Career Descriptions
 

Name: Jared André
Title: Senior GIS Analyst
Employer: Douglas County (Colorado) Information Technology

Year of Graduation and Degree:1995, BSF

Job Description: 

- Technical: GIS database modeling/implementation, GIS software design/development

  (desktop and web),   hardware and software systems support for the GIS group,  

  data analysis in support of the GIS group   and Douglas County departments

 (Public Works/Engineering, Assessor, etc).

- Staff and Personnel: Assisting GIS staff with technical issues ranging from GIS 

  analysis tasks and   map production, to software development and scripting tasks.

- Departmental: Developing and implementing business processes to ensure compliance

  of the GIS group with Douglas County IT standards and processes.

- Product Research: Researching technology products/services (GIS-related and otherwise)

  to determine potential value to the GIS group and Douglas County IT.

- Emergency Response/Management: Developing and implementing business/technical 

  processes to aid Douglas County and Federal authorities in emergency management 

  situations such as wildfire, hazardous material spillage, and storm-water runoff

Contact Information:
Email: jandre@douglas.co.us

Name: Dr. James A. Allen

Title: Associate Director

Employer: School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University

Job Description:

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1994, Ph.D. 

Contact Information:

Address: School of Forestry 
              Northern Arizona University 
              P.O. Box 15018 
              Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5018 

Email: James.Allen@nau.edu

Name: Keith J. Aymond

Title: Forestry Parish Supervisor

Employer: Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1998, BSF

Job Description: 

-Facilitate (within his unit) many state and federal programs that help landowners in

 managing their timberland(s).

-Inspect and development management plans for landowners. 

-Supervise parish fire crews in their day-to-day activities (fireline plowing, prescribe burns,

 wildfire detection/supression, land management duties).

Contact Information:

Email: kaymond@ldaf.state.la.us

Name: Ronald R. Bielefeld

Title: Waterfowl Research Biologist

Employer: Fish and Wildlife Research Institute-Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1993, Master of Science in Wildlife

Name: Dr. Bob G. Blackmon

Title:  Former Director

Employer: School of Renewable Natural Resources

                  Louisiana State University

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1969, PhD (Forest Soils)

Contact Information:

Address: School of Renewable Natural Resources             

              Room 227, Renewable Natural Resource Bldg.

              Louisiana State University

              Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Phone:(225) 578-4131

Email: bblack7@lsu.edu 

Name: Troy W. Blair
Title: Biologist
Employer: LDWF

Contact Information:
Address: 2415 Darnall Rd.
                  New Iberia, LA 70560
Phone:(337) 373-0032
Fax:(337) 373-0181

Email: tblair@wlf.louisiana.gov
 

Name: Daniel E. Bollich
Title: Forester/Wildlife Biologist/Wetland Specialist
Employer: C-K Associates

Year of Graduation and Degree:1995, BS in Wildlife and Fisheries
                                                               Major: Wildlife
                                                               Minor: Botany and Zoology
                                                      1996, BS in Forest Management

Job Description: As a consultant with C-K's Water Resources Group, his primary responsibilities
include wetland and coastal restoration; wetland permitting, establishment of wetland mitigation banks,
NEPA, oil spill response, Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA), development of
mitigation/ compensatory restoration plans, wetland and threatened /endangered species surveys;
natural resource and biological assessments, carbon sequestration planning; and GIS/Remote Sensing
projects involving natural resource inventories and planning.

Contact Information:
Address:  C-K Associates, LLC.
               Water Resources Group
               17170 Perkins Road
               Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70810
Phone: Work:225-755-1000
            Cell: 225-907-5903
Fax: 225-753-0235
Email: daniel.bollich@c-ka.com
Website: www.c-ka.com

Name: Rex H. Caffey
Title: Associate Professor
Employer: Wetlands & Coastal Resources

Contact Information:
Address: Rm 179, Agriculture Administration Bldg.
               LSU, Baton Rouge, LA-70803
Phone: 225-578-2716
E-mail: rcaffey@agctr.lsu.edu

Name: Paul Clifton
Employer: Providence Engineering and Environmental Group LLC

Year of Graduation and Degree: MS Forestry 1986

Job Description: Senior Environmental Project Manager

Contact information:
Address: Providence Engineering and Environmental Group LLC
              6160 Perkins Road, Suite 100
              Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Office:  225-766-7400
Cell :225-936-7495
E-mail : paulclifton@providencebr.com

Name: Kris Davis
Title : Area Wildlife Biologist
Employer: USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service

Year of Graduation and Degree:  B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science, May 2002

                                                        M.S. in Wildlife in Dec 2003 (Both from RNR)

Job Description:
His major duties include:

       Develop detailed resource management system conservation plans on wildlife land, rangeland, and crop land.
       Provide technical assistance to clients on conservation programs (WHIP, WRP, CRP, EQUIP, GLCI)
       with emphasis on fish and wildlife habitat.

