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Capt. Alek Modjeski On and Over Water Health and Safety Trainer American Littoral Society Habitat Restoration Program Director, Certified Affiliations Professional Ecologist (2012) Member Restore America’s Shorelines Certified Restoration Practitioner (Application Tech Transfer Workshop Steering Committee submitted 2020) 2021 Recipient of 2014 EPA Region 2 Environmental Co-Chair – NJ Ecological Restoration and Quality Award, 2014 Monmouth County Science Advisory Group Planning Board Merit Award, ASBPA 2018/2020 Member Coastal Resilience Best Restored Shoreline in US, 2018 Blue Peter Collaborative Award, and 2015/2018 New Jersey’s Governor’s Member NJ Coastal Ecological Project Environmental Excellence Award Committee – Chair of Implementation Sub- Committee Work History Member NJ Coastal Resilience Collaborative – American Littoral Society – Habitat Restoration Co-Chair Subcommittee Ecological Restoration Program Director – 1/2014 to Present and Science AECOM –Water Natural Resources Director and Member of NJ FRAMES Constituency Advisory Senior Marine Ecologist/Project Manager - Group Two Rivers Steering Committee – Chair 1/2002-1/2014 of Ecology and Habitat Committee Louis Berger Group – Ecologist - 5/1998 - Member of RAE National Restoration Toolkit 1/2002 Steering Committee - Northeast Region Liaison NJDEP – Biologist - 4/1994 - 5/1998 Member RAE National Living Shorelines Education Community of Practice Group MS in Environmental Planning and Policy, Member of Restore America's Estuaries and the American Public University Coastal States Organization Program BS, Marine Biology, Richard Stockton College of Committee (PC) for the 9th National Summit on New Jersey Coastal and Estuarine Restoration and Continuing Education – Rutgers University - Management Relevant Coursework, Licensures and Member Atlantic Fish Habitat Partnership Certifications: Southern NJ Threatened and Science and Data Committee Endangered Species, Lake Management, Member Bradley Environmental Stream Assessment, Wetlands Delineation and Commission Soil Sampling, Stormwater, Eco-risk, Rain Ecological Society of America Gardens, CAFRA Permitting USCG Homeport NY/NJ member Professional Registration NJ Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership OUPV USCG Captain’s License NJ Coastal Lakes Summit Planning Committee Certified Professional Ecologist, ESA (2012) Wreck Pond Stormwater Commission and Transportation Worker’s Identification Credential Technical Advisory Committee (TWIC) OSHA 40 Hr Hazwoper Capt. Modjeski is the American Littoral Society’s USEPA Watershed Academy Living Shorelines Habitat Restoration Program Director, Senior Threatened and Endangered Species of Coastal Ecologist, and Senior Marine Ecologist Southern NJ with over 25 years of experience in project Stream Restoration and Bioengineering management, freshwater and marine fisheries, Certificate essential fish habitat (EFH), coastal restoration CAFRA/CZM Certification and living shorelines creation, state and Federal FERC Environmental Compliance Certification permitting, and the design and implementation NJ Calling Amphibians Training of herpetological, avian, fish, benthic, wetland, Freshwater Fisheries of the Northeast - Habitat , water quality, and mammalian and Identification Training surveys. Much of the focus of his work relates to Eco-Risk Certification science-based restoration and mitigation, green Rain Garden Specialist and Trainer infrastructure and living shorelines, permitting, Univ. of Ohio Larval Fish Identification regulatory coordination, assessing Certificate environmental impacts from proposed CPR certified/ First Aid government and private projects, and GPS Mapping Trimble Pro investigating alternatives that minimize or avoid

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 environmental impact. Additionally, he has been increase resiliency to adjacent communities and able to develop comprehensive educational the Front, reduce shoreline erosion through outreach programs for each of his grants that wave attenuation, improve local water quality target, youth, veterans, and adults. He has also and decrease turbidity, and improve the developed multi-disciplined Technical Advisory ecological health of the Bay and its designated Committees through public/private partnerships. use for aquatic life.

Project Experience USFWS, Barnegat Bay Restoration Projects 2021.2021. Project Director that worked with NFWF Mouth of the Maurice Restoration USFWS and staff to conduct and install a pilot Resiliency Implementation Project, project using several oyster restoration Heislerville, NJ. Project Director that worked techniques to identify best preferred methods closely with project team and partners to on a needed in Barnegat Bay and also used funding $12M project to restore Basket Flats and to adaptively manage Slade Dale living shoreline Northwest Reach located at the Mouth of the along Beaverdam Creek. Maurice River using hybrid breakwaters and a living revetment designed to improve ecology FEMA Seaside Park Resiliency Restoration and community resiliency. Future projects could Project, Seaside Park, NJ. Project co-lead be beneficial use of sediment to restore over designing living shoreline oyster reefs to be 400 acres of . used in connection with shoreline stabilization and flood control measures along Bay Avenue in NJDEP Sylvan Lake Restoration, Avon-by- Seaside Park, NJ. Involves innovative ways to the Sea and Bradley Beach, NJ. Project co- attenuate waves and minimize shoreline lead involved in the planning and future erosion. implementation of a DOD REPI pass-through project to restore a coastal lake using treatment NFWF Mouth of the Maurice River Resiliency wetlands, wetland benches, bio-swales, and Planning Project, Heislerville, NJ. Project daylighting. Project will set precedence for future Director that worked closely with the team to restoration of 13 other coastal lakes in NJ. organize several TAC and stakeholder meetings and provide comment on design to create hybrid NFWF 2020 Delaware Bay Restoration and breakwaters, oyster reefs, mussel beds, and Stewardship Projects. Program Director who planting at the edge of Basket Flats and led and continues to lead a multi-disciplinary Northwest reach that would improve community team dedicated to restoring Fortescue and resiliency and ecological uplift. Pierces Point using living shorelines and beach restoration to improve resiliency and NFWF Cooks Beach Restoration and Oyster provide sustainable habitat for horseshoe crabs Reef Creation, Delaware Bay. Project Director and shorebirds. Also directing a stewardship that led a team to place 5,000 tons of and program to expand outreach about the build 1,200 lf of intertidal oyster reef. Project was ecological importance of Delaware Bay and awarded ASBPA 2020 Best Restored Shoreline shorebird needs using volunteers and US in US. military veterans. NFWF Cumberland Insurance Floodplain NFWF Six Beach Restoration, Delaware Bay, Restoration, Hopewell, NJ. Project Director NJ. Program Director responsible for restoration that led a team to restore a blown-out riparian maintenance at 6 beaches in Cumberland and area adjacent to Barrett’s Run from farm field May counties. Involves sand placement runoff. Project involved the use of check dams, and vegetated berm creation. plantings, and the construction of a 4,000 square foot rain garden. NJDEP Forked River Beach Living Shoreline Restoration Project, Lacey Township, NJ. USFWS Old Mill Pond Dam Fish Passage Project Director and overall project manager to Project, Wall Township, NJ. Project Director restore, enhance, and protect approximately and project manager that installed a 60-foot-long 2,600 linear feet of shoreline at Forked River Alaska Steeppass fish ladder to open up an Beach by creating over 1,600 lf of oyster reefs additional mile of spawning habitat for alewife. set with up to 70M oyster larvae, that will

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 Project was installed during COVID -19 to expedite accretion and stimulate pandemic. regrowth of sloughing Spartina low marsh. This was the first living shoreline of this type NFWF Creating Resilient Habitats and introduced in NJ. Communities on Delaware Bay. Project Director, overall project manager, and senior Fair Haven DeNormandie Ave. Living ecologist that restored 8 Delaware Bay beaches Shoreline, NJ. Project Director, Project for spawning horseshoe crab and foraging Manager, and Principal Ecologist that pieced habitat federally-listed red knot post-Hurricane together a number of funding streams and Sandy (75+ acres and over 211,000 cy of sand), created an innovative partnership to restore a created 5 intertidal oyster bars/living shorelines, small pocket beach and coastal bluff along the removed over 2,000 tons of rubble, managed a Navesink River Post-Hurricane Sandy. US Military Veterans program, tagged over 25,000 horseshoe crabs, and created various Sylvan Lake Living Shoreline, Bradley videos and outreach materials. He also assisted Beach, NJ. Project Director and Principal with development of the Delaware Bay Sand Restoration Ecologist that supported engineers Transport Analysis Tool (DBSTAT). Work can be on the design of a 600-linear foot living shoreline viewed at www.restorenjbayshore.org. He and in lieu of a bulkhead along Sylvan lake, a coastal his team were able to secure a USACE 10-year lake located in Bradley Beach, New Jersey. He regional permit to perform beach, berm, and reef also coordinated with volunteers for plantings restoration in Cape May and Cumberland and organized various outreach events that counties. included local schools and organizations.

