Ecosystem Services Program Manager
CurrentMr. Hoar is the ecosystem services program manager for Marstel-Day, coordinating development and implementation of ecosystem services components into current and future Marstel-Day projects. Mr. Hoar provides senior review of all relevant company documents and work products to ensure that coastal management and ecosystems services sections are adequately and accurately characterized; He also undertakes business development efforts for the company’s ecosystem services and conservation business lines with resource management and regulatory agencies, non-profit organizations, universities and other for-profit business. Mr. Hoar leads ecosystem services-related projects and provides mentoring and subject-matter-expert advice to Marstel-Day staff and project leads.Prior to joining Marstel-Day, Mr. Hoar was a chief environmental scientist for Ecology & Environment, Inc., where he was project lead for numerous habitat damage assessment, ecological restoration, emergency ecological response, and environmental policy act (NEPA) projects. Mr. Hoar also represented the State of Kuwait before the United Nations Compensation Commission for remediation and restoration of ecological damages to the Kuwait coast resulting from the first Gulf war, and for development of an international marine protected area (MPA) in the Arabian Gulf. Previously, he was coastal ecosystem program manager for the NOAA National Coastal Data Development Center, was manager of the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Mississippi, and implemented marine fishery science and policy for the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the States of Florida and Massachusetts.Mr. Hoar has over 30 years of experience in oceanographic and coastal ecological project design and implementation, coastal program implementation and fisheries management, and coastal ecological remediation and restoration. In these capacities,
