Mr. Staten is responsible for Clean Water Act Section 404 and 401 permits for Terra Technologies’ St. Louis office and is the Office Manager of the Columbia, Missouri office. He performs wetland delineations and stream system jurisdictional assessments and, as the head of Terra Technologies' Wetland & Stream Mitigation Banking Division, he designs large scale wetland and riparian restoration projects. In addition, Mr. Staten assists in the design of biotechnical engineering stream stabilization projects and rain gardens and performs construction oversight on stream stabilization projects and wetland restorations. He also designs and updates the Terra Technologies website.
Prior to joining Terra Technologies, Mr. Staten provided regulatory and permitting assistance related to the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and state stormwater regulations for development and transportation projects as well as wetland and riparian restorations. Selected relevant project experience includes:
- Osage Plains Wetland & Stream Mitigation Bank - Cass County, Missouri - As Project Manager, Mr. Staten designed and is marketing a 40-acre wetland and stream mitigation bank in the Kansas City area. This project has restored native forested, scrub-shrub, and herbaceous wetlands to a denuded farm parcel and has reforested more than 2,500 linear feet of a perennial stream on one side. In addition to guiding the project through the regulatory approval process, Mr. Staten has overseen the construction and monitoring of the project.
- Sni-A-Bar Creek Wetland & Stream Mitigation Bank - Jackson County, Missouri - Mr. Staten designed this 76-acre mitigation bank, which will restore agricultural land to its original state as forested wetland, herbaceous wetland, and riparian corridor. Mr. Staten will oversee the construction of the project as well as monitoring and the selling of mitigation banking credits. Application has been made to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and construction began in the fall of 2006.
- Missouri River Inner Levee Tract Jurisdictional Assessments - Kansas City, Missouri - Mr. Staten was the project manager for a series of wetland and stream system assessments that encompassed more than four square miles of properties held in Clay County. Because the owner is proposing to develop the sites, they desired to know the locations of onsite wetlands and streams as well as possible locations for mitigation projects. Mr. Staten led the field work and coordinated the production of the project reports between staff at all three Terra Technologies offices.
- Lakeside 370 Mitigation Wetland Design & Monitoring - St. Peters, Missouri - Mr. Staten assisted in the design of the mitigation project required as part of the creation of the Lakeside 370 Business Park in St. Peters, Missouri. This mitigation project includes the creation of more than 50 acres of herbaceous, scrub-shrub, and forested wetlands as well as approximately 34 acres of riparian enhancement areas. One of the planned wetlands is a twenty-four acre emergent marsh that will be located in the large onsite lake and will contain a recreational canoe trail. Mr. Staten is also overseeing the monitoring of 106 acres of existing forested, scrub-shrub, and emergent wetlands.
- Kensington Farms Rain Gardens - Lee's Summit, Missouri - Mr. Staten designed one of the largest rain garden projects in the United States, which will include 3.30 acres of rain gardens located in one of the common areas of a large scale residential development. These rain gardens are designed to resemble native prairie conditions local to the area and will be an attractive community asset to homeowners. Additionally, they will help to improve water quality and reduce stormwater runoff while providing wildlife habitat.
Professional Affiliations & Certification
Past President, Society of Wetland Scientists Central Chapter
Member, International Board of Directors, Society of Wetland Scientists 2006-2007
Fellow, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Conservation Fellows Program
Semester-long Wetland Delineation Class at Duke University Wetland Center
Certified by Kansas City's 10,000 Rain Gardens Program
Member, U.S. Green Building Council - St. Louis Regional Chapter
Certified in Wildland Fire Suppression
Education
Masters of Environmental Management, Duke University School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, 2001
B.A. Integrative Biology with honors, Minor: Conservation Resource Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Background
Associate Ecologist, L.C. Lee & Associates, Inc.
Wetland Restoration Intern, The Nature Conservancy
Forestry & Maintenance Intern, Duke Forest |