Barnegat Bay Partnership – Barnegat Bay DOI/USFWS Horseshoe Crab Beach oyster reefs: biological and cost benefit Restoration Project. Delaware Bay. Project analyses for scale up efforts, NJ. Project Manager of 1st USFWS/DOI Coastal Resiliency manager and co-principal investigator (PI) Grant awarded in 2014 in which he coordinated working with Stockton University to compare two with USFWS and project partners to ensure the subtidal oyster reef restoration sites in Barnegat restoration of five critical horseshoe crab Bay (Ocean and Atlantic counties, New Jersey) spawning beaches/shorebird foraging areas to better identify cost-effectiveness and located in Delaware Bay (emphasis on survivorship of oysters on reefs using spat on Federally-listed red knot). Project also included shell grown at a land-based facility or natural first year cooperative horseshoe crab tagging seed. Also created an outreach program that and re-sighting program in which 3,000 crabs involved numerous volunteers and oyster were tagged and preliminary design of an oyster growing. reef pilot project for wave attenuation and sand accretion. NFWF DRRF Barrett’s Run Afforestation and Grassland Restoration, Cumberland County, USFWS/NFWF Wreck Pond Aquatic NJ. Project Director and Principal Restoration Connectivity Project. Spring Lake, NJ. Project Ecologist that guided a team to restore 7.5 acres Director, Project Manager and Principal of farmland in Delaware Bayshore along Fisheries Biologist for a USFWS funded project Barrett’s Run, a tributary of the Cohansey River, to improve fish passage (river herring and through afforestation, creation of a wider riparian American ) between the Wreck Pond buffer, and planting of native grasses, shrubs, Watershed (Monmouth County, NJ) and the and trees to improve habitat connectivity. Atlantic Ocean. Project included the construction of a 600-foot bypass culvert designed to provide Slade Dale Living Shoreline, Beaverdam optimum conditions for the movement of Creek, Point Pleasant, NJ. Project Director, diadromous species during spawning and Project Manager, and Principal Ecologist that emigration as well to improve water quality and pieced together a number of funding streams to reduce risk of flooding. Also working to design restore failing low marsh along Beaverdam metrics for pre- and post-construction habitat Creek in Point Pleasant, NJ. Worked with and assessments within the watershed and assist advised engineers to create a branch-box with design and construction of . Created breakwater made of Christmas trees and a long-term monitoring and adaptive monitoring Christmas tree vanes installed perpendicular to plan and also a large citizen science and

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 volunteer monitoring program. Monitoring is NOAA/RAE Project PORTS, Delaware Bay, funded through 2021. NJ. ALS Project Manager and supporting partner for the Rutgers’s Project P.O.R.T.S. - NJDEP/Monmouth County Herring Survey Promoting Restoration Through Schools (a and Fish Inventory Project, Wreck Pond, community-based oyster restoration and Spring Lake, NJ. Project Manager and Primary education program focusing on involving local fish biologist that designed and performed communities in the restoration of oyster reef baseline anadromous fish surveys in Wreck habitat in Delaware Bay). Helped restore 5 acres Pond to identify species diversity and determine of habitat through the program. In addition, anadromous/catadromous use by herring and monitoring was also implemented. American . Spring surveys were designed using passive gear deployed during full and new NOAA Data Driven Marine moon cycles. Fall surveys were designed to Debris Program, Jamaica Bay, . actively search for YOY herring to show active Project Director and Project Manager for spawning was occurring. continued Jamaica Bay Marine Debris Program. Removed over 63 metric tons of marine debris The Nature Conservancy/NOAA New Jersey within 3 years all by volunteers. Continued a Coastal Resiliency Network. Member of the robust outreach program with support from team TNC/NOAA Coastal Resiliency Steering leads and partners. Committee that provided guidance on improving the resiliency of New Jersey’s coastal habitats to NOAA/RAE Jamaica Bay Marine Debris coastal hazards, including sea level rise and Removal. Jamaica Bay New York. Project other impacts of climate change. Director and Project Manager for Jamaica Bay Responsibilities included support with the Clean Sweep in New York. Program involved development of the Restoration Explorer the removing and disposing of large marine application; developing a common set of metrics debris (LMD), such as derelict boats, floating to measure the success and benefits of coastal docks, and large timbers as well as other, restoration/enhancement projects throughout the smaller marine debris. Boat removal component state; and working with local communities in of the program is augmented with strong Monmouth County to identify coastal habitat community participation in the form of cleanups restoration/enhancement projects He also of areas surrounding the LMD. Approximately served on the Measures and Monitoring Working 8.84 metric tons of debris was removed. Group. Coastal America, Fletcher Lake Maritime NOAA/RAE Oyster Reef Restoration, Forest Creation. New Jersey. Project manager Barnegat Bay, NJ. Project Manager and and lead scientist that initiated design and supporting scientist for an oyster reef restoration creation from a 0.4 acre hard-pan parking lot and enhancement grant located off Good Luck into a back- scrub-shrub maritime forest to Point in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey. Project promote biodiversity, storm protection, and responsibilities included the acquisition and improve water quality. Obtained funding, created construction of a spat tank, tankless setting pilot, state, federal, and private partnerships, and monitoring using ROV, side scan sonar, and prepared permits, and provided on-the-ground conventional methodologies. He also created a services to enhance existing oceanfront tract. 1-acre subtidal oyster reef where he placed over Also involved coastal lake bank stabilization, 120 cubic yards of whelk shell. invasives removal, and replanting with indigenous species. Initial planting was NOAA/RAE NJ Living Shorelines, various September 2013 with a small replant in 2014. locations, NJ. Project manager and primary Project received congressional recognition. contact for the design of three potential living Since inception, he has been able to shoreline locations in Monmouth County, New together funding for Phase 2 and 3 of that Jersey. Responsibilities included site feasibility project. visits, working with state regulators with permitting, design support, and assessments. Sylvan Lake Coastal Lake Maritime Forest, The main objective of each was to get these New Jersey. Supporting biologist that project shovel ready. established partnerships and assisted in design support and grant funding to plant eastern toe-

