Sara Caldes - Severn Riverkeeper
She has worked for SRK since 2004 as a Restoration Manager, and she assumed the role of Riverkeeper in 2018. Sara has background in land use planning and project management. Prior to moving to the Severn River, she was involved in the commercial revitalization of Wilmington, N.C. Locally she worked for an economic development public interest group in Washington; as a project manager for a developer doing specialized hotel renovations and historic rehabilitation; and as a yacht broker.
Fred Kelly - Executive Director
Fred Kelly is an environmental attorney with more than 30 years of experience. He began his environmental career as the first attorney for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. His defeat of the nuclear power plant proposed for Douglas Point on the Potomac adjacent to the most important Striped Bass spawning area on the East Coast and the five-year moratorium are credited with saving the Chesapeake Striped Bass fishery.
Dr. Pierre Henkart - Scientific Advisor
Pierre retired from his position as Chief of the Lymphocyte Cytotoxicity Section of the Experimental Immunology Branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in 2006. He volunteers his time with the SRK supervising the water quality monitoring program. He is the author of the annual Severn River Monitoring Report, which is submitted to the Governor and his agency heads as part of SRK’s SevernStat Report. [Photo by Pam Wood, The Capital]
Nate Frankoff - head of water quality monitoring program and multi-media specialist
Nate started with the Severn Riverkeeper Program as a Summer Intern in 2005. He continues to captain the monitoring boat and is in charge of documenting restoration projects from pre-construction to post-restoration.