Contact information: 

 Address: Kris Davis
               Wildlife Biologist

               Natural Resources Conservation Service

               7747 HWY 1 South

               Addis, LA 70710

 Phone :  225-687-2184 ext. 3
 Email : Kris.Davis@la.usgs.gov

Name: Antoinette (Toni) DeBosier

Title: Forestry Parish Supervisor

           Forester, Atchafalaya Basin

Employer: Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry

Year of Graduation and Degree: December 1997, BSF

                                                       August 2000, MS Forestry

Job Description:

Some of the duties she performs as an inter-agency employee for the State:

Wetland Forest Management:  I work with environmental groups, and state and federal agencies in the Atchafalaya,

Mermentau, Maurepas, and Pontchartrain Basins, assisting with cypress and bottomland hardwood management, 

with our goal set toward sustainability of these wet forestlands. In addition, as part of my scope of work with the 

Atchafalaya Basin Program, I monitor changes in woody vegetation, within the Atchafalaya Basin, with respect to

changes in hydrology and sedimentation from activities permitted by the Corps of Engineers. I have just begun 

assisting in WVA's (Wetland Vegetation Assessments) in the Atchafalaya Basin with respect to mitigation work.

GIS/GPS:  I use Trimble and Garman GPS equipment to acquire real-time data in the field, Access and Excel 

programs to build databases, and ArcView,Asset Surveyor, and DeLorme software to produce maps for project areas.

Urban Forestry:  I am currently serving on the St. Martin Parish Tree Board, and as am a board member of Trees of Acadiana.

Forest Health & Community Assistance:  I make tree calls within a 3 to 4 parish area, helping landowners to identify

insects and diseases in either their yards or their forested lands.

Forest Management:  I work with private landowners who are interested in managing their lands through conducting 

timber harvests, reforestation efforts, or assisting with wildlife habitat restoration and creation. Often, I assist NRCS 

and other federal agencies with their incentive or cost-share programs by overseeing pine and hardwood plantings, and

conducting planting certification and survival counts.

Education:  I work with LFA to promote Project Learning Tree. I work with girlscouts to promote women in natural

resources, and boyscouts in the field to assist them in obtaining Forestry and Wildlife merit badges.

Name: Christopher A. Dupuy

Title: Operations Technician

Employer: Exxonmobil

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1999 MS

Job Description: 

Operate and maintain a plastic/rubber producing unit in Baton Rouge, LA

Contact Information: 
Email: christopher.a.dupuy@exxonmobil.com

Name: Barret K. Fortier
Title: Assistant Refuge Manager
Employer: United States Fish And Wildlife Service
                  Mandalay/Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuges

Year of Graduation and Degree:  2000,BS Wildlife and Fisheries Mgmt.
                                                        2004,MS Wildlife

Contact Information: 
Phone:  Office: 985-853-1078
            Work Cell: 985-860-6681
            Cell: 985-665-3256
Email: Barret_Fortier@fws.gov

Name: Pete Heard
Title : Director

Employer: Wildlife Habitat Management Institute (WHMI)
                  with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NCRS)
 

Year of Graduation and Degree:  1961, MSGM

Name: Mark Hebert        

Title: Coordinator of Silviculture Services

Employer: International Paper, Shreveport, LA
 

Year of Graduation and Degree:1993,BSF
 

Job Description:

    Coordinate regional vegetation control and fertilization contracts for management region (Louisiana and Texas). 
    Update silvicultural technology by cooperation with internal and external research groups. 
    Provide support to field foresters in the areas of site preparation, forest regeneration, as well as juvenile and mid-
    rotation stand management prescriptions.
    Conduct business analysis for forest operations including silvicultural treatment responses and application of   models
    for growth and yield.
    Ensure region compliance with ISO/BMP/SFI programs and certifications through training and internal audits.

