ALLUVION BIOLOGICAL CONSULTING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Staff Terrestrial Ecologist
Mr. Gray obtained his BS in Biological Sciences from California State University Sacramento with emphasis in ecology and conservation. He has experience conducting protocol level surveys for special status species and is capable of identifying a range of organisms; birds, amphibians and reptiles, insects, and fish. Mr. Gray has assisted Dr. Graening of CSU Sacramento for several years with cave research throughout California performing biological inventories. He has also worked for the Catalina Environmental Leadership Program on Catalina Island. During his time there he worked with college students, educating groups on terrestrial and aquatic ecology while stressing the importance of sustainability. Educating such diverse groups allowed Chris the opportunity to gain experience breaking down complex concepts in order to explain them more easily and in different ways to younger groups. His experience with GIS/GPS mapping allows him to assist clients in multiple fields. He has experience performing biological resource assessments for CEQA documentation and status species clearance surveys. QSP trained, Mr. Gray also provides SWPPP inspections.
Job Titles:
- Marine Biologist and Associate
Ms. Laursen has over fifteen years of fieldwork experience, surveying and monitoring for species of special status along the central California coast and abroad. She has field experience with a broad range of species, including but not limited to birds, amphibians, reptiles, salmonids, mammals, and butterflies. She has experience with research design and data management, telemetry tracking, capture and handling, and crew management. She has high standards for quality assurance in data collection and strives for continued excellence in her positions while acquiring new skills. She has conducted Day and night surveys for threatened native California red-legged frogs (Rana draytonii) and non-native bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). She has worked under a permits to rescue and relocate California redlegged frogs and tadpoles to mitigation pools. She is experience in conducting visual identification, capture, and relocation of adult red-legged frogs and tadpoles. Since 2008 Mr. Laursen has worked Salmonid Biologist with NOAA providing biological support for the long term monitoring of juvenile steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) populations during summer, fall and winter in Santa Cruz Mountain watersheds. She conducted surveys and captures are performed with the using electrofishing, installed block nets, capturing steelhead with dipnets, transport fish to processing station, monitoring health of fish, data recording. Seining of steelhead in lagoons and assisted during tagging of adult and juvenile fish at the rearing facility. Ms. Laursen has extensive terrestrial experience conducting bird surveys, capturing and handling common amphibian and reptile species on farms and ranches along the central California coast. From 1998-2008 she worked as a Marine Mammal Researcher, conducting standardized searches for marine mammals during daytime and nighttime surveys for compliance regulations set by USFWS and NMFS in order to minimize disturbance.
Job Titles:
- Principal Ecologist M.B.a
Mr. Oates is a marine biologist and has worked in habitats throughout California, Oregon and Florida over the past 8 years. He provides biological monitoring and field surveys for construction projects in both terrestrial and aquatic/estuarine habitats. Mr. Oates has extensive experience in marine ecology and has worked as a marine mammal monitor and a scuba/snorkel surveyor on several environmental studies. He is also QSP certified and can provide SWPP inspections. Mr. Oates is proficient in experimental design, field survey protocols and identification of special status species in California. With a background in environmental education, he also understands how to effectively communicate relevant science to project stakeholders.
Job Titles:
- Partnering Principal and Sr. Wildlife Biologist
- Partnering Principal of Bumgardner Biological Consulting
Mr. Bumgardner partnering Principal of Bumgardner Biological Consulting, has a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of California at Davis. He spent several years in the Joint Doctoral Program in Ecology at the University of California at Davis and San Diego State University. Mr. Bumgardner has more than 24 years of experience in conducting biological assessments, studies, and inventories, and developing mitigation, restoration, conservation plans and strategies, and constraints analysis. His cliental includes State and Federal, natural gas and oil industry, reclamation districts, ski industry, mining industry, transportation agencies, Union Pacific Railroad, water, wastewater and power utilities, and building industry. He currently holds federal scientific take permits for California gnatcatcher, southwestern willow flycatcher, and California Ridgeway's rail (permit number TE-785564-7), a federal scientific take permit for the California Tiger Salamander (permit number TE-785564-6), a California Department of Fish and Game scientific collector's permit (No. 801214-01) and letter of agreement to conduct surveys for yellow-billed cuckoo, willow flycatcher, California gnatcatcher, California black rail, and California clapper rail.
Mr. David Prentiss has an M.B.A. and B.S. in Finance from California State University. Prior to joining Alluvion, Mr. Prentiss served as Senior Project Operations Manager at Kaiser Permanente - National Medicare Administration for over 7 year where he was for managing monthly age in operations cycle that touches thousands of members each month. Track and report on outreach and manage workflows including outbound list production and QC, marketing, systems, and calendar management. He has over 15 yea in in accosting and business management and has strategically overseen project integration, issue management and day to day list generation.
Peter Harman studied a Masters in Biological Studies at Sacramento State University. His experience is in habitat restoration, initial non-native plant species removal, irrigation installation, collecting seed/cuttings and nursery propagation of target plant species, plant installation/overseeing planting crews, plant monitoring and site census, general maintenance of infrastructure and weed removal, and reporting. Peter has work several years on mitigation restoration projects in Southern California. He has experience in identifying plant species. Peter is currently obtaining his masters in Ecology studying vernal pools in the Searras and is on Staff at Sacramento State University Department of Biology.
Job Titles:
- Principal Terrestrial and Aquatic Biologist
Mr. Gonsolin is an aquatic biologist with 20 years of experience in both terrestrial and aquatic systems. He has conducted numerous biological surveys in coastal systems, the Central Valley, the Sierra, the Coast Ranges, and in the Cascades. His skills include aquatic habitat assessments for inland trout and steelhead, fish population sampling, salmonid redd surveys, calculating fish age and growth, macroinvertebrate sampling, amphibian surveys, evaluating and characterizing amphibian habitat, mark and recapture, biotelemetry, and conducting rare plant and bird surveys. His experience includes field surveys and biological monitoring in support of construction improvement projects, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing projects, water projects and habitat management planning, and data base management and procedures, data quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), statistical analysis, and technical report writing. Mr. Gonsolin has extensive experience collecting, analyzing and reporting data for foothill yellow-legged frogs and California red-legged frogs (CRLF) in a variety of locations and habitats within the range of both species.