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 edge of Sylvan Lake in Bradley Beach, NJ. (MHW) at or in the vicinity of the mouths of Local elementary schools provided initial design Cheesequake, Matawan, Chingagora, and Flat based on Fletcher Lake final design to promote Creek(s) The poles are needed to improve oil individual stewardship. Avakian Engineering response time and better protect bayshore provided design. environs. Poles will be driven to a depth of twenty (20) feet and a nesting box will be Bradley Beach Dune Revegetation. Bradley attached at the pole’s apex. In addition, predator Beach, New Jersey. As team leader, Capt. protection and a 12-inch eye bolt needed to Modjeski co-authored and was awarded a grant ensure rapid connection of the oil spill protection from the New Jersey Department of boom will be affixed to each pole within 3-4 feet Environmental Protection (NJDEP) for stabilizing of the pole’s base. the back dune system in Bradley Beach, New Jersey and creating educational signage for the Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership, “How You Dune” outreach program. Originally, New Jersey Rain Garden Initiative, New the sand dune system was constructed by first Jersey. Program Manager providing pro bono positioning snow fences in a zig/zag pattern project oversight for the construction of 15 to 20 approximately 25 feet from the bulkhead along rain gardens in New Jersey. Initiated contact the one-mile length of the town’s beach. The with various entities, created partnerships, snow fences were then filled with discarded obtained funding, and implemented the New Christmas trees collected from Bradley Beach Jersey Rain Garden Initiative on behalf of the residents by the Public Works Department and New Jersey Corporate Wetlands Restoration sand was then placed over the area through Partnership. Hosted 1-day Rain Garden man-made methods and through natural Workshop with Rutgers and CWRP for municipal processes. To better stabilize the dune system, leaders. approximately 50,000 plugs of American dune grass were planted with the placement of the NYCEDC, East Midtown Waterfront aforementioned trees. In an effort to further Esplanade, , NY. Lead Marine stabilize the dunes, Capt. Modjeski organized Ecologist and task manager for permitting, on- and recruited numerous volunteers to plant the site mitigation, and threatened and endangered back dunes, assisted in deciding on plant species. Prepared the Essential Fish Habitat species, and coordinated with planting teams to (EFH) Assessment, section 7 ESA Biological ensure delivery and proper planting of Assessment for shortnose and six distinct thousands of plugs in a one-day effort. Signage population segments (DPS) of Atlantic sturgeon created with assistance from the New Jersey as well as four (4) species of sea turtle. Marine Science Consortium described various Coordinated with NYDEC and NMFS and facets of beach life to include dune importance, assisted with USACE nationwide permit. avian life, jetty life, shells, and seaside curiosities. Emergia, SAm-1 Artificial Reef Design/Construction, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership, Project manager for the turnkey Boom Anchor Project. design/construction of an artificial reef providing Middlesex, NJ. The south shore of Raritan Bay, 1,033 square feet of habitat surface area where the project is proposed, consisted of a offshore Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Managed all narrow band of salt marshes, tidal creeks, sand aspects of the design/build operations for the beaches, dunes, remnant forests, pile fields, and artificial reef, provided on-site coordination and extensive intertidal and shallow subtidal flats. divers during deployment operations, These unique bayshore habitats not only provide successfully prepared and obtained all important stopping and feeding grounds for a necessary permits/approvals, and conducted the variety of avian species but also provide baseline/post-deployment monitoring utilizing spawning habitat for a number of demersal, underwater photography and videography. pelagic, and anadromous fish species. As project manager and on-site senior scientist, Shark River Horseshoe Crab and Tagging Capt. Modjeski is currently coordinating the Survey, Neptune, Wall, and Belmar New permitting, placement, and installation of seven Jersey. As Program Coordinator and Primary (7) wooden telephone poles (approximately 35 Scientist, Capt. Modjeski developed and initiated feet in length) above the Mean High-Water Line the first horseshoe crab spawning and egg

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 density survey in 2005 to determine horseshoe information and analyses could also be used to crab abundance and confirm spawning activity support possible competitive lease sales for and preferred spawning locations within the offshore aggregate resources. Shark River Bay. He also used the program to mentor two (2) boy scouts from a local Gloucester County Improvement Authority, Monmouth County chapter. As part of their Paulsboro Marine Terminal SAV Survey and Eagle Scout Project, each of the two scouts Mapping, Delaware River, NJ. As Project attended survey training, led survey teams Manager and Senior Scientist, coordinated consisting of troop members and other aerial and dive survey of 167-acre parcel to volunteers, and prepared draft reports. In determine SAV presence and absence, impact addition, the data collected assisted in the area from port development, and mitigation further protection of the species along municipal strategies. Designed and implemented an in- beaches during spawning season. In 2007, with water dive survey to confirm to verify SAV the support and guidance of the US Fish and presence/absence; composition; SAV acreage; Wildlife Service, Capt. Modjeski initiated a coverage; and general vegetative health. tagging program. Study is in its 7th year. Results were mapped and overlayed in GIS on proposed wharf development alternatives, New Jersey Department of Environmental dredge footprints, and aerials to calculate Protection, Wreck Pond River Herring amount of impacted SAV acreage and develop a Survey, Spring Lake, New Jersey. 2006-2008. mitigation strategy. Project Manager and Senior Fisheries Scientist that developed, implemented, and performed a Cooperating Parties Group, Lower Passaic three-year presence/absence field monitoring River Low Resolution Coring Program, East assessment for blueback herring ( Rutherford, New Jersey. On-site Field aestivalis) and alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) Coordinator, Facilities Manager, and On-site within Wreck Pond, Monmouth County, New Safety Officer that oversaw sediment sampling Jersey. Data collected was used to determine if program along 17.5 miles of the . the seaward, 300-foot extension of the pond’s Program included vibracoring, grab sampling, outfall pipe interrupted or deterred migratory modified box coring of 118 sample sites. activity of natal spawning river herring. Duties Responsibilities included sample scheduling; included development of a state-wide” herring homeland security and USCG coordination; daily hotline” used to track herring movement; public operations and logistical planning of multiple outreach; fish collection with a 15’ fyke net and vessels and survey crews; and health & safety, seines; fish enumeration and identification; QA/QC, plan modification and deviation water quality, and report compilation. preparation. Project maintained zero accidents.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Conectiv Power Delivery, Environmental Regulation and Enforcement (formerly Assessment, Cedar to Ship Bottom, New Minerals Management Service), Jersey. Senior Environmental Scientist and co- Environmental Report for Use of Federal author of an EA for the proposed upgrading of Offshore Sand for , New two transmission lines originating in Stafford Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Township, New Jersey with terminus in Ship As project fisheries biologist, prepared various Bottom, New Jersey. Primary environmental sections for an Environmental Report (ER) by issues included impacts to Submerged Aquatic identifying and synthesizing all available Vegetation habitat, Essential Fish Habitat, information and identifying and analyzing Habitat Area of Particular Concern, Threatened environmental issues and possible mitigation for & Endangered species, navigation, recreational the use of Federal Outer and commercial fisheries, benthic communities, (OCS) sand, primarily to offset severe coastal and shore birds. Duties included identifying and storm damage in the States of New Jersey, synthesizing all existing information, identifying Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The compiled and analyzing environmental issues of concern information will be used during the preparation associated with the installation of the proposed of required National Environmental Policy Act cables, analyzing the possibility of installation (NEPA) documents to support the issuance of alternatives, attending agency and project noncompetitive leases for planned and meetings, and recommending mitigating emergency nourishment projects. The

