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Dr. Carol A. Couch is the current Director of the Environmental Protection
Division (EPD) within the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Appointed
by Governor Perdue and the Board of Natural Resources in October 2003,
Dr. Couch is the first woman to lead EPD in its 34-year history. As
Director, she is responsible for an 800-person agency that implements
and enforces 26 state and four federal laws designed to protect, conserve
and restore Georgia's environmental resources. Before joining EPD, Dr.
Couch was Chief of the Ecological Synthesis Program for the USGS National
Water Quality Assessment Program, leading nationally distributed, multidisciplinary
teams of engineers, hydrologists, chemists, and biologists in the design,
conduct, and reporting of the ecological components of water resource
investigations. Prior to that, she served as Southeastern Regional Biologist
in the Southeastern Region, and as Hydrologist in the Georgia District,
of the USGS Water Resources Division. Dr. Couch has her Ph.D. in Ecology
from the University of Georgia, as well as Master's and Bachelor's degrees
from the University of South Carolina and the Georgia Institute of Technology,
respectively. She is a Georgian, raised in Columbus.
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