ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND PLANNING PROGRAM

Lorenzo Salgado | Senior Environmental Project Manager
Education | MS Industrial Safety Management | BS Medical Biology and Chemistry

Environmental Project Manager with more than 25 years’ experience in federal government (Department of Energy and Department of Defense) implementation of National Environmental Policy Act. Mr. Salgado has integrated categorical exclusions, environmental assessments, and environmental impact statements into military weapons, space satellite systems, and missile research programs. He has managed endangered species protection at remote federal facilities, such as Hawaii and Alaska. In the private sector for Amazon, Facebook, and solar energy company, Mr. Salgado provided environmental compliance (CEQA) by implementing categorical exclusion determinations applicable to site characterization, monitoring, and general research projects.

NATURAL RESOURCES PROGRAM

Emily Trejo Sypolt | Natural Resources Program Manager/Senior Biologist
Education | BS Wildlife Conservation and Management | MS Entomology | GIS Certificate

Ms. Trejo Sypolt serves as Biologist and Project Manager and has over 10 years of experience in natural resources and environmental project management. Ms. Trejo Sypolt conducts field surveys for plants and animals and conducts short- and long-term monitoring of avian species and small and large mammals. She assesses habitat suitability for protected species and provides recommendations for avoidance or mitigation of impacts to sensitive resources. Ms. Trejo Sypolt conducts CWA section 404/401 related tasks, assisting clients with the permit application process, including preparing nationwide permit preconstruction notifications and wetland/water resources related reports.  With more than twelve years of experience in GIS, she works with clients with database management, data analysis, data entry, digitization, QA/QC processes, and cartographic visualization.

Paul Knight | Natural Resources Program Manager
Education | BS Biology and MS Botany

Mr. Knight serves as Natural Resources Program Manager and has 40 years of experience in biological, ecological, and wetland studies; regulatory compliance; and project management.  His expertise includes detailed knowledge of plant and animal communities and species composition including habitat requirements for a variety of state, federal, and Navajo threatened and endangered species.  He is also a former member of the Federal Recovery Team for threatened and endangered species within New Mexico and Arizona.  He has authored hundreds of biological assessments, evaluations, and technical reports.  Mr. Knight maintains successful working relationships with all of the agencies as well as numerous tribal entities throughout the state, including extensive experience with the Navajo Nation’s regulatory agencies.  He also has extensive experience in wetland determinations and delineations and has completed hundreds of wetland studies and reports that have been accepted by the USACE.

CULTURAL RESOURCES PROGRAM

Antonio De Cunzo | Cultural Resources Principal Investigator
Education | MA Anthropology and Applied Archaeology | BS Anthropology with Archaeology Concentration, Geology Minor

Mr. De Cunzo is an archaeologist and project manager with a focus in geoarchaeology and applied archaeology.  He has managed compliance with state and federal guidelines for energy, land management, and water engineering projects for both private sector and government (DoD/USACE/BLM) clients. Mr. De Cunzo has helped acquire cultural and natural resource clearance in conjunction with NEPA permitting on over a dozen upstream and midstream projects within the Carlsbad, New Mexico, Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management, and he is familiar with the 404 permitting processes and other state and federal permitting avenues. His project management experience includes creation of budgets, scope of work letters, responses to RFPs, submission of change order requests, invoicing and use of in-house tracking to ensure on-time and within budget project completion. He conducts all levels of archaeological inquiry including Phase IA (desktop survey), Phase IB (pedestrian reconnaissance and shovel testing), Phase II (testing), and Phase III (mitigation).  Mr. De Cunzo has served as senior and junior author on technical reports. He has extensive experience in New Mexico and the Mid-Atlantic, Southwest, Great Basin, and other areas. He is listed on the NM SHPO Directory as a supervisory archaeologist/crew chief and on the NM BLM permit as PI/PD for the southeast, northeast, northwest and Dinetah portions of the state and on the NM BLM permit as a crew chief/field director for the southeast, northeast, and northwest portions of the state. Mr. De Cunzo’s graduate thesis required the implementation of geological techniques including granulometric and loss-on-ignition analysis and interpretation of geochemical and palynological data.