Engineers Week - Innovation in Engineering

Meet the Panelists

Christine Houston: Christine Houston has worked as an environmental scientist in the public and private sectors for 43 years. Career activities ranged from scoring potential Superfund sites for USEPA to writing oil spill plans for liquid bulk terminals along California’s coast. 25 of those years have been with the Port of Long Beach where she managed environmental investigations and multi-million-dollar remediation projects.  In her position as the Manager of Sustainable Practices at the Port, she advises on construction and operational best practices and also has been spearheading green energy planning and power systems resilience activities since 2013. She is currently managing a complex microgrid project, partly funded by the California Energy Commission, at the Port’s critical emergency response facility. She has a degree in Geology.

Jonathan Leung: Mr. Jonathan Leung is the Assistant Director of the Water Quality Division at the Los Angeles Department of Water and…