Matt Johnson Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas

Serves as a technical lead and coordinator for freshwater mussel regional conservation priority team and its efforts in the Southwest Region, including species listing (Species Status Assessment Reports) and recovery planning, research project management, Section 7 consultations, development of voluntary conservation agreements (Candidate Conservation Agreements and Habitat Conservation Plans).Provides technical training and mentorship to junior biologists and interns, provides technical guidance to external partners, serves as an instructor for freshwater mussel identification, ecology, and sampling courses attended by internal and external partners, participates in teams focused on national freshwater mussel initiatives across multiple USFWS programs and presents seminars to local and national audiences focusing on current freshwater conservation topics.

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Project Manager for renewable energy, transportation, and private and commercial development projects.Responsible for client management, project budgets, scope, and schedule, as well as financial forecasting, team building, quality control, report preparation, and strategic planning.Responsible for the development and implementation of process, quality control, and reporting standards.Supervisor of a team three field scientists and permitting specialists; responsible for professional growth, goal development and achievement, and performance assessments

Austin, Texas Area

As EnviroScience's Marine Division Practice Area Lead, I provide technical guidance and serve as a project manager for natural resource studies and permitting projects in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

As a project manager in EnviroScience's Nashville office, I develop scopes, prepare and manage budgets, guide a cross-functional team, and serve as a client liaison for projects in West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee

Gainesville, Va

Environmental consulting, including: Proposal preparation, project development and management for threatened and endangered species survey and stream monitoring projects; wetland delineations; perennial flow determinations; tree stand evaluations; threatened and endangered species surveys, freshwater mussel habitat evaluations and relocations (specializing in Atlantic Slope and Tennessee River Basin freshwater mussels); mitigation monitoring (including benthic macroinvertebrates, vegetation, and in-stream habitat); and clean water act permitting (including USCOE Nationwide Permits and Section 401/404 certification).

San Antonio, Texas Area

Performed freshwater mussel conservation research, including: Distribution surveys; life-history studies, including age-to-growth relationships, fish host identification and verification, and habitat associations; development and completion of compliance surveys and relocations; species identification verification through museum collections throughout the SE United States; collaboration with USGS researchers on a variety of genetics studies.

Austin, Texas Area

Performed aquatic ecological studies, including: Monitoring studies of endemic (T&E fish species) and invasive species (freshwater gastropods and trematodes) in Central Texas rivers; general husbandry of captive populations of federally endangered species, including fish, aquatic plants, benthic macroinvertebrates, and salamanders; design and construction of freshwater mussel holding systems and fish host testing systems that were used to perform life history studies of state-protected mussel species.

M. Sc, Fish And Wildlife Conservation

Thesis Title: A quantitative survey of the freshwater mussel fauna in the Powell River of Virginia and Tennessee, and life history study.

B. Sc, Biological Sciences