Gerhard Epke is a watershed scientist whose work focuses on the relationship between land management and the creeks and waterbodies of Marin County. He comes to the Marin RCD from 10 years in local public works departments, where he managed flood mitigation and stormwater projects in the Ross Valley, Santa Venetia, and Stinson. Gerhard grew up in Marin and studied Earth Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, conducting agricultural water quality monitoring in the Pajaro River watershed. He subsequently received an MS at UC Davis for work studying Sierra Nevada snowmelt hydrology in the context of hydropower reservoir licensing. Gerhard teaches a watershed management class at USF and is a member of the board of Friends of Corte Madera Creek Watershed, where he lives with his family.