William M. (Bill) Beacom

Sioux City, Iowa

Master of Towing Vessels, Western Rivers, Inland Waters and Great Lakes.
Continuous U.S. Coast Guard Masters License for 47 years

NAVIGATION: Operated 10hp-5200hp boats with various size tows, both line and liquid, on every major tributary of the Mississippi river system and most of the minor ones plus GICW, east and west.

COMPETENCE:
1994; Captain, M/V Betty Brent, Kirby Corp., First Inland River Vessel to achieve ISO 9002 M/V Betty Brent passed ISM Code, and CMA Protocol, all with perfect score.
Presenter, "Missouri River", Washington DC, Smithsonian Folk Life Festival – 1996 Presenter, "Missouri River, Des Moines, Iowa Sesquiscentennial-1996 Mariner's Representative: TSAC, NOSAC, MERPAC, USCG Advisory Committees Industry Representative, Missouri River Navigation & Environmental Issues; 1990 to present.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUMMARY
Speaker, "Riverine Biodiversity Conference", Univ. of Colorado, July 2001 Liaison to the CEQ, DOI, and USACE, 2001-2007 Charter member of the Missouri River Technical Committee, 2001-07 Guest Speaker, Missouri River Symposiums, Univ. of NE. And SD., 2002 Guest Speaker, Annual MRNRC Conference, April, 2002-March, 2007 Guest Speaker, National Waterways Conference New Orleans, 2002, Houston, 2003 Title: "How to win Against Radical Environmentalists!"
Member, American Fisheries Society, 2003-2007 Speaker, "Vanguard" Club, Missouri River Issues, Kansas City, 2004 Pallid Sturgeon Conference, Bloomington MN May 18-20, 2004, Recognized as "Citizen Scientist" by Harold Bergman of the Ruckelshaus Institute.
U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Pallid Sturgeon Recovery Group, 2004 to present White House Conference on Co-operative Conservation, St. Louis, 2005 Scaphyrinchus Conference, St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 2005 Member of Spring Rise Plenary and Technical Group, 2005

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