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GMI has a multi-disciplinary team of resource specialists on staff, effectively integrating engineering, environmental, scientific, and management skills to solve complex and unique problems faced by clients.

GMI has the capacity and depth as well as proven project delivery systems in place to ensure a rapid and comprehensive response to client requests. The firm's response to every client’s requirements is cost effective and efficient.

GMI's scientists with specialized field knowledge use innovative techniques and state-of-the-art equipment to effectively meet client goals. GMI conducts field studies, assessments, and surveys to collect baseline data information which provides its clients with the necessary information to address many types of issues. GMI has field experience in various environments worldwide ranging from basic inventories to complex disturbance studies and is committed to top quality performance in the field.

GMI offers a wide range of field services, products, and technologies including:

Biological Resources

GMI's natural resource specialists have completed a variety of environmental survey projects through the U.S., Europe, Central American, South America, and Asia. Projects have included small wetland delineations as well as thousand-acre surveys, protected species surveys, and Section 7 consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

• Terrestrial, avian, and aquatic resource management
  • Environmental baseline studies
  • Biological assessments
  • Section 7 consultations
  • Wetland mitigation and permitting
  • Invasive species management plans
  • Integrated natural resources management plans
  • Airport master plans
• Wildlife
  • Birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish surveys
  • Threatened, endangered, sensitive, and candidate species surveys
  • Migratory birds and bats surveys
  • Mortality surveys and mitigation
  • Avian radar surveys
  • Breeding bird and raptor surveys
• Plants
  • Threatened, endangered, sensitive, and candidate species surveys
  • Invasive species surveys
  • Wetland delineations
  • Vegetation/habitat mapping
• Pre- and post-construction monitoring

Marine resources

• Marine resource analysis
• Marine mammal, sea turtle, and fish surveys
• Scientific diving
• Coral reef studies, surveys, and assessments
 
• Seagrass surveys, assessments, and restoration
• Shipwreck surveys
• Essential fish habitat (EFH) consultations and assessments
• Habitat characterization
• Wetland evaluation, studies, and delineation
• Density estimation
• Ecosystem restoration and protection
• Marine and coastal resource evaluations
  • Environmental baseline studies
  • Biological assessments
  • Section 7 consultations

Cultural Resources

The Cultural Resources Division of GMI is a nationally recognized leader in the inventory, assessment, and management of cultural resources. We are uniquely qualified to design and direct programs that not only are responsive to clients' needs, but meet the latest federal and state regulations applicable to the proposed action. The diversity of available personnel (archeologists, historians, architectural historians, ethnologists, cemetery specialists, and historic architects) and decades of experience in providing cultural resources services throughout the U.S. contribute to creative solutions for historic property management. We have extensive experience in providing cultural resources input in support of Phase I ESAs, EAs, or EISs.

• Archaeological investigations
• Section 106 compliance
• Cemetery studies
• Remote sensing
• Surveys and site evaluations
• Historical architecture - building and structure surveys
• 3D analysis and visualization technical services

GMI uses a variety of methodologies to support project development and operations including:

• Literature searches
• Visual surveys
• Designed sampling surveys
• Radar surveys
• Sonar surveys
• Aerial and boat-based surveys
• Baseline inventories
• Long-term monitoring
• Habitat use and mapping studies and analyses
• Disturbance and behavioral studies
• Management
• Restoration

GMI assists clients in the planning and operations phases of developments (e.g., airports, wind energy). Our field scientists have conducted protected species habitat and species-specific surveys for several endangered, threatened, and sensitive species.