User:Justintaplin
Justin Taplin is contributing an article to the WikiProject US Public Policy. Our class is contributing articles on environmental laws or key cases that have interpreted environmental laws.
As part of the Environmental Law course at USF with Aaron Frank, I am writing an article with a couple of class mates on National Audubon Society v. Superior Court
I have requested Roger Haworth as my online ambassador as part of this online project.
Career Summary[edit]
I am currently a Technical Manager at ESA in San Francisco, an environmental consulting company that specializes in planning and compliance (CEQA, NEPA, permitting) with offices in the western United States. I have over 8 years of environmental consulting experience in the technical arenas of fisheries biology, surface water hydrology, and water quality in support of the environmental planning and permitting process.
My experience includes managing complex environmental assessments for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and I am a lead author contributing to both program- and project-level compliance documents and Biological Assessments for NMFS assessing project impacts to listed salmonids and other aquatic wildlife.
I also manage fisheries related applied research projects and collaborate regularly with various State and Federal agencies including the United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, California Department of Fish and Game, and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. My applied research and project management experience includes environmental monitoring for regulatory compliance; hydrologic assessments; adaptive management studies; biological surveys; salmonid passage studies; and, fisheries resource assessments.
I joined ESA following a tenure as a research biologist with Hanson Environmental, Inc. where I gained applied research experience on projects throughout California with a focus on fisheries and water resource supply issues within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Central Valley.
I am now going to test creating a sandbox: