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Our Company

Dr. Vincent A. Lamarra, CEO

Education

Post-doc. 1974, 1975. (Limnology) University of Minnesota

Ph.D. 1974. (Ecology and Behavioral Biology) University of Minnesota

B.S. 1969. (Natural Science - Mathematics) Fresno Pacific

Professional Experience

2000-Present. Director, Project Development Symbiotics

1980-Present. Director, Ecosystem Research Institute.

1981-1987. Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

1975-1981. Assistant Professor, Department of Wildlife Science, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

1975. Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1972-1974. Environmental Protection Agency Fellowship. University of Minnesota.

1971. Research Assistant, Limnological Research Center. University of Minnesota.

1969-1971. Research Assistant, Department of Horticulture, University of Minnesota.

Professional Societies

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
American Fisheries Society
International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology
North American Lake Management Society

Current Projects

FERC Licensing Process -Hebgen Lake Project
FERC Licensing Process -Chester Diversion
Aquatic habitat investigation on the San Juan River.
Study of habitat quality and distribution of Colorado pikeminnow on the Colorado River.
TMDL Water quality investigation for the Upper Bear River, Utah-Idaho.
TMDL Water quality study of the tributaries, springs, fish hatcheries and main stem of the mid-Snake River, Hells Canyon, Idaho.
Section 7 Consultation for the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, New Mexico.
Water quality investigation of Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho.
Upper Bear River non-point source pollution project.
Bear River Cutler Reservoir Exhibit E Compliance Water Quality Investigations

Past Projects

Exhibit E and FERC licence for the Proposed Island Park Hydroelectric on the Henry's Fork River.
Hydroelectric Project Investigation of endemic fishes in the Wailua River, Hawaii.
The projected environmental impacts of the proposed Smiths Fork Hydroelectric Project upon the Bear River/Bear Lake ecosystem.
Stage One Consultation for Grace Cove, Oneida and Alexander Hydroelectric Projects.
The development of a Fisheries Management Plan for Ashton Reservoir, Idaho, as fulfillment of a FERC license condition.
The development of a Wildlife Management Plan for Ashton Reservoir, Idaho, as fulfillment of a FERC license condition.
Fountain Green Hydroelectric License Environmental Assessments.
American Fork Hydroelectric License Compliance Environmental Studies.
Poyette River, Idaho Hydroelectric Project License and Compliance Studies.
St. Anthony Hydroelectric Project Environmental Compliance of Fish Barriers.
Reevaluation of the State of Utah's 401 Certification process.
Wetland Mitigation plan for Salt Lake Airport Authority.
Pre-assessment wetland determination and mitigation plan for Logan City.
Hyrum Reservoir 314 investigation, Utah.
Biological services (fish salvage) for the protection of the Woundfin and Virgin River Chub on the Virgin River, Utah.
Determination of food web structure in the Colorado River.
404 Permit Application for the San Joaquin Levee District, California.
Development of resource management plans for Island Park Hydro Project, Idaho.
Habitat Evaluation Procedure for Black Pine Mining Company.
Environmental Compliance Manual for Kern River Gas Transmission Company.
Deer Creek Mine NPDES permit.
Animas River heavy metal environmental evaluation.
Risk assessment for Lundahl Astro Circuits.
Utah Fuel's NPDES permit evaluation.
The assessment of community interrelationship between the Colorado squawfish and other fish species with special emphasis on trophic community structure in the upper Green River, Utah and Colorado.
Ecological investigations of a suspected spawning site of endangered Colorado squawfish of the Yampa River.
A study of the primary production and standing crop of phytoplankton in the Colorado and Green Rivers.
Investigations of fish distribution, habitat, and food preference in the White River, Green River Basin, Utah and Colorado.
The determination of the physical, chemical, and biological factors regulating the White River ecosystem on Federal Lease Tracts Ua and Ub.
The determination of metal dynamics in the proposed White River Dam - a eutrophic environment.
Non-point source pollutant characterization of coal-fired power plants.
Natural Resource Damage Assessment at Uravan Uranium Mill, Colorado.
Natural Resource Damage Assessment at Globe Smelter, Denver, Colorado.
Natural Resource Damage Assessment at Cotter Uranium Mill, Canon City, Colorado.
An investigation of soil, vegetation, and groundwater contamination at the old Wasatch Chemical Plant, a superfund site in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The development of guidelines for assessing the effects of fossil fuel development on environmental quality in the upper Colorado River Basin.
The impact of organics and heavy metals from spent oil shale leachate on community structure and function in hard-water trout streams and high order warm rivers.
The evaluation of heavy metals and potentially carcinogenic organics released into coal mine and oil shale accrual waters within the Colorado River ecosystem.
Investigation of factors which regulate the reclamation of acid strip mine lakes for beneficial uses.
An evaluation of sewage disposal techniques in Canyonlands National Park, Colorado and Green Rivers, Utah.
An environmental assessment of the potential oil pollution in Bear Lake: The effects of oil on primary, secondary, and tertiary producers.
The response of freshwater ecosystems to allochthonous organic material.
A Diagnostic-Feasibility 314 Clean Lakes Study for Bear Lake and the Bear River, Utah-Idaho.
Development of methodologies in the use of Dingle Marsh to reduce the phosphorus and nitrogen loading from Bear River into Bear Lake, Utah- Idaho
Assessment of trihalomethane compounds and their precursors in Salt Lake County: The role of Mountain Dell Reservoir.
The effect of marina construction and other in-lake structures upon the chemistry and primary productivity in Bear Lake, Utah.
Environmental impact assessment of a potential fish hatchery on the Blacksmith Fork River, Utah.
The use of power plant effluents in fish aquaculture.
The evaluation of coal mine accrual waters from the Wasatch Plateau coal fields, Utah.

