Principal Scientist and President running operations and primary projects for Novo Aquatic Sciences, Inc. Steven brings over 20 years experience as a fisheries and aquatic biologistworking in roles as project manager, research crew leader and technical scienceadvisor. Project management experience includes: fish reconnaissance and tissueanalysis studies, fish monitoring of dredging operations, Juvenile salmonid snorkel surveying, sediment sampling, ESA assessments, aquatic invertebrate studies, biological and habitat assessments, as well as fish passage and stream crossings analyses. Interdisciplinary projects include: collection and evaluation of water temperature and flow data; wetland determination, delineation and impacts analyses; as well as syntheses of existing baseline data and results of previous studies into final environmental assessments. Other services include: ESA Section 7consultations, report analyses and production, and permitting assistance. Mr. Novotny provides fish monitoring services and authors reports as the lead fishbiologist for 2018 and 2019 USACE hopper dredging operations in San Francisco Bay. He was an assistant biologist for this same project in 2011, 2016, and 2017. Mr. Novotny will provide lead biologist services on 2019 fish and invertebrate monitoring of Humboldt Bay, CA. Other recent project experience includes serving as co-principal investigator of annual fish monitoring and reporting for USACE Maintenance Dredging Projects in the Sacramento and Stockton Deep Water Shipping Channels 2006-17, using bottom trawling and entrainment screening methods to describe take of fishes. He was co-principal investigator for the fish monitoring of the Port of Stockton’s berth and wharf dredging projects in 2010 and 2012-14. Other short-term seasonal projects include snorkel surveys in the Cedar River, near Renton, WA; trout spawning surveys in the Bull Run Watershed, OR; and commercial salmon fishing Copper River, AK.

During his nine years with SWCA / Fishman Environmental Services as Consulting Fish Biologist in the Aquatic Science Program (2000-2009), Steven Novotny provided fish, aquatic and riparian technical advice for projects throughout Pacific Northwest. As he managed and participated in myriad monitoring and sampling studies on large and small water bodies within the urban, agricultural and mountainous regions of Oregon, Washington, California, and Alaska, Steven Novotny developed key relationships while gaining invaluable scientific expertise he now brings to Novo Aquatic Sciences, Inc.

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