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MES Contacts

Brian Emmett, M.Sc., R.P.Bio.

Mr. Emmett is a Vice President of Archipelago Marine Research Ltd. and head of the Marine Environmental Services Division. He has over twenty-five years of experience in coastal marine and fisheries biology, mostly on the British Columbia coast but also in the Canadian Arctic and Atlantic coasts.

Brian has worked extensively on the development of innovative survey, sampling and monitoring methods for coastal marine resources. He has a broad interest in the development of environmentally sound and sustainable approaches to marine resources and resource management. He has worked on a number of coastal resource planning initiatives, the development of a stewardship guide for the British Columbia coast, an assessment of progress towards sustainability in the BC seafood harvesting sector, and methods of ecological evaluation of marine habitats. Brian is a founding member of the Green Shores project (www.greenshores.ca), promoting sustainable use of coastal ecosystems through planning and design that recognizes the ecological features and functions of coastal systems.

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Pam Thuringer, M. Sc., R.P. Bio.

Ms. Thuringer is a marine biologist for Archipelago’s Marine Environmental Services Group. She has 20 years of experience in marine sub-tidal and intertidal surveying and environmental assessment in coastal British Columbia.

Ms. Thuringer is primarily involved in environmental and habitat assessment, biophysical inventories, and environmental monitoring. She is experienced in managing and conducting marine environmental assessments involving practical and environmentally sound approaches to habitat impact assessment and the resolution of mitigation and/or compensation issues related to nearshore and offshore developments. Habitat impact assessment projects Ms. Thuringer has been involved in include shoreline protection works, pipeline/cable installation, offshore wind farm and ferry terminal developments and smaller marine facility developments associated with docks, marinas, walkways and barge landing construction. Each project typically involves client and agency liaison, a marine baseline biophysical inventory, a habitat impact assessment, construction monitoring, and a post construction as-built assessment, with many of these projects requiring the design and implementation of a post construction environmental monitoring program.

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Mary Morris, M.Sc., R.P.Bio.

Ms. Morris is currently a senior coastal ecologist with Archipelago. She has worked extensively on the development and implementation of ShoreZone, a coastal biophysical inventory and mapping system. After finishing mapping the BC coast using ShoreZone, recent work has been in Alaska, from the Kodiak archipelago to coastlines near Sitka and Ketchikan. Ms. Morris has been instrumental in developing the biological mapping portions of the program, including flying the aerial video surveys, doing ground station surveys and overseeing the biological mapping and reporting.

In other projects, Ms. Morris has analyzed intertidal habitat species assemblages and developed a model of interactions of coastal habitat features with other resources. She has worked on the intertidal habitat inventory and rating for the Victoria and Esquimalt Harbours, developed a model for nearshore subtidal habitat classification and contributed to development of provincial standards for coastal monitoring and estuary mapping.

Before joining Archipelago, Ms. Morris was a long-time resident of Queen Charlotte City, where she worked as a freelance writer and reporter, a wilderness tour operator and was active in several business development and planning processes during the establishment of Gwaii Haanas National Park.

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Gina Lemieux, B.Sc., R.P.Bio

Ms. Lemieux is a marine biologist for Archipelago’s Marine Environmental Services Group with over eleven years of experience working on marine related projects including subtidal and intertidal biophysical baseline surveys, environmental assessments pursuant to the Canadian and British Columbian Environmental Assessment Acts (CEAA/BCEAA), habitat compensation implementation and monitoring, benthic community sampling, marine mammal population surveys, water and sediment quality sampling, and literature review and data gap analysis.

Ms. Lemieux is directly involved with the management, design and implementation of projects, as well as providing supervision and mentoring of junior biologists for desktop and fieldwork assignments. She is a certified WCB occupational diver with over 390 hours of logged biological research dives, which have been undertaken for biophysical surveys, environmental assessments and monitoring.

Some of the key projects that Ms. Lemieux has been involved in include submarine telecommunication cable installation, marina construction, offshore wind-farm and oil and gas development, small foreshore developments and foreshore remediation projects. The majority of these projects have involved environmental assessments, recommendation of mitigation options to meet federal and provincial agency policies, regulatory agency liaison and permitting, habitat compensation design, implementation and follow-up monitoring, environmental construction monitoring, and post-construction impact assessments.

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