Liz Galli-Noble
Liz Galli-Noble
Program Director
elizabeth.galli-nobl@ag.tamu.edu (406) 581-8148Liz serves as the Department of Defense, Legacy Resource Management Program Director in Alexandria, Virginia. She is responsible for Legacy Program financial management, program planning and administration, staff oversight, and policy and technical oversight. Liz’s duties also include but are limited to: ensuring effective organizational coordination among DoD conservation programs and offices; engaging with regional and national conservation partnerships and initiatives, and internal and external stakeholders; representing the DoD Legacy Program on interagency working groups and technical committees; facilitating collaboration with academic and research institutions; providing expert natural resource management technical advice and Legacy Program representation in support of closely-affiliated DoD programs (SERDP, ESTCP, REPI) and serving as a member of the SERDP/ESTCP Technical Committee; leading DoD engagement with the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Network and serving as the DoD National Representative on the Council; and supporting the Environmental Planning and Conservation Director and coordinating with various programs across the ODASD(E&ER), DoD Conservation Committee, Historic Preservation Working Group, and Military Services representatives.
Liz brings more than 35 years of national and international program administration, research, and natural resource management experience to the DoD. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and completed additional undergraduate, science-based studies at the University of Montana, and earned a Master of Forestry degree from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1995.
Prior to her tenure with DoD, Liz spent 25 years in leadership positions, including watershed association executive director, Director of the Center for Invasive Species Management at Montana State University (MSU), Assistant Director of Research at the Montana Water Center at MSU, and coordinator for the (Montana Governor’s Task Force) Upper Yellowstone River Cumulative Effects Investigation. In addition, Liz has worked as a private consultant, technical editor for the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project, field research team leader, US Forest Service forestry technician and wildland firefighter, and Peace Corps agroforester in Mali, West Africa.
Liz and her husband, Tom Noble, permanently relocated to the DC area from Bozeman, Montana in March 2020. In her spare time, Liz enjoys riding her fat bike, telemark skiing, gardening, sailing, and exploring her new home in Old Town Alexandria and the Washington DC area.