| Education:
• B.S. 1968 - University of Wisconsin, Madison - Botany
• M.A. 1974 - Western Michigan
University - Biology
• Ph.D. 1979 - University of Wyoming
– Botany Employment Experience:
• Principal Scientist, Froghome Environmental, LLC
• Director, Pierce Cedar Creek
Institute, November 1998 - 2004
• President and Principal Scientist,
Southern Tier Consulting, Inc., 1985 - 1998
• Consultant and owner of Southern
Tier Consulting, 1984 - 1985
• Regional Manager, Environment
Consultants, Inc., 1981 - 1983
• Associate Professor, Niagara
University, 1980
• Assistant Professor, Niagara
University, 1976 - 1980
Areas of Specialization:
• Wetland mitigation planning, permitting, and
implementation
• Wetland mitigation education
• Biotechnical erosion control
• Wetland delineation, functional analysis, botany
• Wetland permitting, Local, State, and Federal
• Wetland hydrology
• Plant systematics Selected Experience:
• Project Manager and Instructor;
Rutgers University. Wetland construction courses. (1992-2004)
• Project Manager and Instructor;
Wetland Training Institute. Various courses on wetland restoration and
construction. (1990 - 2006)
• Project Manager and Instructor;
U.S. Corps of Engineers. Wetland Development and Restoration Courses and
Biotechnical Erosion Control workshops sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station. (1984 - 2004)
• Project Manager, and technician in
charge; U.S. Generating Corporation, Rotterdam, NY. Preparation of
comprehensive mitigation plan to replace impacted wetlands. Included
mitigation for State special interest grass species (1991)
• Project Manager and technician in
charge, in cooperation with Baker Engineering of Richmond, VA.
Preparation of comprehensive mitigation plan for US Army Corps of
Engineers, Baltimore District, wetland mitigation for flood control
project in Lock Haven, PA. Includes waterfowl habitat as emergent and
shrub marsh and woodcock habitat. (1993 - 1994)
• Project Manager; Old Dominion
Electric Cooperative, Clover, VA. Wetland mitigation planning, planting,
and monitoring of 35 acre forested, shrub, and emergent wetland system.
(1991 -1995)
• Project Manager; Jersey Central
Power & Light Co., Tom’s River, NJ. Wetland mitigation consulting,
planting, and monitoring for a transmission line. The project involved
revegetation of disturbed wetland areas along the right of way. (1988)
• Project Manager; IT Corporation,
Princeton South, NJ. Design assistance and planting of a 10 acre
mitigation wetland which included emergent and woody plantings. (1988)
• Project Manager/Principal
Investigator; United States Department of Energy, Savannah River Plant,
SC. Supply plants and plant wetland on over three linear miles of
shoreline for a nuclear plant cooling reservoir in cooperation with the
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. (1986-1987)
• Project Manager/Principal
Investigator; United States Army Corps of Engineers. Shoreline
stabilization project on three reservoirs in Virginia, Nebraska, and
Illinois (1989 - 1992)
• Project Manager; Linpro
Corporation, Manahawkin, NJ. Wetland mitigation planning and planting
for a 32 acre forested wetland. (1988)
• Project Manager; United States
Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, St. Louis
District: Assistance with erosion control revegetation of Carlyle Lake
Reservoir. (1988).
• Project Manager; New York State
Department of Transportation. Wetland mitigation for construction of
Highway 17 in Cattaraugus County, NY (1981 - 1984). Received nomination
from Engineering News Record for Engineer of the Year for 1984 as the
result of this project.
• Team Leader; Bielinski Homes.
Wetland enhancement and restoration project for former peat mining site
in Wakesha Co., Wisconsisn. (2004)
Selected Publications:
• Allen, H.H., G.J. Pierce, and R. Van Wormer. 1989.
Considerations and techniques for vegetation establishment in
constructed wetlands. pp.405-415. In D.A. Hammer (ed.) Constructed
Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment. Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, Michigan.
• Pierce, G.J. 1978. Griffithsochloa,
a new genus segregated from Cathestecum (Gramineae). Bulletin of the
Torrey Botanical Club. 105:134-13 8.
_____ 1981. The influence on flood
frequency on wetlands of the Allegheny River floodplain in Cattaraugus
Co., New York. Wetlands 1:87-104.
_____ 1983. New York State
Department of Transportation wetland construction. National Wetlands
Newsletter. 5(6):12 - 13.
_____ 1987. Wetland Demonstration
Project - Contract No: D250336-CPIN 5 119.01.321 STE, Section 5P (A)
Allegheny River Floodplain Cattaraugus County, New York. Prepared By:
Southern Tier Consulting, Inc. and Ecology and Environment, Inc. for the
New York State Department of Transportation. xiii+204 pp
_____ 1988. In-kind vs. out-of-kind
wetland replacement. pp 287-288. In J.A. Kusler, M.L. Quammen and G.
Brooks, eds. Mitigation of Impacts and Losses, Proceedings of the
National Wetland Symposium. Association of State Wetland Managers
Technical Report 3.
_____ 1988. Succession and stability
in freshwater marshes in the northeastern United States. pp 323-324. In
J.A. Kusler, M.L. Quammen and G. Brooks, eds. Mitigation of Impacts and
Losses, Proceedings of the National Wetland Symposium. Association of
State Wetland Managers. Technical Report 3.
_____ 1989. Wetland soils. pp 65-74.
In S.K. Majumdar, R.P. Brooks, F.J. Brenner, and R.W. Tiner, Jr., eds.
Wetlands Ecology and Conservation: Emphasis in Pennsylvania. The
Pennsylvania Academy of Science.
_____. 1993. Planning Hydrology for
Constructed Wetlands. Wetland Training Institute, Poolesville, MD.
vi+49pp
• Wein, G. and G. Pierce. 1995. Case
Study #1. pp. 13 - 35. In: M.M. Davis, ed. Native plant material sources
for wetland establishment: Freshwater case studies. U.S. Army Engineer
Waterways Experiment Station. Technical Report WRP-RE-5.
• Zander, R.H. and G.J. Pierce.
1979. Flora of the Niagara Frontier region - Second supplement and
checklist. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Vol. 16
(Suppl. 2)
Associations:
• Society of Wetland Scientists
• Ecological Society of America
• Michigan Botanical Club |
