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Aspen Presents at the U.S. Offshore Wind SEER Webinar

Aspen’s Executive Vice President and Planning & Public Policy Director, Negar Vahidi, and Senior Environmental Planner, Tatiana Inouye, presented at the U.S. Offshore Wind Synthesis of Environmental Effects Research (SEER) Webinar on September 13th. This webinar, titled “Environmental Considerations for Nearshore Ecosystems from Cable Landfall, Navigation, and Port Development for Offshore Wind Energy”, is part of a multi-year collaborative effort, jointly led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, to facilitate knowledge transfer for offshore wind research around the world. Ms. Vahidi and Ms. Inouye presented on potential community-related environmental effects from port development to support offshore wind. To view the recording of this webinar, click here.

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Aspen Assisting Agencies and Developers Achieve Offshore Wind Goals

Aspen Environmental Group is the leading consulting firm in providing environmental services to agencies and developers working on renewable energy projects, including offshore wind. We are working on many exciting projects that will help California reach their renewable energy goals. Learn more about how Aspen can help your company be part of the energy evolution.

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Enhancing Diversity in the Environmental Profession – 2023 Student Internship

Aspen Environmental Group is offering a summer internship opportunity to support college students who would like to learn about opportunities in the environmental field and are looking to add an internship to their resume. Internship Program The primary purpose of this internship program is to provide educational information and encourage undergraduate students to obtain jobs in the environmental field upon graduation. This educational program will provide students with an overview of environmental consulting, give them exposure to different career options, and help them develop skills as future environmental professionals. In this position, the intern will learn about the environmental consulting industry, get hands-on experience both within the office and in the field, and expand networking opportunities. Whether you are interested […]

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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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