Amy Snook

Consultant

Phone: (647) 259-9485

E-mail: asnook @ indeco.com

Amy is an environmental scientist and an artist, which means she thinks critically yet creatively. She has strong communication and organizational skills and is a self-starter. Amy's key competencies are research, report writing, and professional training related to the energy industry and conservation. She has experience with preparing energy plans, designing and delivering conservation programs, and preparing and delivering training courses. Her research skills include interviews, surveys, literature reviews, and even field sampling.

She is currently working with the IndEco team on a variety of projects, including: Social media: a driver for CDM program uptake on the use of social media by Ontario's LDCs to help meet CDM targets. This project is funded by the LDC Tomorrow Fund, and is conducted in partnership with Niagara Peninsula Energy Inc. Amy's recent projects include: Best practices in energy efficiency programming for the Office of Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, and Emissions Trading (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador). Her role is as lead researcher, interviewer, and report author. She was a course developer and is a trainer for five courses in the Conservation and Demand Management (CDM) Specialist certificate program. For York Region's Water for Tomorrow conservation programs, Amy's roles included program strategy and best practices report reviewer, program evaluator, and rain barrel sales event site manager. She was also the developer and is the trainer for Customer service utility staff training on CDM and new electricity conservation programs.

Other interesting projects that she has worked on include: researcher, interviewer and report author of the City of Toronto Facilities Energy Plan; and secretary, facilitator and report author for the Ontario Energy Board multi-stakeholder working groups on low-income energy issues.

Prior to joining IndEco, Amy worked to prepare a 2008 National Pollutant Release Inventory report for a hollow-structural steel manufacturer and was involved in the 2007 Detroit River Beneficial Use Impairments workshop that brought together experts from Canada and the US to assess the validity of current pollution (bio)monitors used for the river. She has travelled to rural communities in Newfoundland and Labrador with the children's show 'Chemistry is Everywhere' (recent recipient of the NSERC Outreach Award), to Costa Rica to participate in an environmentally-based community development project, and to Montreal to present at the 2007 International Large Lakes Symposium.

Amy completed a research-intensive Master's program in Environmental Science (Chemistry and Toxicology) at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in Windsor, ON. She focused on factors regulating biodiversity and primary production in a series of ancient lakes in Indonesia. During that time she designed experiments, collected samples, performed analyses, and prepared well-documented, well-researched papers and presentations.