Mr. Guest earned his B.S. in Natural Resources Management from Texas Tech University and M.S. in Coastal Sciences at University of Southern Mississippi. As a diversified environmental scientist, Mr. Guest brings ecological experience throughout the Gulf and South Atlantic, with experience in USACE Section 404 permitting for major linear energy clients, threatened and endangered species surveys, USFWS Section 7 and Section 10 Consultations, Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, conducting wetland delineations and determinations in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain and Great Plains Regions, water quality assessments, level I and TXRAM stream assessments, mitigation bank site efficacy assessments, storm water pollution prevention plans, and development of comprehensive technical reports for each respective assessment. Mr. Guest is a commercially certified FAA 14 CFR Part 107 Remote Pilot drone operator with survey experience conducting biological monitoring of various pipeline construction processes, threatened and endangered species surveys, Migratory Bird Treaty Act related nest surveys, submerged aquatic vegetation and oyster community mapping and post hoc geographic information systems spatial analyses for developing impacts documents, floodplain inundation modeling for the Interstate Stream Commission and USACE Rio Grande floodplain habitat restoration project. Mr. Guest also has experience with automated drone mapping and photogrammetry software including Pix4D, Drone Deploy, and Litchi.