Megan Amsler, Cape & Islands Self-Reliance Corp
A native Cape Codder, Megan Amsler grew up on an organic farm where systems thinking and sustainability were a way of life. Since 2001 she has been the Executive
Director of Self-Reliance, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote environmentally sound technologies and sustainable practices.
Megan has a wide knowledge of renewable energy technologies. She established Cape
Cod as a Million Solar Roofs partnership, facilitated over 3500 solar installations in the region and has worked on various wind power projects since 1996. Megan is also very involved in workforce training in the clean energy sector. As a partner in Ocean
Readiness, she is working to establish the first hands-on technical offshore renewable energy training & development center in North America to provide technical and health
& safety training for offshore renewable energy workers.
Megan is chair of the Falmouth Energy Committee, treasurer of the Cape & Islands
Renewable Energy Collaborative. She is a member of the board of directors of the Small
Wind Certification Council, the American Solar Energy Society’s Wind Division, The
Upper Cape Regional Technical School’s Advisory Committee, and The Housing
Assistance Corporation. Megan is also an adjunct faculty member at Cape Cod
Community College where she has been teaching renewable energy since 2007.
Nils Bolgen, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Nils Bolgen is the Wind Program Director at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center – a public agency dedicated to accelerating the success of clean energy. In this role he oversees incentive programs and related efforts to advance land-based and offshore wind energy development in Massachusetts.
Prior to joining MassCEC, Nils worked in a similar capacity for a range of renewable energy technologies at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Nils has also served in program administration and regulation-development roles at the Massachusetts
Division of Energy Resources.
Nils has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from North Adams State College (now
Mass. College of Liberal Arts) and a Master of Environmental Planning degree from
Arizona State University.
Lauren Costello, New Bedford Wind Energy Center
Lauren Costello is an economic development specialist at the New Bedford Wind Energy
Center. The New Bedford Wind Energy Center was established within the New Bedford
Economic Development Council to ensure that the activities to develop the offshore wind industry are fully integrated into the city's comprehensive economic agenda.
The Wind Energy Center is the platform that builds local capacity around offshore wind development in New Bedford, and its mission is to fully capture all of the opportunity

possible for maximum job creation, investment and positive impact throughout the community from offshore wind.
Zara Dowling, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zara is an IGERT fellow in the NSF funded interdisciplinary doctoral program:
“Offshore Wind Energy Engineering, Environmental Science, and Policy” at UMass
Amherst. She has a Masters in Environmental Science & Technology from the
University of Maryland and has experience conducting field research on a variety of species - everything from dragonflies to box turtles to black ducks to coyotes.
Aileen Kenney, Deepwater Wind
Ms. Kenney is the Vice President of Permitting and Environmental Affairs at Deepwater
Wind in Providence RI. She is responsible for overseeing the environmental surveys and permitting of Deepwater Wind’s portfolio which includes projects off the coast of Rhode
Island, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. Aileen has worked on the permitting of wind and other energy projects in the United States and abroad for over 10 years.
Prior to joining Deepwater Wind in May 2010, she was the National Director of Wind
Energy at Tetra Tech EC, Inc. During her time with Tetra Tech, their wind energy program was responsible for permitting over 335 projects representing over 20,000 MW of installed capacity. She co-managed preparation of the Wind Energy Siting Handbook for the American Wind Energy Association, published in 2008.
Mark Rogers, Cape Wind
Mark is Cape Wind’s media spokesperson,and he develops Cape Wind’s communications content for its web and social media sites. He has authored several project articles for scientific journals and magazines. Mark oversees Cape Wind's public relations and has delivered over 300 project presentations to a variety of stakeholder groups. Mark manages Cape Wind’s relationships with all of its non-commercial external stakeholders.
Previously, Mark was a Founder and Director of HealthLink, which initiated successful citizen action campaigns to reduce pollution emissions. He received a B.A. in Political
Science from George Washington University.
Gordon Stewart, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gordon Stewart is a PhD student in wind energy at UMass. He is working on developing design standards for floating offshore wind turbines. He hopes to be finishing his dissertation early next year.