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Jim Nellessen |
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Dr. Nellessen is experienced in environmental compliance surveys, including threatened and endangered species surveys, vegetation data collection and analysis, wetland delineation, and baseline biological surveying. He is especially familiar with vegetation data collection procedures for coalmine reclamation endeavors and has assisted with liability releases. In addition to
his extensive background in botany and plant ecology, he has taken many courses in entomology. He has managed and conducted multi-year sampling and monitoring of aquatic habitats for macro-invertebrate populations. He is experienced in conducting surveys for invasive plant species and their management planning, setting up research designs, understands rangeland health assessments (has been trained in current joint USDA-NRCS and BLM guidelines), air quality regulations, air toxics programs, smoke management plans, plant toxicity, and contaminated soil bioremediation. Dr. Nellessen instructed at several colleges and universities in biology, botany, ecology, plant pathology, and chemistry, has given numerous meeting presentations on biological and environmental topics and has published many peer-reviewed articles from 1983 to the present.
Education
- 1989, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio University, Botany
- 1982, Master of Science, Virginia Tech, Plant Pathology
- 1979, Bachelor of Science, University of Minnesota, Biology
Employment History
- Taschek Environmental Consulting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Biologist: June 2000 to Present: Principal biologist managing all aspects of biological work from conducting field surveys to writing biological assessments and evaluations.
- New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Environmentalist:
1999 to 2000: Biologist managing all aspects of biological work from conducting field surveys to writing biological assessments and evaluations.
- New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Environmental Scientist:
1994 to 1999: Worked on the air quality state implementation plan, wrote regulations, conducted surveys of non-attainment areas.
- University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, Department of Botany and Microbiology, Post-doctoral researcher and part-time faculty member:
1989 to 1994: Compiled a database on the uptake and accumulation of chemicals into vegetation (USEPA funded) and taught classes.
- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Department of Botany, Doctoral student and teaching assistant:
1984 to 1989: Research on plant ecology of abandoned mine sites and taught classes.
- Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, Deptartment of Plant Pathology, Master's student and research assistant:
1980 to 1983: Research into air pollution effects on vegetation
- Environmental Research and Technology (ENSR) and NUS Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota: 1977: Field and lab assistant sampling fish on the Mississippi River.
Active Registration/ Permits
- US Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species survey permit including trained for surveys in Mexican spotted owls and southwestern willow flycatchers.
- State of New Mexico Endangered Plant scientific collection permit
- US Forest Service Region 3 Plant Collection permit
- American Institute of Biological Sciences
- Association of Southwestern Naturalists
- American Society of Mining and Reclamation
- Native Plant Society of New Mexico
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