Emily Scricca Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California

San Jose, California

• CDFW and USFWS-approved Designated Biologist and Biological Monitor for several development projects in Kern, Merced, Monterey, and Solano counties in which covered species include California tiger salamander, San Joaquin kit fox, Swainson’s Hawk, burrowing owl, San Joaquin antelope squirrel, and more. • Conduct species specific surveys including assisting with surveying for special status plants, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and other wildlife; construction training and monitoring• Prepare numerous technical reports documenting biological conditions, constraints analyses and risk evaluations, riparian setback analyses, results of species surveys, habitat delineations, and relevant regulations pertaining to specific projects• Prepare regulatory permitting applications such as Santa Clara Valley Habitat Plan, Clean Water Act section 401 Water Quality Certification, Streambed Alteration Agreement, California Endangered Species Act Incident Take Permit, and more • Prepare proposals, assist with managing project budgets, communication with clients and certain regulatory agencies, including biological findings• Advise project-specific implementation of mitigation measures

Mountain View, Ca

• Provide biological monitoring for the closing of the Defense Fuel Support Point fuel facility at Moffett Federal Airfield • Conduct pre-construction surveys for burrowing owl, California least tern, Ridgeway’s rail, and salt marsh harvest mouse• Inspect California ground squirrel burrows with an infrared burrowscope • Build and install one-way doors into California ground squirrel burrows for passive relocation; artificial burrows to encourage burrowing owl re-occupancy • Implement avoidance, minimization and mitigation measures outlined by the State of California Natural Resources Agency Department of Fish and Game and listed in the project’s Final Environmental Assessment • Present environmental education training to field personnel and coordinate construction activities • Collect GPS data track logs on ArcGIS Collector• Summarize daily wildlife observations and incidences of noncompliance in written reports

San Jose, California

• Conduct focused pre-construction biological surveys for California tiger salamander, California red-legged frog, western pond turtle, burrowing owl, Least Bell’s vireo, tricolored blackbird, San Francisco dusky-footed woodrat, San Joaquin kit fox; nesting, grassland and wetland bird surveys • Provide biological monitoring for water utility construction activities • Assist contracted fishery consultants with assessing Rainbow Trout and Steelhead winter habitat • Conduct weekly evaluations of reservoir and creek dry back conditions; offload temperature data from underwater loggers • Collect habitat inventory data to feed into a flow/habitat model for Fisheries and Aquatic Habitat Collaborative Effort Project • Obtain water quality measurements of pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, turbidity, total and free chlorine • Review regulatory documents and permits to assess environmental impacts • Ground-truth construction footprints and calculate Santa Clara Valley Habitat Plan fees using the Geobrowser and ArcGIS • Entering, proofing and managing data collected; writing reports

San Jose, California

• Field email inquiries from prospective students, current graduate students, alumni, faculty, staff or University affiliates• Receive, process and organize prospective student applications for faculty review; manage online review process through Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Forms, and Google Sites • Organize and host student mixers and orientation; maintain database of all current students • Maintain and update graduate program website through OmniUpdate web content management system

Milpitas, California

• Provided biological monitoring for Phase 1 construction of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project • Conducted focused pre-construction biological surveys for nesting snowy plovers• Conducted visual surveys in Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and Eden Landing Ecological Reserve for snowy plover breeding activity• Deployed Reconyx Trail cameras and analyzed photo data to identify and monitor predator activity• Floated and monitored snowy plover eggs to calculate hatch dates; obtained GPS waypoints of nest locations • Assisted in color banding of snowy plover adults and chicks • Mapped plover nest locations and sensitive habitat buffer zones in Google Earth • Entered, proofed, and managed data collected

Milpitas, California

• Conducted visual surveys in the South San Francisco Bay evaporated salt ponds for snowy plovers and predators • Floated and monitored snowy plover eggs to calculate hatch dates; obtained GPS waypoints of nest locations • Conducted walk-through surveys of breeding California gull colonies; re-sighted color banded birds • Entered, proofed, and managed data collected

Atlin, British Columbia

• Deployed non-invasive snares and rubs to collect fur samples from grizzly bears, black bears, and gray wolves for stable isotope analysis trophic ecology study • Conducted lichen plot surveys for boreal woodland caribou habitat study; marked waypoints of plots using a handheld GPS • Conducted visual and nesting bird surveys for the British Columbia Breeding Bird Atlas

Master’S Degree, Environmental Studies

Successfully defended thesis in October 2016: Using stable isotope analysis to infer breeding latitude and migratory timing.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Animal Sciences