Cory Fox has been a Fisheries Biologist with EnviroScience since 2015, specializing in sampling and identifying freshwater and brackish fish species using electrofishing equipment and various trap nets. 

Cory has also assisted the Mid-Atlantic field crew with other various types of data collection, including water quality, sediment, and fish tissue for analysis.  While working on his Fisheries Conservation degree at Virginia Tech, he collected freshwater mussels for propagation as part of the Virginia Freshwater Mussel Restoration Strategy.

Contact Cory at: CFox @ EnviroScienceInc.com

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring);  emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.

EnviroScience GIS Operations Manager Anna Piazza, GISP

Anna Piazza, GISP, serves as GIS Operations Manager and has been a valued member of EnviroScience since February 2018. Anna specializes in advanced geospatial analysis, creating and managing geospatial datasets, cartographic production, and developing GIS-based web applications. She currently oversees GIS project management, training, and quality control of GIS work products, ensuring the quality standards we are known for are met. Her favorite part of working at EnviroScience is the diversity of the project work, which means she is always learning something new.

Anna graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science and biology minor from Baldwin Wallace University and has over nine years of experience working with GIS.

Prior to joining the EnviroScience family, Anna worked at the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District in Cleveland, Ohio, where she developed GIS web applications and assisted with geospatial data updates and analysis.

Anna has a passion for exploring the outdoors and all things nature. When she is not hiking, she enjoys spending time traveling with her husband, gardening, and doing yoga.

Contact Anna at: APiazza @ EnviroScienceinc.com

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring);  emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.

Brendan Morgan joined EnviroScience in 2018 and is an Invasive Vegetation Biologist. His entire career has focused on fieldwork and conducting various surveys.

Brendan’s work has taken him around the globe. He lived alone in a field station in the Costa Rican mountains for seven months, worked on fishing boats in Alaska, and worked a great deal in Northeast Ohio. Most of his work has been with different kinds of botanical surveys, but he has also done extensive wetland delineation work as well as bird, amphibian, and deer surveys.

Brendan’s Master’s thesis focused on tropical invertebrate communities in small headwater streams and how they are affected by detrital levels and seasonal spates.

Contact Brendan at:  BMorgan @ EnviroScienceInc.com

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring);  emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.

Since joining our team in 2012, Patrick Evankovich has demonstrated outstanding leadership and expertise as Commercial Operations Manager. A graduate of Divers Academy International and a certified Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) Air Diving Supervisor, Patrick has honed his skills through a diverse range of certifications and training programs, including the National Highway Institute (NHI) underwater bridge inspection and in-service bridge inspection courses, Kirby Morgan Helmet Technician, and CSXT Hazmat Tank Car Specialist.

Overseeing commercial diving services, Patrick manages a wide array of projects, from endangered species surveys to large-scale construction projects and emergency response. His experience encompasses critical infrastructure tasks such as bridge and dam inspection, Sluice gate inspection and installation, bulkhead design and installation, and other specialized underwater construction projects.  This wide-ranging experience underscores Patrick’s adaptability and versatility.

He is also adept in mechanics and fabrication, including topside and underwater welding and burning. His mechanical expertise extends to maintaining intricate water, air, and hydraulic systems for our clients and maintaining and training staff on in-house equipment maintenance. Patrick displays a high level of quality and pride in maintaining not only client projects but also our diving offices and shop spaces.

Patrick’s dedication to safety is a cornerstone of his role at EnviroScience. His responsibilities include project management, marketing, and on-site supervision of diving operations. He has been instrumental in maintaining and developing safety programs, including a confined space entry program, company-wide JSAs, and up-to-date diving operation safety plans for IMCA and USACE-compliant job sites.

Patrick’s extensive topside and in-water work experience includes significant projects involving ships husbandry, submarine maintenance, train car recovery, and various large oil and gas projects. He continues to play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and effectiveness of our commercial diving operations, emphasizing a safe work environment and meticulous operational management.

Contact Patrick at:  PEvankovich @ EnviroScienceinc.com

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring);  emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.

Jennifer Vydra is the Director of Laboratory Services at EnviroScience, Inc., overseeing a team of aquatic biologists and laboratory professionals. She is a biologist focusing on the daily management and growth of the EnviroScience laboratories.

