Douglas V. Winkler, AICP

POSITION: Vice President & Senior Environmental Planner

EDUCATION:

M.A., Environmental Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992

Graduate Certificate, Long Island Regional Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1993

B.S., Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1974

A.A.S., Forestry, Paul Smith's College, Paul Smiths, NY, 1972

EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Winkler is an Environmental Planner responsible for data collection and analysis, database creation and management, and report writing for a variety of land use and transportation studies, and public outreach efforts.  He has over twenty four years' experience in planning, resource management, natural history curation, environmental science and teaching.

Mr. Winkler has performed community outreach for the Long Island Travel and Information Center (LITIC) project for the proposed upgrade of the existing rest area between Exits 51 and 52 on the Long Island Expressway, and is currently performing community outreach efforts for the CR97, Nicolls Road; CR3, Pinelawn Road; and CR16, Horseblock Road Corridor Studies for the Suffolk County Department of Public Works. The public participation programs for the county road projects includes preparing Community Participation Plans, organizing public workshops; preparing news releases; developing graphics, meeting notices, display ads, and informational brochures; and creating and maintaining mailing lists of interested agencies, community organizations and residents.

Mr. Winkler has also worked on compiling and assessing public comment databases for LITIC and CR97 and managed the mapping of property owners' preferences and the comment database for noise barriers along the LIE in the vicinity of the Cross Island Parkway Interchange between Exits 29 - 32 in Queens for the $120+ million reconstruction of this interchange.

He was also responsible for the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) environmental assessments for the new Suffolk County Juvenile Detention Center, the St. Francis Hospital Master Facilities Plan, and the Village of Plandome's Phase II Zoning Code Revisions. He also worked on the federal, state and local environmental permitting and compliance for the repainting of 40 bridges on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Parkway and West Shore Expressway in Richmond County, and the Suffolk County Department of Public Work's CR80, Montauk Highway, corridor project. Mr. Winkler was also involved in site inventory, prioritization and selection of brownfields sites for the Town of North Hempstead's New Cassel Brownfields project and in data collection for the NYMTC Bicycle-Pedestrian Data Collection Program.

Prior to working for JAC Planning, Mr. Winkler worked for both the Long Island Regional Planning Board and the Suffolk County Planning Department as a consultant. With Suffolk County, he was responsible for conducting research, mapping, and land use analysis for the Peconic National Estuary Program and for the verification of land use category attributes for parcels through use of available land use studies, aerial photographs and field inspections. For the Long Island Regional Planning Board, he conducted research, mapping and prepared and edited written materials for the Long Island Sound Regional Coastal Management Study, the Calverton Airport Feasibility Study and the South Shore Mainland Hazard Management Program.

In addition, Mr. Winkler was Museum Director for the Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences where he was responsible for all aspects of museum operations including administration, staff supervision, financial development, exhibitions, educational programming, collections management and publications. Mr. Winkler was also Museum Supervisor and Curator of Natural Sciences for the Nassau County Museum System where he managed the Garvies Point Nature Preserve, provided natural history curation, designed and developed a preserve master plan, developed and taught educational programs and prepared various publications. Mr. Winkler has also been an educator, having taught Earth Science on the secondary level and environmental courses on the college level as an adjunct instructor at Nassau Community College and Empire State College. 

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

American Institute of Certified Planners

American Planning Association

CERTIFICATIONS:

AICP - American Institute of Certified Planners

CEI - Certified Environmental Inspector

CES - Certified Environmental Specialist

CEM - Certified Environmental Manager

CEC - Certified Environmental Consultant