Location: Raleigh

In her role as water quality planning specialist, Gloria Putnam helps increase the capacity of communities and local governments to incorporate water quality protection into their land use planning and development strategies.

Putnam is a lead organizer for a one-day conference for local officials about water quality planning titled, Leadership Training: Coastal Growth Strategies. She has co-authored a number of publications, including Nonpoint Source Pollution and Control through Land Use Planning and Management: An Introduction and Resource Guide for Protecting Coastal North Carolina Waters, and Addressing Microbial Pollution in Coastal Waters – A Reference for Local Governments.

Prior to joining Sea Grant in 2007, Putnam worked for the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Division of Water Quality as a nonpoint source program coordinator and a state environmental policy act coordinator. She earned a master’s in environmental management and policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she holds a bachelor’s from North Carolina State University.

Telephone: 919-513-0117
Fax: 919-515-7095
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