District 1
Keith Miller, Director
Keith Miller is a Hill Country original who lives in northwestern Hays County. For over 30 years, Mr. Miller owned and operated a successful residential and light commercial construction company and has been managing the generational transition of ownership to his son. The business brought Hill Country appropriate building techniques to the Dripping Springs area, specializing in adobe, stone, strawbale, cob, light clay, insulated concrete, and aerated concrete block construction, as well as sturdy concrete rainwater storage tanks. Mr. Miller also held seminars educating workers on these building techniques and was a popular speaker at construction industry trade shows across the country. Mr. Miller is a past Board President of the Austin Waldorf School, where he was instrumental in its early expansion. Ranch management and livestock operations currently keep him busy, and most days find him herding his growing goat operation across many Hill Country acres.
HillCountryGoats@gmail.com
District 2
Bruce Moulton, Board President
Bruce Moulton has lived in the Sunset Canyon Subdivision since 2004 and is a proud veteran of the United States Army. In addition to Hays Trinity GCD, Mr. Moulton also serves on the City of Dripping Springs Utility Commission. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, a Master of Science degree in Vertebrate Ecology, and pursued a Doctorate degree in Aquatic Biology. He worked for the Texas Water Development Board from 1976 to 1986 and Texas Water Commission (now TCEQ) from 1986 to 2009. His work focused on environmental issues associated with surface water development. From 1994 until his retirement in 2009, he served as a Senior Environmental Policy Advisor to the TCEQ Commissioners and Executive Management. Following State retirement, he has worked as an independent environmental consultant. “I strongly believe water resource development and environmental protection are not mutually exclusive. With sound science and proper planning, management and development of this resource can take place when considering the health and welfare of the end users, while preserving the natural communities that depend on this most precious resource.”
Bmoulton2water@gmail.com
District 3
Carlos Torres-Verdín, Director
Dr. Torres-Verdín is a prolific author, editor, researcher, patent holder, and an accomplished marathon runner. Dr. Torres-Verdín has been with the The University of Texas at Austin Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering since August 1999 where he currently holds the position of Full Professor and the Brian James Jennings Memorial Endowed Chair in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. He is also an Affiliated Faculty with the Jackson School of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Torres-Verdin teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and conducts research projects on borehole geophysics, formation evaluation, petrophysics, well logging, inverse problems, and integrated subsurface reservoir description. He is the founder and director of the Research Consortium on Formation Evaluation at the University of Texas at Austin, which has been in operation for 22 years and is currently sponsored by 19 companies. He completed his B.Sc. degree in Engineering Geophysics at the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Geoscience from the University of California, Berkeley.
CTVerdin@gmail.com
District 4
Linda Kaye Rogers, Board Vice President
Linda Kaye Rogers is a 26 year resident of Wimberley who lives totally on rainwater collection. She is a semi-retired psychotherapist who now provides services primarily to family courts and veterans. She is active in the Wimberley Valley community and has previous experience as a board director. She enjoys gardening, animal care, cooking and genealogy.
Prior to election in 2013, Linda Kaye was an active citizen with the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District, attending meetings and addressing groundwater issues that came before the board. In 2012 she served on the District’s rules revision committee. Linda Kaye works to meet the mission of the District to “preserve, conserve, recharge and prevent waste of the aquifer.” She believes that in supporting this mission, the people in western Hays County who are dependent on the aquifer can maintain their water and property rights, their property values, and the special lifestyle that comes with living in the Hill Country. In addition, she supports the educational aspects of the board’s responsibilities to its members.
Phone: 512-960-9921
Rogers4water@gmail.com
District 5
Marcus Gary, Board Secretary/Treasurer
Marcus Gary is a long time Wimberley resident and full time faculty member of the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, working primarily at the Bureau of Economic Geology, but also taking a leading role in teaching field hydrology classes at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Prior to this role, he taught as an adjunct professor for 14 years at the Jackson School and was a research scientist for the Edwards Aquifer Authority and U.S. Geological Survey. His research background focuses on karst hydrogeology. While completing his doctorate at UT Austin, Gary explored some of the deepest underwater cave systems on Earth, using robotic autonomous underwater vehicles. Marcus now conducts groundwater research primarily in Texas, using applied hydrogeologic methods to address water resource challenges in the state. Marcus and his family use both rainwater collection and a groundwater well for their water, which have both been useful tools for teaching their kids about aquifers, the water cycle, and water use.
mog4water@gmail.com
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