Stephen Melanson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Quilcene, Washington, United States

• Carried out Taylor checkerspot butterfly surveys (both adult and larvae), Atlas bumblebee surveys, creel surveys, and bat emergence surveys
• Remote high lakes eDNA water sample collection
• Painted/tagged trees and marked unit boundaries for a large wood fish project
• Completed a dispersed camp site inventory to determine the impact on marbled murrelet habitat
• Wrote survey reports for grants, created spreadsheets, worked with ArcMap to develop a GIS database, created maps in ArcMap to be used for navigation in Avenza

Kent, Washington, United States

• Communicated with patients to get them registered and checked in/out
• Data entry of patient info into the Washington State Immunization Information System
• Accurately recorded patient data on vaccine cards
• Managed lines and directed patients to the correct location
• Worked independently and on a large team to meat goals

Winthrop, Washington, United States

• Completed pre-NEPA timber sale layout taking into account accessibility, property lines, harvesting equipment, topography, stream types, wildlife impact, timber type/quality/volume, stand treatments, and regeneration.
• Delineated, traversed, flagged, tagged, and painted timber sale boundaries
• Assisted the certified timber cruiser to carry out timber cruises and follow cruise plan instructions
• Painted trees to be harvested or left uncut within timber sale unit boundaries using pre-established marking rules
• Used ESRI ArcMap and Skyline XL to analyze cable logging skyline profiles
• Obtained red card and work on a team to complete prescribed fire at the end of the season

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Developed excellent critical thinking/problem solving skills while assisting the gas maintenance team to identify missed gas meter corrosion surveys and investigate gas lines
• Investigated and researched using SAP, Tensing, As-Builts, custom ESRI web mapping applications, aerial imagery, paper plat maps, and internal records
• Queried and manipulated geospatial data using custom ArcGIS online applications
• Identified errors and submitted revised maps and records to the database
• QA/QC of data intensive maps and submitted feedback to the 3rd party contractor
• Coordinated field work from the office to verify map data and resolve survey issues

Tumwater, Washington, United States

• Eastern Washington timber cruising of DNR inventory plots with laser hypsometer, diameter tape, GRS densitometer, convex crown densitometer, increment borer, Garmin GPS, and Javad Triumph II GPS unit
• Western WA timber cruising using a relaskop for variable radius plots
• Use of aerial photos, compass, and Garmin GPS units in forest navigation
• Large woody debris transects
• Type N stream typing contract work

Greater Seattle Area

• Determined carbon storage on conservation land for a pilot carbon registry offset
• Established permanent plots/subplots and collected data related to carbon storage including species, height, diameter, abiotic and biotic damage, percent defect, and snags
• Compiled, analyzed, and summarized data using Biometrics Forest Projection and Planning System (FPS) software
• Utilized LAS datasets to create a digital elevation model (DEM) and digital surface model (DSM)
• Created cartographic location, region, site class, topographic, slope, and aspect maps using ESRI ArcMap

Olympia, Washington, United States

• Assisted with a leave tree study and an aerial/ground spray herbicide study to ensure best management practices were being implemented
• Identified native and non-native herbaceous species using dichotomous keys and estimated percent cover in fixed plots
• Field data collection of leave trees using an iPad with ESRI Collector/Survey 123 and external GPS unit
• Digitization and editing of timber sale boundaries vector data and leave trees in ArcMap
• Assisted in setting up, flying drones, and monitoring flight statistics using Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS) software to obtain aerial photography
• Maintained safety awareness and followed all safety regulations in regard to the public

Olympia, Washington, United States

• Assessed growth and management of young tree plantations in DNR Western Washington regions to ensure the agency was meeting the State Habitat Conservation Plan
• Collected data for a young stand silviculture research project using fixed radius and nested plots in post-harvest units
• Collected browse, abiotic and biotic damage, tree height, diameter, and species data in young stands
• Established permanent variable radius and fixed sub plots for a post fire regeneration study in Eastern Washington

Auburn, Washington, United States

• Collected data and maintained a field log/report to document on-site internship activity and restoration site conditions
• Conducted native and invasive plant inventories at current restoration project sites
• Lead and instructed a volunteer group in the identification and manual removal of invasive blackberry
• Prepared maps of each restoration site using ArcMap
• Wrote closeout reports for grants

Auburn, Washington, United States

• Worked on a team to complete maintenance tasks for the Natural Resource Department
• Identification and management of invasive species
• Maintenance of forest trails
• Thinning/pruning of the college Christmas tree farm

Associate Of Applied Science - Aas, Natural Resources - Geographic Information Systems

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Forest Resource Management

Associate Of Applied Science - Aas, Natural Resources/Conservation, General