Professional Specialty:
Wetland Ecology (especially the identification and delineation of jurisdictional wetlands, wetland function and values assessment, mitigation monitoring, and wetland mitigation banking).

Work Address:
Wetland Science Applications, Inc./Wetland Training Institute, Inc.
171 Golden Drive; Briggsville, WI  53920
608-981-2150 phone, 253-229-0692 cell, c.j.newling@worldnet.att.net e-mail

Corporate Address:
Wetland Science Applications, Inc./Wetland Training Institute, Inc.
P.O. Box 1022, Pooleseville, MD  20837
301-349-0404 phone
www.wetlandtraining.com

Education:
M.S. in Wildlife Ecology, 1975; Southern Illinois Univeristy, Carbondale, IL
B.A. in Biology, 1971; St. Mary's College, Winona, MN

Certifications:
Certified Wildlife Biologist, 1979; The Wildlife Society, Washington, DC
Qualified Wetland Specialist, 1992; Department of Planning and Land Services, Pierce County, WA
Certified Wetland Delineator (Provisional), 1993; Wetland Delineator Certification Program; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District
Professional Wetland Scientist (No. 000131), 1994; Society of Wetland Scientists, Lawrence, Kansas
Minnesota Certified Wetland Delineator (No. 1036), 2005 Wetland Delineator Certification Program, St. Paul, Minnesota

Professional Positions:
--February 1989 to Present, Senior Vice President and Co-Founder
Wetland Science Applications, Inc. and the Wetland Training Institute, Inc.

--October 1978 to February 1989, Wildlife Biologist (GS-0486-12)
Wetland Research Team, Environmental Laboratory,
U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS

--October 1975 to October 1978, Environmental Resources Specialist (GS-0401-11),
Regulatory Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England Division, Waltham, MA

--May 1975 to September 1975, Biologist
Forest Preserve District of Lake County, Illinois; Libertyville, IL

Professional Organizations:
Society of Wetland Scientist (SWS): National and Pacific Northwest Chapters
--Past President, SWS South Central Chapter
--Past Board of Directors Member, Pacific Northwest Chapter
--Past Chairman, SWS Wetland Certification Committee (National)
--Current Member, SWS Certification Standards Committee (National)
--Current, SWS Board of Directors (National), SWS Liason to the SWS Professional Certification Program

Washington State Department of Ecology:
--Current Private Sector Member by invitation of both the Interagency Technical Committee of the Washington State Wetlands Functional Assessment Method Project, and the Wetlands Mitigation Banking Advisory Team

--The Wildlife Society

--Association of State Wetland Managers

--Society for Ecological Restoration

--Washington Society of Professional Soil Scientists

Professional Experience Pertinent to Wetlands:

While a federal employee, served as a national in-house trouble-shooter and consultant to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on matters of wetland delineation, wetland development and restoration, and as coordinator for the Corps' wetland training program.   Have organized, conducted, and served as primary instructor in wetland related training courses which include the following: Wetland Specialist, Wetland Soils and Hydrology, Wetland Field Techniques, Introduction to Wetlands, Wetlands of the United States, Wetland Development and Restoration, Wetland Functions and Values Assessment, Wetlands Seminar for Executives, Regulatory IV--Wetland Methods, and Regulatory V--Ecological Specialist.  Have conducted research on the long-term monitoring of wetland and upland habitat development on dredged material and on the ecology of greentree reservoirs.  Provided rapid response assistance to Corps of Engineers District offices nationwide on technical matters of wetland delineation and restoration including, when necessary, provision of expert testimony.  Participated in preparation of the 1987 "Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual" and served as chief technical advisor to the three member team representing the Corps of Engineers in the negotiations that produced the 1989 "Federal Manual and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands".  Also served as volunteer member of the Littleton (MA) Conservation Commission, the board responsible for local adminstration of the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act.

Since leaving federal service in 1989, have served as co-founder and senior vice-president of both the Wetland Training Institute, Inc. (WTI) and also Wetland Science Applications, Inc. (WSA).  Through WTI organized and conducted training sessions primarily for private industry as well as several sessions under contract to federal and state agencies.  Was personally involved in providing direct instruction on wetlands topics to over 3,000 students since 1989.  The WTI training sessions, conducted nationwide, have included: Wetland Delineation, Wetland Soils and Hydrology, Wetland Construction and Restoration, Plant Identification, Wetland Delineation in Disturbed and Problem Areas, Wetland Evaluation Technique, and Federal Wetland Regulation.

