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Elise J. Lawson |
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Elise's Resume Education 1995 Master of Environmental Design - Environmental Science 1988 Bachelor of Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 1984 Concord-Carlisle High School, Concord, Massachusetts Experience/Employment History 2000 to present: Owner/Partner of Natural Resource Consulting Company Assist landowners, municipalities, and organizations with the following natural resource services: · Recommend wildlife habitat improvements for landowners · Conducts wetland delineation - evaluates, assesses and ranks wetland functions · Inventory, monitor, and research wildlife · Inventory and map natural resources of towns and watersheds · Write and submit grants for funding · Write custom land management plans · Submit wetland permits to NH Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Bureau · Test and analyze water quality, and recommend ways to improving quality · Recommend erosion mitigation and control plans · Design and layout trail systems and ponds · Offer presentations, seminars, workshops to a variety of audiences
· Organized and taught college level courses in Environmental Science, Winter Ecology, and Wildlife Ecology and Management through the University of New Hampshire, College for Lifelong Learning · Developed course curriculum and syllabus, solely taught the courses, and evaluated students · Units included, ecosystem management, forest management, endangered species/endangered spaces, wildlife management, biodiversity, winter ecology of plants and animals, snow morphology, and wildlife tracking
Self-employed, and working with an interdisciplinary team (Forester, Landscape Designer and Watershed Specialist) promoting ecosystem based management for landowners throughout northern New Hampshire · Make recommendations for wildlife habitat improvement as part of a multifaceted management plan · Write management plans for state and federal cost-share programs involving wildlife habitat improvement · Assist landowners in filing wetland permits · Educate public, including students on ecosystem based management of the land · Created a brochure, slide show and website (www.teamebm.com) for education and marketing of ecosystem based management services; update and maintain website · Represent the team at trade shows and professional gatherings to explain the promote ecosystem based management
Organized and conduced a research program to investigate the impacts of forest management on moose, moose habitat and other wildlife in Northern Ontario · Provided field research leadership including animal capture and handling, radio telemetry tracking, and habitat description · Organized the deployment of 60 GPS collars onto moose throughout the study area · Independently downloaded locational data stored on GPS collars · Trained in GPS collar refurbishment · Hired, trained and supervised 5-7 field technicians yearly for conducing inventories of moose aquatic feeding areas; aquatic plant inventories, moose presence Developed protocol for studying moose calving sites Generated data summaries, technical reports and manuscripts for publication in primary scientific journals · Utilized dBase, SAS, Ranges IV and V, Tracker, Home Range, Calhome, Spans, Arcview and Arcinfo to analyze moose home range size and movements in relation to different habitat types · Reported summaries of data analyses via graphs, tables and written reports using Wordperfect, MS Word, MS Excel, Harvard Graphics, Powerpoint and Corel Presentations · Presented results of the research at moose, caribou and wildlife conferences, and published papers
Work for Masters Degree Thesis · Performed extensive literature review and integrated previous research with my research to develop a comprehensive wolf management plan for southern Alberta · Negotiated with government agencies, livestock ranchers, hunters, trappers, and neighboring native communities to integrate a broad range of considerations in developing a wolf management plan throughout numerous overlapping jurisdictions · Conducted research on wolves involving aerial and ground radio telemetry, ground tracking, scat collection, wolf kill site analysis · Conducted ungulate surveys to aid in population estimates · Ran a trapline to catch and radio collar wolves · Utilized GIS Idirsi, Lotus and dBase to analyze data · Educated the public of all ages on wolf ecology and population dynamics · Successfully defended a masters level thesis that recommended a change in wolf management strategies for southern Alberta, and examined using wolves as indicator species to develop long range large carnivore conservation plans for the Rocky Mountain corridor
· Isle Royale, MI: Volunteered with wolf/moose study tracking wolves, gathering data on moose killed by wolves, and assessing general health of moose population · Pukaskwa National Park, Ont.: volunteered with the trapping, radio telemetry and tracking of wolves; assisted in capture and radio collaring of caribou; performed home range analyses · Sierra Nevadas, CA: performed radio telemetry, trapping and ear-tagging on Belding’s Ground Squirrels to study their home range and reproductive succession during an internship · Middlebury, VT: conducted an independent project studying the social behavior and hierarchy of Black-capped Chickadees. Work involved mist-netting and banding birds for visual observations · Calgary, Alberta: Laboratory Technician studying cardiac arrhythmia and diet (10/90 to 06/91) Burlington, VT: Laboratory Technician studying Type I Diabetes (10/88 to 08/90)
Certificates/Scholarship
NH Certified Wetland Scientist - 2004 Publications Lawson, E.J.G. and A.R. Rodgers. 1997. Differences in home range size computed in commonly used software programs. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 25(3):721-729. Rodgers, A.R., R.S. Rempel, R. Moen, J. Paczkowski, C.C. Schwartz, E.J. Lawson, and M.J. Gluck. 1997. GPS Collars for moose telemetry studies: a workshop. Rodgers, A.R., S.M. Tomkiewicz, E.J. Lawson, T.R. Stephenson, K.J. Hundertmark, P.J. Wilson, B.N. White, and R.S. Rempel. 1998. New Technology for moose Community Involvement and Interests 2001-present: Member of NH Association of Natural Resource Scientists |
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Natural Resource Consultant, NH Certified Wetland Scientist #233 |
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E-mail: elise@watershedtowildlife.com |
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Owner and Partner |
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Cell Phone: 603-444-0000 |
