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 and the effects of oil spills on the nearshore ecology of Washington and Alaska. Jon is very familiar with NEPA and SEPA regulations, and the Endangered Species Act and its implications for project permitting and operation.
Jeff Barrett
Natural Resources Manager
Jeff Barrett, PhD, has 21 years of experience as an Ecologist including serving as Chief Scientist of a forest resources company. He has provided environmental consulting services regarding fisheries, mining, water resources, and site assessment and remediation. He has management experience in scientific research, environmental analysis, and permitting related to the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, CERCLA/SARA, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and state environmental statutes. He has designed and implemented scientific research programs in fisheries, water quality, wildlife, vegetation, and habitat restoration.
Jim Starkes
Associate Fisheries Biologist
Jim Starkes has 23 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's projects have included habitat mitigation and monitoring the success of habitat restoration projects.
Bruce Rummel
Oceanographer/Biologist
Bruce Rummel has 26 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.
Celina Abercrombie
Wetland Biologist
Celina Abercrombie has 10 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. Much of her experience has been with wetland restoration, rare species surveys, and development of wetland mitigation banks as offsets for project impacts.
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. Jason has worked in a variety of ecosystems ranging from near freshwater embayments in the Baltic, rocky intertidal along the coasts of Maine, urbanized estuaries in Puget Sound, and high amplitude tidal systems in Alaska.
Adrienne Stutes
Marine Scientist
Adreinne Stutes has 6 years of experience and is well versed in estuarine ecology, and nearshore habitats with emphasis on their biology/ecology. She has extensive experience with automated multiparameter moorings, sea-bird electronics profiling instruments, high sensitivity laboratory analyzers, and various handheld field probes. She has worked in a variety of ecosystems ranging from turbid estuaries on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico to rocky intertidal systems in British Columbia.