PENINSULA ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP - Key Persons
Cassidy Grattan's 20 years of diverse wildlife experience is key to our biological consulting and habitat resource assessment. He has surveyed for endangered species in California & Washington.
Courtney spent five years working in the fields of salmon and orca recovery, botany, and wetland ecology in both Southeast Alaska, and Western Washington prior to becoming a Certified Arborist and tree risk assessor. She now works part time with the North Olympic Land Trust as their Land Manager and part time with Peninsula Environmental. […]
Dr. Catharine Copass is an ecologist with research interests that span multiple scales and disciplines. Her broad range of project experience includes climate change resiliency, modeling regional carbon dynamics, landcover change detection and mapping, forest management and policy, plant community classification and mapping, rare plant monitoring, and wilderness restoration.
Catharine has worked as an ecologist for the National Park Service, coordinating a variety of vegetation inventory and monitoring projects across the PNW as well as leading the NPS regional landscape change monitoring program. She brings skills in research design, ecological statistics, vegetation classification, landcover mapping, GIS and remote sensing to the team.
Job Titles:
- PORT ANGELES, WA / OFFICE MANAGER
Erica has over 10 years experience in administration, office management and finance. Erica has worked in a variety of demanding and fast paced offices from Washington to Alaska including medical centers and tour services. She facilitates communication between staff, contractors and clients. Erica has her Associates of Applied Science (AAS) degree in Business Management.
Job Titles:
- CEO of the Remediators Incorporated
- CEO of the Remediators Incorporated, Howard
- REMEDIATION SPECIALIST
CEO of The Remediators Incorporated, Howard brings over two decades of experience in bioremediation and restoration ecology. The Remediators are known for their contribution to the field of mycoremediation as early commercializers of the technology. The Remediators has continued to develop and expand the potential in the bioremediation industry with the creation of the Integrated Biological Approach which combines the use of mushrooms, microbes, and plants within custom tailored systems to meet a variety of remediation and restoration challenges.
Jessica Mullin is a Registered Consulting Arborist and ecologist who currently performs tree and habitat assessments, tree risk assessment qualifications, prepares shoreline management reports, and conducts environmental assessment and mitigation reports to support clients through the regulatory and planning process for project completion. She has a long background in native plant landscaping and four years of experience as a climbing arborist. Jessica has her Permaculture Design Certificate from the Urban Permaculture Institute in San Francisco and is a Certified Greywater Installer.
Job Titles:
- ACCOUNT MANAGER
- PORT ANGELES, WA / ACCOUNT MANAGER
John Pankratz is a student at Peninsula College, enrolled in the Huxley Program for environmental sciences. John provides customer sales solutions through account management, proposals and estimates, contracts, and connecting consultants and field staff with appropriate clients. John also volunteers at the Fiero Marine Life Center as a naturalist and has a passion for wildlife conservation.
Job Titles:
- MOSES LAKE, WA / UTILITY INSPECTION FOREMAN
- UTILITY INSPECTION FOREMAN
Jon Wilson supervises our utility inspection crews across the United States. He has inspected utility poles in Washington, Michigan, Idaho and Illinois. Formerly Jon located belowground utilities across Washington, Idaho and Montana. John leads a crew of 2-3 people each summer collecting mapping data and inspecting poles. Throughout the winter Jon helps our GIS team refine our utility mapping software.
Josh Dallen owns and operates Arbor's Edge, a full-service tree company serving the north Olympic Peninsula. Arbor's Edge offers a complete range of tree services to meet the diverse needs of customers, their trees, and the environments they inhabit. Licensed, bonded and insured, and work in accordance with modern standards set by the International Society […]
Joshua Chenoweth has worked in vegetation management for over 20 years, including 17 years as a botanist for Olympic National Park. In 2007, he received his M.S. in Ecological Restoration from the University of Washington. For the next ten years, Joshua planned and implemented the largest reforestation project ever attempted by the National Park Service, the Elwha Revegetation Project, a critical component of Elwha Ecosystem Restoration after dam removal. He has a comprehensive understanding of forest ecology, invasive species management, plant propagation and installation, vegetation monitoring, mapping and adaptive management. Joshua has also authored several peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Joshua earned his certificate in hazard tree identification with NPS in 2013, served as a board director for Society of Ecological Restoration Northwest, and is a member of the Technical Review Group for salmon restoration project on the Olympic Peninsula. He teaches vegetation data collection and analysis at Peninsula Community College and Western Washington University's Huxley College on the Peninsulas.
Job Titles:
- PORT ANGELES, WA / STORMWATER TECHNICIAN
- STORMWATER TECHNICIAN
Kaleb Sheldon provides much of our excavation and steep slope stormwater management field work. In addition to steep slope stormwater tightlines he also works on rainwater harvesting systems and other more traditional stormwater techniques like curtain drains and channel drains.
Job Titles:
- Technician
- CONSULTING BIOLOGIST & GIS TECHNICIAN
- PORT ANGELES, WA / CONSULTING BIOLOGIST & GIS TECHNICIAN
Kia is a restoration technician with a background in biology and conservation. She has worked for NOAA - researching harmful algae blooms off the coast of Washington, conducted salmon and stream health surveys on the Olympic Peninsula, and is passionate about using mycoremedial techniques to conserve and rehabilitate the environment.
Kunal Chaudhary provides technical solutions for our consulting and field staff through full stack software development. Linking our internal and external systems along with ArcGIS provides robust solutions for our business management team.
Job Titles:
- TECHNICIAN
- PORT ANGELES, WA / TECHNICIAN
Noah Miller is born and raised in Port Angeles and helps with our field operations.
Patrick Loafman has been conducting research on wildlife and plants for over 33 years. His expertise is in botany, herpetology and spotted owls. For the past 15 years, he has been conducted inventory and monitoring research on plants of the Olympic, Lewis and Clark, Mount Rainier and North Cascades National Parks. He has written "The
Job Titles:
- FOREMAN
- Member from the Hoh
- PORT ANGELES, WA / FOREMAN
Sebastian is a tribal member from The Hoh tribe working as a biological technician. Through the Washington Conservation Corp, he acquired a variety of experiences in environmental restoration, trail building, herbicide application, and assessment and removal of hazard trees. He has worked on a handful of national disasters helping those in need with debris removal, food distribution, and led a team removing hazards and blown down trees.
Born and raised in Forks, WA, Tristan has always loved being outside in nature. As an avid fisherman and hunter, he is passionate about preserving and repairing the ecosystem, especially when it comes to protecting salmon. He brings a lot of experience in watershed restoration, and he is excited to continue working towards the eradication of invasive species.
Job Titles:
- CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
- PORT ANGELES, WA / CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Tyson brings over 15 years of boutique construction experience to our team. He has a wide range of experiences from commercial and historic remodels to trail building and custom off-grid cabins. Proficient in various wilderness building scenarios including tree climbing, heavy rigging, natural stone and log work for bridges and masonry applications. He values client satisfaction, safe and timely project completion, simplicity of design, minimal ecological impact, and site-specific permaculture practices. Tyson manages our off-grid construction, trail construction, and heavy wilderness construction.
Job Titles:
- Certified Permaculture Designer