The job was done as an assignment as a third party for an International major Oil & Gas company (private) in coordination with the International environmental engineering company and consultancy CH2M.
As the leader of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IFC PS6, EBRD PR6) research team, I coordinated the fieldwork on daily assignment, setting priorities and managing a group of 12 specialists in order to deliver a floristic and faunistic baseline on a study area of 500 square Km.
The work was cronologically divided in three different missions, respectively a reconnaissance phase (20 days), a dry season field data collection campaign (25 days) and a wet season field data collection (25 days). Data were collected on the field and treated also by an approach based on ecological modeling, This allowed us to provide the final Client with several maps of critical habitat, according to standards defined by Performance Standard 6 of the International Finance Corporation (IFC - World Bank).
The reconnaissance phase allowed me to share with the company the need of re-addressing previously planned working protocols according to the local logistical situation of habitat, availability of roads, HSSE protocols and time constraints.
During the field data collection phases I proposed to increase the use of participatory data collection, receiving by the company the specific task of developing surveys with key informants from the community, as a parallel activity to the already planned fieldwork. This increased enormously the amount of data (e.g.: species richness).
In all the phases, the group of sub-contractors was daily provided with organisational help, aimed at gaining the maximum possible amount of data in a relatively short time.
The work was not restricted to field missions (total length one year, part-time) but it implied even the overall scientific coordination in Europe. This included review of all the methodological and final deliverables.
As the leader of the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IFC PS6, EBRD PR6) research team, I coordinated the fieldwork on daily assignment, setting priorities and managing a group of 12 specialists in order to deliver a floristic and faunistic baseline on a study area of 500 square Km.
The work was cronologically divided in three different missions, respectively a reconnaissance phase (20 days), a dry season field data collection campaign (25 days) and a wet season field data collection (25 days). Data were collected on the field and treated also by an approach based on ecological modeling, This allowed us to provide the final Client with several maps of critical habitat, according to standards defined by Performance Standard 6 of the International Finance Corporation (IFC - World Bank).
The reconnaissance phase allowed me to share with the company the need of re-addressing previously planned working protocols according to the local logistical situation of habitat, availability of roads, HSSE protocols and time constraints.
During the field data collection phases I proposed to increase the use of participatory data collection, receiving by the company the specific task of developing surveys with key informants from the community, as a parallel activity to the already planned fieldwork. This increased enormously the amount of data (e.g.: species richness).
In all the phases, the group of sub-contractors was daily provided with organisational help, aimed at gaining the maximum possible amount of data in a relatively short time.
The work was not restricted to field missions (total length one year, part-time) but it implied even the overall scientific coordination in Europe. This included review of all the methodological and final deliverables.