Dr Phil Smith Email and Phone Number

Offering freelance field/survey services to the ecology industry; I am also be able to offer client-led ecological services.I have worked as a professional ecologist for over ten years, spending eight of these at Penny Anderson Associates where I was a senior consultant. I have a BSc (Hons) degree in Environmental Biology, an MSc in Habitat Creation and Management and a PhD in Entomology. I also have a teaching qualification and lecture part-time at a local university.I have amassed a vast amount of expertise in all aspects of field survey and reporting, from basic Phase 1 Habitat Survey and Protected Species Surveys through to Mitigation Design and Ecological Impact Assessment. Am based in North Staffordshire but able to work throughout the UK. Also able to undertake surveys by kayak/canoe in permitted waters (qualified to BCU 2-star award level).I hold the following Protected Species Survey Licenses:• Great Crested Newt• Barn Owl• Lesser Silver Water BeetleI have also held a number of EPS Development Licenses and was the first ecologist in the UK to secure a ‘letter of comfort’ from NE under the new NSIPs regulations.Currently I am able to offer the following services: