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John B. Rice, Jr., P.G.
Senior Geologist, President
MS, Geology, Utah State University
BS, Geology, James Madison University
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Mr. Rice has nearly 25 years of professional experience in environmental consulting and hydrogeology. He has managed and conducted numerous environmental site assessments, subsurface site investigations, remediation projects, and groundwater and surface water studies during his career. Mr. Rice is a registered Professional Geologist (PG) in Idaho, Wyoming, and Virginia. His work experience has been diverse and has included projects on the east and west coasts, in the Midwest, and in the Rocky Mountain region.
Throughout his career, Mr. Rice's experience has routinely included the overall responsibility for the management of contractors and sub-consultants, including drilling firms, various specialty consultants such as wetland and wildlife experts, and analytical laboratories. Mr. Rice has managed and conducted literally hundreds of ASTM Phase I, II and III Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) at a wide range of sites across the nation. Over the years, Mr. Rice has efficiently and successfully taken many commercial and industrial sites from the initial identification of a problem, to investigation of that problem, and ultimately the successful design and implementation of cleanup efforts.
Mr. Rice's career has also included time in the non-profit sector, including 3 years as Research Director with the Friends of the Teton River (FTR) in the Teton Valley of Idaho, and 3 years in private land conservation. This work included scientific studies related to surface water – groundwater interaction, hydrologic alteration and impacts to fisheries, and irrigation-related diversion measurements and management. Mr. Rice's non-profit service, and the relationships developed with persons in the conservation community, as well as in the key regional public agencies and other regional non-profits, has been of particular benefit on projects where credibility with diverse groups has been necessary to reach compromise and implement mutually beneficial solutions.
Contact: E-Mail jrice@rockymountainenvironmental.com
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W. Roger Warner
Senior Hydrologist, Vice President
MS, Hydrology, University of Utah
BS, Geology, Brigham Young University
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Mr. Warner has 24 years of professional experience over a wide range of geologic and environmental projects. His work experience has been split between consultation services, governmental agency representative, and academia. He has managed and conducted many varied site investigations over the course of his career and brings to the table a diverse working knowledge of environmental and geological issues. Mr. Warner is a Masters Degreed Hydrologist from the University of Idaho. His project thesis focused on evaluation of conceptual models for spring flows in the American Falls area of Idaho; a topic of great concern given today's water right climate in southern Idaho.
Mr. Warner's work experience has been unique in the development of a broad range of relationships with agency professionals throughout Eastern Idaho. Mr. Warner worked closely with regional Department of Fish and Game, Department of Environmental Quality, and U. S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel while performing stream protection oversight duties, which also enabled opportunities for interaction with federal agencies such as the U.S Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and others.
Mr. Warner's water right experience has included numerous opportunities to interact with the regions top expert water- and water-law professionals where he participated in the formation of reasonable and fundamentally sound solutions to water right problems.
Contact: E-Mail rwarner@rockymountainenvironmental.com
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Bryce A. Contor
Senior Hydrologist
MS, Hydrology, University of Idaho
BS, Agricultural Economics, Brigham Young University
AS, Farm Crops Management, Ricks College
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Mr. Contor has 14 years professional hydrology experience, including nine years with the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute where he served as a research hydrologist, and five years with Idaho Department of Water Resources where he served as a Senior Water Resource Agent. Prior to that he farmed and served on the board of directors of a small canal company.
With the Institute, Mr. Contor served as principal investigator on hydrologic projects as diverse as preparing water budgets for large numerical aquifer models, investigating remote sensing of evapotranspiration on irrigated lands, developing tools to calculate the economic demand for irrigation water, and investigating managed recharge of aquifers. He has published in national peer-reviewed scientific journals and has authored numerous technical completion reports for the Idaho Water Resources Research Institute. At Idaho Department of Water Resource, Mr. Contor measured flow in pipelines and open channels, investigated water-right claims and made water-right recommendations in the Snake River Basin Adjudication.
Mr. Contor holds an M.S. Degree in hydrology from the University of Idaho. His hydrologic specialties include groundwater/surface-water interactions and MODFLOW aquifer modeling, water-budget analysis, pipeline and open-channel flow measurement, and statistics. GIS specialties include aerial photography interpretation and manipulation of remote-sensing data. Economics specialties are water banking and economic demand for irrigation water.
Contact: E-Mail bcontor@rockymountainenvironmental.com
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Nancy Liebrecht, RLA
Senior Wetland Scientist
Environmental Planner/Landscape Architect
MLA, University of Pennsylvania
BA, Denison University
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Ms. Liebrecht , who joined RMEA in 2008, is a landscape architect and land planner with 25 years of experience in environmental site analysis and landplaning. For the past 18 years she has dealt with federal, state, and local environmental issues/regulation in Idaho, Northern Utah, and Western Wyoming. Prior to moving west, Ms. Liebrecht worked for two large architecture and landplaning firms on the East Coast doing site analysis and site planning on environmentally sensitive sites.
