Background

D. J. Silverberg is the Senior Ecologist with L&A and has been conducting ecological consulting studies since 1987. He has conducted preliminary land use assessments, wetland delineations, and listed species evaluations for over 100 sites throughout Florida. He has prepared permit applications for all levels of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Permit Program, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and various Water Management Districts' Environmental Resource and Construction MSSW permits. He has significant experience in client and regulatory agency interaction, technical writing, wetland delineation, plant identification, and project management. Mr. Silverberg has conducted wetland jurisdictional delineations for local, state, and federal regulatory programs. He provided technical review and guidance to NASA and Kennedy Space Center contractors regarding compliance with state and federal wetland and protected species regulatory programs.

Mr. Silverberg has prepared more than twenty Environmental Assessment (EA) documents in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Documents prepared or evaluated for NASA included maintenance dredging of the Banana River channel. Documents written for the Corps of Engineers included a series of EAs for Dredged Material Management Area site evaluations as well as the Corps' Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for improving the regulatory process in southwest Florida.

He has identified and mapped plant communities, including seagrasses, through photointerpretation and field investigation. He has prepared wetland mitigation and monitoring plans. Mr. Silverberg has conducted surveys for threatened and endangered plant and animal species. He has conducted habitat mapping analysis, and restoration planning for the Indian Trails Water Control District in Palm Beach County. Mr. Silverberg designed and supervised implementation of a 557 acre wetland creation, restoration, and enhancement project in the upper St. Johns River floodplain west of Melbourne, Florida.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences, (Marine Biology), Florida Institute of Technology, 1985

Master of Science, Biological Sciences (Ecology), Florida Institute of Technology, 1988

Certifications

Society of Wetland Scientists: Professional Wetland Scientist

Environmental Professionals of Florida: Florida Registered Environmental Professional