Biography

 

Dr Mark Nelson, Chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics

WWG Worlwide Engineering and Design

 

Dr Nelson is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics, Vice President for WASTEWATER GARDEN® for Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, Director for the Wastewater Garden Division at the Biosphere Foundation and Director of the Savannah Systems P/L project since 1978. He was the former Director of Space and Environmental Applications for Space Biospheres Ventures (1985-94), and a member of the 8-person closure team in BIOSPHERE 2, 1991-1993, where he managed the constructed wetland used for wastewater treatment in the facility. He completed his doctorate in Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida, with a dissertation on subsurface flow wetlands in tropical and coastal environments. Mark has worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture, orchardry and wastewater recycling. He was a summa cum laude graduate from Dartmouth, Phi Beta Kappa and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the honors engineering society. He was awarded the Yuri Gagarin Jubilee Medal 1993, awarded for outstanding service to international cooperation in space and the environment by the Russian Cosmonautics Federation. He is elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Dr Nelson supervises all site surveys and construction sites.

 

 

Ms Florence Cattin, Project Liaison and Manager

WWG Spain and Morocco, International Liaison

 

Ms Cattin works in the field of international and cross-cultural project management and coordination, in Europe, the United-States and Africa where she grew up. She is the co. founder and president of K-PITAL Production, an NGO focused on raising awareness on eco-citizenship through communication campaigns and the application of environmental solutions. She is a member of the network "Collectif Jo'burg 2002" which presented and follows-up on French civil society's stance and contribution on environmental issues at the Johannesburg RIO +10 Summit on Sustainable Development. She works extensively towards bridging representatives of successful on-the-field social and ecological initiatives and when possible, with official development programs headed by funding, institutional and/or governmental bodies. She is currently preparing the publication of a book on Ecology. She studied Oceanography and continued with an individual major in Human and Natural Sciences at the University of San-Francisco. She acts as a Liaison between people and organizations interested to treat their sewage waters with WWG technology, carries out site surveys with Mark Nelson and is in charge of coordinating on-site WWG implementation.