Experienced Field Technician and Data/Project Manager
With almost a decade of field experience, and an MS in the environmental sciences, Dexter Consulting can provide a wide array of ecology and environmental consulting services. We’ve partnered with state, federal, and municipal agencies, nonprofits, the private industry, and academia, including contracts with Pacific Gas & Electric, the US Forest Service, Glacier National Park, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, the City of Missoula, the Clark Fork Coalition, BDL Forestry LLC, Watershed Consulting, and Grasslands Consulting.
Link to a full CV can be found here
SAMPLE PROJECTS
Oversight for road decommissioning, culvert removal, and stream channel restoration In East Fork of Lolo Pass, Clark Fork Coalition & US Forest Service
Environmental oversight and forestry crew supervisor for utility forest management in Central California, PG&E
Wildlife friendly fence mapping and inventory, conservation lands encroachment mapping, City of Missoula
Herpetology population tagging, sexing, monitoring, baseline data, City of Missoula
Long term grazing impact studies on native/invasive vegetation populations, City of Missoula
NEPA rare and endangered species survey compliance, Grasslands Consulting
Coal Creek State Forest native fish species protection planning, R1/R4 surveys, and culvert engineering to remove fish passage barriers, MT DNRC
Long term stream channel migration, stream flow, fisheries population, riparian veg, fish habitat, and turbidity studies, multiple sites, MT DNRC and Clark Fork Coalition
40+ grazing impact assessment reports, MT DNRC
Post-burn timber cruising and silviculture prescriptions on Blackfeet Reservation, BDL Forestry & Bureau Indian Affairs
Wildlife exclosure fencing along the Bull River
FIELD & DATA PROFICIENCIES:
· Fish species identification; fish presence/absence surveys; fish population density, snorkel surveys
· Fish habitat inventory (R1/R4 methodology)
· Fish passage site assessment and design
· Stream restoration and channel design
· Road decommissioning
· River geomorphology survey (bank stability, Pfankuch stability assessment, substrate composition and pebble count, long profile elevation surveys, cross section elevation surveys, W/D ratio)
· Water chemistry (D.O., pH, temperature, conductivity, salinity, T.D.S., turbidity)
· In-situ river monitoring (turbidity, flow, stage)
· Water sediment delivery risk assessment
· Instream water flow
· Macroinvertebrate sampling and identification
· Algae and chlorophyll sampling
· Riparian greenlines
· Riparian restoration impact assessments
· Taxonomic key use
· Vegetation identification (rangeland, riparian, rare and endangered)
· Line-point intercept vegetation surveys
· Grazing vegetation impact assessments
· Vegetation community compositin assessment
· Invasive plant distribution; invasive plant identification
· Tree density survey, silviculture prescriptions
· Photo-point monitoring
· Establishing transects
· Operating manual 4WD vehicles in rough conditions
· Operating in remote and rugged locations under minimal supervision (safety, wildlife encounters, radio/SPOT messenger use)
· Public presentations for technical and nontechnical audiences
· Long-term monitoring and evaluation
· Field report writing
· Field notebook organization
· Data organization and management; database management; data preprocessing and processing; data analysis; graphical data display
· GPS navigation; GPS mapping
· Topographic and aerial map navigation
· Data collection using handheld data recorders
· Soil sieve analysis
· Wildlife fencing construction and maintenance
· International Dark Skies Park lighting fixture inventory
· ArcGIS software
· Private landowner outreach & communication
SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT (USE, MAINTENANCE, & CALIBRATION):
· Marsh-McBirney Model 2000 Portable Flo-Mate
· Extech EC400 Conductivity/TDS/Salinity Meter
· Extech EC500 pH/Conductivity Meter
· Campbell Scientific CR800 Measurement and Control Datalogger
· Campbell Scientific OBS-3+Turbidity Sensor
· TruTrack water level loggers & software
· Solinist & software
· CST Berger Self Leveling Survey Laser Levels
· Zebratech Hydro-Wiper
· Smith-Root LR24 Backpack Electrofisher
· YSI Pro20 Dissolved Oxygen Meter
· Stage height equipment & data loggers
· GPS units
· Inclinometers
· Compass
· Stadia rod
· Staff gauge
· Panasonic Toughbooks & IPads
· Assorted construction equipment: chainsaws, fence stretchers, post-pounders, power tools
Shocking a stream for fisheries monitoring and evaluation
Flexible Contracting
Dexter Consulting is a certified independent contracting company, and can come aboard as a subcontractor, as a temporary in-house hire, or can go through third party employment services. Whatever suits your needs best!
Telemetry station installation, maintenance, and data collection
Long term herpetology monitoring for Conservation Lands Management
Weather and precip stations to cross reference hydro events
