ACAT BOARD CANDIDATES
Candidates for ACAT Board of Directors
*Five positions on ACAT’s 9-seat board are up for election on Jan. 23 at the ACAT annual meeting from 11-2PM at the Megan Room in Anchorage (6591 A Street, Anchorage ). The seats are for 2-year terms. The five candidates are listed below in alphabetical order. Nominations can also be made at the meeting Saturday. All five were approved by the nominations committee. For more information about the elections or board meeting, email info@acat.org
Mark Houston
Anchorage, Alaska
email: info@acat.org
Mark D. Houston currently sits on the ACAT Board. He is a former contractor, Alaska Energy Rater, the first PHIUS certified Energy Rater in Alaska, Instructor in the UAA Construction Management program, instructor for ACHP and a founding board member of the Alaska Association of Energy Professionals. He has been a Four Seasons Sunroom franchise operator for 7 years, as well as an advocate for recycled building materials as the contractor liaison for Second Use Building Materials in Seattle, diverting millions of pounds of useable building materials from landfills over a 7 year span. Mark is passionate about the path to Net Zero, and reduction of energy and building materials waste.TERM EXPIRES: 2022
Mark Masteller
Palmer, Alaska
email: info@acat.org
Mark is currently ACAT Board President. He has served as an assistant professor in the Renewable Energy Program at the Mat-Su College. Previously, he also worked as the Alaska Director for Cascadia Green Building Council, a not-for-profit chapter of both the US and Canada Green Building Councils. Mark has worked in Alaska for 29 years, in both urban and rural areas. He worked for 19 years as a wildlife biologist, and 8 years as director of the Alaska Center for Appropriate Technology. He is dedicated to developing ecological sustainable communities, and helping people address the significant challenges found across this geographically and culturally diverse and beautiful state. Mark graduated from Colorado State University with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Wildlife Biology. TERM EXPIRES: 2022
free software to track energy usage on virtually any building system. Tyler believes in using today’s technology and common-sense design to minimize energy use and maximize the lifespan of the buildings we rely on. TERM EXPIRES: 2023
Alan Mitchell
Anchorage, Alaska
email: info@acat.org
Alan is currently on the ACAT board. He is owner of the energy consulting firm Analysis North. He is the primary software developer of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation AkWarm Energy Rating software. Other energy work includes designing, installing, and analyzing data from building energy monitoring systems, and performing economic analyses of energy efficiency and energy supply projects. Alan has held energy-related positions at RurAL CAP, the UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Alan’s hometown is Palmer, Alaska, and nearly 50 years of Alaskan residency has given him an understanding and appreciation of our great state. Alan has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.TERM EXPIRES: 2022
Kate Wedemeyer
Anchorage, Alaska
ACAT’s impressive educational workshops have been a source of valuable information and motivation to me. ACAT board membership would provide an avenue to contribute my scientific background and interest in energy efficient building into action to stop climate change into action to enable more Alaskans to live more comfortably while decreasing their carbon footprint. Over the last 40+ years I have engaged in a variety of Alaska-based training and experience in energy conservation, residential building and energy retrofitting, including multiple Cold Climate Housing courses. In the distant past, I was employed as a log house carpenter. Currently, as a retired fisheries oceanographer, I spend much of my time and energy monitoring renewable, technology, and climate scientific research with particular attention to environmental issues in their development, manufacture and disposal. Please consider my strengths, experience and interest in contributing as an ACAT board member favorably!
Michelle Wilber
Anchorage, Alaska
email: info@acat.org
Michelle is currently treasurer of the ACAT Board. She passes along her personal enthusiasm for energy efficiency as Outreach Coordinator for Alaska Craftsman Home Program (ACHP). A life-long learner, she has a BS in Astronomy from Caltech and has studied graduate level geophysics at CU Boulder and UC Berkeley and Civil Engineering at UAA. Michelle was raised in Alaska and has been providing outreach on energy efficiency and renewable energy for years as staff and volunteer for local non-profits including Renewable Energy Alaska Project and ACHP. She has managed the content of the State’s energy efficiency website, akenergyefficiency.org, for most of its life. Michelle also upgrades her ‘eco’ 4-plex in Anchorage in her spare time, creates edible food forests and community gardens, and commutes mainly by bike.TERM EXPIRES: 2022