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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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

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 in.

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