operations Section.
Roy Robertson, shown here with his girlfriend, Lori Crewsright, has joined the citizens’ council staff. Photo courtesy of Roy Robertson.
Robertson also has considerable experience in Alaska, having served as consultant to both the Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound citizens’ councils, as well as the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. He supervised the community of Seldovia’s response to the Exxon Valdez spill, and later helped found the Seldovia Oil Spill Team, a community-based response organization. In addition he worked for Alyeska Pipeline to develop fish hatchery protection programs and fishing vessel training programs.
Robertson will work out of the council’s Valdez office.
In the Anchorage office, Mary Schonberger was hired to replace Bernie Cooper as administrative assistant.
Mary Schonberger joined the citizens’ council staff. Photo by Stan Jones
She most recently worked for First National Bank of Anchorage. She lives with her husband in Chugiak, where they raise, race, and show Siberian Huskies.