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Geo-Marine Awarded $400M 5-year Design-Build Contract
GMI has been selected as an AFRC contractor under the new Command-wide Operations and Maintenance Project Execution Contract (COMPEC) II. The company is one of a small number of contractors selected for the 5-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.
Archaeology Fair Draws Record Crowd
Pint-sized explorers, budding artists and junior archaeologists were among those who visited this year's Archaeology Fair in Plano, TX. The event was sponsored by Geo-Marine, The Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation, and the City of Plano in Plano, Texas.
Beckemeyer Named GMI President
Curt Beckemeyer, Senior V.P. and Transportation Sector Manager for Applied Research Associates (GMI's parent company), has been named President of GMI. Beckemeyer takes on this position in addition to his existing ARA responsibilities.
Environmental Resources
Airport Services • Environmental Management • GIS • Marine Resources • NEPA •
Pest Management • Remote Sensing • Renewable Energy
Fire Management
Wildfires affect all 50 states and pose a significant natural hazard risk for the built environment and require extra attention by emergency managers, urban and regional planners, and building code officials to insure public safety. The risk of wildfires occurring in the wildland/urban interface has increased significantly over the past several decades due to the continual growth of urban and suburban populations in wildfire-prone areas. Historically, improper wildland and wildfire management policies and practices have led to an accumulation of wildland fuels, thereby increasing the potential for extreme fire occurrences.
Fire Management Plans (FMP) allow landowners to improve their wildfire-mitigation capacity, while working with government agencies to identify high fire-risk areas and prioritize areas for mitigation, fire suppression, and emergency preparedness.
Fire Management Services can help determine areas of high wildfire risk. GMI’s ecologists and certified wildland firefighters can identify and prioritize areas for hazardous fuels reduction and treatments, and recommend the types and methods of treatment that will protect certain resource areas, such as habitats for threatened and endangered (T&E) species. They use their extensive knowledge in vegetation identification, fuel load measurement, and biological sampling to provide baseline information for proposed burn plans as well as for future land management comparisons.
GMI’s Fire Management Services have successfully produced several FMPs, including some for project sites of more than 120,000 acres, sites with wildland/urban interfaces, and areas with T&E species and habitats.
GMI’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Department uses current cutting-edge geospatial analysis tools to examine, model, and map environmental projects. The GMI GIS analysts have experience specifically relating to vegetation and fuel-types analysis, both on the ground and through remote desktop analysis. They use fire modeling software such as FARSITE, Fire Behavior Assessment Tools (FBAT), and Fire Family Plus for analysis and planning of fire management practices. The analysts use these tools to incorporate surface fire, crown fire, spotting, post-frontal combustion, and fire acceleration inputs into fire growth models, statistical, and graphical outputs.