Tom Roberts, CWB, director of the biological resources group in ESA's San Francisco Bay region, is a certified wildlife biologist and land management ecologist with more than 25 years of experience. He specializes in biological data gathering and assessments and monitoring analysis for complex, long-term planning and construction efforts such as the San Leandro marshland restoration and Coast Dairies long-term resource protection and use plan. Prior to joining ESA in 1994, he was a biologist and planner for the U.S. Forest Service, working in habitat restoration and endangered wildlife issues.

 

Erich Fischer, vice president and director of the biological resources group in ESA's Sacramento office, serves as senior wildlife biologist and project manager for a variety of land management and biological resource projects. His clients include the USDA Forest Service, California Department of Fish and Game, Dry Creek Rancheria, and Tuolumne Economic Development Authority. He has more than 15 years of experience, including 9 years with the Forest Service, managing CEQA/NEPA compliance, Native American projects, habitat restoration projects, land management plans, ecological monitoring, wetland delineations, and biological assessments.

 

Greg Ainsworth, a certified arborist, is director of biological resources for Southern California. Greg directs fieldwork and reports related to Endangered Species Act, CEQA, biological assessments, constraints and due diligence studies, mitigation feasibility studies, jurisdictional permit packages per the Clean Water Act and other resource planning permitting. He has overseen and performed data collection and analysis including focused surveys for plants; animals including large and small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and nesting birds; sensitive plant communities and habitats; and tree surveys.

Chris Rogers, senior ecologist, specializes in complex permitting, regulatory compliance, wetland ecology and restoration, environmental impact assessment and endangered species habitat restoration planning for a wide range of clients. These include East Bay Municipal Utility District, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and California State Parks and Recreation.

Brian Pittman, senior wildlife biologist, is a certified wildlife biologist with expertise in state and federal environmental law, as well as natural resource permitting. He is federally certified to collect and identify listed fairy shrimp and California tiger salamander. His clients include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, State Parks, National Park Service and Trust for Public Land.

 

 

Jamie Galos, senior wildlife biologist, specializes in fisheries and stream assessments, biological resource assessments, GIS applications (environmental design, database management, habitat mapping, and species modeling), special status-species targeted surveys, constraints analysis, permitting, wetland delineations, and field data collection.