Membership and Collaboration
The Cayuga Lake Watershed Network is a nonprofit organization founded in 1997, today with over 400 members and an active Board of Directors. To protect the 860-square mile Cayuga Lake Watershed, the Network shares strategies and resources with local and regional individuals, experts, community organizations and government agencies.
Staff
Steward Hilary Lambert and associate Jennifer Tufano are the staff responsible for organizing, coordinating and carrying out this effort, with support from the Network’s Board of Directors, members, interns and volunteers.
Hilary Lambert
Watershed Steward, Executive Director
Hilary Lambert has been Steward/Executive Director of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network since early 2009. A Tompkins County native from the Town of Dryden, Hilary obtained a water resources-focused Ph.D. in geography, and among other jobs and joys has taught at several universities, edited a geography magazine, worked for a Kentucky-based watershed protection organization, is a mom and grandmother, and is a long-time science-based advocate for the environment. She also is author of the science fiction fantasy “Ten Thousand Secrets National Park (Tales from Apple Island Book 1).”
Jennifer Tufano
Program Associate
Jennifer has served as Program Associate for the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network since 2015. A native of Cortland County (Tully, NY, specifically), she has spent all of her life around and loving water be it a small kettle lake in Tully to Maine’s ocean shores, from Seattle’s Puget Sound to the mountain lakes of the Adirondacks. Professionally, Jenn has a master’s degree in Higher Education and has worked as an educator, both for universities and historical societies, all her life. Now settled back in the Finger Lakes, Jenn is enjoying her daughters and extended family, wine touring, yoga, and a peaceful life on her 16-acre farm.
Board Officers
Deborah Grantham
Chairperson
2020-2023
Louise Mudrak
Secretary
2018-2021
John Abel
Treasurer, Tompkins County
2018-2021
Bill Ebert
Vice Chair, Seneca County
2020-2023
Eric Devin
Vice Chair, Cayuga County
2020-2023
David Wolfe
Vice Chair, Tompkins County
2020-2023
Board Members
Mark Benjamin
2020-2023
Ed Currier
2019-2022
Patricia Haines-Gooding
2017-2020
Norman Porticella
2021-2023
Mark Sarvary
2018-2021
Neil Schwartzbach
2019-2022