Mark Bibbo Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Santa Cruz, California, United States

I work in the state-wide Vegetation Program [https://www.cnps.org/vegetation] coordinating field data collection efforts for vegetation classification and mapping projects in Central California. I conduct workshops and trainings in CNPS and CDFW vegetation sampling protocols and methods and mentor junior staff and early-career botanists.

San Francisco Bay Area

As a senior project manager at HT Harvey, my responsibilities included managing all aspects of the biological components of CEQA/NEPA assessments, rare plant surveys, wetland delineations and habitat mapping projects, Clean Water Act Section 404/401 and similar resource agency permitting projects, and resource management plans; managing staff, budgets.

Santa Cruz, CA

Led teams of other professionals in implementing technical studies and monitoring efforts related to botany and wetlands. Specialized in plant identification, floristic inventories, rare plant surveying, vegetation mapping, wetland delineation, invasive plant species mapping and monitoring, and restoration implementation oversight and monitoring. Conducted.

Sacramento, California Area

Provided technical support in the fields of biological monitoring, habitat restoration, and land stewardship. With the senior ecologist, provided biological input to conservation planners preparing mitigation and conservation banking documents, conducted biological monitoring for established banks, and prepared annual reports according to the agency.

Conducted a wide variety of biological survey work, such as rare plant surveys, vegetation mapping, wetland delineations, tree surveys, and weed mapping, on properties ranging in size from 2 acres to approximately 6000 acres. AECOM Sacramento’s clients included private entities and public agencies, including California Department of Fish and Game.

Collected vegetation data for the Sierra Nevada Foothills Vegetation Inventory project. Supervised up to three assistants in data collection using CNPS rapid assessment and releve protocols for two four-month field seasons. Assisted project supervisor in the analysis of data for the purposes of vegetation classification. Compiled and organized data in an.

Conducted vegetation surveys for the Resource Assessment Program branch of the Department of Fish and Game in Sierran montane meadows. Collected vegetation data in support of wildlife inventorying and monitoring projects from Shasta to Kern counties. Collected voucher specimens for montane meadow species and identified plant species for other project.

Davis, CA

Taught three quarters of undergraduate labs for the introductory Botany and California Floristics (Plant Taxonomy) courses in the Plant Biology department. The California Floristics lab emphasized using standard taxonomic references, such as the Jepson Manual, for identification of plant species. Led students on field trips in which we practiced using the.

Davis, CA

Carried out floristic inventories for two local UC Davis managed reserves. Collected and identified specimens from the reserves to species level. Assisted the director filing herbarium specimens and entering collection data into the herbarium’s database. As part of a graduate level seminar in conjunction with this position, co-wrote the plant chapters for.

Davis, CA

As curatorial assistant, I maintained updates of computerized maps and associated databases for the Arboretum’s research and teaching collections. Assisted the Museum scientist in supervision of all curatorial volunteers and activities. Identified specimens from the collections (over 4000 taxa of worldwide distribution) for staff, students, and visitors..

San Francisco, CA

Developed and managed SLUG’s second full-scale demonstration market garden in one of San Francisco’s low-income public housing developments. Converted an abandoned one-and-a-half acre lot into a highly productive vegetable and flower garden. Coordinated volunteer and youth employee labor in the garden. Taught classes on a full range of horticultural topics.

Santa Cruz, CA

Assistant garden manager and teaching assistant for the Center’s 6-month hands-on horticultural training program. Instructed and trained 35 students in a full range of horticultural skills, including organic vegetable, herb, fruit, and cut flower production, composting, irrigation, and direct marketing. Coordinated day-to-day work of groups of students.

M.S., Horticulture, Restoration Ecology

Activities and Societies: Davis Botanical Society, U.C. Davis Arboretum, Botany Club

B.A., Environmental Studies

Activities and Societies: Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture (1996, 1998).