The Team
Meet the
Staff Members
Our team of biologists, ecologists, and environmental scientists offer a wide array of services. The combined experience and expertise of the staff provides relevant insight and solutions.
Jenerro Lockhart
Principal Ecologist M.B.A
Mr. Lockhart’s experience includes: water quality monitoring and reporting, biological monitoring, mitigation and restoration monitoring, special status species, natural resource management, stream/wetland jurisdictional determination, Sections 404/401 permitting, CEQA/NEPA compliance, and FERC Licensing support.
Mr. Lockhart has conducted water quality monitoring and reporting for projects throughout northern and central California. He served as water quality inspector and wrote reports for PG&E’s Fish Screen, Power Tunnel and Bypass Project, Afterbay Dam Removal Project, Kirchhoff Trunnion Repair Project, where he oversaw water quality monitoring, testing analysis and reporting of surface and groundwater. Mr. Lockhart conducted flow studies that measured the environmental impact of water depletion in Sonoma County to gathered data pertaining to flows needed for fish spawning, migration, and rearing while maintaining natural flow variability. More recently, he conducted biological monitoring and mitigation oversight the Monterey County Water Resources Agency, Salinas River Stream Maintenance Program Project. Mr. Lockhart has worked closely with prime contractors and private entities providing biological assessment, monitoring and water quality support for a number of improvement projects throughout Central and Northern California.
Thomas Earl Gonsolin
Principal Terrestrial and Aquatic Biologist M.S.
Mr. Gonsolin is an aquatic biologist with 20 years of experience in both terrestrial and aquatic systems. He has conducted numerous biological surveys in coastal systems, the Central Valley, the Sierra, the Coast Ranges, and in the Cascades.
His skills include aquatic habitat assessments for inland trout and steelhead, fish population sampling, salmonid redd surveys, calculating fish age and growth, macroinvertebrate sampling, amphibian surveys, evaluating and characterizing amphibian habitat, mark and recapture, biotelemetry, and conducting rare plant and bird surveys. His experience includes field surveys and biological monitoring in support of construction improvement projects, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing projects, water projects and habitat management planning, and data base management and procedures, data quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), statistical analysis, and technical report writing. Mr. Gonsolin has extensive experience collecting, analyzing and reporting data for foothill yellow-legged frogs and California red-legged frogs (CRLF) in a variety of locations and habitats within the range of both species.
Mark Oates
Staff Marine Biologist M.S.
Mr. Oates is a marine biologist and has worked in habitats throughout California, Oregon and Florida over the past 8 years. He provides biological monitoring and field surveys for construction projects in both terrestrial and aquatic/estuarine habitats.
Mr. Oates has extensive experience in marine ecology and has worked as a marine mammal monitor and a scuba/snorkel surveyor on several environmental studies. He is also QSP certified and can provide SWPP inspections. Mr. Oates is proficient in experimental design, field survey protocols and identification of special status species in California. With a background in environmental education, he also understands how to effectively communicate relevant science to project stakeholders.
Christopher Kitting
Ph.D. Sr. Marine Biologist and Associate
Dr. Kitting, earning his Biological Sciences B.S. at University of California and Ph.D. at Stanford University, has authored >35 widely cited, diverse ecological publications in reviewed scientific journals, plus numerous other reports, manuals, and published photographic illustrations.
His students have authored many additional publications. He also has been principal investigator on well over 20 major research grants (plus his renewals) at Cal State University East Bay, and completed other award-winning projects at NOAA, NASA and other agencies. He also is a founding Board Member of San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society, Charter member of Ward Creek Alliance, and recently has been a member of three other watershed organizations, including McNabney Marsh Advisory Committee, successfully managing a restored wastewater marsh in Martinez. He has long maintained active professional membership in Society of Wetlands Scientists, Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF), and American Fisheries Society (AFS) and their Chapters, and in over four related international ecological societies, where he presents new talks and posters several times each year at local and international conferences. He recently has served as president (elected for multiple terms) in two major scientific societies, including San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society, supporting US Fish and Wildlife Service Refuges along the West Coast. He also is a reviewer for major journals etc., and serves on two editorial boards of scientific journals. He also edited and wrote a chapter for the book Migration: Mechanisms and Adaptive Significance. Recently he was acknowledged for assistance to the National Marine Estuary Program through Louisiana State University, and locally.
Michael Bumgardner
Partnering Principal and Sr. Wildlife Biologist
Mr. Bumgardner partnering Principal of Bumgardner Biological Consulting, has a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of California at Davis. He spent several years in the Joint Doctoral Program in Ecology at the University of California at Davis and San Diego State University.
