Michele Korpos, M.S. (Candidate)
Project Manager
Staff Ecologist

Ms. Korpos is a versatile ecologist with knowledge in the areas of plant, wildlife, tide pool and riparian ecology. She has worked on wildlife and vegetation projects throughout northern California and in Costa Rica.

As a project manager, Ms. Korpos focuses on general wildlife surveys, habitat assessments, riparian assessments, and protocol-level surveys for special status species (including valley elderberry longhorn beetle, California tiger salamander, California red-legged frog, foothill yellow-legged frog, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, black legless lizard, giant garter snake, Alameda whipsnake, western snowy plover, western burrowing owl, Townsend’s big-eared bat, pallid bat, and California mastiff bat); preparation of special status species management plans (including coordination of large-scale projects requiring her to manage up to 15 biologists at a time); CEQA/NEPA documents including Initial Studies and Biotic Sections of EIRs; Biological Assessments in support of Section 7 Consultations; Habitat Conservation Plans in support of Section 10 Consultations; and Natural Environment Surveys (NES).

Ms. Korpos' senior thesis included a habitat suitability analysis for mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains, using GIS mapping applications. As a result, she was one of 150 scientists invited to the California Missing Linkages Conference 2000. Ms. Korpos is experienced in performing live captures, releases and chemical immobilization of large mammals; collecting biological measurements; radio telemetry tracking; and topographical surveys.