COASTAL ECOLOGICAL PLANNING AND MONITORING
MID-ATLANTIC REGION
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Coastal monitoring, agency coordination, trail development, beach management, beach ecological monitoring, habitat impact assessments

Project Description
Duffield Associates is a leading consultant in the Mid-Atlantic Region in the field of coastal ecological planning and monitoring.  The services provided include:

• Monitoring of beach nesting avian species for beach fill or beach disturbance projects that occur during migration and/or breeding seasons;
• Beach management plan development and implementation;
• Habitat impact assessments;
• Grant application;
• Trail development; and
• Agency coordination.

Duffield Associates’ personnel also participate in: the Working Group for the management of East Coast wintering shorebirds, including piping plovers, least terns, black skimmers, American oystercatchers, and red knot; The International Shorebird Census; and has presented at the Manomet Conservation Center conference on Partnerships for Bird Conservation November 2010, Plymouth, Mass. 

Recently, Duffield Associates has:

• Successfully prepared National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) grant applications for the development of a Comprehensive Conservation Plan for Stone Harbor Point, a significant shorebird habitat / stopover, and beach nester habitat along the eastern hemisphere;
• Developed and prepared the required municipal Beach Management Plans for various municipalities in NJ; 
• Developed protocol for monitoring of beach nesting avian species during beach nourishment projects, and developed monitoring protocol for seabeach amaranth, a federally endangered plant species that occur on beaches; and
• Conducted ecological (beach nesting bird, incl. piping plover) monitoring.