As a senior wetland regulatory scientist, have served as a consultant through WSA to both private industry and also state and federal government.  Consulting has focused on matters of wetland delineation, wetland construction and restoration, the assessment of wetland functions and values, mitigation monitoring, and wetland mitigation banking.  The projects to date while in private practice have required work in the wetlands of twenty-four states (AK, CA, FL, ID, IL, LA, MD, MI, MS, MT, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, AND WY), the District of Columbia, and the Trust Territory of Guam.  (Projects including those while a federal employee have involved work in the wetland of forty-three states.)  Served as a senior technical reviewer for the 1997 State of Washington Wetland Delineation Method developed by the Department of Ecology.  Served as a member of the Statewide Technical Committee providing guidance for the 1999 Methods for Assessing Wetland Fucntions developed by the Washington Department of Ecology.  For four years I have served as an Adjunct Instructor teaching the graduate level "Wetland Ecology and Management" course for The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.  I am a partner and the senior ecologist inthe Walkerwin Wetland Restoration Project, a highly successful wetland and prairie restoration project and the only currently approved and functioning entrepreneurial mitigation bank in the state of Wisconsin.  I served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) as Liaison to the SWS Professional Certification Program.

Qualified as Expert Witness in Wetland Delineation and Restoration in:
--U.S. District Court for Massachusetts
--U.S. Court for the Western District of Kentucky
--U.S. District Court for Alaska
--U.S. Court for the Northern District of California
--U.S. Court of Federal Claims (Washington, DC)

Participated as Expert Witness in:
--U.S. v. Cumberland Farms
--U.S. v. Larkins
--U.S. v. Wagner-Framsted
--U.S. v. Baker's Port
--U.S. v. Riverport
--U.S. v. Allied Chemical Corporation et. al.
--U.S. v. Chemical & Pigment Company et. al.
--U.S. v. Brill
--Stephen F. Peacock et. al v. First Nationwide Bank, FSB, et. al
--Norman et al v. United States, No. 95-667L

Professional Recognition:
1999-2000 Outstanding Educator Award presented by the Environmental Education Association of Washington

List of Publications:
Pierce, R.J., and C.J. Newling.  1994.  Wetland action plan.  Prepared for the Montana Departmentof Transportation Environmental and Hazardous Waste Bureau, Helena, by the Wetland Training Institute, Inc., Poolesville, Maryland.  8 pp.

Pierce, R.J., and C.J. Newling.  1994.  Mitigation the impacts of highway construction on the wetland resources of Montana.  Prepared for the Montana Department of Transportation Environmental and Hazardous Waste Bureau, Helena, by the Wetland Training Institute, Inc., Poolesville, Maryland.  17 pp. + appendices.

Pierce, R.J., and C.J. Newling, T.E. Heineke, and G.J. Pierce.  1994.   The impact of highway construction projects on the wetland resources of Montana.   Prepared for the Montana Department of Transportation Environmental and Hazardous Waste Bureau, Helena, by the Wetland Training Institute, Inc., Poolesville, Maryland.   20 pp. + appendices.

Newling, C.J.  1994.  Hydric soils and wetland delineation: a primer.   Great Lakes Wetlands.  5(2):1-5, 11.

Newling, C.L., and R.J. Pierce.  1992.  Guidance for wetland delineation on forested lands in Washington.  Prepared for the Washington State Forest Practices Board and the State of Washington Department of Natural Resources (Contract No. PSC92-096).  Olympia, Washington.  33 pp.

Kirchner, W.N., B.A. Kleiss, E.J. Clairain, Jr., W.B. Parker, and C.J. Newling.   1992.  Delineation of wetlands of the Yazoo Basin in northwestern Mississippi.   Misc. Paper EL-92-2.  U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.  25 pp. + appendices.

Newling, C.J.  1990.  Restoration of bottomland hardwood forests in the Lower Mississippi Valley.  Restoration & Management Notes 8(1):23-28.

Newling, C.J.  1989.  The Certification of wetland scientists.   National Wetlands Newsletter.  11(4):10-12.

Newling, C.J.  1989.  Four agencies agree on wetlands standard.   Inside Environment.  1(2):11.

Landin, M.C., E.J. Clairain, and C.J. Newling.  1988.  Wetland habitat development and long-term monitoring at Windmill Point, Virginia.  Wetlands:   The Journal of the Society of Wetland Scientist.  9(1):13-25.