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 measures for cable installation. Also addressed New Jersey Highway Authority, Pine Creek NJAC 7:7E special areas. Mitigation, Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Brightwood Pond Association, Watershed Assessment, Middlesex County, New Jersey. and Lake Management Program, Westfield, As marine scientist, conducted an Essential Fish New Jersey. Project Manager performing Habitat (EFH) Assessment of a proposed watershed and lake studies for a small pond in mitigation site along the . Mitigation Westfield, New Jersey. Tasks include physical was proposed to compensate for various lake assessment, bathymetric survey, sediment rehabilitations and improvements to the Driscoll characterization, water quality, and the Bridge located along the . preparation of a Dredge Management Plan and The assessment determined that the proposed Lake Management Plan. project would not adversely affect any of the EFH managed species. The USACE and NMFS Lake Kitchawan Conservation Committee, concurred with these findings. Lake Study and Watershed Management Plan, Pound Ridge, New York. Project NJARNG INRMP, Seagirt, NJ. Project director Manager and Field Coordinator/Senior Scientist that supervised updates and review to the for water-related studies at Lake Kitchawan in existing Integrated Natural Resources Westchester County, New York. Studies Management Plan with survey results included identifying and mapping numerous (rare species, cultural, plant survey, pest species of freshwater Submerged Aquatic management, etc.), new agreements (WPWA), Vegetation, determining water quality to better the NGTC Mission/Tenants as necessary, and understand non-point source nutrient loading, GIS mapping. identifying point sources, preparing a diagnostic National Oceanic and Atmospheric feasibility report, authoring a lake and watershed Administration, Water Quality Monitoring and management plan, and providing management Hyperspectral Ground Verification, Patuxent options for the vegetation management. River, Maryland. Project Manager and Senior Marine Scientist that conducted hyperspectral National Grid, Sag Harbor Submerged imaging field verification along the entire stretch Aquatic Vegetation Biological Assessment, of the Patuxent River. The project was part of Sag Harbor, New York. Task Manager and NOAA pilot project to determine the accuracy chief scientist that conducted SAV surveys and and limitations of various types of remote biological inventory in Sag Harbor Long to sensing to include satellite imagery and determine impact from proposed pipeline. hyperspectral imagery. Duties included field Created accepted protocol and provided coordination, the deployment and retrieval of documentation that indicated the pipeline would moored in-situ monitors, physical water quality have minimal impact. sampling at 10 locations, chlorophyll/Total Suspended Solids sampling, and vessel of Mexico Oil Spill Monitoring – pilotage. Initial data received from YSI water Restoration Pilot Project – Lower Suwannee quality monitors was transferred to NOAA River. Primary scientist and lead author. Aerial Coastal Service Center within 24 hours. A final hyperspectral data was collected from report was written and supplied to NOAA within approximately 2000 square kilometers of 30 days of field completion. coastline bordering the Gulf of Mexico post Deepwater Horizon. Data collected for the Lower Coast Guard, Dredging Suwannee River was used to create a Feasibility and Impact Evaluation, Ft. Pierce, conceptual technical approach that incorporated St. Lucie County, . Responsibilities the use of aerial hyperspectral pre- and post- included assessment of Johnson’s Sea grass monitoring in coordination with focused (Halophila johnsonii) T&E survey, a critical restoration efforts similar to those of the habitat evaluation, analysis of government policy Damage Assessment, Remediation, and and protocol, identification of various dredge Restoration Program (DARRP) and showed the types to minimize benthic impact, and benefits of using remote sensing in prioritizing authorship of a technical brief to be used in restoration as well as accessing remote determining environmental impact to benthos, locations. Submerged Aquatic Vegetation, fisheries, and critical habitat from dredging operations.

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 GSA, Belle Mead Environmental Assessment the Basilone Memorial Bridge located 10.2 miles (EA), Hillsborough, New Jersey. Task from the mouth of the Raritan River. Water Manager and Senior Environmental Scientist for quality surveys were conducted to determine the preparation of a NEPA-guided Environmental extent of saltwater intrusion in order to Assessment (EA) for the General Services determine the possible seasonal presence of Administration. Primary issues addressed were juvenile federally managed species. highest and best use of the property, hazardous substances and remediation, socioeconomics, Conectiv Power Delivery, Cardiff to Oyster land use, cultural resources, transportation, and Creek 230 Kv Transmission Line impacts to the terrestrial environment. Duties Construction Oversight, Pine Barrens, included close coordination with client, Burlington and Atlantic Counties, New identifying and synthesizing all existing Jersey. Supervisory field biologist that was information, identifying and analyzing contracted to ensure that environmental environmental issues of concern associated with conditions of USACE and New Jersey the final disposal and transfer of the GSA-owned Department of Environmental Protection Permits Belle Mead property, public meeting attendance, as well as requirements of the New Jersey analyzing the possibility of disposal alternatives, Pinelands Commission and U.S. Fish and remediation, and determining no mitigating Wildlife Service were followed during Right-of- measures for the disposal process were needed. Way clearing operations and pole installation. Of particular importance was to ensure and GSA, Belle Meade, Baseline Ecological oversee that known Threatened & Endangered Evaluation (BEE) for Outlying Parcels, habitat for swamp pink, Pine Barrens and Hillsborough, NJ. Principal Biologist and BEE southern gray tree frog, pine snake, corn snake, author that coordinated with field teams to timber rattlesnake, and other flora were not confirm environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs), impacted. Additional responsibilities included potential pathways for contaminants of concern oversight of storm water/soil erosion mitigation, (COC), and next steps. relocation of herpetological species within ROW, and coordination between crews, foreman, and Waterways Experiment Station U.S. Army government agencies. Corps, Encrusting Bryozoans Pilot Study, Florida. As marine scientist, sorted and Conectiv Power Delivery, Cedar to Ship provided Quality Assurance/Quality Control for Bottom Feasibility and Redesign, 21 samples of sediment collected from Capron Manahawkin Bay, New Jersey. Project located off the eastern coast of Florida in Manager that performed feasibility of a proposed order to determine the presence of several bridge attachment of two transmission lines species of microscopic, sand-encrusting across Manahawkin Bay. Responsibilities bryozoans prior to beach replenishment included plan revisions, site visits, client and operations. Data was further analyzed to agency coordination, impact analysis, Essential estimate species density and substrate Fish Habitat (EFH) Assessment, State and preference. Federal permit revisions, wetland delineations, and habitat assessments for suitability for New Jersey South Transportation Authority, submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) and Atlantic City Expressway Widening, New anadromous fish species. Jersey. Senior reviewer and fisheries biologist that authored various sections of the Flood Genpower, Hudson Energy Submarine Power Hazard Permit and compliance statement for the Cable Siting and Feasibility Study. As marine proposed widening of 30+ miles of roadway. Key scientist, collected, analyzed, and prepared issues involved warm water fisheries, timing relevant data and studies in reference to the restrictions, and impact analysis to over 60 feasibility of routing a submarine power cable water bodies. from Nova Scotia to Manhattan. Assessment of each siting included commercial and Basilone Memorial Bridge, Raritan River, recreational fisheries, benthic/demersal/pelagic Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Assessment. As environments, essential fish habitat (EFH), primary aquatic scientist, conducted an threatened and endangered species, impacts to Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Assessment for marine sanctuaries, marine ecology, lithology, proposed modifications to the fender system of sedimentology, bathymetry, identification of

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 sensitive habitat areas, shoreline and submarine identifying and analyzing environmental issues infrastructure, sedimentology, dredge placement of concern associated with the landing of the sites, borrow pits, firing fans, and Federal fiber optic submarine cable system, analyzing channels. Data collected was used to identify the possibility of alternative landing sites in the the practicability of preferred routes and plot the San Juan area, and recommending mitigating most cost-effective and environmentally measures for cable placement. Presented the cable routes. EA and Joint Permit Application in Puerto Rico to the appropriate Federal and Commonwealth El Paso Corporation, Blue Atlantic Agencies. Transmission System, Blue Atlantic Transmission System, Nova Scotia to New Tyco Submarine Systems Limited, Jersey. As Senior Marine Ecologist, conducted Environmental Impact Assessment, Puerto background research for determining feasibility Barrios and Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala of a proposed gas pipeline project consisting of Environmental Impact Assessment for the SAm- approximately 750 miles (1,200 km) of 36-inch 1 Fiber Optic Submarine Cable Landing, Puerto pipe originating from the southern coast of Nova Barrios and Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. Project Scotia and continuing subsea to landing points Manager for preparation of an Environmental in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan Impact Statement (EIA). Primary issues areas. Duties including regular agency addressed were impacts to the terrestrial meetings; coordination with the Army Corps, corridor between Puerto Barrios and Puerto National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Quetzal and impacts to the marine environment. Wildlife Service, U.S. Coast Guard, N.J. Duties included coordination with on-site Department of Environmental Protection, New biologists, identifying and synthesizing all York State Department of Environmental existing information, identifying and analyzing Conservation, and the Port Authority of New environmental issues of concern associated with York\New Jersey; and desktop research. Data the landing of the fiber optic submarine cable collected was used to identify the practicability of system, analyzing the possibility of alternative preferred routes, the practicability of landing landing sites in Guatemala, weekly updates, sites, and to determine the most cost-effective permitting, and recommending mitigation and environmentally sound pipeline route. measures for cable placement.