Publications

2001 - Logan Wetland Development Environmental Assessment. January 2001.

2000 - Lots 34A & 34B Excavation Closure Documentation for Leucadia Financial. December 2000.

1999 - Bear Lake Monitoring Data Summary. August 1999.

1999 - Cache Valley Groundwater Containment Survey and Monitoring Plan. April 1999

1999 - Upper Colorado River Longitudinal Variation Final Report. March 1999.

1998 - Upper Wailua River Hydroelectric Project: Final EMS. 1998

1998 - Bear Lake Monitoring Data Summary. July 1998

1998 - Lower Bear River Water Quality Study. February 1998.

1997 - Upper Bear River & Bear Lake Watershed: Workplan for WQ Management. January 1997

1997 - Bear Lake Monitoring Data Summary. September 1997.

1996 - Bear Lake Monitoring Data Summary. August 1996. 20 pp.

1996 - Island Park Hydroelectric Project Monitoring Plan. April, 1996. 12 pp.

1996 - First Stage Consultation documents for Grace/Cove, Oneida, and Alexander hydroelectric projects. April, 1996.

1996 - Section 319 Nonpoint Source Control Program Watershed Project Final Report. April, 1996. 36 pp.

1996 - Island Park Hydroelectric Project Water Quality Data Summary. February, 1996. 13 pp.

1995 - Horseshoe Bend Hydroelectric Project Data Summary. December 1995. 38 pp.

1995- Island Park Hydroelectric Project Environmental Rport for the Proposed Spillway Modification. September, 1995. 140 pp.

1995 - Bear Lake Monitoring Data Summary. July, 1995. 19 pp.

1995 - Island Park Hydroelectric Project Water Quality Data Summary. February, 1995. 16 pp

1994 - Bear Lake Monitoring Data Summary. July, 1994. 17 pp.

1993 - Water Quality in the Upper Bear River. March, 1993. 92 pp.

1993 - A Water Quality Summary of the Henry's Fork River and Island Park Reservoir. January, 1993.

