Greg Murphy Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Greater Philadelphia

Responsible for service line operations, financial tracking, and team health & safety; client advocacy; remedial program management; project management; project technical execution; designing, coordinating, and implementing complex environmental investigations; compiling, analyzing, and communicating technical data to internal and external stakeholders; budgeting; and staff recruitment and integration. Projects include various aspects of remediation and ecological risk assessment under state and federal programs; biodiversity assessment; Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA); ecological assessments; Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) allocation; Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) due diligence; mercury assessment; and surface water quality, sediment quality, fish tissue, and soil quality investigations.

Revere, Pa

Responsible for management of fisheries throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, including leading freshwater and anadromous fish population and community surveys on numerous waterways; performing water quality and habitat assessments; conducting fish age and growth analyses; assisting with design and implementation of fish tissue sampling for contaminant analyses; compiling, analyzing, and reporting technical data; assisting state and federal agencies in establishing water quality criteria and joint resource management; responding to inquiries from professionals, government agencies, special interest groups, and the general public; serving as state representative or alternate representative on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Atlantic Sturgeon, American Eel, and Striped Bass Technical Committees; and serving as scientific technical editor of the agency’s bi-monthly magazine publication, Pennsylvania Angler & Boater.

Fort Washington, Pa

Responsible for managing technical aspects of multiple projects; budgeting; supervising and training staff; designing, coordinating, and implementing studies; compiling, analyzing, and reporting technical data to project teams, stakeholders, and the scientific community; and collaborating with state and federal agencies, academic institutions, and special interest groups. Projects involved conducting fish population and community assessments; evaluating fish age, growth, condition, and food habits; conducting mark-recapture studies to assess growth and mercury uptake by fish; modeling mercury bioaccumulation dynamics in riverine fish communities; assessing impingement and entrainment; developing an environmental database and watershed-scale relative risk model for the Delaware Estuary; supporting Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA); assessing contaminants in aquatic invertebrates and fish tissue; conducting aquatic invertebrate community assessments and in situ mercury uptake studies; performing habitat assessments; leading instream flow studies using acoustic Doppler technology to support metals loading studies; and conducting surface water, porewater, sediment, and soil quality investigations.

Smyrna, De

Responsible for managing multiple anadromous and freshwater fisheries programs for the State of Delaware focused on American Shad, Striped Bass, Atlantic Sturgeon, and Smallmouth Bass; preparing federal grants and budgets; supervising and training seasonal staff; designing, coordinating, and implementing studies; compiling, analyzing, and reporting technical data to agency staff and stakeholders; collaborating with state and federal agencies, academic institutions, and commercial fishermen; responding to inquiries from professionals, government agencies, special interest groups, and the general public; and serving as state representative on the ASMFC Atlantic Sturgeon Technical Committee and regional expert for the federal status review on Atlantic Sturgeon. Projects involved conducting fish population and community surveys on various waters throughout Delaware; managing coastal tagging programs; developing acoustic telemetry studies; performing fish age and growth analyses; assessing commercial finfish and shellfish landings; investigating fish kills; assisting with design and implementation of fish tissue sampling for contaminant analyses; providing biological oversight for oil spill response; conducting aquatic invertebrate community assessments; and performing habitat evaluations.

Blacksburg, Va

Responsible for managing a research project focused on the uptake of mercury and relationship to food habits of selected fish species in the Shenandoah River basin; budgeting; supervising seasonal staff; designing, coordinating, and implementing study components; compiling, analyzing, and reporting technical data to stakeholders and the scientific community; and collaborating with state and federal agencies, academic institutions, special interest groups, and industry through participation on the South River Science Team. Research involved assessing food habits, age, growth, and bioenergetics of riverine fishes; evaluating mercury in forage fishes and aquatic invertebrates; modeling mercury bioaccumulation dynamics in riverine fish communities; and assessing sexual and seasonal variations of mercury in Smallmouth Bass.

Sidney, Me

Responsible for supporting the management of Atlantic Salmon throughout Maine, including conducting fish population surveys; tending fish passageways and rotary screw traps; stocking fry; performing habitat assessments, including the development of a regional curve for geomorphic assessment and restoration design; preparing aging structures; compiling data; and maintaining equipment.

Newport, Me

Responsible for assisting various clients with National Pollutent Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit monitoring requirements such as conducting whole effluent toxicity testing on freshwater fishes and invertebrates, including test monitoring and analysis, interpretation of results, and preparation of final reports; performing analytical chemistry analyses on wastewater effluents; conducting benthic macroinvertebrate community assessments; and assisting with wastewater treatment plant operations.

Augusta, Me

Responsible for inspecting fish passageways at multiple hydroelectric facilities and assisting with riverine surveys for juvenile and adult anadromous fishes, including American Shad, river herring, Striped Bass, Shortnose Sturgeon, and Atlantic Sturgeon.

Portland, Me

Responsible for supporting an American Shad and river herring restoration program within the Sebasticook River Basin, including fish trap and transport operations at the former Ft. Halifax hydroelectric facility.

Master Of Science - Ms, Fisheries And Wildlife Sciences, Gpa 3.9

Thesis Title: Uptake of Mercury and Relationship to Food Habits of Selected Fish Species in the Shenandoah River Basin, Virginia Research.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Science, Gpa 4.0

Activities: Independent study on juvenile Alewife and zooplankton associations; independent study on benthic macroinvertebrate.