Staff
Waterfront
Jon Houghton
Senior Principal Marine/Fisheries Biologist
Jon Houghton, PhD, is a senior biologist with 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.
Garry Horvitz
Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Garry Horvitz, PE, LEG, has 32 years of geotechnical engineering experience, with a strong focus on waterfront projects such as the Pier D, Nimitz Class Carrier Pier at Naval Station Kitsap and the Terminal 18 Expansion at the Port of Seattle. Garry has managed complex projects at most Pacific Northwest ports, all Pacific Northwest U.S. Navy facilities, and numerous other waterfront facilities. He is also expert in geotechnical engineering for highrise buildings, and is project manager for the WAMU-Seattle Art Museum tower. Garry provides senior-level review for many of Hart Crowser’s projects.
Rick Moore
Principal Environmental and Regulatory Specialist
Rick Moore, LEG, LHG, has 24 years of experience with environmental characterization and remediation of both waterfront and upland sites. His work often involves coordinating construction phase observation and related environmental and regulatory compliance efforts. He has extensive knowledge of environmental regulations such as MTCA, CERCLA, state Sediment Management Standards, Clean Water Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and Shorelines Management Act. He manages Hart Crowser’s Water Resources Division.
Roger McGinnis
Senior Associate Environmental Chemist
Roger McGinnis, PhD, is an environmental chemist with 30 years of experience in the investigation, evaluation, and remediation of contaminated sites. He is an expert at “fingerprinting” chemical contaminants and applying statistical techniques to help with contaminant source identification. Roger is a member of the Regional Sediment Evaluation Team Analysis Subcommittee (for the US Army Corps and the Washington State Department of Ecology), which is recommending chemicals for inclusion and appropriate analytical methods for the Sediment/Dredging Guidance that will cover Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Doug Lindquist
Geotechnical Engineer
Doug Lindquist, PE, GE, LEED AP, is a geotechnical and earthquake engineer with over 10 years of professional experience. His areas of expertise include traditional geotechnical engineering, seismic design, soil improvement, deep excavations, waterfront structures, and numerical computer modeling. Doug has been very active in the community serving for 4 years in officer positions of the ASCE Seattle Section Geotechnical Group. His recent projects include the 42-story Washington Mutual Center, multiple projects at the Port of Seattle (Terminals 5, 18, 30, and 91), as well as the Stadium Silver Cloud Inn.
Bruce Rummel
Oceanographer/Biologist
Bruce Rummel is a biologist and oceanographer with 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 is a fisheries biologist with 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.
Celina Abercrombie
Wetland Biologist
Celina Abercrombie is a wetland biologist with 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.