Happy Fall everybody!

Please join us on Wednesday, November 14th, at Las Palomas!

Our November luncheon will feature Robert L. Gulley, the Director of the Economic Growth and Endangered Species Management Division of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Please join us and RSVP or purchase your tickets in advance to let us know you are coming!

Topic: New Directions in Research for the Comptroller’s Endangered Species Research

Where: Las Palomas (3201 Bee Caves Rd., Suite 122, Austin, TX 78746)

When: Wednesday, November 14th, 11:30 PM to 1:00 PM

Member – $20

Non-member – $30

More about the Speaker:

Robert Gulley is the Director of the Economic Growth and Endangered Species Management Division of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.  Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Habitat Conservation Program at the Edwards Aquifer Authority and the Program Manager for the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program.

Dr. Gulley has a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Texas and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.  He taught in medical schools and worked as a scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.  He is an author on over thirty-five scientific papers, and six papers on legal and environmental issues.

Dr. Gulley has over twenty-five years’ experience as an environmental attorney, including seven years as a Senior Trial Attorney at the Department of Justice and five years as Director of the Environmental Legal Division and as Vice President for Environmental Affairs at the Coastal Corporation.  He also was a partner at Sidley and Austin in Washington, D.C.

He is the author of “Heads above Water: The Real Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program” that was published Texas A&M Press.