California-licensed biologists and environmental scientists with decades of combined field and regulatory experience.
JM
Photo Coming Soon
Joe McFaddin, MS
Senior Biologist
United States Marine – Honorably Discharged.
CDFW and USFWS approved Designated Biologist and Qualified Biologist for all included species (City of Bakersfield – MBHCP, BHE Renewables, Lamont Public Utility District, La Paloma Generating Company).
Collection and handling of a California Fully Protected Species, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, with over 70 captures and processing.
10+ years experience with San Joaquin Valley, Mojave Desert, and Coastal Range endemic species.
Combination of thousands of biological survey days including biological inventory, small mammal trapping and handling (kangaroo rat and Nelson’s antelope squirrel), bird use counts/studies, den and burrow assessment for San Joaquin kit fox and burrowing owl, and habitat assessment (streambed alteration notification).
Scientific Collecting Permit and Handling-Trapping (IACUC held for Fully Protected Species).
Complex Project Management experience including disaster response and mitigation and monitoring program development. Teams ranged in excess of 40 representing Project Owners, agency regulators, and up to 14 consultancies.
Large projects spanned over 11 square miles, hundreds of miles of linear components (roads, pipelines, and corridors), and thousands of hours and linear miles of protocol-level surveys.
Adam Grimes, MS
Principal Biologist
Published Author – Mitochondrial Phylogeography of the Endangered Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard, Gambelia Sila (Southwestern Naturalist).
CDFW and USFWS approved Designated Biologist and Qualified Biologist for all included species (City of Bakersfield – MBHCP, BHE Renewables, Lamont Public Utility District, La Paloma Generating Company).
Federally and state permitted in handling, marking, collection of tissue samples, and conducting genetic analysis of the fully protected blunt-nosed leopard lizard.
10+ years experience with San Joaquin Valley, Mojave Desert, Tehachapi Mountains, and Coastal Region endemic species.
Combination of thousands of biological survey days including biological inventory, small mammal trapping and handling (kangaroo rat and Nelson’s antelope squirrel), bird utilization point counts, carcass removal trials, bird and bat mortality monitoring, den and burrow assessment for San Joaquin kit fox and burrowing owl, stream bed alterations, wetland delineation, and habitat assessment, wildlife tracking.
Scientific Collecting Permit and Handling-Trapping. IACUC held for Fully Protected Species.
Complex Project Management experience including disaster response and mitigation and monitoring program development.
Large projects spanned over 12.5 square miles, hundreds of miles of linear components (roads, pipelines, and corridors), and thousands of hours and linear miles of protocol-level surveys.
AG
Photo Coming Soon
MQS
Photo Coming Soon
Dr. Mark Q. Sutton, PhD
Archaeologist & Anthropologist — Statistical Research, Inc.
Over 39 years of extensive and varied professional experience as an archaeologist including private and public sector entities.
Has worked at more than 150 sites in western North America, presented 126 papers at professional meetings, and published more than 190 books, monographs, articles, and reviews on archaeology and anthropology — including textbooks Introduction to Native North America, A Prehistory of North America, and Archaeology: Science of the Human Past.
Has worked extensively in the San Joaquin Valley and surrounding mountains, with considerable experience in the Mojave and Colorado deserts of California and Arizona, western Nevada, and northern Arizona.
Has participated in more than 130 excavation projects (75 as director) and has conducted more than 500 surveys.
Has worked as a Department of Defense archaeologist (Edwards Air Force Base) and on DoD projects including Fort Irwin, China Lake, and 29 Palms.
Principal Investigator: Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One testing and evaluation, Lancaster CA (2010); archaeological testing and data recovery at Cajon Pass for Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad (2008); California Aqueduct Siphon project for the Department of Water Resources (1996).
Director: Kramer-Victor 220 kV Transmission Line Project archaeological survey and testing, Kern and San Bernardino Counties, for Southern California Edison (1990).
