Staff
Natural Resources
Jon Houghton
Senior Principal Marine/Fisheries Biologist
Jon Houghton, PhD, has 35 years of consulting experience in the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, and Alaska. This experience has met a wide range of client needs, including baseline studies, environmental impact assessment, natural resources injury assessment, ecological risk assessment, and mitigation and remediation planning. He is equally comfortable working in freshwater, marine, or estuarine environments. He has special expertise in the ecology of salmonids in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, as well as in the effects of habitat alterations on coldwater fish populations. Jon directed studies for the Mount Baker Terminal, Riverside Industrial Park and Union Slough Mitigation projects in Everett, Washington. He also managed the Pebble Port Site, Ketchikan Airport, False Pass Airport Expansion and Knik Arm studies in Alaska.
Bruce Rummel
Oceanographer/Biologist
Bruce Rummel has 30 years of experience in water quality protection, including sediment management, habitat restoration, aquatic ecological risk assessment. He has led projects involving evaluation of dredging activities, discharge permit compliance, source control, and cleanup issues. He has conducted projects at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Naval Station Puget Sound, and Naval Station Everett in Washington; as well as Naval Air Station Adak in Alaska.
Jim Starkes
Fisheries Biologist
Jim Starkes has 20 years of experience. He has produced environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, and environmental baseline documents, and biological assessments in compliance with NEPA, SEPA, and the Endangered Species Act in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. He has conducted numerous field investigations collecting fish, sediments, surface water, and benthic community samples in marine and stream environments. Jim managed biological assessments for the Oregon Department of Transportation, and conducted marine and aquatic surveys for the False Pass Airport Expansion and the Mount Baker Terminal projects.
Derek Ormerod
Water Resources Engineer
Derek Ormerod, PE, has 12 years of experience. Derek has participated in a wide variety of project activities focusing on aquatic habitat issues. He conducts hydrologic and geomorphic analysis, stream habitat surveys, surface water computer modeling, stormwater and water quality monitoring, fisheries investigations, marine and freshwater habitat evaluations and mapping, wetland and buffer installation and oversight, and wetland and critical area delineation. Derek managed the National Creek Geomorphic Assessment and the North Ramp Wetland Complex Delineation and Biological Evaluation.
Celina Abercrombie
Wetland Biologist
Celina Abercrombie has 7 years of experience for public and private entities. She has conducted wetland and stream delineations, critical areas project review, wetland and habitat restoration, marine and freshwater habitat evaluations and mapping, and GIS and GPS mapping. Celina has conducted independent reviews for wetland and stream assessments and mitigation projects for the City of Bothell, Washington. She has provided endangered and threatened species analysis for approximately 40 abandoned mine sites in eastern Washington.
Jason Stutes
Marine Ecologist
Jason Stutes, PhD, has participated in nearshore habitat characterization, long-term monitoring, food web characterization in estuarine and marine habitats, restoration and mitigation of nearshore habitats, and sampling of water quality parameters. He has worked in a variety of ecosystems ranging from eelgrass habitats to rocky intertidal habitats to high amplitude tidal systems. He participated in the False Pass Airport Expansion and the Mount Baker Terminal projects.
Brandon Jensen
Fisheries Biologist
Brandon Jensen has an MS in Environmental Science. He has experience in water quality and fish health analyses. He is currently engaged in eelgrass restoration projects in Snohomish and Whatcom Counties, freshwater stream habitat evaluations in southeast Alaska, and marine habitat monitoring in Cook Inlet, Alaska.