Forrest Bell, Owner (207) 650-7597 info@fbenvironmental.com

Forrest has directed more than 75 successful environmental planning, assessment, monitoring and restoration projects since 1991 for private and public sector clients including natural resource agencies, municipalities, and conservation organizations. Forrest has worked directly with well over one thousand land owners in his career. He is an experienced grant writer and fund raiser, having acquired more than $4.5 million dollars for several environmental and conservation groups. Forrest completed undergraduate work in Geography and Land Use Planning from the University of Southern Maine and completed his Master's coursework at the University of New Hampshire in the Natural Resource Management Program. He has been extensively trained in lake, river, and stream assessment and restoration, project management, watershed management, community planning, public outreach, and meeting facilitation. He also serves in a volunteer capacity as the Vice President of the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust and as the Vice Chair of the Presumpscot River Watershed Coalition. Forrest enjoys every opportunity to assist community stakeholders to actively protect our collective natural resources.

Jennifer Jespersen, Project Manager (207) 215-8506 jenj@fbenvironmental.com

Jen has more than 15 years of combined education and experience in the Environmental Science field. She received a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science from the University of Maine at Farmington, and a Master's degree in Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of Maine's Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Science. Her research focused on understanding the role of estuarine subaqueous soils in the global carbon budget, and determining sources of organic matter in these ecosystems. Jen spent several years on the west coast conducting rare plant surveys for the U.S. Forest Service, and overseeing a Non-Point Source/BMP Implementation Program in Lake Tahoe, CA. Additional experiences in Maine include working for Woods End Research Laboratory, Franklin County Soil & Water Conservation District, the USDA Farm Service Agency, and the Maine Conservation Corps. Her interests include restoration and preservation of native species and open space. Beyond these experiences, Jen enjoys delineating wetlands, collecting and analyzing water quality data, and working with local stakeholders. Jen has been with FB Environmental since May of 2005, and is currently leading several projects including the Maine Lakes TMDL Program, and the Aroostook County Stream TMDL Project.

Tricia Rouleau, Project Manager (207) 899-5515 triciar@fbenvironmental.com

Tricia has over 12 years of education and experience in environmental science and conservation. She received a B.A. in Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of Maine in Orono, with a concentration in soil and water science. While at the University of Maine, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences studying watershed nitrogen budgets. Prior to joining FB Environmental, Tricia worked as a Soil Conservation Technician for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Maine, and conducted research in freshwater wetlands in Acadia National Park for the U.S. Geological Survey. Additional professional experiences include working for the Nature Conservancy, the Hancock County Soil and Water Conservation District, the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission, and College of the Atlantic’s Beech Hill Farm. As a project manager at FBE, Tricia conducts water quality monitoring and data analysis for lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries; technical report writing; watershed-based planning; GIS mapping and modeling; and conservation easement monitoring and baseline documentation for land trusts. Tricia has been with FB Environmental since January of 2006.

Deborah Mayo, Office Mngr/Project Assist (207) 221-6699 debm@fbenvironmental.com

Deb joined FB Environmental in 2007 to assist with project management and administration in the Portland office where she provides exceptional client and organizational support. She was formerly the District Manager for the York County Soil and Water Conservation District where she gained considerable natural resource assessment and restoration experience. Deb also provides crucial administrative support services for an experiential learning center in southern Maine.

Ken Hickey, Senior Scientist (978) 501-5111 kenh@fbenvironmental.com

Ken is a water resources investigator with 16 years of experience evaluating and restoring surface water systems. He has expertise in designing and conducting hydrologic and water quality field investigations, data analyses, mathematical modeling applications, and in providing clear and compelling technical information. For several New England states and EPA Region 1, Ken has successfully completed over 40 watershed TMDL projects focused on assessment and reduction of a variety of pollutants including nutrients, bacteria, and suspended solids. Ken has also successfully designed and completed watershed based planning and watershed restoration projects. He has worked extensively with Clean Water Act programs, such as TMDL and NDPES, and specializes in combining regulatory strategies with state-of-the-science technical approaches to assess and achieve water quality goals. He frequently designs and conducts projects focused on identifying the causes of stream impairment and collaborating with stakeholders to select and implement restoration measures. Ken has designed and conducted a wide range of surface water modeling projects from simple watershed screening level tasks to complex 3-D models. Ken has also conducted marine sediment impact, dredge monitoring, and physical oceanography projects.

Cayce Dalton, Project Manager (207) 221-6699 cayced@fbenvironmental.com

Cayce has worked for nine years in southern Maine on issues of bacterial water quality, eutrophication, estuarine monitoring and ecology, and the human dimensions of environmental policy implementation. He received his Bachelor of Science in environmental science, with a minor in economics, from the College of William and Mary. He served two years in the Maine Conservation Corps, coordinating volunteer water sampling and supporting laboratory and data analysis. He coordinated the System Wide Monitoring Program at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve for a year, and is familiar with data sonde deployment and maintenance. More recently, he applied NOAA’s Assessment of Estuarine Trophic Status (ASSETS) methodology to New England estuaries, and conducted land use analysis using GIS for several salt marsh indicators projects in Casco Bay and the York River, Maine. Cayce is very familiar with municipal land use regulation, in particular Maine’s Mandatory Shoreland Zoning regulations, septic system permitting and enforcement, and municipal zoning.

Emily DiFranco, Project Scientist II (603) 343-6311 emilyd@fbenvironmental.com

Emily is one of the newest members of FB Environmental, joining our team in July 2010. She received a B.S. in Geography from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in 2001, and has recently graduated from the University of New Hampshire with an M.S. in Natural Resources with a focus on Water Resources. While at the University of New Hampshire, she worked as a research assistant for the Water Quality Analysis Laboratory and designed and implemented separate projects on the ground and surface water hydrology of the New Boston Air Force Station and on nitrogen cycling in the Lamprey River Watershed. Emily has also worked for a local watershed group implementing Best Management Practices on public and private properties to reduce sediment and phosphorus loads to lakes in Maine and New Hampshire, built fish ponds in the Peace Corps in Zambia, and worked with the Nature Conservancy on Catalina Island in the AmeriCorps.