Field Work

GMI has an experienced team of scientists with specialized field knowledge who use innovative techniques and state-of-the-art equipment to effectively meet client goals. GMI conducts field studies, assessments, and surveys in order to collect baseline data information to provide its clients with the necessary data for many types of development projects (e.g., wind power, airport, cellular tower, and military). GMI has field experience in various environments worldwide ranging from basic inventories to complex disturbance studies and is committed to top quality performance in the field.

GMI offers a wide range of field services, products, and technologies including:

• Biological Resources

  • Terrestrial, avian, and aquatic resource management

    • Environmental baseline studies
    • Biological assessments
    • Section 7 consultations
    • Wetland mitigation and permitting
    • Invasive species management plans
    • Integrated natural resources management plans
    • Airport master plans

  • Wildlife

    • Birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish surveys
    • Threatened, endangered, sensitive, and candidate species surveys
    • Migratory birds and bats surveys
    • Mortality surveys and mitigation
    • Avian radar surveys
    • Breeding bird and raptor surveys

  • Plants

    • Threatened, endangered, sensitive, and candidate species surveys
    • Invasive species surveys
    • Wetland delineations
    • Vegetation/habitat mapping

  • Pre- and post-construction monitoring

• Marine Resources

  • Marine resource analysis

  • Marine mammal, sea turtle, and fish surveys

  • Scientific diving

  • Coral reef studies, surveys, and assessments

  • Seagrass surveys, assessments, and restoration

  • Shipwreck surveys

  • Essential fish habitat (EFH) consultations and assessments

  • Habitat characterization

  • Wetland evaluation, studies, and delineation

  • Density estimation

  • Ecosystem restoration and protection

  • Marine and coastal resource evaluations

    • Environmental baseline studies
    • Biological assessments
    • Section 7 consultations

• Cultural Resources

  • Archaeological investigations

  • Section 106 compliance

  • Cemetery studies

  • Remote sensing

  • Surveys and site evaluations

  • Historical architecture - building and structure surveys

  • 3D analysis and visualization technical services

GMI uses a variety of methodologies to support project development and operations including:

• Literature searches
• Visual surveys
• Designed sampling surveys
• Radar surveys
• Sonar surveys
• Aerial and boat-based surveys
• Baseline inventories
• Long-term monitoring
• Habitat use and mapping studies and analyses
• Disturbance and behavioral studies
• Management
• Restoration

GMI assists clients in the planning and operations phases of developments (e.g., airports, wind energy). Our field scientists have conducted protected species habitat and species-specific surveys for several endangered, threatened, and sensitive species.

• Birds

  • Red-cockaded woodpecker
  • Bald eagle
  • Burrowing owl
  • Golden-cheeked warbler
  • Black-capped vireo
  • Mexican spotted owl
  • Aplomado falcon
  • Southwestern willow flycatcher
  • Brown pelican

• Mammals

  • Swift fox
  • Spotted skunk
  • Black-tailed prairie dog

• Reptiles and amphibians

  • Timber rattlesnake
  • Puerto Rican boa
  • Desert tortoise
  • Texas tortoise
  • Sand dune lizard
  • Texas horned lizard