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General

Available for environmental consulting with expertise in the following areas:

  • Habitat Restoration
  • Wetland Ecology
  • Adaptive Management
  • Wildlife Management
  • Native Plant Landscape Design and Planning
  • Community-based Stewardship
  • Exotic Species Removal
  • Brownfield Remediation
  • Environmental Education for K-12
  • Environmental Justice Advocacy
  • Volunteer Recruitment and Management

Experience

Over 12 years of experience in the greater San Francisco Bay Area on various project types including:

  • Wetland Restoration
  • Dune Restoration
  • Coastal Grassland Restoration
  • Mitigation Monitoring
  • Construction Monitoring
  • Sustainable Building Design (including living roofs and living machines for sewage treatment)

Skills

  • Wetland Delineation
  • Survey Protocol Design
  • Vegetation Identification and Monitoring
  • Bird Identification, Surveying, and Banding
  • Water Quality Testing
  • Aquatic and Terrestrial Invertebrate Collection and Surveying
  • Fish Seining and Electrofishing
  • Report Production

Certification

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wetland Delineator

Selected Publications

  • Ando, R., Ablog, M., Calvert, P. and Khalil, A. 2010. Calling Nature Home: Restoring Environmental Justice in an Urban Wetland, An Environmental Education Curriculum published by Literacy for Environmental Justice, available for purchase here: http://lejyouth.org/educator/res.html
  • Ablog, M. and Burgett, D. 2009. Heron’s Head Park Monitoring and Maintenance Plan prepared for the Port of San Francisco
  • Ablog, M. and Burgett, D. 2008. Heron’s Head Park Transition Zone Planting Plan prepared for the Port of San Francisco
  • Ward, K.M., and Ablog, M. 2006. Crissy Field Summary of Monitoring Data 2000 – 2004 prepared for National Park Service

Education

Humboldt State University, B.S. Environmental Biology, minoring in Natural Resources Planning, 1999.

University of San Francisco, M.S. Environmental Management in progress

Awards

EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park, Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice Achievement Award 2010 awarded to Literacy for Environmental Justice

  • Landscape Project Manager – Designed native plant palette for surrounding landscape, interior wetland sewage treatment cells, living roof, and drainage field and managed installation and maintenance during construction funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Fellow, Center for Whole Communities, Fayston, VT, 8/2009

  • Selected as a fellow for Next Generation of Environmental Leaders Training Program