Greg Leighty Email & Phone Number

Casper, Wyoming, United States

Senior Environmental Specialist, Wildlife Biologist.

E. Boulder Mine

Environmental Specialist focusing on site environmental compliance, training, permitting, and reporting functions in support for the site environmental management system, and water treatment and tailings management systems.

Eastern North Dakota

TC Energy, Keystone Pipeline, Environmental Oversight for Infrastructure Maintenance.

North Dakota, United States

Energy Transfer Partners, DAPL Optimization, Linton Pump Station Construction

Nebraska, United States

TC Energy, Keystone XL Pipeline

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Midship Pipeline Project

Houston, Texas Area

Port Arthur Lateral Pipeline Project.

West Virginia

Atlantic Coast Pipleline, WV

(Texas, Louisiana, North Dakota, Indiana, Wisconsin And Kentucky)

Lead Environmental Inspector. TransCanada. Multiple pipeline Class change projects. Restoration and compliance Inspection. Indiana and Wisconsin.North Dakota (Environmental Inspector). Energy Transfer. Dakota Access Pipeline Project. Providing inspection services for ROW cleanup and restoration. Kentucky (Environmental Inspector). Boardwalk (Texas Gas).

Texas/Oklahoma

Staff Environmental Inspector. ONEOK Partners L.P.'s Sterling III Pipeline Project. Provided environmental compliance inspection by implementing the Construction Mitigation and Restoration Plan, the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan for Oklahoma and Texas for Environmental Protection Agency's 2012 Construction General Permit, and the Spill Prevention.

Scranton, Pennsylvania Area

Environmental Inspector. Environmental compliance oversight of the layout and construction of the 37 mile underground 16"/20" gathering pipeline crossing Broome County, NY and Susquehanna County, PA under permit of NY DEC and PA DEP, respectively. Inspected all phases of construction but with a focus on activity involved with tie-in of resource crossings.

Greater San Diego Area

Monitor construction activity by fulfilling the requirements of Mitigation Monitoring, Compliance and Reporting Program under third-party observation by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the BLM. Work involves daily breeding and rare bird surveys conducted throughout the day during construction monitoring, and to communicate daily with.

TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline, Wichita, KS

Inspected Construction activities following the environmental protocol for TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline (Spread 10-C). Phases inspected included aspects of construction with habitat restoration (clean-up), tie-in crews, vegetation clearing, grading, and stormwater polution prevention (erosion control) on the spread. Work continued until project.

Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

• Operated marine radar equipment to to detect and collect data of migratory birds' and bats' activity to support studies involving proposed wind power sites in central Ohio.
• Monitored greater sage grouse using radio telemetry to track brood and ground movements, conduct nest searches, lek counts, and maintained field data. Surveyed for pygmy rabbits and their burrow systems, and.
• Conducted point-count breeding bird surveys and migratory bird surveys in North and South Dakota.
• Compiled reports for a wide variety of studies involving wind energy development and its relationship with wildlife (mainly migratory birds and bats).

Wyoming

• Conducted wildlife surveys and monitoring, habitat mapping, and research data collection in association with oil and gas exploration and development in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado. Work was conducted by fixed-wing.
• Aerial and ground surveys and monitoring for nesting raptors (all species within WY, MT, and CO)
• Sage grouse lek monitoring and surveys (air and ground)
• Mountain plover surveys
• Raptor (accipiter) behavioral nest watches from a blind at active raptor nests to determine disturbance levels of an active seismic exploration project (northwest WY).
• Nocturnal black-footed ferret surveys (USFWS permitted)

Helena, MT

• Field scientist for a wide range of projects ranging from large scale wildlife and vegetation studies to water quality and wetland assessments. Staff Biologist duties included technical writing and editing National.
• Yanacocha Gold Aquatic Ecological Risk Assessment: Cajamarca, Peru.
• Raptor monitoring for Black Butte and Leucite Hills Coal Companies near Rock Springs, Wyoming (Project Field Manager).
• Simplot’s Smokey Canyon Mine expansion EIS: Large-scale wildlife baseline study near Afton, ID.
• New World Mining District, Cooke City, MT: Vegetation monitoring using the Point-Quadrat and 35 mm Slide Methods.
• Atlanta Gold Mine, ID: Large-scale baseline avian, fisheries, amphibian, mammal, and Wetland and WUS Surveys.

Boise, Idaho Area

• Biologist, Hydrological/Water Quality Technician, Idaho Dept. of Environmental Quality and US EPA.
• Conducted surface water quality monitoring and collected biological and geotechnical data for rivers in central and southern Idaho for the Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Plan.

Western Montana

• Assisted with ongoing research of northern goshawks for two seasons in the Pioneer Mountains and Big Hole Valley for USFS and University of Montana. Assisted in Trapping, banding and attaching radio transmitters to.

Bozeman, MT

• Conducted fieldwork to support research for the Montana State University Ecology Department for an AMARESCO EIS. Used Raytheon marine radar technology and mortality survey techniques to monitor migratory bird trends.

New Mexico

• Conducted wildlife surveys and nest monitoring of ferruginous hawks, golden eagles, Swainson’s hawks, burrowing owls and black-tailed prairie dogs. The projects included aircraft raptor surveys and monitoring, ground.
• Responsible for pilot research at Armendaris Ranch to determine the importance of existing prairie dog colonies to foraging raptors and electrocution mortality along power lines.
• Conducted bat surveys and monitoring in southwest New Mexico. This included abandoned mine tunnel surveys, mist-netting, handling and processing bats.
• Assisted with injured or trapped birds at construction sites and/or capturing and handling raptors and other difficult birds, such as sand-hill cranes.
• Conducted and managed environmental education programs with the use of wild, captive raptors. Handled and cared for “non-releasable” birds of prey.

Mendicino County, CA

• Monitored, surveyed, trapped and banded northern spotted owls to determine presence/absence and status of territory and reproduction..
• Monitored forest carnivores and other small mammals to determine presence/absence with the use of baited track plate boxes.
• Assisted fisheries biologists with construction and maintenance of traps and weirs for processing fish and aquatic amphibians.
• Cruised timber stands for the purpose of inventory and habitat classification.
• Conducted follow-up monitoring for raptor sightings and nesting activity.

Wisdom, MT

• Conducted wildlife surveys (particularly northern goshawk and forest owls) and assisted with ongoing research of northern goshawks in the Big Hole Valley for USFS and University of Montana (trapping, banding and.
• USFS wildland firefighter on three large fires within the Wisdom Ranger District.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Reptile and amphibian surveys: Oregon and Washington. Conducted stream, pond and river surveys for Western pond turtles, listed as “sensitive-critical” in the Willamette Valley, OR. Collected data, assessed habitat.

Four plus years experience serving with USN/USMC forces as a combat medic. Served in Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait, and Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, Africa.Training included (but not limited to) Emergency Medical Technicain National Ceritification (advanced trauma life supprt, advanced cardiac life support: ATLS/ACLS)

Bs, Environmental Science (Biology And Wildlands Ecology And Interpretation)

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Coursework Applied To Biological And Health Sciences