Ecological Services and Restoration

Businesses and municipalities face pressure from clients, investors, regulatory agencies, and stakeholders to balance their impacts on the environment. In response, they need integrated restoration strategies that provide resilient landscapes, enhance ecological function, and that are backed by technical and regulatory excellence.

INTEGRATED ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION STRATEGIES

Clients choose Geosyntec to navigate the regulatory requirements, social and biological effects, engineering challenges, and unique complexities of restoration projects.

Mitigation & Conservation Banking

Geosyntec helps clients establish and design mitigation banks and conservation easements, negotiate compensatory mitigation requirements, and enhance aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Our ecologists are skilled in conducting conditional and functional assessments, collaborating with interagency review teams, and creating successful restoration projects.

Restoration Modeling & Data Analysis

On behalf of clients, we develop advanced hydrologic & hydraulic (H&H) and numerical models to inform restoration design and ecological uplift. Our water-quality and conceptual ecological models support habitat restoration and protect sensitive species. Our sediment-transport and stream-power models help build wide-ranging stream restoration and mitigation projects across North America.

Field Monitoring, Assessment & Instrumentation

We develop robust field monitoring plans and deploy ecological data instrumentation to support an array of ecological restoration projects, using the following technologies and methods:

• Quality Assurance Project Plans
• Stream & Wetland Delineations
• Fluvial Geomorphic Assessments
• Functional & Conditional Ecological Assessments
• Dataloggers, Instrumentation, & Remote Telemetry
• Bathymetric Surveys
• Drone LiDAR Terrain Data Collection
• Restoration Design, Construction & Maintenance

To revitalize degraded habitats, we prioritize function and resilience. Our urban stream restoration projects often include geomorphological design, streambank stabilization, engineered hyporheic-zone design, culvert replacement, and H&H modeling. In addition, we provide construction-ready plans, cost estimates, and long-term maintenance strategies.

Community Engagement

By gaining community input, we build projects that align with local values, maintain cultural significance, build buy-in from end users, and drive long-term satisfaction. Geosyntec routinely engages with communities through volunteering, university collaboration, advisory roles, and by fostering a shared and vested interest in the ecosystems and places where we work, live, and play.

Project Planning & Permitting

Geosyntec partners with clients to navigate project-planning requirements and regulatory permitting, proactively assessing and choosing best-value solutions that minimize project impacts. Our multidisciplinary teams conduct comprehensive technical studies and prepare documentation, including coastal-development, site-development, aquatic-resource, and sensitive-species permits in compliance with CEQA, NEPA, and other relevant legislation.