Board Members

 Joyce has lived in Falmouth since 1973. She holds a BA from Gettysburg College and did advanced graduate work in mathematics at Lowell University. She was on the faculty at Falmouth High School for 17 years where she taught mathematics.

Joyce is the founder of Friends of Cedar Lake and has been instrumental in implementing a remediation program to combat a non-native, invasive plant in that lake. In addition to her work to improve freshwater ponds, she is a co-chair of the committee that oversees the North Falmouth Congregational Church Thrift Shop.

Freshwater pond protection has been one of Kim’s passions since 2020. He co-founded the Deep Pond Preservation Project (where he resides) in 2020, founded the Falmouth Pond Coalition in 2022, and became Chair of the Town’s Freshwater Ponds Advisory Committee in 2025. Prior to “diving” into ponds, he served for 30 years as the principal of Comart & Associates, a management consulting firm for nonprofit organizations and foundations that he founded in 1995.  

Before starting his consulting business, Kim worked at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay in Boston, where he served as Vice President for Community Investments. Prior to his service at the United Way, Kim was the Director of Government Relations and Legal Counsel for the Massachusetts Council for the Arts & Humanities (now the Massachusetts Cultural Council). Kim received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. He has lived in Falmouth since 2009.

Ken holds a PhD degree in physiology from Rutgers University and worked as a research scientist in the biotech sector for 20 years developing novel treatments for psychiatric disorders. For the last 11 years of his career, he worked at Celgene and then Bristol-Myers Squibb as a clinical scientist and medical writer, submitting applications to the FDA for novel treatments for leukemia, lymphoma, and related blood cancers.

Following retirement in 2023, he and his wife, Sylvia relocated to Falmouth. Drawing from prior experience working with the Glen Rock (NJ) Environmental Commission, he joined the Falmouth Pond Coalition and the town’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee in 2024. In 2026 he joined the board of the Coonamessett Pond Association.

Mark is an Emeritus Senior Scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).  He has spent most of his career as a scientist at WHOI, with a focus on the use of naturally occurring isotopes to study the earth.  This has included studies of oceanic volcanism and the long-term behavior of the Antarctic ice sheets.  He also served as a Program Officer for Antarctic Earth Sciences at the National Science Foundation, and as Director of the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility at WHOI.

Mark received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin Madison, his Ph.D. from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, and was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris VII (Institut de Physique du Globe). He has lived in Falmouth since 1984. Mark has served as a volunteer on various conservation projects in the town of Falmouth, including the restoration of the upper Coonamessett River, and has been on the Falmouth Pond Coalition board since 2025.

Maggie dates her pond activism to the late spring of 2022 when she saw a photo of a pea-green Bourne Pond in Waquoit in a real estate ad.  Her alarm over the pond she lives next to and loves to swim in galvanized her to get the pond tested by the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod (APCC) for cyanobacteria, to organize other pond abutters into the Waquoit Ponds Association, and start a long process of exploring oxygenation technology as a possible tool for remediating summertime anoxic conditions in the pond. 

Maggie is also a Board member of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage (OLAUG) and is the current President of Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit Bay. 

Anya is a researcher at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, where she studies how climate change is altering the chemistry of the world’s largest rivers. Her work focuses on using water’s “chemical signature” as a diagnostic tool to assess ecosystem health and to understand how land-based changes, such as thawing permafrost, affect downstream environments and oceans. Through her work with the Arctic Great Rivers Observatory, she contributes to international research efforts on global freshwater systems.

Anya is committed to working with the community to better understand nitrogen pollution and to promote practical changes in land use and everyday practices that help preserve Falmouth’s ponds for future generations.   Anya grew up along the Lena River in Siberia, where she began monitoring rivers as a teenager. She holds a degree in World Economics from North-Eastern Federal University in Russia and an M.Sc. in Climate Science and Policy from TERI University in New Delhi, India.  Anya is also an active member of the Falmouth Art Center and an avid potter. 

Beth was a research epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She spent the last decade of her career leading a research program focused on occupational and environmental risks for chronic diseases.  She received her PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Beth joined the board of the Falmouth Pond Coalition in 2026.  She also serves on the board of Silent Spring Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization working to understand the links between chemicals in our everyday environment and health.  Beth has lived in Falmouth since 2021 and volunteers with the Falmouth Service Center, Belonging to Each Other, and the Falmouth Garden Club.