1992 - Annual Report: Water Quality Monitoring Results, Island Park Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 2973. December, 1992. 32 pp.

1992 - Bear River Water Quality Management Plan - Monitoring Program. September, 1992. 27 pp.

1992 - Bear Lake/Bear River Water Quality Investigation. August, 1992. 11 pp.

1992 - Temperature Simulation Modeling - Payette River. February, 1992. 86 pp.

1992 - Predischarge Notification for Island Park Reservoir Hydroelectric Project, March 1992. 62 pp.

1990 - Investigations of Taste and Odor/Preliminary Investigations, March 1990.

1990 - Deer Creek Environmental Assessment/Water Quality Investigations, September 1990. 75 pp.

1989 - Upper Wailua Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volumes I and II. March 1989. 255 pp.

1989 - Final Exhibit E. Environmental Report, FERC Relicense Cutler Hydroelectric Plan. Utah Power and Light. January, 1989. 48 pp.

1989 - An evaluation of and recommendations for a fisheries management plan Ashton Reservoir, Idaho. Utah Power and Light. February, 1989. 44 pp.

1989 - Assessment of Egin Diversion Dam as a Fish Barrier: Evaluation and Solution as required in FERC License Article 403. Utah Power and Light. March, 1989. 28 pp.

1988 - Investigation of Fish Migration at Felt Hydroelectric Project in satisfaction of Article 34 Agreements under FERC License No. 5089. Year II. Bonneville Pacific Corporation. 79 pp.

1988 - Closure Plan, Browning Manufacturing Company, Hazardous Waste Management Facility. 78 pp.

1987 - Bear Lake Water Quality Management Plan. BLRC. December 1987. 59 pp.

1987 - Investigations of Fish Migration at Felt Hydroelectric Project in Satisfaction of Article 34 Agreements under FERC License No. 5089. Year I. November, 1987. Bonneville Pacific Corporation. 60 pp.

1987 - A Riparian and Aquatic Off-site Mitigation Plan for the Felt Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 5089. Bingham Engineering. December, 1987. 15 pp.

1987 - Island Park Hydroelectric Project, FERC #2973, Environmental Assessment - Volume I, II, and III. U.S. Forest Service, Targhee National Forest.

1987 - Idarado Remedial Investigation. State of Colorado. Department of Law, Office of the Attorney General.

1987 - Idarado Feasibility Investigation. State of Colorado. Department of Law, Office of the Attorney General.

1987 - Winter baseline investigation of surface media Uravan Uranium Mill, Colorado. The State of Colorado, Department of Law, Office of the Attorney General.

1987 - Remedial Investigation, Cotter Corporation Uranium Mill Site. The State of Colorado. Department of Law, Office of the Attorney General.

1987 - Feasibility Investigation, Cotter Corporation Uranium Mill Site. The State of Colorado. Department of Law, Office of the Attorney General.

1986 - Hydrology of Bear Lake Basin and its impact on the trophic state of Bear Lake. Great Basin Naturalist 46(2):690-705.

1986 - Drift of Larval Fishes in the Upper Colorado River. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 3(4):567-578.

1985 - Fisheries Habitat Dynamics in the Upper Colorado River. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 3(2):249-264.

1985 - Ecological investigation of a suspected site of endangered Colorado squawfish in the Yampa River, Utah. The Great Basin Naturalist 45(1):127-140

1985 - Responses of model freshwater ecosystems to crude oil. Water Research 19(3):285-292.

1984 - Consequences of oil pollution on the decomposition of vascular plant litter in freshwater lakes: Part II - Nutrient exchange between litter and the environment. Environmental Pollution (Series A) 34(2):101-118.

1984 - Consequences of oil pollution of the decompositions of vascular plant litter in freshwater lakes: Part I - Decomposition rates and dissolved oxygen utilization. Environmental Pollution (Series A) 34(1):83-100.

1984 - Eutrophication. Journal of Water Pollution Control Federation 56:697-704.