Tyco Submarine Systems Limited, Sea Turtle Reliant Energy, Update to New Jersey Protocol/ Monitoring Plan, Sea Turtle Beach Pollution Discharge Elimination System Monitoring Survey for the SAm-1 Submarine (NJDPES) Compliance Requirements, Cable System Landing, Isla Verde Beach, Compliance Manual, and Training Modules. Puerto Rico. As Project Manager, developed a Assisted in the senior review of past and current Sea Turtle Protocol/Monitoring Plan and NJDPES permitting requirements at Gilbert implemented the survey in Puerto Rico. Station to ensure environmental compliance. Coordinated with the Department of Natural Worked with project team to develop training Resources, Army Corps, and U.S. Fish and modules, interactive activity tables, and also Wildlife Service to obtain proper research reviewed updates to the current compliance permits, coordinated with on-site turtle monitor manual. to ensure agency guidelines were met, and was key point of contact for all data and contingency Columbia TransCom Fiber Optic Cable decision-making. Project: Surveys for Threatened Bog Turtle, Southeastern Pennsylvania. Environmental Tyco Submarine Systems Limited, field scientist that conducted habitat Environmental Assessment and Joint Permit assessments and presence/absence surveys for Application, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. the federally-threatened bog turtle Clemmys Environmental Assessment and Joint Permit muhlenbergii for a fiber-optic cable installation Application for the SAm-1 Fiber Optic project in southeastern Pennsylvania. Survey Submarine Cable Landing, Isla Verde, Puerto methodology followed guidelines prescribed for Rico. Project Manager for preparation of an Pennsylvania by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Environmental Assessment (EA) and a Joint Service (USFWS) Pennsylvania Field Office and Permit Application. Duties included identifying the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and synthesizing all existing information, (FBC). Surveys were conducted to provide

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 information regarding the presence or absence offshore southern . Duties included of bog turtles in resource crossings (areas coordination with the Long Island and New York where the project crosses a natural resource). City District United States Coast Guard Marine Reliant, 316(b) Impingement and Entrainment Safety Offices, National Marine Fisheries Studies Portland Station, Pennsylvania. Field Service, State entities, commercial fishing Operations Manager for Impingement and consortiums, and recreational facility managers; Entrainment Studies performed along Delaware evaluation of existing recreational and River for 1 year. Designed and implemented commercial shipping conditions; use/frequency sampling protocol, scheduled staff, and determination of New York/New Jersey shipping performed studies. Trained staff on species lanes by tankers, container ships, and barges; identification and sampling protocol. Safety determination of vessel types and classes that manager for project. transited within and adjacent to the project area; analysis of potential security/safety measures US PowerGen, 316(b) Impingement and associated with pre-and post-construction Entrainment Studies, Astoria Queens, New activities; frequency determination and targeted York. Field Operations Manager for large-scale species sought inshore and offshore by Impingement and Entrainment Studies commercial fishermen, and impact assessment performed along for 1 year. Designed from the proposed construction to commercial and implemented sampling protocol and gear, shipping, recreational and seasonal vessel scheduled staff, performed studies, and traffic, commercial fishing, barge movement, and authored IMECS. Trained staff on species USCG Search and Rescue (SAR) missions. identification (larval, juvenile, and adult) and Williams, Sentinel Pipeline Essential Fish sampling protocol. Acting Safety Manager for Habitat Assessment, New Jersey. Performed the duration project. EFH Assessment for various loops of the Sentinel Pipeline project. Wrote a brief Con Edison, Peter Cooper Village East River memorandum stating that EFH did not exist at Sediment Sampling Program, New York, New the project location and received concurrence York. Logistics Coordinator that provided from National Marine Fisheries Service. USCAE permitting, homeland security, USCG coordination, sub-contractor coordination, Williams/Transco Pipeline, Leidy to Long bathymetry mapping coordination and Hypack, Island Essential Fish Habitat Assessment, and subsequent marine needs for project to New Jersey. Performed EFH Assessment along ensure proper collection and processing of proposed pipeline crossing and at test site near samples with roto-sonic drilling techniques. Raritan Bay. NMFS concurred with findings.

New York Container Terminal Sediment Williams/Transco, EPA Macroinvertebrate Project, , New York. Field Rapid Bio-assessment III Survey Ludwig’s sedimentologist that assisted with the Run, Pennsylvania. Senior biologist and processing, coring, photography, and logging of Project manager for macro invertebrate and cores. Vibracoring consisted of 20–40-foot core fisheries surveys performed on Ludwig’s Run, a lengths at numerous stations. small tributary of the Brandywine. Prepared the protocol, performed the field study, and CITGO, Mussel Bioaccumulation Study, submitted a final report. Survey and habitat , Staten Island, New York. Chief assessment was performed in accordance with scientist and field coordinator for EPA Rapid Bio assessment III Protocol for bioaccumulation survey. Worked with Woods wadeable, streams, lakes, and rivers. Hole personnel to determine toxicity of mussel tissue by placing caged organisms at various Iroquois Pipeline, Hand-Jetting and sites in Arthur Kill. Performed Water quality and Thundermold Water Quality Monitoring, East coordinated with dive teams, USCG, and client. River, New York. As a supervisory field biologist, performed environmental monitoring Long Island Offshore Wind Park, Navigation during hand-jetting operations and Thundermold Study, Long Island, New York. Senior marine testing to determine extent of benthic turbidity traffic analyst and researcher that performed a plume during peak ebb/flood currents. navigational risk assessment relative to the Monitoring included doing Yellow Springs proposed construction of a 40-turbine Wind Park Incorporated casts at various depths within the

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 water column and physical sampling for Total Pennsylvania. Project Manager and Senior Suspended Solids. Coordinated with the pipeline Technical Advisor/Reviewer that designed a field engineers and Dynamic Positioning Vessel Pennsylvania Department of Environmental crew in order to obtain hand-jetting position, Protection approved sampling plan based on status, and best sampling sites. Environmental Protection Agency Rapid Bioassessment Protocol III Procedures, Long Island Power Authority, Long Island implemented the program and habitat Offshore Wind Park, Marine Safety 3rd Party assessment, and authored the report to Review, Southern Long Island. Senior Marine determine health of an 1800 foot stretch of Dry Analyst that provided review and comments on Sawmill Run. Metrics calculated included Total marine safety relevant to the proposed Taxa Richness, Mayfly (Ephemeroptera), construction of a 40-turbine Wind Park offshore stonefly orders (Plecoptera), caddisfly southern Long Island. In addition, assisted with (Trichoptera) Richness, % Pollution Intolerants, the preparation of an oil response plan for the Shannon Diversity, Beck’s Index, and Hilsenhoff Wind Park. biotic index.

