Steen Trump - Branch Manager, Project Biologist

Mr. Trump is responsible for the day to day operation and management of ADH's office located in Arcata, California. He has over 17 years of experience as an environmental scientist performing water quality, sediment dredge reuse/disposal, and biological monitoring programs. His water quality experience includes both support and lead roles for numerous National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Phase I and II storm water and municipal waste water monitoring programs carried out at federal, state and local government agencies, and industrial facilities.

As a biologist, Mr. Trump has led field sampling investigations for subtidal and intertidal benthic community analysis; near shore fish and invertebrate and intertidal invertebrate bioaccumulation; and freshwater macroinvertebrate and fish community analysis. He has field and laboratory experience in the taxonomic identification of marine fish from California, Alaska and Nigeria, and of marine benthic invertebrates (crustaceans and mollusks) from California and Alaska, and has been responsible for the maintenance of fish and invertebrate voucher collections.

Mr. Trump also has extensive experience in sediment coring projects throughout coastal and inland California. As a consultant, he has provided technical expertise to clients ensuring regulatory compliance to federal EPA, and State Water Resources Control Board criteria, and has participated in Stakeholder discussion groups. As a project manager, he has been responsible for ensuring successful execution of various monitoring projects including: primary client contact; development of sampling and analysis plans; planning, coordination and supervising execution of field monitoring activities; laboratory coordination and interaction; quality assurance and quality control data review and interpretation; assessing storm water environmental indicators; and, writing technical data monitoring reports.

Mr. Trump has extensive experience in the installation, operation and maintenance of water quality samplers, flow meters, field meters, and data loggers at various types of monitoring sites including those assessing effectiveness of numerous types of BMP treatment devices. Prior to joining ADH, Mr. Trump was a biological/environmental scientist with Kinnetic Laboratories, Inc. from 1993 until 2007, where he managed and participated in numerous storm water, sediment, biological monitoring projects, and watershed assessments for total maximum daily load (TMDL) studies.

AREAS OF PROFICIENCY:

• Stormwater Quality Assessment/Monitoring
• Coastal Water and Sediment Quality Assessment/Monitoring
• Sediment Dredge Materials Use/Disposal Studies
• Biological Sampling, Taxonomic Identification, and Community Analysis

EDUCATION:

• B.A., Marine Biology - Honors, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1991

CERTIFICATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS:

• 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Training (40 hour)
• NAUI SCUBA Open Water I Diving Certification
• University of California Research Diving Certification
• University of California Diver Rescue Certification
• Rapid Biological Assessment Certification, California-Nevada Chapter of the American Fisheries Society; 1999
• Member: Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists (SCAMIT)