Molly Hesson, PhD
Dr. Hesson is the founder of Sage Services LLC and has over 15 years of experience in the field of water resources management in the Delaware River Basin. Project experience includes water allocation permitting, reservoir optimization modeling, hydrological studies, estuarine salinity intrusion policy and analysis, strategic policy review and drafting of formal comments, source water protection, watershed planning, and water quality analysis. Dr. Hesson received her PhD in environmental engineering from Drexel University in 2013 performing an analysis of alternative reservoir management options in the Schuylkill River watershed. Dr. Hesson has consulted for the past 15 years as an advisor to the Philadelphia Water Department and is specialized in the technical and regulatory aspects of the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act in the Delaware River Basin.
Jared Brush
Jared graduated from Franklin & Marshall in 2018 with his bachelor’s in Geoscience. In 2019, Jared completed his Master’s in GIS at Temple University. Jared has been involved in numerous projects involving climate change, sea level rise modeling, water resources management, and GIS-facing watershed analysis.
Alex Ridyard
Alex has worked in the water quality field for the past eight years. Project experience includes regulatory and policy support, source water protection, water quality sampling and analysis. Alex received a bachelor’s in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Delaware in 2010.
Dean Randall, PhD, PE
Dr. Randall has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Minnesota, and Ph.D. from Purdue in civil engineering with an emphasis on water resources engineering and systems analysis. Dr. Randall has spent 45 years developing and using water resource-related models. These models have taken into account many aspects of water resources management, but for the last 30 years his focus has been on modeling the operations of water supply systems. Dr. Randall was one of the leaders in the original development of the modeling platform OASIS with Hydrologics, and remains an expert user of that platform.
Grace Maiorano
After graduating from Temple University with a journalism degree in 2017, Grace served as associate editor of four newspapers, including one in South Philly and three in South Jersey, over the course of two years. From internships to freelance opportunities, she's been accumulating bylines in local publications since 2014. Working as a general assignment reporter, she both wrote and photographed local sustainability and environmental-related news articles, including stories about climate change, green infrastructure, energy-efficient buildings and transportation, and taxes related to the removal of natural resources. As a communications specialist for the Philadelphia Water Department, Grace primarily creates outreach material for "Green City, Clean Waters" – Philadelphia’s 25-year plan to improve the health of local waterways through the implementation of green stormwater infrastructure.
Jared graduated from Franklin & Marshall in 2018 with his bachelor’s in Geoscience. In 2019, Jared completed his Master’s in GIS at Temple University. Jared has been involved in numerous projects involving climate change, sea level rise modeling, water resources management, and GIS-facing watershed analysis.
Alex Ridyard
Alex has worked in the water quality field for the past eight years. Project experience includes regulatory and policy support, source water protection, water quality sampling and analysis. Alex received a bachelor’s in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Delaware in 2010.
Dean Randall, PhD, PE
Dr. Randall has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Minnesota, and Ph.D. from Purdue in civil engineering with an emphasis on water resources engineering and systems analysis. Dr. Randall has spent 45 years developing and using water resource-related models. These models have taken into account many aspects of water resources management, but for the last 30 years his focus has been on modeling the operations of water supply systems. Dr. Randall was one of the leaders in the original development of the modeling platform OASIS with Hydrologics, and remains an expert user of that platform.
Grace Maiorano
After graduating from Temple University with a journalism degree in 2017, Grace served as associate editor of four newspapers, including one in South Philly and three in South Jersey, over the course of two years. From internships to freelance opportunities, she's been accumulating bylines in local publications since 2014. Working as a general assignment reporter, she both wrote and photographed local sustainability and environmental-related news articles, including stories about climate change, green infrastructure, energy-efficient buildings and transportation, and taxes related to the removal of natural resources. As a communications specialist for the Philadelphia Water Department, Grace primarily creates outreach material for "Green City, Clean Waters" – Philadelphia’s 25-year plan to improve the health of local waterways through the implementation of green stormwater infrastructure.
