Ellen Berggren

Ellen Berggren is a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) National Flood Risk Management Program team at the Institute for Water Resources and National Silver Jackets program manager. She works with state Silver Jackets teams to promote collaborative interagency flood risk management efforts and builds partnerships at the National level with other Federal agencies and organizations to support state team efforts. She joined USACE in 2008, managing flood risk management, water supply and ecosystem restoration planning studies; developing interagency partnerships; and helping to form the Idaho Silver Jackets and other state teams.

Her career spans 37 years with federal and state agencies and the private sector, leading collaborative and interdisciplinary processes to find solutions to water resource challenges. This has included working for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to lead planning studies and construction projects to improve fish habitats for species listed under the Endangered Species Act and efforts to identify reliable water supplies. In addition, while employed with the Idaho Department of Water Resources, she prepared comprehensive state water plans for the Idaho Water Resource Board, resulting in state protection designations for more than 400 miles of rivers and streams and establishment of minimum stream flows to protect riverine resources.

Berggren received a B.S from Arizona State University in environmental planning and landscape architecture and an M.S. in interdisciplinary studies, with a water resources and public policy emphasis from Boise State University.