Conoco-Phillips, Beacon Port Clean Energy Sadat Consulting, Frank’s Creek Benthic Baseline Marine/ Water Quality Survey, Gulf Survey and Habitat Assessment, Kearny, of Mexico, Galveston, Texas. On-site New Jersey. Program Manager and lead supervisory field biologist responsible for a suite scientist that performed a benthic survey and of water quality sampling within the Gulf of habitat assessment for a stretch of tidal creek Mexico at High Island Area 27 and West located in Kearny Marsh, New Jersey. Cameron 354. Project also included ichthyoplankton surveys, otter trawls, and Conectiv Power Delivery, Threatened and benthic sampling. Vertical water quality Endangered Plant Survey, Pine Barrens, New parameters were recorded with a YSI 6600 and Jersey. Supervisory field biologist that included temperature, specific conductivity, conducted comprehensive field survey of an conductivity, salinity, dissolved oxygen existing transmission line Right-of-Way corridor percentage and concentration, depth, pH, and and a proposed new corridor for over 110 rare, turbidity from bottom of water column to the threatened and endangered plant species. surface at five (5) foot intervals. “Clean hands” Federal and State species included swamp pink sampling protocol for collection of Dissolved (Helonias bullata), New Jersey rush (Juncus metals (ICP/MS), Cu (II), Hg (II), Dissolved Hg, caesariensis), bog asphodel (Narthecium TSS/TDS, and Chloride was also performed. In americanum), Knieskern’s beaked rush addition, samples were collected for total (Rhynchospora knieskernii), fringed yellow-eyed chlorine, free chlorine, total grass (Xyris fimbriata), pine barren reedgrass nitrogen/phosphorous, dissolved phosphate, and (Calamovilfa brevipilis), pine barren gentian chlorophyll and processed on-site. Other (Gentiana autumnalis), pine barren smoke grass responsibilities included rapid mobilization (Muhlenbergia torreyana), curly grass fern coordination and field logistics, multi- (Schizaea pusilla), and red milkweed (Asclepias departmental coordination, laboratory rubra). distribution, data analysis, and multi- departmental field coordination. Paramount Homes Development, State Threatened Northern Pine Snake Survey, Independent Research, Natural Resource Pine Barrens, New Jersey. Supervisory field Inventory, Costa Rica. Research associate biologist that helped construct various pipe and with Dr. Rudolph Arndt. Identified, observed, and funnel traps set along field constructed drift logged aquatic, botanical, herpetological, avian, fences at three (3) locations within the Pine mammalian, and various invertebrate species Barrens of NEW JERSEY. Monitored traps daily throughout central and western Costa Rica. for presence of northern pine snake (Pituophis Habitats included riparian environments; dry, melanoleucus melanoleucus) and recorded and wet, and cloud rainforests; and coastal tide identified mammalian, amphibian, and reptilian pools. species trapped.

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Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 County, Florida. Project Manager and Senior Conectiv Power Delivery, Barred Owl Habitat Aquatic Scientist, conducted a sediment Assessment, Cedar to Ship Bottom, New characterization survey at 25 sites in Lake Jersey. As Task Manager and Senior Rosalie, provided support for hydrographic Environmental Scientist, conducted a habitat survey, conducted emergent vegetative assessment along a transmission cable ROW composition surveys and SAV field verification within the Manahawkin Wildlife Management and groundtruthing for hyperspectral imaging Area (MWMA), Manahawkin, New Jersey for the confirmation, performed volumetric calculations State-threatened barred Owl (Strix varia). Duties based on bathymetry data and collected surface included the development of survey area data, and created electronic maps with GIS methodology modified from NJDEP and U.S. software (ArcView, 3-D Analyst, etc.) for Fish and Wildlife Service guidelines, bathymetry and lake profiles. coordination with NJDEP, USFWS, and the Manahawkin Wildlife Management Area refuge Independent Research, Southeastern manager, survey scheduling, authoring the final Freshwater Fish Distribution Study, North assessment report, and obtaining special survey and South Carolina. Research associate with permits. Surveys were conducted to provide Dr. Rudolph Arndt. Collected, identified, and information regarding the presence or absence logged aquatic and herpetological specimens for of barred owl nesting habitat adjacent to ongoing research dealing with freshwater fish proposed work. distribution in South Carolina. Fish species of interest included three species of madtoms, Reliant Energy, Inc., 316(b) Proposal for banded pygmy sunfish, and brook silverside. Information Collection (PIC), Pennsylvania, Used electro-shocker and varied sampling Ohio, New York. Senior Aquatic Scientist and techniques. Assisted in identifying and major contributor to the development of PICSs documenting extensions to known ranges for for three Generating Plants. To meet brook silversides. impingement mortality & entrainment performance goals under the Section 316(b) Kinder Morgan Buckeye Pipeline, Buckeye Phase II Rule for each station, responsibilities Pipeline Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) included development of impingement and Assessment, Rahway River, New Jersey. As entrainment mortality sampling plans for Task Manager and Senior Marine Ecologist, individual stations, historical background conducted an Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) research and ambient data collection, and Assessment for the proposed installation of a determination of site-specific Best Technology 2.14-mile, 16-inch diameter pipeline across the Available (BTA). Rahway River and three tidally influenced tributaries (Ralph’s Creek, Marshes Creek, and Conectiv Power Delivery, Essential Fish Cross Creek). Conducted a field habitat Habitat (EFH) Assessment, Ocean County, assessment at each proposed crossing to Manahawkin Bay, New Jersey. determine habitat type and general habitat As Task Manager and Senior Marine Ecologist, quality, substrate type, locations of fish passage conducted an Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) impediments and obstructions, water quality, Assessment for proposed upgrades to existing and extent and variance of salinity. Other duties transmission lines traversing Manahawkin Bay, included coordination with NMFS and USACE, New Jersey. Cables were proposed to be desktop research, and the quick-turn, submerged underneath the substrate for 1.7 completion of EFH Assessment report. miles in EFH for 22 species and HAPC (Habitat Area of Particular Concern) for juvenile summer Great Spring Waters of America, Hoffman flounder (Paralycthes dentatus). Duties included Springs Aquatic Habitat Assessment, Lehigh coordination with NMFS, NEW JERSEYDEP, County, Pennsylvania. Aquatic Biologist for and USACE, desktop research, meeting Hoffman Springs habitat evaluation including attendance, completion of EFH Assessment fish, macroinvertebrates and water chemistry. report, and determination of possible seasonal Targeted species included brook and brown presence of federally managed fish species. . Sampling equipment included D-net and electrofisher. Conectiv Power Delivery, Bald Eagle Monitoring, Bordentown, New Jersey. As Senior Environmental Scientist, conducted land

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 and boat-based monitoring of a pair of approximately 8 feet. Samples were screened Federally-threatened bald eagles Haliaeetus on-shore for percent recovery, soil lithology, leucocephalus nesting on Newbold Island, apparent moisture content, visual and olfactory Bordentown Township, Burlington County, New evidence of contamination and a photoionization Jersey. Monitoring was conducted from January detector (PID) was used to screen for volatile 28 through June 28, 2002, three days a week at emissions. five stations located along the Delaware River. Conectiv Power Delivery, Remote Sensing Conectiv Power Delivery, Yellow Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Lampmussel Desktop Analysis, Bordentown, Survey, Ocean County, Manahawkin Bay, New Jersey. As Senior Aquatic Ecologist, New Jersey. As Project Manager and Senior conducted background research to determine Marine Ecologist, coordinated and performed presence and/or absence of the State- SAV survey in Manahawkin Bay, New Jersey. threatened yellow lampmussel Lampsilis cariosa Utilized hyperspectral imaging, groundtruthing of near proposed 660-megawatt (MW) combined 20 stations, and GIS mapping to determine cycle, gas turbine power plant at a site along the impacts to SAV habitat from the proposed Delaware River in New Jersey. Determined that upgrade of existing submerged transmission live presence within proposed location of lines. Duties included SAV survey protocol intake/discharge structures along the Delaware development; field survey and groundtruthing; River had not been observed in past decade. In data analysis; coordination with National Marine addition, evaluation of presence for State- Fisheries Service, Army Corps, U.S. Coast threatened eastern pondmussel (Ligumia Guard, and the NJDEP; technical report nasuta) and tidewater mucket (Leptodea completion; and the presenting of results at a ochracea) was also conducted. Other federally regulatory project meeting. and/or State Endangered unionid species investigated included the dwarf wedgemussel Tyco Submarine Systems Limited, Dive (Alasmidonta heterodon), brook floater Survey and Macro invertebrate Study for the (Alasmidonta varicosa), triangle floater SAm-I, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. (Alasmidonta undulata), green floater Marine scientist that conducted a desktop (Lasmigona subviridis) and the eastern baseline biological study for the SAm-1 lampmussel (Lampsilis radiata). Submarine Fiber-Optic Cable System (Sam-1) landing at Isla Verde Beach, Puerto Rico. Duties Metropolitan Transit Authority, MTA Benthic included the compilation of a comprehensive Inventory, Manhattan to New Jersey and macro invertebrate species list including soft and Brooklyn, New York. hard corals, sponges, gorgonians, etc., the Project marine ecologist that prepared various compilation of completed daily data sheets for a sections inventorying and describing benthic and dive report, and coordination with the dive nektonic biota inhabiting the lower Hudson and survey team to ensure data integrity. East Rivers, parts of Upper Bay, and Mills Basin in Jamaica Bay. He identified and assessed Harbison-Walker Landfill, Benthic Analysis, environmental stresses, impacts, and mitigation Cape May County, New Jersey. Conducted measures to various aquatic communities in extensive benthic field sampling on a semi- reference to the construction of axis tunnels enclosed tidal creek in Cape May, New Jersey. connecting lower Manhattan to New Jersey and Extensive lab research and species identification Brooklyn. Screening methodology was was utilized in determining the presence of developed and anadromous and benthic biota freshwater organisms and the impacts of making was stressed and discussed in detail. the creek an open system. Determined that tidal inundation of the system due to anthropogenic Conectiv Power Delivery, Sediment barriers was minimal and that the creek was Sampling, Cambridge Creek, Maryland. On- predominantly freshwater and supported a site field supervisor and senior marine ecologist healthy community of freshwater organisms. that performed “clean hands” sediment sampling near an abandoned MPG site located along Marsh Resources, Inc., Meadowlands Cambridge Creek, a tributary located within the Mitigation Bank, Lyndhurst, New Jersey. As Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Samples were fisheries biologist, conducted benthic analyses collected with an electric vibracorer to a depth of on a 206-acre wetland mitigation bank in the