Contact Information:

Address: International Paper

              3000 Knight Street

              Shreveport, LA 71105

Office: 318-862-3494

Mobile: 318-286-1981

Email: mark.hebert@ipaper.com

 Name: Howard L. Helms

Title: FA BN/FS Coach

Employer: Leaders Training Program
         JRTC OPS GRP
        
Year of Graduation and Degree:1967,BSF
Job Description:

Graduated from the LSU School of Forestry with a BS degree. Joined the Marine Corps and was commissioned a 2LT in June 1967. Retired in 1991 after a 24 year career in the Marine Corps. Taught Middle School and coached high school baseball in Virginia. Resigned in 1998 from teaching and accepted employment with a defense contractor, located at Fort Polk, LA, for the purpose of training Army units prior to their deployment to Bosnia, Kosovo, and now Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently at Fort Polk in the same training position.
 

 Contact Information:

Address: 1480 Ernest Drive
              DeRidder, LA 70634  
 

Office: 337-531-2564 (DSN 863)

Email: howard.helms.contractor.CAI@polk.army.mil

Name: R. Scott Knaus
Title: GIS Department Manager
Employer: Gulf Engineers and Consultants

Year of Graduation and Degree:1985 BS Forestry

                                                      1989 MS Forest Management

Job Description:

Responsible for all aspects of running a profitable GIS Department within an engineering and

environmental consulting firm. Primary clients are the Army Corps of Engineers, Department 

of Defense installations, LA DOTD, US Forest Service, and other state and local governments.

Fiscal - Keeping the GIS Department on schedule and within budget on a

project to project basis and to meet both monthly and yearly departmental forecasts.

Marketing - Keeping up with clients and potential clients to provide services that help them

meet their needs. He has to maintain an adequate backlog of work to support a growing 

department and all of its expenses.

Personnel - Retaining a staff dedicated to serving clients. This includes having enough

personnel to keep their capacity up as well as maintaining people with a variety of abilities

to keep our capabilities diverse as well.

Project Management - Leading a project to oversee all office and field work, data analysis and

manipulation, and final delivery of reports or data products for a particular project. Also includes

full responsibility for budgetary concerns such as cost estimating, billings, personnel and 

equipment costs, etc.

Field Work/Travel - Varies from project to project, but substantial field work and travel is required 

to adequately oversee data collection, train new personnel and successfully conduct

projects across the country.

Technical - Must maintain proficiency with GIS Software, GPS technologies, database management,

programming and other computer skills. For his projects he also has to keep up with forest

management issues and techniques, requirements of the Endangered Species Act and NEPA and 

wetland and hazardous waste regulations.

Contact Information:

Address: GEC, Inc.

             9357 Interline Avenue

             Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Phone:225-612-4212

Email: rsknaus@gecinc.com

Name: Suna Adam Knaus

Title: President

Employer: Gulf South Research Corporation

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1988,B.S.(Forestry and Wildlife Management)

Job Description: 

Suna is the President and owner of Gulf South Research Corporation(GSRC).The GSRC staff has grown 

from person to 19 professional scientists in 10 years. Of these 19 people, 9 are LSU Forestry and/or 

Wildlife graduates with either BS or MS degrees.

She manages the environmental as well as archeological staff and projects ranging in size from one-acre 

sites to study areas comprising over 300,000 acres. She is responsible for projects concerning Environmental 

Assessments(EAs), Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), protected species surveys, wetland

delineations,Habitat Evaluation Procedure (HEP) data collection and analysis,site assessments for former 

U.S.Department of Defense lands, aerial photography interpretation, and forest inventories. She has conducted 

wetland delineations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

Contact Information:

Address: GSRC

              8081 GSRI Avenue

              Baton Rouge, LA 70820

Phone:225-757-8088

Email: suna@gsrcorp.com

Website: www.gsrcorp.com        

Name: Ken W. Krauss

Title: Ecologist (Research), Ph.D Candidate 

          University of Louisiana at Lafayette

          U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1997, M.S. Forestry

Job Description:

Krauss’s current research focuses on two principal topics: (1) physiological ecology, growth, and stand water use of mangrove wetlands in relation to altered hydroperiods in South Florida, and (2) stress physiology, productivity, soil respiration, and carbon cycling of coastal, salt-influenced baldcypress-tupelo wetlands in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Georgia. Past research interests include sedimentation dynamics, tree growth, and regeneration of Micronesian mangroves and freshwater forested wetlands; invasion biology of mangroves in the Hawaiian intertidal environment; and improvement of salt tolerance in baldcypress for use in coastal rehabilitation programs.
 

