Merissa Davis Email & Phone Number

Draper, Ut

Merissa has over 21 years of experience in wildlife biology, environmental consulting, and GIS mapping. Her expertise includes threatened and endangered species and habitat surveying, GIS data collection and mapping, environmental assessments, raptor biology, reclamation monitoring, wetland delineations, wetlands restoration and design, revegetation, spill prevention control and countermeasure planning, and permitting. Merissa has worked as project manager on multidiscipline projects, and has performed duties such as scheduling and budgeting to meet project constraints, coordinating with sub-consultants, scheduling workloads for field technicians, construction management, and post-construction monitoring. Merissa serves as direct liaison for clients with federal agencies including U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Utah Division of Natural Resources, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and Tribal Councils.

Detailed GIS mapping of all company projects, extensive field surveying and GIS data collection for T&E plant and wildlife species, raptor monitoring, reclamation planning and monitoring, wetland delineations, storm water compliance inspector, storm water pollution prevention planning (SWPPP), licensed weed spray applicator, spill prevention/control/countermeasure (SPCC).

Driggs, Idaho

Wetland consulting including surface and ground water hydrology studies, wetland design, habitat mapping, topographical surveying, wetland delineations, wildlife monitoring & field research, wetland construction management, revegetation planning/managing/monitoring, state & federal permitting, report writing, SWPPP

• Oversaw post-treatment of over 100 alumni participants by consulting weekly with families and individuals resulting in successful goals met in difficult home or school settings.• Trained wilderness staff and participants in orientation, GPS use, map reading and survival skills enabling them to make better use of their natural resources during wilderness treatment. • Planned routes based on topography, distance, availability of water, and the abilities/needs of individual clients to successfully reach a final destination each week.

• Monitored activity and productivity of 60 bald eagle nest sites and 350 raptor nest sites in the Idaho portion of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem contributing to ongoing long-term research • Collected GIS data for habitat area and species success analysis, and mapping of nest and territory sites• Oversaw historic and current mapping data compilation to finalize the Teton Regional Land Trust’s wildlife mapping project.• Analyzed habitat quality and species used to create agency goals for conservation of species habitat

B.S., Conservation Biology, Wildlife Emphasis

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