Jennifer possesses a strong customer focus, sales experience, and scientific discipline. She has a Bachelor of Science in Biology and an Associate in Applied Science in Biomedical Engineering Technology.

A valued member of the EnviroScience team since 2012, Jennifer’s extensive experience in a fast-paced technology environment has sharpened her skills for managing our toxicity and aquatic biology laboratories.

Jennifer has worked with the Ohio Division of Wildlife on two endangered species projects as well as the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey reintroduction programs. Her account management experience and technical writing skills ensure effective customer communication and future growth for the EnviroScience Team.

Contact Jennifer at: JVydra @ EnviroScienceinc.com

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring); emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; sustainability services; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.

Teal Richards-Dimitrie is a herpetologist for EnviroScience’s environmental consulting services with experience working on a wide range of wildlife projects. She has worked in many regions of the United States on a variety of taxa with varying state and federal status.

• Arizona – Desert tortoise, reptile and amphibian inventory
• California – Pacific salmonids, Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog, Tailed Frog, Torrent Salamander, Pacific Giant Salamander, Western Pond Turtle, obligate aquatic birds
• Florida – amphibian and reptile communities
• Illinois – Blanding’s and Spotted Turtle
• Maryland – Northern Map Turtle, forest amphibian communities, turtle communities
• New Mexico – Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, Lesser Prairie Chicken
• New York – Bog Turtle, Spotted Turtle, reptile and amphibian communities
• Ohio – reptile and amphibian inventory, listed turtle coordination
• Pennsylvania – Bog Turtle
• Massachusetts – Blanding’s Turtle and associated turtle community
• Texas – reptile and amphibian inventory

Teal has over ten years of reptile and amphibian field survey experience including threatened and endangered species surveys, visual encounter surveys, capture-mark-recapture techniques, radio telemetry, habitat identification and measurement, acoustic monitoring surveys, phlebotomy, and environmental-DNA collection.  Additionally, as a member of both private and state agencies in California, Teal has 5 years’ experience in Pacific fisheries.  Throughout her career, she has employed a variety of quantitative skills as well as mapping and technical writing for both agency reporting and peer-reviewed publication.  Her current role involves collecting high-quality site and species data, reporting, project management, and making recommendations for agency coordination.

Contact TRichards-Dimitrie @ EnviroScienceInc.com

Rebecca Winterringer is a senior-level Aquatic Ecologist / Malacologist and Project Manager who manages and implements endangered mussel projects and assists clients with NEPA / USACE compliance and permitting.

Becca has 22 years of experience conducting aquatic faunal inventories across the U.S. and 17 years in the professional consulting industry. She holds a B.S. in Fisheries Science from Virginia Tech (2000) and an M. S. in Biology (2003) from Arkansas State University. Her graduate research focused on the life history and community characteristics of the federally listed Speckled Pocketbook mussel.

Becca is a proactive, hands-on manager who has supported many state departments of transportation, energy, transmission/pipeline corridor, and large river navigation projects.  She has extensive experience in aquatic ecology, and she is skilled in natural resource permitting, waterways assessments, GIS, environmental assessments, and aquatic surveys.  Becca holds a USFWS Federal Fish and Wildlife recovery permit and several state collection permits for freshwater mussels allowing her to work across the Midwest, Southeast, and Northeastern US.  She is listed as a qualified mussel surveyor statewide in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and has recently completed large-scale surveys in MI, WV, and NY. She has been diving since 2000 and holds a Rescue Diver certification. Becca is active on various committees for both the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (FMCS) and the Society of Freshwater Science (SFS).

Contact Becca at BWinterringer @ EnviroScienceInc.com

Emmalisa “Emma” Kennedy, PWS, has been a valued member of the EnviroScience family since 2010.

As the Wetlands Operations Manager in the Natural Resources Practice Area for EnviroScience, Emma is the technical lead for wetland delineation and stream evaluation, as well as a project manager for large and small projects for a variety of clients, including utility, commercial, park systems, and private property. 

