About

Rob is currently working as a GIS Consultant for Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rob began working in the environmental consulting field in 2012 as a field biologist with Midwest Natural Resources (MNR). While working for MNR, Rob worked on a number of projects including wetland delineations, rare flora surveys, avian surveys, and invasive species surveys spanning across multiple states. Rob completed a masters degree in Geographic Information Science from the University of Minnesota in December of 2016.

After high school, Rob joined the Marine Corps, where he served eight years as an infantryman. While in the Marines Rob was stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Okinawa, Japan, Stuttgart, Germany, 29 Palms, California and had two tours to Iraq. Rob's first introduction to GIS came while serving in the Marines where the HMMWV's were equipped with the Blue Force Tracking system.

For two summers, Rob served on a wildfire handcrew for the Plumas National Forest in northern California. Rob sharpend his wilderness navigation skills by working a number of fires in remote areas of California and Colorado. Rob was a member of a 20 person handcrew where he held positions in a chain saw team and as a squad boss trainee.

As a student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Rob was the president of the Resource Management Club and the Veterans Club while also working as a work study position in the Veterans Service Office. Rob spent two summers working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a biological science technician for the St. Croix Wetland Management District in western Wisconsin and one summer as a biological science aid at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon.

In 2012, Rob started working as a biological consultant for Midwest Natural Resources Inc. (MNR) in St. Paul, MN. Rob developed his knowledge of field data collection by using a variety of GPS units, Garmin and Trimble units, as well as receiving a working knowledge of the type of data that can be collected in the field and what can be done using GIS on the desktop back in the office.

Rob has worked on a number of projects including classifying native plant communities in the Tallgrass and Aspen Parklands of Minnesota, wetland and waterbody delineations in Minnesota, Montana, Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma, red-shoulder hawk and Bell's vireo surveys in central Wisconsin, and Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) roosting tree mapping in Illinois and Missouri. Rob has also assisted in rare plant surveys in northwestern Minnesota and prairie monitoring in western Minnesota.