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 Hackensack Meadowlands. Responsibilities was constructed to allow for a 2-hour sampling included biological inventory preparation and event in which intake water was filtered through assessment, water quality analyses a plankton net to determine entrainment incorporating data from the YSI 6820/610DM percentage. In addition, water quality was also EMS, tidal data analysis, and on-site biological determined. resource assessments dealing with population densities of intertidal organisms. All data was Conoco Phillips, Water Quality Monitoring, combined and interpreted to illustrate the Gulf of Mexico. On-site supervisory field recovery rate of benthic invertebrates within a biologist that conducted a suite of water quality mitigation site. sampling within the Gulf of Mexico, Mobile Bay Block 910. Recorded temperature, specific Hoffman Springs, Litigation conductivity, conductivity, salinity, dissolved Support/Fisheries Survey Oversight, Lynn oxygen percentage and concentration, depth, Township, Pennsylvania. Ongoing fisheries pH, and turbidity from bottom of water column to studies conducted by Hoffman Springs for brook the surface at five (5) foot intervals. Also used and along Ontelaunee Creek “clean hands” sampling protocol for collection of indicated that the stream classification for this Dissolved metals (ICP/MS), Cu (II), Hg (II), particular stretch was not of “exceptional value”. Dissolved Hg, TSS/TDS, and Chloride. In In an attempt to reclassify the stream for addition, samples were collected for total “exceptional value”, the Pennsylvania Fish and chlorine, free chlorine, total Boat Commission (FBC) conducted nitrogen/phosphorous, dissolved phosphate, and Mark/Recapture Surveys for brook and brown chlorophyll. Other responsibilities included rapid trout along Ontelaunee Creek located in Lynn mobilization coordination, multi-departmental Township, Pennsylvania. Capt. Al Modjeski of coordination, laboratory distribution, data AECOM Corporation was present at each analysis, and multi-departmental field sampling event to observe/record collection and coordination. Equipment used included YSI fish processing methodology to ensure that data 6920 and 650 MDS data logger, Colorimeter, was correct and to relay information on Kemmerer 2.2L sampler, Peristaltic pump and variations in methodology and sampling duration “clean” ½” tubing, and a Chlorophyll filtration kit. to that of previous studies. Based on the data collected, variations in methodology, and his Meadowlands Environmental Research oversight of sampling, it was determined that the Institute (MERI), Meadowlands Sediment stream was not of “exceptional value” and Triad Sampling and Water Quality current plant operations could remain Monitoring, Meadowlands, New Jersey. unchanged. Supervisory field biologist that conducted “clean hands” sediment sampling, benthic sampling, Reliant Energy, Update to New Jersey and water quality monitoring at five (5) Pollution Discharge Elimination System freshwater and estuarine marsh sites for (NJDPES) Compliance Requirements, sediment triad analysis and Ecological Risk Compliance Manual, and Training Modules. Assessment of Meadowlands, New Jersey. Assisted in the senior review of past and current Responsibilities included field coordination, NJDPES permitting requirements at Gilbert sample collection and laboratory distribution, Station to ensure environmental compliance. data analysis, GPS and GIS mapping, and Worked with project team to develop training report assistance for the first phase of the MERI modules, interactive activity tables, and also Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP). reviewed updates to the current compliance manual. Iroquois Gas Pipeline, Scow Decanting and Water Quality Monitoring, Hunts Point, NY. Athens Generating Plant, 316 (b) Compliance As a supervisory, on-call field biologist, and Ichthyoplankton Entrainment Study, performed environmental monitoring during the Athens, New York. Senior Aquatic Scientist that decanting of 6 scows at Hunts Point, New York. performed icthyoplankton entrainment sampling Monitoring program included physical sampling as part of 316(b) compliance for the newly for Total Suspended Solids at each scow, on- constructed Athens Generating Plant located site monitoring of decanting procedures, and along the Hudson River. Sampling was ensuring proper use of a water filtration system conducted on a 24-hour basis. A pump system during decanting process.

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 Pinelands Commission and U.S. Fish and Iroquois Pipeline, Turbidity Plume and Water Wildlife Service were followed during Right-of- Quality Survey, , New Way clearing operations and pole installation. Of York. As a supervisory field biologist, performed particular importance was to ensure and environmental monitoring during the installation oversee that known Threatened & Endangered of a natural gas pipeline in Long Island Sound habitat for swamp pink, Pine Barrens and (Northport, Long Island to Hunts Point, New southern gray tree frog, pine snake, corn snake, York) as part of the 401 Water Quality Certificate timber rattlesnake, and other flora were not issued by the New York State Department of impacted. Additional responsibilities included Environmental Conservation. Monitoring oversight of storm water/soil erosion mitigation, program included defining the spatial extent of relocation of herpetological species within ROW, water column turbidity related to construction and coordination between crews, foreman, and activities in varying using an Acoustic government agencies. Doppler and CTD/OBS sensors in conjunction with physical sampling for TSS. Coordinated Kinder Morgan, Wetlands Delineation, with the pipeline field engineers and vessel Carteret, New Jersey. As senior environmental captain in order to obtain barge position, status, scientist, conducted wetland delineation and and determine best sampling sites. performed GPS duties in regards to the proposed installation of gas pipelines and tank Mad River Relocation Study - Fisheries installation within a ROW at a distribution facility. Analysis, Waterbury, Connecticut. As primary aquatic scientist, conducted a desktop analysis Conectiv Power Delivery, Wetlands of the potential impacts of rerouting a segment Delineation, Bordentown, New Jersey. As of the Mad River located in Waterbury, environmental scientist, conducted wetland Connecticut. Impacts to cold water fisheries, delineation and performed GPS duties in recreational fisheries, anadromous regards to the proposed construction of power and spawning, macro invertebrate communities, generating plant along the Delaware River. and varied microhabitats associated with riverine ecosystems were identified and analyzed to Bell Bend Nuclear Power Plant Dredge determine the feasibility for relocation and Management Support, Susquehanna River, determine minimal impacts. Possible mitigation Pennsylvania. Project Manager and Chief and restoration plans for the relocated segment Scientist that designed and implemented a were proposed for the site to help promote a sediment sampling program to determine reuse stable environment suitable to anadromous and/or placement of 17,000 – 25,000 cubic spawning for the Atlantic salmon upon relocation yards of sediment from a proposed cooling approval. water intake structure. Tasks included sampling plan (SAP) preparation in accordance with HMDC, Oritani Marsh Baseline Studies, Pennsylvania Clean Fill Policy, agency Lyndhurst, New Jersey. As project benthic coordination, logistical planning, field collection ecologist, conducted and coordinated benthic and processing, data validation, and the research methodology, data collection, species preparation of a sediment characterization report identification, and data analysis for a tidal that identified possible options for dredge wetlands mitigation site on the Hackensack material placement. River. The project is an ongoing monitoring study to determine existing site conditions and Pivotal Utility Holdings Sediment and potential contamination influences. GeoProbe Investigation. Rahway River, New Jersey. Chief Scientist and Task Manager that Conectiv Power Delivery, Cardiff to Oyster designed and implemented a sediment Creek 230 Kv Transmission Line characterization and toxicity sampling program Construction Oversight, Pine Barrens, along Robinson Reach in the Rahway River. Burlington and Atlantic Counties, New Program was designed to identify potential Jersey. Supervisory field biologist that was remediation and spatial extent of contaminants contracted to ensure that environmental of concern (COCs). In addition, he coordinated conditions of USACE and New Jersey the drilling and placement of new wells as well Department of Environmental Protection Permits as used a GeoProbe in more inaccessible as well as requirements of the New Jersey locations.