1984 - A historical perspective and present water quality conditions in Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho. USEPA. EPA 440/5-84-001. Edited by J. Taggart. 213-218 pp.

1984 - Socioeconomic and political issues associated with the implementation phase of the Bear Lake 314 Clean Lakes Study. USEPA. EPA 440/5-81-001. Edited by J. Taggart. 219-222 pp.

1984 - The nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon budgets of a large riverine marsh, and their impacts on the Bear Lake Ecosystem. USEPA. EPA 440/5-81-001. Edited by J. Taggart. 223-228 pp.

1984 - The effect of coprecipitation of CaCO3 and phosphorus on the trophic state of Bear Lake. USEPA. EPA 440/5-81-001. Edited by J. Taggart. 229-234 pp.

1983 - Investigations of fish distribution, habitat and food preference in the White River, Green River Basin, Utah-Colorado. Final Report to White River Shale Oil Corporation. Report #ERI 83-01. 162 pp.

1983 - The evaluation of metals and other substances released into coal mine accrual waters on the Wasatch Plateau coal field, Utah. Water Quality Series UWRL/Q-83/09. Utah Water Research Laboratory. 156 pp.

1983 - Environmental management - A data based ecosystem approach from the Oil Shale Industry. Journal of Environmental Management 17:17-34.

1983 - Aquatic guidelines for aquatic ecosystem restoration. IN: National Conference on Environmental Engineering. (Eds.) A. Medine and M. Anderson. American Society of Civil Engineers. 618-624 pp.

1983 - Heavy metal distribution and interactions in the White River Ecosystem. IN: National Conference on Environmental Engineering. (Eds.) A. Medine and M. Anderson. American Society of Civil Engineers. 867-876 pp.

1983 - A diagnostic-feasibility 314 Clean Lake Study for Bear Lake and it's watersheds. Final Report: Bear Lake Regional Commission. 269 pp.

1982 - Impact assessment of the White River Dam, Green River Basin, Utah. Final Report:White River Shale Oil Corporation. Report #ERI 82-01. 96 pp.

1982 - Experiments and experiences in biomanipulation. Studies of biological ways to reduce algal abundance and eliminate blue-greens. Interim Report No. 19. Limnological Research Center. Minneapolis, Minnesota. EPA-60013-82-096. 251 pp.

1982 - The aquatic resource management of the Colorado River Ecosystem. Editor. Ann Arbor Press. 697 pp.

1982 - Consequences of oil pollution on the decomposition of vascular plants in freshwater lakes. Part I: Decomposition rates and dissolved oxygen utilization. (In Press: Journal of Environmental Pollution).

1982 - The nature and availability of particulate phosphorus to algae in the Colorado River, Southeastern Utah. IN: Aquatic Resource Management of the Colorado River Ecosystem. (Eds.) V. Lamarra and V.D. Adams. Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 161-180 pp.

1982 - An ecosystem approach to environmental management. IN: Aquatic Resource Management of the Colorado River Ecosystem. (Eds.) V. Lamarra and V.D. Adams. Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1982 - Assessing the effects of coal mining and related Energy development on aquatic environmental quality in the Upper Colorado Basin. IN: Aquatic Resource Management of the Colorado River Ecosystem. (Eds.) V.A. Lamarra and V.D. Adams. Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 383-396 pp.

1982 - Water Quality Management Plan - Bear Lake Marinas. Bear Lake Regional Commission. 27 pp.

1981 - The 1981 aquatic monitoring program, White River, Green River Basin. Final Report: White River Shale Oil Corporation. Report #ERI 81-01.

1981 - The residence time of energy as a measure of ecological succession. IN: International Symposium on Energy and Ecological Modeling. Louisville, Kentucky. 591-600 pp.

1981 - The Bear Lake littoral zone: A limnological perspective. transactions, Bonneville Chapter American Fisheries Society. 83-92 pp.

