News & Events

The Geospatial Science Group is Growing!

Aspen’s Geospatial Group has big plans for 2023! This January, Anton Kozhevnikov rejoined the Aspen team as the Geospatial Group Manager. Anton has been in the geospatial sciences for more than 25 years and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the group. With his support, Aspen plans to grow and extend the geospatial services we offer. Anton, who had a previous 11 years of experience with Aspen, has solid plans to extend GIS analytical services such as LiDAR and UAV surveys and modeling activities to improve the gathering of data and analyzing them to achieve project objectives. A review of the past year shows that visual resource analyses were highly requested products from our clients. Aspen modeled numerous viewsheds […]

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Aspen Biologists Attend Desert Tortoise Training

During the last week of October and the first week of November 2022, Aspen Environmental Group sent three biologists to the Desert Tortoise Council’s training on the Introduction to The Mojave Desert Tortoise. Desert tortoise is both state and federally listed as a threatened species and any project with a potential to impact this species require protocol-levels surveys. This training provides the biologists with the fundamentals of desert tortoise biology, ecology, habitat preferences, life history, and health, as well as a summary of the threats this species faces today. The training includes a field portion that teaches the biologists to identify desert tortoise and their signs in the field. This training provides the information needed for the biologists to conduct the protocol-level surveys […]

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Aspen Experts Provide Client Training Sessions

With the constant accumulation and change in technological knowledge base and regulatory requirements, training is important both for acquiring new knowledge and for staying up to date on regulations, procedures, and professional practices. Our clients regularly seek courses and instruction on topics that are important to their particular projects or job responsibilities. To help fulfill this need, Aspen continually offers training courses tailored to each client’s specific requirements in terms of content, duration, and location. Aspen has conducted training courses at client offices, in virtual classrooms, at professional meetings, and in the field on a wide variety of topics. Examples of topics covered in these training sessions include: compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), tribal consultation in compliance […]

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Check out the latest issue of our newsletter, The Leaflet!

Learn more about the latest news and projects we’re working on in the January 2023 issue of The Leaflet!

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Announcing the 2022 Student Scholarship Program – Enhancing Diversity in the Environmental Profession

Aspen Environmental Group is pleased to announce the 2022 Student Scholarship Program. This program is intended to offer support to college students interested in environmentally related topics, with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) recipients. To learn more about this program and to apply for a scholarship, click here.

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Aspen Implements New Policies for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Aspen, we’re taking bold steps to stay committed to being a workplace that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. Last year we took on the initiative to create a Diversity & Inclusion Committee who has worked hard to gather recommendations from all staff on how to create an environment with programs that foster inclusion, celebrate diversity, and provide growth opportunities for all current and future staff across our lines of work. 

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John Kalish to Lead Aspen’s Inland Empire and Coachella Valley Office

Based on the extensive work that Aspen Environmental Group has done for infrastructure and energy projects in the Inland Empire, Coachella valley, and western desert areas over the last decade, we decided to significantly expand the capabilities in our Inland Empire office. We are extremely excited to announce that we found the ideal individual to assist us in accomplishing this strategic objective.  Aspen is pleased and proud to announce that John Kalish will be leading our efforts to expand our capabilities in the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley, so that we can provide full services from this office to our clients.

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