Contact Information:

 Website: http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/about/feb/krauss.htm

 Email: kkrauss@usgs.gov

Name: Alex Michalek

Title: Refuge Forester

Employer: US Fish and Wildlife Service

Year of Graduation and Degree:2003, MS

Job Description: 

Alex is responsible for wildlife habitat and forest management on Atchafalaya, Big Branch Marsh, and 

Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuges, which total 64,000 acres in Southeast Louisiana.  

Contact Information:

E-mail:  alex_michalek@fws.gov

Name: Brad Miller

Title: Coastal Resources Scientist

Employer: Louisiana Department of Natural Resources/Coastal Restoration Division

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1999,MS Fisheries Management

Contact Information:

Address: LDNR/Coastal Restoration Division/ Planning Section

              617 North 3rd Street, 10th Floor

              PO Box 44027

              Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804-4027

Office: 225-342-4122

  Fax: 225-342-9417

Residence: 225-927-7095

Mobile: 225-936-4820 

Name: Steve Meadows
Title: Principal Silviculturist
Employer: USDA Forest Service
                  Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research
                  Stoneville, Mississippi

Year of Graduation and Degree::1979, BSF and 1981,MS

Job Description:

Steve is responsible for research in intermediate stand

silviculture of southern bottomland hardwood forests across the South. His

research program is directed towards developing silvicultural practices

designed to optimize both growth and quality of individual trees and

stands. Steve has numerous thinning studies in bottomland hardwood stands

across the South, where he is evaluating both growth response and the

production of epicormic branches on the boles of residual trees.

Contact Information:

Address: USDA Forest Service, RWU-SRS-4155

              Center for Bottomland Hardwood Research

              P.O. Box 227

              Stoneville, MS 38776

Phone: 662-686-3168

E-mail: smeadows01@fs.fed.us

Name: Dr. Robert Mills
Title: Retired LSU Extension forester
Present Activities:  part time consultant, landowner, hunter, fisherman, gardener
 

Contact Information:
Address:22800 Green Acres
             Denham Springs, LA. 70726
Phone: 225-664-2408

Name : Stephen Pecot

Title: Research Associate

Employer: Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1994, BSF 

                                                       1996, MS

Job Description: He is directly responsible for all research projects being conducted in one of three Forest Ecology labs,

 including supervision of hourly workers, temporary technicians, and graduate students affiliated with regional universities. 

 He is also viewed as a scientific peer, responsible for publishing in well-respected, peer-reviewed journals and developing 

 new approaches to management and restoration of endangered ecosystems.

Contact Information:

Address: Rt. 2, Box 2324

             Newton, GA 39870

Phone: 229.734.4706 x. 230

Fax: 229.734.4707

Email: specot@jonesctr.org

URL: www.jonesctr.org

Name: Michael Peters

Title: Assistant Refuge Manager

Employer: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

                   Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1992,MS Wildlife Ecology Contact Information:

Address: Sacramento NWR Complex

              752 County Road 99W

              Willows, CA 95988

Phone:(530) 934-2801

E-mail: mike_peters@r1.fws.gov

Name: Olivian Pitis

Title: Senior Consultant

Employer: Deloitte

Year of Graduation and Degree:1999, M.S. Forest Products Marketing

UCLA Anderson School of Management, MBA 2004

Contact Information:

Address:1264 9th St APT 7

Santa Monica, CA 90066 

Name: Aaron Pool
Title: Region Analyst
Employer: Plum Creek Timber Company
 
Job Description:
His duties include :
       Managing GIS functions for a region of the company. Providing interpretive mapping and analytical services to support the decision-making process in the resource units and for resource managers and the science staff.

Contact Information:
Address: 204 Spring Lake Cove
              Pearl, MS 39208
Phone: 601-933-9206
Mobile: 318-471-6112
E-mail: aaron.pool@plumcreek.com

Name: Paul W. Provence

Title: Area Manager of Dave Donaldson/Black River, Wildlife Management Area

Employer: Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

                   Description: 25,000acre Bottomland Hardwood Forest in northeast Arkansas.