1980 - The nitrogen and phosphorus budget of the Bear River, Dingle Marsh System, and its impact on a large oligotrophic water storage reservoir. IN: Surface Water Impoundments. (Eds.) H.G. Stefan. 1:371- 380. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.

1980 - An evaluation of sewage disposal techniques in Canyonlands National Park. Final Report: National Park Service. 48 pp.

1980 - Bear River 208 water quality summary. Final Report: Bear River Association of Governments. Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

1978 - To prey or not to prey, that is the consumption. An evaluation of a stocking program. IN: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society Meetings. 153-160 pp.

1977 - The use of hydroacoustic devices in Bear Lake fisheries. IN: The Laterial Line. Bonneville Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. October.

1976 - The environmental impact of the Bear Lake regional sewer - westshore system upon water quality. Bear Lake Regional Commission - EPA.

1975 - Biomanipulation: An ecosystem approach to lake restoration. IN: Water Quality Management Through Biological Control. (Eds.) P.L Brezonik and J.L. Fox. Department of Environmental Engineering Science, Gainesville, Florida. No. Env-07-75-1. 85-96 pp.

1975 - The digestive activities of carp as a major contributor to the phosphorus budget in lakes. International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology. Winnipeg, Canada. 19:2461-2468.

1973 - The use of drainage patterns and densities to evaluate large scale land areas for resource management. Journal of Environmental Systems 3(2):85-100.

Papers Presented

1997 Bear River Water Quality Forum

1997 - A History and Overview of Bear River Water Quality Issues

1997 - Upper Bear River Remediation: Thomas Fork and Bridger Creek

National Association of Lake Management Society

1996 - Bear Lake: A Limnological Overview

Desert Fishes Council

1996 - A comparison of the productivity of Colorado squawfish nursery habitat in the San Juan and Colorado rivers.

Bear River Water Quality Symposium

1993 - Limnological Conditions in Bear Lake Over the Last Decade

First Annual Utah Non-Point Source Conference.

1990 - Bear River Water Quality: Past Trends and Current Conditions.

Utah Bureau of Water Pollution Control - Monthly Board Meeting.

1989 - Bear River Water Quality.

Environmental Engineering, ASCE.

1983 - The development of methodologies for the restoration of aquatic ecosystems.

1983 - The physical-chemical interrelationships and heavy metal dynamics inthe White River, Utah.

1983 - Experiments and experiences in Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho.

Division of Environmental Chemistry, ACS.

1983 - Some responses of model freshwater lake ecosystems to crude oil (Seattle, Washington).

Upper Colorado River Basin endangered fishes field investigations coordination.

Meeting (Grand Junction, Colorado)

1982 - White River and Yampa River ecological studies - December.

Pacific Section, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

1977 - Factors regulating the phosphorus cycle in the littoral zone of lakes (San Francisco, California).

1980 - The impact of marinas on the trophic state of Bear Lake (Seattle, Washington).

Utah Academy of Sciences

1980 - An evaluation of sewage disposal techniques in Canyonlands National Park. International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology

1974 - The digestive activities of carp as a major contributor to the phosphorus budget in lakes (Winnipeg, Canada).

Symposium on Surface Water Impoundments

1980 - The nitrogen and phosphorus budgets of the Bear River, Dingle Marsh System, and their impacts on a large oligotrophic water storage reservoir (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Bonneville Chapter of the American Fisheries Society

1976 - Limnological factors affecting the Bear Lake fisheries.

1978 - To prey or not to prey, that is the consumption: An evaluation of a fish stocking program.

1981 - Preliminary results on predator-prey interactions with the Bonneville Cisco (with D. Lentz).

1981 - The Bear Lake littoral zone: A limnology perspective.

Western Division, American Fisheries Society

1982 - An assessment of energy development upon the aquatic resources of the upper Colorado River Ecosystem (Las Vegas, Nevada).

Tri-State Governors Conference

1982 - The Bear Lake Ecosystem: Present knowledge and future needs (Fish Haven, Idaho).