Ecosystems
You have to know what you're looking for
Understanding ecosystem responses to human development requires terrain and soil scientists, vegetation, marine, freshwater, and wetland ecologists, and wildlife biologists. Our integrated teams gather pertinent information, and with our greenhouse gas verification consultancy, support Cap and Trade sustainability. Dedicated to proactively identifying and managing environmental issues at all regulatory levels, we help you create projects that demonstrate how development and nature can coexist.What I love about my job is the momentum, positive energy, and ideas that arise from collaboration and carry us forward.
Keeping natural resources understood and protected
With baseline inventories, we create a model of the current system to find the internal and external linkages. Our work includes rare species identification and management, ecosystem mapping, impact and damage assessments, and restoration solutions. After documenting existing conditions and determining potential impacts, we develop avoidance and mitigation measures that are cost-effective while protecting natural resources.Keeping projects regulated
Collaborating with you and the appropriate regulatory agencies, we help to develop conservation plans and offset initiatives that promote human involvement in ecosystems that produce positive outcomes. Services include freshwater ecology, marine ecology, ecosystem restoration, natural resource damage assessment (NRDA), terrestrial wildlife, and vegetation, wetlands, and soils.Finding animals without seeing them
All living organisms leave traces of their presence in the world around them, and that’s something we can look for—environmental DNA (eDNA). The benefit? If you can measure it in the water, you can confirm the presence of a target species without disturbing or even seeing the animals. Now, Stantec can provide eDNA results in the field and take samples to our partner labs. Our scientists across Canada and the US are ready to use eDNA to answer your questions about species that are rare, invasive, or commercially important.George Athanasakes, Senior Principal, Environmental Services
We analyze natural processes driving ecological functions and incorporate these processes into designs to create self-sustaining ecosystems.
Matt Arsenault, Associate, Environmental Services
Plants are my passion. I’m a finder of and advocate for the subtle, obscure, cryptic, and unappreciated members of the botanical world.
Amber Coleman, Associate, Water
Everything we do as scientists is based on methodological evaluation and the ability to convey those findings to others.
Robin MacEwan, Principal
In my job, I have the opportunity to work with teams of creative, passionate, and highly skilled people to plan projects that enrich our communities and landscape through the restoration of natural resources. What could be more rewarding?
Mary Murdoch, Senior Principal, Environmental Services
What I love about my job is the momentum, positive energy, and ideas that arise from collaboration and carry us forward.
Dr. Francis Wiese, Senior Principal, National Marine Discipline Lead
Studying the marine environment is studying the largest ecosystem on the planet and I can travel the world and never be far from it.
Brian Bub, Associate, Wildlife Biologist
Protecting wildlife through collaboration is the most rewarding aspect of the work I do.
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