AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY SANDY HOOK, HIGHLANDS, NJ 07732 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 Estuaries 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 New Jersey 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 Coast Fish Habitat Partnership Certifications: Southern NJ Threatened and Science and Data Committee Endangered Species, Lake Management, Member Bradley Beach 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 sediment, 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 Bay 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 reef 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 salt marsh. 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 Beaches 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 sand 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 Cape 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 shore 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