She is a senior technical and editorial reviewer for wetland reporting, permit applications, and other coordination documents within the wetlands practice area. Emma ensures that internal quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) metrics are achieved by producing high-quality work products. In addition, she is a mentor for new employees in the wetland practice area. She trains incoming staff in field delineation and conducts rigorous reviews of their written documents.

Emma received her Bachelor of Arts from Hiram College in 2003 and her Master of Science from Kent State University in 2009. Throughout her education, she focused on environmental chemistry, natural resource management, aquatic ecology, and invasive management and earned her initial certification as a Professional Wetland Scientist in 2019.

Outside of work, you can catch Emma running on the trail, playing soccer, or getting her nature fix with her husband and her two children.

Contact Emma at:  EKennedy @ EnviroScienceinc.com

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring); emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; sustainability services; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.

Dr. Marty Huehner, a senior member of the EnviroScience scientific staff and a distinguished academic and researcher, began his association with ES in 1998 as a consulting scientist. He is a state and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)-approved mussel surveyor in numerous states, including OH, PA, KY, WV, IA, IL, MO, MI, IN, and WI, and has been conducting freshwater mussel surveys since 1971.  

Marty has focused extensively on field surveys of mussel populations and has worked on some of the largest and most successful mussel relocation projects in North America. In Missouri, he was the first to report the presence and distribution of aspidogastrid trematode parasites in freshwater mussels from that state. In Ohio, he has been credited with identifying several populations of state and federally protected mussel species, including the salamander mussel and the clubshell mussel.

Marty is also a participant in the USFWS project locating reproductive individuals of the nearly extinct Purple Catspaw Mussel, Epioblasma obliquata obliquata, in Killbuck Creek, Ohio. As an expert testifying witness, he has testified in court as an authority on stream ecology and freshwater mollusks. His publications appear in accredited journals, including the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, the Ohio Journal of Science, and the Journal of Parasitology. In 2007, Dr. Huehner retired from academia and now works full-time with ES, where he has been a project manager and malacologist on mussel surveys conducted in large rivers in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. He has also conducted mussel surveys or translocation projects in many smaller streams in these and other states.

Contact Marty at: MHuehner @ EnviroScienceinc.com

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring); emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; sustainability services; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.

A valued member of the EnviroScience team since 2006, Jeff Niehaus is a field biologist with over twenty years of experience specializing in aquatic ecology and stream restoration. His expertise in fish biology, ecology, and habitat requirements is applied to stream and wetland design. He is an integral figure in the development and construction of EnviroScience’s stream and wetland restoration projects.

Jeff’s duties include stream characterization and geomorphology assessments, data analysis, design implementation, and construction oversight. He is a commercial Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) pilot who uses drone technology in mapping and terrain evaluations and large, agricultural drones for invasive vegetation management. He is also an experienced fisheries sampling specialist and a fish, ichthyoplankton, and plankton taxonomist. He has worked as a consultant on numerous fisheries management projects throughout the country, implementing sampling designs and techniques.

Contact Jeff at:  JNiehaus @ EnviroScienceinc.com

Few environmental firms in the country retain EnviroScience’s degree of scientific know-how, talent, and capability under one roof. The diverse backgrounds of our biologists, environmental engineers, scientists, and divers enable us to provide comprehensive in-house services and an integrated approach to solving environmental challenges—saving clients time, reducing costs, and ensuring high-quality results.

Our client guarantee is to provide “Excellence in Any Environment,” meaning no matter what we do, we will deliver on our Core Values of respect, client advocacy, quality work, accountability, teamwork, and safety. EnviroScience was created with the concept that we could solve complex problems by empowering great people. This concept still holds true today as our scientists explore the latest environmental legislation and regulations and incorporate the most up-to-date technology to gather and report data.

EnviroScience expertise includes but is not limited to aquatic surveys (including macroinvertebrate surveys and biological assessments); ecological restoration; ecological services (including impact assessments, invasive species control, and water quality monitoring);  emergency response; engineering and compliance services; endangered mussel surveys; laboratory and analysis; stormwater management; threatened and endangered species; and wetlands and streams (including delineation and mitigation). Further, EnviroScience is one of the few biological firms in the country that is a general member of the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) and offers full-service commercial diving services.