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City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Marine and Coastal Professional Engineering Consulting Services (CCNA) | RFQ No. 18‐02‐01 Aptim Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc. 27 01C032018D b. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) (2) YEAR COMPLETED Broward County Segment II SPP PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION (If applicable) 2011 ‐ 2015 2016/17 BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE ☒ Check if project performed with current firm Ms. Buck was the lead biologist for the Segment II project. Conducted a baseline investigation of the habitat to support the JCP permit application. Completed environmental permitting, which included development of a biological monitoring plan, a coral relocation plan and a mitigation plan for FDEP and USACE. Helped develop the mitigation siting for the artificial reef placement. Prepared environmental documents in support of National Environmental Policy Act, Section 7 consultation under the Endangered Species Act and an Essential Fish Habitat Assessment under the Magnuson‐Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Led the operations of the pre‐ construction biological monitoring which documented conditions of the benthic habitat prior to sand placement. c. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) (2) YEAR COMPLETED USACE, Broward County Segment I Nearshore Reef Assessment PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION (If applicable) 2010 ‐ 2011 NA BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE ☒ Check if project performed with current firm Ms. Buck led the operations to conduct a comprehensive characterization of the benthic habitat using photointerpretation of aerial imagery for hardbottom resources with in situ groundtruthing and in situ quantitative assessments of the hardbottom. She developed and implemented the characterization plan, which include delineation of nearshore hardbottom resources from high quality geo‐referenced true color aerial photographs and completion of video groundtruthing using a towed DGPS‐integrated high‐resolution camera system that incorporates positioning data for each frame directly on the video record was used to conduct the video documentation. The video was viewed during filming onboard the boat and a marine biologist took notes of benthic resources. Following the video transects, we conducted quadrat‐based benthic assessments of the hardbottom along cross‐shore transects that implemented quadrat assessments, line‐intercept for hardbottom, sediment depth measurements, relief measurements and fish census surveys. The final component of the benthic mapping and characterization of Segment I include an investigation for the threatened coral species of Acropora spp. The quantitative data, video transect documentation and still photographs were put into an interactive geodatabase created using ArcGIS. d. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) (2) YEAR COMPLETED City of Delray Beach Fifth Periodic Renourishment PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION (If applicable) 2012 ‐ 2014 2013 BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE ☒ Check if project performed with current firm Ms. Buck provided permit support for the project including permit application, ESA Section 7 Consultation, production of an EFH Assessment in support of the Magnuson‐Stevens Act, and compliance with NEPA through production of an EA. Ms. Buck also lead field investigations on the reef east of the borrow areas to survey for the threatened coral species Acropora spp. and to map the pre‐ and post‐construction conditions of the reef edge closest to the borrow areas. She also coordinated with the sea turtle monitoring team to ensure all required monitoring was taking place and reported appropriately. e. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) (2) YEAR COMPLETED Town of Palm Beach Reach 7, Phipps Ocean Park Mitigative Reef Monitoring PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION (If applicable) 2006 ‐ 2008 2006 BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE ☒ Check if project performed with current firm Ms. Buck managed the monitoring of the 3.1‐acre artificial reef constructed as mitigation for the Reach 7, Phipps Ocean Park Beach Restoration Project. Monitoring continued on a semi‐annual basis for four years post‐deployment. The biological monitoring included quadrat assessments for benthic cover, photo‐ and video‐documentation, belt‐ transects for invertebrate species, and line‐intercept locations for monitoring sediment coverage. Fish surveys were also conducted during each monitoring event and sea turtles were enumerated at each site. These data were analyzed to determine mitigation success based on a statistical comparison of the community structure on the artificial reef to that on the effected hardbottom.