Ms. Ertman has over 20 years of experience in environmental science and natural resource surveys. She is experienced in performance of detailed wetland delineations; wetland functional assessment including HGM and Wetland Rapid Assessment Procedure (WRAP); wetland mitigation project design; preparation of environmental inventory and impact assessment reports and permit applications; threatened/endangered species surveys, bat acoustic monitoring and mist netting, and surveys of freshwater, estuarine, nearshore, and offshore ecosystems including sampling of benthic meiofauna and seagrass communities. Ms. Ertman is pre-approved by the State of New Jersey as a tertiary venomous snake monitor and licensed by the State of New York as a timber rattlesnake monitor. Ms. Ertman contributed to the development and application of an assessment methodology for assessing the quantity and quality wetland mitigation sites throughout the State of New Jersey for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Ms. Ertman has been responsible for additional field testing of the WMQA and in 2004 presented the results of the statewide study at the ASWM-sponsored conference: “Developing “Outcome-Based” Wetland Protection and Restoration Programs; Measuring and Monitoring Success”. Ms. Ertman's Masters thesis work included extensive sampling and analysis of benthic communities and current regimes in the northern Gulf of Mexico, including monthly-weekly collection of benthic core samples via SCUBA diving.Specialties: Wetland mitigation design, assessment, and monitoring, mitigation banking, environmental restoration, wetland delineation, regulatory permitting, habitat assessment, threatened/endangered species surveys, construction monitoring