Specialties
Natural Resource Regulatory Permitting, Clean Water Act Section 404, Rivers and Harbors Act Section 10/408, Coastal Zone Management Act, Mitigation Planning/Assessment, Land-Use and Local Permitting, Regulatory Strategy for Capital Projects, Wetland and Waters of the United States Delineation, Threatened and Endangered Species Surveys, Gopher Tortoise Surveys, Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Surveys
Practice Areas
Environmental Management
Education
BS, Geography, University of Southern Mississippi 2012
Registration
Professional Wetland Scientist: #3189
Client Service
Autry provides technical, advisory, strategy, and project management leadership on a variety of projects from conception through permit issuance, conducting wetland delineations, threatened and endangered species surveys, and monitoring. He has successfully obtained many United States Army Corps of Engineers Section 404/10, 401, 408, and Coastal Zone permits, in addition to overseeing mitigation and restoration projects.
On behalf of industrial and energy clients throughout the Gulf Coast, East Coast, and Midwest, Autry navigates natural resources regulatory frameworks and offers strategic advisement. He supports them with capital-project and programmatic environmental-permitting management and advisory, leading permit strategy, risk evaluation, and technical work for multimedia environmental permitting on capital projects, often in challenging and complex regulatory environments.
To advance the state of the practice, each year Autry teaches continuing education seminars that support professionals in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. In addition, he actively contributes to Southern Gas Association events, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Environmental Trade Fair and Conference, and regional industry conferences. He also mentors the next generation of consultants at Geosyntec, provides analysis of new regulations, and maintains himself as a recognized natural resources regulatory expert, particularly in the Gulf Coast region.
Contact Autry at Autry.Akins@Geosyntec.com.