Landin, M.C., and C. J. Newling.  1988.  Habitat development case studies:  Windmill Point Wetland Habitat Development Site, James River, Virginia.   Pages 76-84, In Beneficial uses of dredged material: Proceedings of the North Atlantic Regional Conference, 12-14 May 1987, Baltimore, Maryland.  U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi.   231 pp.

Landin, M.C., C.J. Newling, and E.J. Clairain.  1987.  Miller Sands Island: a dredged material wetland in the Columbia River, Oregon.  Pages 150-155, in Riparian Ecosystems of the Western United States.  Mutz, K., and D. Cooper, Eds. Proc. 8th Ann. Conf. of the Society of Wetland Scientists, May 1986.  Seattle, Washington.

Landin, M.C. and C.J. Newling.  1987.  Long-term monitoring of CE habitat development on dredged material sites, 1974-84.  Pages 102-104, in Third United States - The Netherlands Meeting on Dredging and Related Technology, 10-14 September 1984, Charleston, SC.  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Support Center.  Fort Belvoir, Virgina.  305 pp.

Mitchell, W.A. and C. J. Newling.  1986.  Greentree reservoirs.   Section 5.5.3, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wildlife Resources Management Manual.   Tech. Rept. EL-86-9.  U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.  22 pp.

Newling, C.J., and M.C. Landin.  1985.  Long-term monitoring of habitat development at upland and wetland dredged material disposal sites, 1974-1982.  Tech.   Rept.  EL-85-5.  U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.  108 pp. + appendices.

Newling, C.J., M.C. Landin, and S.D. Parris.  1983.  Long-term monitoring of the Apalachicola Bay wetland habitat development site.  Proc. 1oth Ann. Conf. on Wetland Restoration and Creation.  Tampa, Florida.

Newling, C.J., and H.K. Smith.  1982.  The Corps of Engineers Wetlands Research Program.  Wetlands:  The Journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists.   2:280-285.

Landin, M.C., and C.J. Newling.  1982.  Dredged material uses and isposal alternatives for the Trinity River Basin Project, Texas.  Part VI, Pages 138-168, in Habitat development at eight Corps of Engineers sites: feasibility and assessment.  M.C. Landin, Ed.  Misc. Paper D-82-1.  U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.  207 pp. + appendices.

Newling, C.J.  1982.  Feasibility report on a Santa Ana River marsh restoration and habitat development project.  Part III, Pages 45-84 in Habitat development at eight Corps of Engineers sites: feasibility and assessment.  M.C. Landin, Ed.  Misc. Paper D-82-1.  U.S. Army Engineer Waterays Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.  207 pp. + appendices.

Newling, C.J.  1981.  Ecological invstigation of a greentree reservoir in the Delta National Forest, Mississippi.  Misc. Paper E1-81-5.  U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.  59 pp.

Newling, C.J.  1981.  Monitoring of Dredged Material Research Program habitat development sites.  Dredged Material Notes, News, Reviews, etc.  Vol. D-81-8:1-8, 12.

Newling, C.J.  1981.  Potential wetland habitat development on dredged material disposal sites on the Hudson River, New York.  Unpublished Technical Report.   U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi.  17 pp.

Newling, C.J.  1975.  Preliminary bibliography on environmental impacts of rights-of-way.  U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis.  11pp.

Newling, C.J.  1975.  Preliminary report on the floodplain animals of the Upper Mississippi River and the Illinois Waterway including some probable impacts of increased commercial traffic.  U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis.  214 pp.

Newling, C.J.  1975.  Threatened vertebrate species occurring or believed to occur in the floodplains of the Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Illinois Waterway between Grafton, Illinois, and Chicago, Illinois.  U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis.  131pp.

Lancia, R.A., R.E. Hawkins, and C.J. Newling.  1975.  Summer movements of two radio-marked hen turkeys on Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge.  Trans.   Illinois State Acad. Sci. 68(2):145-147.

Significant Contributor in Preparation of the Following Publications:
Wisconsin Coastal Management Program.  1995.  Basic Guide to Wisconsin Wetlands and Their Boundaries.  State of Wisconsin Department of Adminstration.   PUBL-WZ-029-94.  Madison.  87pp.

Federal Interagency Committee for Wetland Delineation.  1989.  Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineation Jurisdictional Wetlands.  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service, Washington, D.C.  Cooperative Technical Publication.  76 pp. plus appendices.

Environmental Laboratory.  1987.  Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation Manual.  Technical Report Y-87-1.  U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station.  Vicksburg, MS.  100 pp. plus appendices.

Online Publications:
WTI Staff Publications.