Douglas B. Stewart, PWS
Doug Stewart is a Professional Wetland
Scientist and Ecologist with
Stantec Consulting (formerly Woodlot
Alternatives, Inc.) with 16 years of professional natural resource
consulting experience throughout New England. Doug received a B.S.
in Natural Resources (currently the EES program) with a
concentration in Plants and Soils from the University of Maine in
1993. He is a certified Professional Wetland Scientist by the
Society of Wetland Scientists and a Maine Licensed Site Evaluator.
Doug is a Principal
Scientist with Stantec and he currently manages Stantec’s
Environmental Management Practice in New England, which is based in
Topsham, Maine. This practice consists of over 100 ecologists,
botanists, wetland scientists, and wildlife biologists that
specialize in natural resource identification in terrestrial and
aquatic environments, ecological restoration and mitigation,
ecological risk assessment, environmental planning, permitting, GIS
mapping services, and land use consulting.
Doug specializes in a
variety of landscape and site-specific habitat analyses including
wetland, stream, vernal pool, and other terrestrial and aquatic
ecological assessments. Much of Doug’s work is also associated with
ecological mitigation, ecological risk assessments for contaminated
sites, and ecological restoration on anthropogenically altered
sites. Doug commonly conducts third-party project reviews, expert
witness testimony on a variety of ecological issues, and teaches
wetland, vernal pool, and ecological restoration courses.
Doug’s clients consist of
law firms, private land owners, engineering firms, electric
utilities, alternative energy companies, commercial developers,
architects, local conservation groups, municipalities, and numerous
federal and state entities. His direct work for the Federal
government has included projects for the National Park Service,
USEPA, Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Army
National Guard, Air Force, and Navy.
In looking back
at the curriculum of the Natural Resources degree program at Orono,
the education I received was the perfect foundation for my
professional career. Many of the classes, such as Field Natural
History of Maine, plant ecology, wildlife ecology, and soils, are
the subject matter of the projects that I work on every day. I still
find myself seeking the knowledge and input of the scientific
faculty at UMaine on topics that may be a specific component of a
project. The faculty is just as willing to help out now as they were
when I was a student.
Many of the young
ecologists we hire at Stantec have an Ecology and Environmental
Science degree from UMaine Orono and I feel that these recent
graduates have also been provided with a great academic platform to
build upon throughout their professional career. We consistently
hire enthusiastic hard working scientist out of this program and
they are a pleasure to work with.
-Douglas B. Stewart
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