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 Loss Plans, Highlands Application, and Reliant Energy’s Inc., 3rd Party Dredging Threatened and Endangered Species. New Inspection and Oversight, East River, Jersey Task Manager and author/co-author of Queens, NY. Task Manager and Senior No Net Loss Reforestation Plans for 5 state Dredging Inspector for the dredging of Unit #1 Parks in northern New Jersey, bald eagle report Intake at the Astoria Generating Station preparation and review, vernal pools, and prior to the installation of wedge wire screens NJDEP Letters of Interpretation and Permits. and an aquatic filter barrier for 316(b) Oversaw and provided senior review for the compliance. Inspection was performed pursuant Highlands Applicability Determination. LOIs to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act and were deemed complete within 3 days and NNL Article 15, Item 5 of the ECL. Duties included Plans were approved by NJ Parks and Forestry. inspection of pump connections, pipes, and pumps; decant/dredge oversight; video and National Marine Debris Monitoring Program, photographic documentation of operations; and Bradley Beach, NJ. Capt. Al Modjeski was an documenting daily operations. active participant and event coordinator for the Ocean Conservancy's National Marine Debris Liberty Natural Gas Deepwater Port (DWP) Monitoring Program (NMDMP), a five-year License Application, Liberty Natural Gas monitoring program funded by the U.S. LLC. Senior commercial/recreational fishery Environmental Protection Agency. For five economist and navigation/security assessor that years, Capt. Modjeski and the Bradley Beach co-authored Topic Reports 6 (Socioeconomics) Environmental Commission, monitored a 500- and 10 (Safety, Security, and Navigation) as part meter area of beach for the study, organized of DWP License Application. He analyzed monthly “beach sweeps”, maintained a volunteer current fisheries, landings, and base consisting of local organizations such as commercial/recreation vessel movement at the the fishing club and school environmental club, proposed offshore Port site. In addition, he recorded types and number of indicator items coordinated with the NY USCG MSO, NOAA, removed from each sweep, and coordinated homeland security, and various other entities to results with the Ocean Conservancy on a determine impacts associated with the regular basis. The five-year study revealed that construction of and the delivery of liquefied there was an annual increase in debris of 22.5% natural gas (LNG) to the deepwater port offshore and the leading source of debris was land- NY/NJN Harbor. based. Leading general indicator items consisted of plastic bottles and plastic bags. The Delaware River Shoreline Sediment Survey, leading land-based debris item was plastic Griffin Pipe. Florence, New Jersey. Senior straws. scientist that developed and implemented a sediment survey along the Delaware River at United Technologies Eco-Risk Assessment various capped outfalls to determine extent or and Remedial Investigation, Windsor Locks, potential of contamination from the pipeyard. CT. Field Manager and supervisory biologist that led three sampling teams at various locations Offshore Wind Farm Commercial Fisheries within and near to the United Technologies site Impact Analysis, Deepwater Wind. and Bradley International Airport. In addition, he Monmouth and Middlesex counties, NJ. oversaw vessel movement for on-water Senior Scientist that provided preliminary sampling, coordinated survey with staff and sub- assessment of impacts to commercial fisheries contractors, and performed frog and fish associated with the proposed construction of collection for tissue analysis and a wind farm located offshore New Jersey. Used sediment/hydric soil/and water quality survey to various data sources to identify types of fisheries determine general risk to species at and present at both the preferred and alternate adjacent to the site. Incorporated a variety of locations, determined gear types and number of sampling techniques acceptable by the EPA. trips to each affected statistical area, and assessed the overall impact construction would New Jersey Calling Amphibians Monitoring have on each identified fishery. Program, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Voluntary field biologist that conducted surveys Tennessee Gas Pipeline, Northeast Upgrade for the New Jersey Department of Loops 323 and 325, NJ Permitting, No Net Environmental Protection (NJDEP) inventorying

Phone: 732 - 291- 0055 ● WWW.LITTORALSOCIETY.ORG ● Fax: 732 - 291 - 3551 various frog species along a 10-mile route using Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New vocalizations for over two (2) years within Jersey, and therefore could have similar Monmouth County, New Jersey. roadway crossing culvert structures installed. In Duck Island Groundwater Monitoring, addition, analysis of results was conducted to Trenton, New Jersey. Provided groundwater characterize upstream/downstream habitat sampling support at various sites within Duck suitability within the stream corridor relative to Island to assist in the identification of warm water and anadromous fish passage and contaminant transport. utilization for spawning.

Lower Passaic River Creel Survey, CPG. Task Tioga Marine Terminal, Philadelphia, PA. manager and senior scientist that provided Provided water quality sampling and logistical support for a two-month creel survey assessment at the Tioga Marine Terminal to performed from Newark Bay to River Mile 17.5 determine cause of sheet pile deterioration. below Dundee Dam. Survey was performed to identify frequently fished areas and assess USPowerGen SPDES Compliance, Astoria preliminary risk to anglers. Generating Station, Queens, New York. Senior task manager that performed in-situ Hill Wallack Attorneys at Law, Expert Fish water quality sampling of effluent and influent at Testimony and Litigation Support, Hamilton wharf and within intakes along the East River to Township, New Jersey. Senior Fisheries ensure compliance. Sampling was conducted Scientist, expert witness, and co-author of a using an Iseco autosampler over a period of 24 Technical Review and Assessment Report hours. addressing permitting issues and fish passage to anadromous and warm water fisheries from the completed construction of single span bridge versus the proposed construction of a dual cell box culvert over Watering Race Branch located at the US Route 322 and US Route 50 interchange in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. Reviewed numerous documents and depositions, construction plans, and historic data to determine if client’s low flow crossing design was feasible versus the permitted structure. Provided expertise in benthic communities, warm water and anadromous fish passage, regulatory compliance, construction feasibility, fish migration, essential fish habitat (EFH), and stream morphology. In addition, a habitat assessment upstream and downstream of the water crossing was conducted to determine spawning suitability for clupeid species, current speed, existing natural and anthropogenic fish impediments, water quality, and availability of forage habitat.

Hoagland Longo, Kettle Creek Habitat Assessment, Brick, New Jersey. Task manager and Senior Marine Biologist that conducted a stream characterization and habitat assessment upstream and downstream of the Brick Boulevard Kettle Creek dual culvert crossing in Brick Township, Ocean County, New Jersey. The purpose of the assessment was to determine if Kettle Creek possessed similar morphological and physical characteristics comparable to Watering Race Branch, located in

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