Martina Barnes
Martina Barnes is a regional watershed planner for the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Northeastern Area, covering a 20-state region from Maine west to Minnesota. She is Co-Director (with Paul Barten) of the Forest-to-Faucet Partnership (based in New York). Her other work includes managing the completion of the USFS CT-PA Highlands Study, and regional planning initiatives such as the New York City watershed program and the Upper Mississippi Watershed Project.
She recently worked as a community planner and Liberty RC&D (Resource Conservation and Development) coordinator for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in northern New Jersey. Prior to her assignment with NRCS, she coordinated completion of the NY-NJ Highlands Regional Study: 2002 Update for the USFS. Earlier, she worked for a private firm as a planning consultant doing environmental impact statements and comprehensive planning in NY and CT, and served as a program associate for a USFS-funded project called the Urban Resources Partnership. This project provided seed money and technical assistance for conservation initiatives in under-served NYC communities.
Martina is a professional planner who earned her undergraduate degree in urban and regional studies (B.S. 1994) and Masters in Regional Planning (M.R.P. 1996) from Cornell University. She studied social and physical geography on a fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 1995. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (A.I.C.P. 2000) and earned her professional planning certificate (P.P. 2005). She is an active member in the American Planning Association's (APA) national and metro NYC chapters (1999 to present). Martina is a native New Jerseyan who lives in Jersey City.
