Meghan Ruta

Status: Graduate Student
Major: B.S. in Environmental Science; Natural Resources Management & Engineering (M.S. Candidate, 2008)
Year Joined OEP: Fall 2003
Year Completed Employment: Summer 2005
Notable Notes:
– Served as Climate Action Plan Project Manager 2008-2009.
– As a graduate student, conducted research with the CTDEP and the Center for Land Use Education & Research on the impacts of Connecticut land use patterns on water quality in small watersheds.
– Served for two-years as UConn’s Environmental Science Program Assistant.
– Graduated cum laude from UConn’s Environmental Science Program (Dec. ’04)
– Undergraduate Environmental Leadership Award
– 2005 Student Life Award nominee for the Individual Husky Pride Award and the Individual Community Service Award
– Founded the EcoHusky Student Group in the fall of 2004
– Served as an intern to the National Park Service during Summer ’04
– UConn Community Assistant (Spring ’03 – Fall ’04)
OEP Activities:
– Founder and first Co-Coordinator (President) of the EcoHusky Student Group.
– Active in virtually all EPAC subcommittees. Some of her most recent efforts have been:
– UConn Hazardous Waste Storage facility; comparative site study
– Implementing the Recycling Campaign, which included a Recycling Education Postering project.
– Establishing Environmental Literacy information: EcoHusky Webpage development and an archive of materials for Community Assistants.
– BioDiesel Initiative: Promotion, Workgroup organization, and BioDiesel Team member
– Outlined Invasives Species Control Policy for Invasives workgroup. Lead developer in these initiatives.
– UConn Forest Trail Marking Project
– Fenton River Clean-up
– IPM Workgroup