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<br />STANDARD FORM 330
<br />E. RESUMES OF KEY PERSONNEL PROPOSED FOR THIS CONTRACT (Complete one Section E for each key person.)
<br />12. NAME 13. ROLE IN THIS CONTRACT 14. YEARS EXPERIENCE
<br />Rex E. Baumberger, Jr. Project Scientist, Project Manager a. Total b. With This Firm
<br />16 7.5
<br />15. FIRM NAME AND LOCATION (City and State)
<br />CSA Ocean Sciences Inc., Stuart, Florida
<br />16. EDUCATION (Degree and Specialization) 17. CURRENT PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION (State and Discipline)
<br />M.S. in Marine Biology None
<br />18. OTHER PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS (Publications, Organizations, Training, Awards, etc.)
<br />Mr. Baumberger is a marine biologist with over 16 years of experience in marine environmental science, with a strong background in field studies of sub-tropical and tropical marine communities and coastal ecosystems. He has served as a field scientist and project manager on a diverse range of marine environmental studies concerning coral reef and nearshore hardbottom habitats and has extensive experience conducting multi-year monitoring programs of nearshore hardbottom habitats in Florida prior to and following beach restoration programs, playing a major role in seven projects along the Florida coasts. He also has experience conducting damage assessments and monitoring surveys, designing and implementing reef restoration plans, conducting restorations on coral reefs and monitoring of sea turtle nesting. Mr. Baumberger has over 14 years of experience as a scientific diver with over 2,500 logged dives. He holds American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) Scientific Diver and National Association of Underwater Instructor’s (NAUI) Advanced and Nitrox Diver certifications. He is trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), first aid, and oxygen administration.
<br />19. RELEVANT PROJECTS
<br />a.
<br />(1) Title and Location (City and State) (2) Year Completed
<br />South Siesta Key Beach Nourishment Project, Phase II Hardbottom Monitoring Surveys Sarasota, Florida Professional Services Construction (If applicable)
<br />2016 2015
<br />(3) Brief Description (Brief Scope, Size, Cost, etc.) and Specific Role X Check if project performed with current firm
<br />Project Manager and Lead Field Scientist for multi-year monitoring program for the Siesta Key, Florida beach renourishment project. Responsible for assessment of offshore hardbottom, mapping, and survey of hardbottom biological habitats before, during, and after construction. Interfaced with Florida Department of Environmental Protection to draft a Biological Monitoring Plan, coordinated hardbottom assessments, installed transects, planned and executed the monitoring surveys, mapped resources with submersible GPS, performed scientific data collection including collecting close-up video and in
<br />situ repetitive quadrat data to characterize the hardbottom biological communities. Authored multiple reports. Cost: $490,341.
<br />c.
<br />(1) Title and Location (City and State) (2) Year Completed
<br />Miami Harbor Deepening Project Seagrass and
<br />Coral Mitigation Miami, Florida Professional Services Construction (If applicable)
<br />2015 2014
<br />(3) Brief Description (Brief Scope, Size, Cost, etc.) and Specific Role X Check if project performed with current firm
<br />Field Scientist for coral and seagrass mitigation activities for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Port of Miami under a subcontract to Great Lakes
<br />Dredge & Dock LLC. Participated in pre-construction surveys of coral reef habitats identified as areas of potential or known impacts to locate at-risk coral
<br />colonies for relocation. Relocated staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis (a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act), other healthy
<br />stony coral colonies, octocorals, and sponges from areas of impact to an artificial reef newly constructed as part of the overall environmental mitigation
<br />efforts as well as to nearby natural reefs. Led installation of artificial reef transects and mapping of relocated corals, took coral measurements and
<br />photographs, and conducted health assessments immediately following reattachment to monitor success. Also participated in seagrass surveys of the Julia
<br />Tuttle Mitigation Site (an old dredge hole in Biscayne Bay) to document seagrass habitat. Led follow-up surveys of transplanted seagrasses for survivorship
<br />and growth, confirming the success of the relocation. Cost: $1,875,482.
<br />d.
<br />(1) Title and Location (City and State) (2) Year Completed
<br />Nearshore Hardbottom and Coral Reef Monitoring
<br />for the Hillsboro/Deerfield Beach Nourishment
<br />Town of Hillsboro
<br />Beach/City of Deerfield
<br />Beach, Florida
<br />Professional Services Construction (If applicable)
<br />2015 2011
<br />(3) Brief Description (Brief Scope, Size, Cost, etc.) and Specific Role X Check if project performed with current firm
<br />Project Manager and Field Supervisor throughout a 5-year period to assess nearshore hardbottom habitats before, during, and after construction of a beach
<br />nourishment project on Hillsboro/Deerfield Beach as well as coral reef habitat adjacent to borrow areas. Conducted multiple field surveys to establish and
<br />monitor permanent transects and collect close-up video and quadrat data to characterize and monitor hardbottom communities. Conducted health
<br />assessments of corals in response to potential project-related sedimentation and prepared weekly coral health reports during construction phase. Authored
<br />annual monitoring reports for nearshore and offshore borrow area surveys. Cost: $576,583.
<br />e.
<br />(1) Title and Location (City and State) (2) Year Completed
<br />Broward County Outfall Coral Monitoring Broward County, Florida Professional Services Construction (If applicable)
<br />2016
<br />(3) Brief Description (Brief Scope, Size, Cost, etc.) and Specific Role X Check if project performed with current firm
<br />Project Manager and Field Supervisor for a series of coral monitoring surveys associated with the Ocean Outfall Cover Material Rehabilitation Project
<br />offshore the Broward County Water and Wastewater Services North Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Pompano Beach. The monitoring surveys
<br />were initiated to monitor success of stony and soft corals on the artificial reef and relocated to the cover material on the outfall pipe following damage to
<br />benthic resources during maintenance dredging of the Hillsboro Inlet in 2002. Reference colonies were also tagged and monitored. CSA also reattached an
<br />additional 40 “corals of opportunity” (corals naturally detached from substrate due to bio-erosion or storms) to the cover material and performed monitoring
<br />surveys of these colonies as well as respective reference colonies as additional mitigation. Cost: $80,807.
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