Since relocating to Eastern Idaho in 1991, Ms. Liebrecht has successfully performed site assessments, baseline studies, monitoring studies, and wetland delineations on sites that vary in scale from over 3,000 acres to half-acre home sites. Ms. Liebrecht studied at the University of Pennsylvania under Ian McHarg, the leading proponent of environmental mapping of the 20th century. She remains committed to Professor McHarg's methods of comprehensive site analysis and mapping, and she has the responsibility of overseeing environmental site mapping for Environmental Assessments and baseline studies performed by RMEA.
Contact: E-Mail nancyl@rockymountainenvironmental.com
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Doug R. Davidson CPESC, CPSWQ
Geologist/Hydrologist
MS, Natural Resources, University of Idaho
BS, Geology, Bemidji State University
BS, Environmental Science, Bemidji State University
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Doug Davidson, who joined RMEA in 2010, has over 25 years of professional experience in the area of hydrology and geology, including work as a consulting hydrologist, a researcher, and a regulator with both IDEQ and IDWR. He has performed stream bank enhancement design and implementation studies, conducted NEPA analyses and prepared associated documents for natural resource assessments, and has worked with complex watershed and water resource models. Mr. Davidson has also been involved in numerous water quality and TMDL assessments in Utah and Idaho. Mr. Davidson has also completed storm water plans and designs for numerous project in the western United States included oil and gas developments and large construction projects. He has also completed water quality compliance monitoring on highway construction projects for state and federal clients.
Contact: E-Mail DDavidson@rockymountainenvironmental.com
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Pamela J. Reed
Environmental Scientist
MS, Geosciences, University of Montana
BS, Geology, Iowa State University
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Pam Reed, Environmental Scientist, has worked for RMEA since 2008. Previously, Ms. Reed worked from 2000 to 2007 for the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology as a contractor to the Montana DEQ at the Montana Pole and Treating Plant Superfund Site. Here, she gained experience with a wide range of complex environmental problem solving issues, including regulatory compliance under CERCLA, remediation implementation and operation, environmental monitoring and sampling (water, soil and air), data analysis, interpretation and presentation. Since joining RMEA, Ms. Reed has directed our soil and water quality sampling program and has conducted risk assessments for a range of sites in Idaho using IDEQ's REM software. She also performs statistical analyses of water quality data for our landfill clients. Ms. Reed's educational background includes a BS in Geology from Iowa State University; and an MS in Geosciences with a Mine Waste emphasis from Montana Tech of the University of Montana.
Contact: E-Mail preed@rockymountainenvironmental.com
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Keith C. Wilson
Senior Water Rights Analyst
BS, Agricultural Engineering, Louisiana Tech University
BS, Zoology, Louisiana Tech University
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Mr. Wilson has nearly 30 years of professional experience in water rights in eastern Idaho. He worked for over 26 years as a Senior Resource Agent in the Eastern Regional Office of the Idaho Dept. of Water Resources (IDWR), assisting with the Snake River Basin Adjudication, completing water right licensing recommendations, complex transfers, conducting water supply related research, working with individual water right owners, municipalities, commercial and industrial water users, and the regional water districts. Since joining RMEA in 2007, Mr. Wilson has continued working with water users, on complex water right transfers, due diligence, evaluation of water rights, permitting, and preparing applications for leasing of water to or from the Idaho Water Bank. He has also assisted with a number of water right sales. Mr. Wilson holds two B.S. degrees, in Agricultural Engineering and Zoology, both from Louisiana Tech University.
Contact: E-Mail kwilson@rockymountainenvironmental.com
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Kristin M. Moore
Water Rights Analyst
BS, Geology, Brigham Young University, Idaho
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Ms. Moore has over 5 years working in water rights and GIS analysis. She has a BS in Geology from Brigham Young University — Idaho that she earned in 2004. Prior to joining for RMEA in 2007, she worked as a GIS analyst for Idaho Water Resources Research Institute in carbon sequestration research. This introduction led Ms. Moore to a position with Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) to aid in the Snake River Basin Adjudication process. As an employee of IDWR, she worked with Idaho Code regarding water rights and water law and she built relationships with agency employees that have proven to be invaluable in the consulting business today.
Since coming to work for RMEA, Ms. Moore has been a key player in numerous water right transfers, appropriations of new water rights, and developing sound mitigation plans for a variety of water right issues. She has been involved in pioneering new and exciting water right solutions for municipalities, commercial companies, and local farmers.
Contact: E-Mail kmoore@rockymountainenvironmental.com
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