Recent work and collaborations
I've been working in several policy, technical, research, and planning groups as an ecologist with Meadow Run Environmental. Here are a sampling from 2016-18:
Research
Research
- Updated literature review and spatial literature database on Pacific Northwest forested wetlands and forest practices (Washington State Department of Natural Resources Cooperative Monitoring Evaluation and Research Committee)
- Developing forested wetland ecology and hydrology studies in working timberlands (Washington State Department of Natural Resources Cooperative Monitoring Evaluation and Research Committee)
- Evaluating riparian vegetation responses to flow regimes along the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam, CA (USDA Forest Service for the Bureau of Reclamation)
- Writing and editing monitoring protocols for wadeable stream riparian ecosystems (USDA Forest Service National Stream and Aquatic Ecology Center)
- Landscape planning tools for floodplains across the interior Columbia River Basin and state of Utah (Utah State University)
- Evaluating the impacts of flow-modification on cottonwood habitat within the Chehalis River Basin (Anchor QEA and Washington State Dept. of Ecology)
- Riparian working group for Columbia River System Operations Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Report (US Fish and Wildlife Service)
- Wetland working group for Columbia River System Operations Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Report (US Fish and Wildlife Service)
- Expert panel on riparian and floodplain ecosystems of the Columbia Plateau (Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife)
- Expert panel on riparian ecosystem monitoring, planning, and evaluation with the (Bureau of Land Management and USDA Forest Service)
- Horticultural and ecological consulting on public art along the Burke-Gilman trail (Artist Karl Addison for Seattle Department of Transportation)
- Third-party consultations evaluating applications of Washington State Wetland Rating Systems
- Executive board member and past-president (Society of Wetland Scientists Pacific Northwest Chapter)
- Conference and scientific meeting planning (Society of Wetland Scientists Pacific Northwest Chapter)
- Snowpack evaluation to support decision-making in avalanche terrain (Ongoing - WA, OR, UT)