Nathalie Schils 

Director of Offshore Energy at Tetra Tech

Nathalie is a dedicated and driven professional with almost a decade of experience at a fast paced environmental firm. She specializes in regulatory and permitting support for grid-scale energy infrastructure, including constraints analysis, stakeholder engagement, and environmental reports.

As a Project Manager in Tetra Tech's Energy Program, she manages a team of 20+ subject matter experts and sub-contractors to successfully obtain regulatory approvals for site assessment and construction of offshore and onshore projects.

While currently focused on offshore wind, Nathalie has previously supported natural gas pipeline, transmission line, solar, onshore wind, and deepwater port projects. She also spends time completing NEPA-driven environmental reports including Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements to support third-party review of permit applications. Her deep experience of the regulatory process from the permittee's perspective helps her provide support to US and European clients navigating the complex Federal and State regulatory process.

Kenda Pollio

Principal and CEO at KP Environmental

Kenda provides Project Management and technical expertise for utilities, independent transmission companies, independent power producers and governmental entities. She has worked on over 150 transmission line and power plant projects including numerous 500kV and 345kV projects. In the last 12 years she has been the Project Manager for 750 miles of extra high voltage transmission line projects, all of which have been completed and energized. She has also provided project oversight and/or project management for environmental compliance for 25 solar projects that have been successfully completed or are under construction.

Her specialties include:

• Project Management
• Environmental Management
• Environmental Compliance
• Strategic Planning
• Environmental Planning
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Permitting Strategy
• Public Involvement
• Local Government Compliance

Dillon Dittmer 

Environmental Program Manager at Nebraska Department of Transportation

Dillon is a graduate of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in Environmental Sciences with a Natural Resources emphasis. Throughout college and upon graduation, Dillon worked as a wetland biologist for the Nebraska Department of Transportation. He quickly earned the opportunity to lead NDOT’s Technical Resources Unit, responsible for NDOT’s wetland, threatened & endangered species, noise, air, hazardous materials, and cultural resources programs.

Dillon is a conceptually minded Environmental Manager with demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills within the transportation industry. He is driven to find innovative solutions that create efficiency, including: workflow processes, field data collection, GPS/GIS solutions, reduction of waste, process standardization, predictive modeling, project, program and risk management.

Outside the office, he enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and two children.

Antal Szill

USACE - Lead Ecologist, Regulatory Division,  Ventura, CA Field Office

Antal is the lead ecologist for the Corps Los Angeles District, North Coast Branch stationed in Ventura, CA. He is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside with a degree in the biology. He has worked in the Corps’ Regulatory Program for approximately 30 years and has extensive experience with the aquatic resources of the inland, desert and coastal regions of California. Antal helps to train Corps staff in all aspects of the Corps’ Regulatory Program, with an emphasis on delineating aquatic resources and conducting Endangered Species Act consultations. Outside the office he enjoys the outdoors, birding and spending time with family.