Mr. Kretchmer is a Certified Lake Manager with over 28 years of experience as a limnologist, specializing in water quality, freshwater aquatic ecology and fisheries. His experience involves aquatic ecosystem restoration and management, nutrient and dissolved oxygen monitoring and modeling in lakes, streams reservoirs and estuaries, watershed management, instream flow, environmental policy, environmental impact assessment, permitting, natural resource damage assessment, hydropower relicensing… Show more Mr. Kretchmer is a Certified Lake Manager with over 28 years of experience as a limnologist, specializing in water quality, freshwater aquatic ecology and fisheries. His experience involves aquatic ecosystem restoration and management, nutrient and dissolved oxygen monitoring and modeling in lakes, streams reservoirs and estuaries, watershed management, instream flow, environmental policy, environmental impact assessment, permitting, natural resource damage assessment, hydropower relicensing, 316b, TMDL development and designing and implementing limnological and fisheries monitoring and restoration plans. He has significant experience in data interpretation, public presentation of findings and reporting. He has worked at hundreds of estuarine, lake, reservoir, river and stream sites. Throughout his career he has worked with local and regional groups, state and federal agencies, private industry, utilities, university researchers, advocacy groups and citizens. Show less

Mr. Kretchmer served as a senior scientist and managed numerous water quality, aquatic ecology and fisheries investigations in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and marine environments in the Northeast and across North America.