Mr. Bumgardner has more than 24 years of experience in conducting biological assessments, studies, and inventories, and developing mitigation, restoration, conservation plans and strategies, and constraints analysis. His cliental includes State and Federal, natural gas and oil industry, reclamation districts, ski industry, mining industry, transportation agencies, Union Pacific Railroad, water, wastewater and power utilities, and building industry. He currently holds federal scientific take permits for California gnatcatcher, southwestern willow flycatcher, and California Ridgeway’s rail (permit number TE-785564-7), a federal scientific take permit for the California Tiger Salamander (permit number TE-785564-6), a California Department of Fish and Game scientific collector’s permit (No. 801214-01) and letter of agreement to conduct surveys for yellow-billed cuckoo, willow flycatcher, California gnatcatcher, California black rail, and California clapper rail.
Christopher Gray
Staff Terrestrial Ecologist
Mr. Gray obtained his BS in Biological Sciences from California State University Sacramento with emphasis in ecology and conservation. He has experience conducting protocol level surveys for special status species and is capable of identifying a range of organisms; birds, amphibians and reptiles, insects, and fish.
Mr. Gray has assisted Dr. Graening of CSU Sacramento for several years with cave research throughout California performing biological inventories. He has also worked for the Catalina Environmental Leadership Program on Catalina Island. During his time there he worked with college students, educating groups on terrestrial and aquatic ecology while stressing the importance of sustainability. Educating such diverse groups allowed Chris the opportunity to gain experience breaking down complex concepts in order to explain them more easily and in different ways to younger groups. His experience with GIS/GPS mapping allows him to assist clients in multiple fields. He has experience performing biological resource assessments for CEQA documentation and status species clearance surveys. QSP trained, Mr. Gray also provides SWPPP inspections.
Inger Marie Laursen
Sr. Wildlife Biologist M.S.
Ms. Laursen has over fifteen years of fieldwork experience, surveying and monitoring for species of special status along the central California coast and abroad. She has field experience with a broad range of species, including but not limited to birds, amphibians, reptiles, salmonids, mammals, and butterflies.
She has experience with research design and data management, telemetry tracking, capture and handling, and crew management. She has high standards for quality assurance in data collection and strives for continued excellence in her positions while acquiring new skills. She has conducted Day and night surveys for threatened native California red-legged frogs (Rana draytonii) and non-native bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). She has worked under a permits to rescue and relocate California redlegged frogs and tadpoles to mitigation pools. She is experience in conducting visual identification, capture, and relocation of adult red-legged frogs and tadpoles. Since 2008 Mr. Laursen has worked Salmonid Biologist with NOAA providing biological support for the long term monitoring of juvenile steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) populations during summer, fall and winter in Santa Cruz Mountain watersheds. She conducted surveys and captures are performed with the using electrofishing, installed block nets, capturing steelhead with dipnets, transport fish to processing station, monitoring health of fish, data recording. Seining of steelhead in lagoons and assisted during tagging of adult and juvenile fish at the rearing facility. Ms. Laursen has extensive terrestrial experience conducting bird surveys, capturing and handling common amphibian and reptile species on farms and ranches along the central California coast. From 1998-2008 she worked as a Marine Mammal Researcher, conducting standardized searches for marine mammals during daytime and nighttime surveys for compliance regulations set by USFWS and NMFS in order to minimize disturbance.
Peter Harman
Staff Ecologist M.S.
Peter Harman studied a Masters in Biological Studies at Sacramento State University.
His experience is in habitat restoration, initial non-native plant species removal, irrigation installation, collecting seed/cuttings and nursery propagation of target plant species, plant installation/overseeing planting crews, plant monitoring and site census, general maintenance of infrastructure and weed removal, and reporting. Peter has work several years on mitigation restoration projects in Southern California. He has experience in identifying plant species. Peter is currently obtaining his masters in Ecology studying vernal pools in the Searras and is on Staff at Sacramento State University Department of Biology.
David Prentiss
Business Director M.B.A
Mr. David Prentiss has an M.B.A. and B.S. in Finance from California State University. Prior to joining Alluvion, Mr. Prentiss served as Senior Project Operations Manager at Kaiser Permanente – National Medicare Administration for over 7 year where he was for managing monthly age in operations cycle that touches thousands of members each month.
Track and report on outreach and manage workflows including outbound list production and QC, marketing, systems, and calendar management. He has over 15 yea in in accosting and business management and has strategically overseen project integration, issue management and day to day list generation.
