Churchill Roberts
Church serves as director of the firm’s environmental consulting team, whose ecologists have more than 100 years of combined experience. Working on all aspects of environmental projects for the firm, he is instrumental in the permitting of projects and preparing and implementing ecological programs for private, local, state and federal entities that involve benthic resources, sensitive lands, critical habitat and protected species. Church often serves as a liaison between clients and government officials for environmental services. He continues to conduct field reconnaissance and remains active in biological fieldwork, including wetland determinations; biological assessments for projects involving protected species; agency coordination; mitigation assessments and banking for listed species and wetlands; field sampling; biological report preparation and benthic assessments. Church is the project manager for the Lee County Port Authority and lead environmental consultant for the Babcock Ranch Community.
William Brammell
Bill has more than 15 years experience in the environmental field. He is an ecologist who manages operations for the firm’s Land O’Lakes office. During the last several years, Bill has addressed the environmental components of many of the firm’s major projects. His experience includes wildlife surveys, ecological field investigations, wetland and watershed evaluations, environmental assessments, mitigation design and monitoring, wildlife habitat evaluations, habitat restoration, preparation of land use maps, jurisdictional determinations, and project management. During the last several years, Bill has addressed the environmental components of many of the firm’s major projects, such as the Babcock Ranch, I-75 PD&E study, Florida Gulf Coast University, Lee County Port Authority’s Midfield Terminal Expansion and associated Mitigation Park, several FDOT-District 1 projects and multiple projects ranging from new road projects to new park projects for Lee, Charlotte, Polk and Pasco Counties. Bill has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of South Florida and a Masters in Public Administration from Florida Gulf Coast University. His graduate degree focused on environmental policy, which provides him with the insight into the inner workings of public institutions and non-profit organizations in the realm of environmental policy and planning.
John Curtis
John is a senior ecologist of the environmental team, John has worked on all aspects of environmental projects for the firm. With more than 10 years experience at the firm, he has played an instrumental role in environmental permitting, critical habitat and protected species mapping and management, and environmental mitigation design for numerous public and private clients. John managed all aspects of environmental permitting for The Forum, a 700-acre mixed-use development in Fort Myers. He is currently making a significant contribution to the environmental permitting work at the Babcock Ranch, including conducting habitat mapping and assessments, wetland delineations, fish and macroinvertebrate sampling, and listed species surveys. In addition, he is responsible for the environmental permitting of two Florida panther conservation banks in Hendry County totaling more than 1,700 acres. John obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Rollins College in 1994.
Laura Herrero
Laura is a senior ecologist in the environmental team with more than 12 years of private and public sector experience in the environmental field. Her environmental consulting experience includes wetland delineation; protected species surveys; habitat and species management plans; biological monitoring; coordination and permitting with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Fish and Wildlife Service biological assessments; mitigation proposals; environmental impact statements, environmental resource permit and federal dredge and fill permit applications with follow-through to permit issuance and post-permit compliance. Laura has done considerable permitting for the Lee County Department of Transportation on Gladiolus Drive widening, Six-Mile Cypress Parkway widening, Alico Road corridor study, and Section 33 Regional Mitigation Site. She worked with the Florida Department of Transportation on the expansion of S.R. 776 in Charlotte County, S.R. 64 in Manatee County, and S.R. 70 in DeSoto County, as well as working with Collier County for Phases II and III of Livingston Road Corridor and expansion of Goodlette-Frank Road.
Peggy Grant
Peggy is a senior ecologist with more than 18 years of professional environmental experience in Southwest Florida. Two of Peggy’s areas of expertise are environmental resource permitting and sovereign submerged lands rules. Peggy draws on this knowledge to assist clients in the permitting of projects, with special focus on marine and coastal projects (i.e. docks, marinas, boat ramps, dredging, coastal park amenities). She is responsible for all aspects in the permitting of projects, including underwater surveys of submerged resources; coordination with wildlife agencies and local government regarding project consistency with Manatee Protection Plans; sovereign submerged lands authorizations; preparation of marina management plans; wetland jurisdictional delineations; and mitigation analysis and design.
Anik Smith
Anik is an ecologist with specialized experience in land management and hazardous wildlife issues as they relate to airports. Her work primarily focuses on land management oversight of the 7,000-acre mitigation park, associated with the new Midfield Terminal at Southwest Florida International Airport. This land management work includes providing oversight and technical support for exotic plant control; feral hog removal and prescribed burning contracts; writing land management plans; and monitoring conditions at the mitigation park through standardized transect methodology and GPS and GIS mapping. The hazardous wildlife work Anik is involved in includes managing the wildlife hazard assessment at Southwest Florida International Airport per the Federal Aviation Administration requirements, and providing technical support as a member of the airport’s Hazardous Wildlife Working Group.
Christopher Stephens
Chris is an ecologist who provides ecological services to clients throughout Lee, Hendry, and Collier Counties. He offers experience with ecosystem restoration, land and species management plans, mitigation monitoring, wetland delineation, protected species survey, vegetation identification, marine and terrestrial habitat mapping, and ecological assessments. Chris has expertise in gopher tortoise surveys, management, relocation and permitting. He also offers experience with urban land prescribed fire, storage tank regulation programs, panther prey analysis, and improving public awareness through environmental education. Chris attended the Coast Guard Academy and received his Bachelor of Science in Marine Science and Environmental Studies from Florida Gulf Coast University.
Jaime Boswell
Jaime is an environmental scientist with ten years of professional experience primarily in southwest Florida. She joined Johnson Engineering in 2008, and since that time has been studying greenhouse gas management and related components of carbon offsets and analyses. Training through the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, the premier international training institute for topics relating to greenhouse gas accounting, has prepared her to use internationally accepted methods for creating greenhouse gas inventories, and evaluating offset/sequestration projects. Jaime is also contributing to the environmental permitting for the Babcock Ranch and Lee County Utilities, and provides expertise in technical and interpretive writing. She has a strong background in estuarine science, with seven peer-reviewed publications, and is a Sustainable Florida Associate. Jaime received a Masters of Science from the University of Florida, and a Bachelors of Science from Millersville University in Pennsylvania.