Year of Graduation and Degree: May 2000, B.S. Wildlife Biology 

Contact Information:

Office:(870) 249-3605

Mobile:(870) 930-5666 

Home:(870) 249-3989 

Name:    Billingham, Rachel Rollason

Title:      Community Forestry Coordinator

Employer:Pennsylvania DCNR Bureau of Forestry

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1996, B.S.F. (also 1998, MAgr. in Forestry from Penn State University)

Job Description:

Rachel has been working for the PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry since 2001.  She works out of the Bureau’s Central Office in the capital city of Harrisburg. Rachel currently works in the Rural and Community Forestry Section, which deals primarily with private forest landowner programs, urban and community forestry, watershed initiatives, and conservation education.  Her primary responsibilities include assisting with coordination of the Forest Legacy Program, a conservation easement program focusing on working forests; the Clean & Green Program, an open space tax incentive program; the PA Urban and Community Forestry Program (Rachel’s duties concentrate primarily on PA’s large cities and the Northeastern part of the state), which helps plant and maintain trees in PA’s many municipalities; and the Private Forestland Stewardship Initiative, which is an effort to improve or maintain the condition of the many acres of private forestland in PA.

Contact Information:

Address: PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry

              PO Box 8552

              Harrisburg, PA  17105-8552

Phone:  717-783-0385

FAX: 717-783-5109

Email: rbillingha@state.pa.us

Website: http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/

Name: Christopher S. Reid
Title: Botanist
Employer: Louisiana Natural Heritage Program
                  Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries

Year of Graduation and Degree:1997, BSF

Contact Information:

Address: P.O. Box 98000

              Baton Rouge, LA 70808-9000

Phone:(225) 765-2828

Website: www.wlf.state.la.us click on "Non-game Programs / Natural Heritage

Name: James I. Ritchie

Title:  Counsellor
            President-CEO, Emeritus

Employer: Alabama Trucking Association Incorporated

Contact Information:

Address: 175, Handey Farm Rd

              Montgomery, AL 36117
Phone: 334/215-7329
Email : BJJIR2@aol.com

Name: Raymond J. Sauvage
Title: Principal Environmental Scientist
Employer : El Paso Corporation, Houston, TX

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1987, BSF

Job Description: His duty involves coordinating a team of remediation contractors, consultants
and ecological and human health risk assessment consultants. His natural resources background
has been especially helpful in the ecological risk assessment arena, which is where he spends
most of his time these days.

Contact Information:
Phone (Office):832-676-7342

Email: Ray.Sauvage@ElPaso.com

Name: Lea William Smiley, Sr.
Title: Retired Extension Forester

Employer : University of Arkansas

Contact Information :

Address: 2211 SEMINOLE TRL

               North Little Rock AR 72116-5791

Name: Larry Stanley

Title: Finance and Planning Manager,

Employer: Southern Regeneration , Weyerhaeuser Co. Hot Springs, AR

Name: Bob Strader
Title : Supervisory Wildlife Biologist

Employer: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

                  Division of Migratory Birds

Year of Graduation: 1978

Contact Information:

Address : U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

                Division of Migratory Birds

                6578 Dogwood View Parkway, Suite B

                Jackson, MS 39213

Phone: (601) 965-4903 ext 12

Email : bob_strader@fws.gov

Name: Christian J. Winslow
Title :   Biologist II
Employer: Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries/Marine Fisheries Division

Year of Graduation and Degree: 2001, BS Wildlife / 2003, MS Wildlife

Contact Information:
Phone: Office: 985-646-6458
email: cwinslow@wlf.louisiana.gov

Name: Dr. Kangsheng Wu
Title :  Research Associate   
Employer: South Dakota State University

Year of Graduation and Degree: 2005, PhD Forest Hydrology

Name: Shanna McCarty

Title: Natural Resources Specialist

Employer: Gulf South Research Corporation 

Year of Graduation and Degree: 2007, M.S. Forestry

Contact Information:

Address: 8081 GSRI Ave. 
              Baton Rouge, LA   70820
              Phone: 225-757-8088

Email: smccarty@gsrcorp.com

Employer: Canadian Wildlife Service

Year of Graduation and Degree: 2002, PhD WildLife

Contact Information:

Address: 1141 route de l’Eglise,

              Québec City, QC, Canada, G1V4H5

Email:  francois.bolduc@ec.gc.ca

Employer: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Year of Graduation and Degree: 1993 , M.S. Wildlife Science

Contact Information:

Address: Gulf Coast Joint Venture
               c/o National Wetlands Research Center
               700 Cajundome Boulevard
              Lafayette, LA 70506
 Phone :  337-266-8815
              

Email:  Barry_Wilson@usgs.gov