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| Page 24 City of Sunny Isles Beach | RFQ No. 18-02-01 | March 22, 2018 Marine And Coastal Professional Engineering Consulting Services (CCNA) E. RESUMES OF KEY PERSONNEL PROPOSED FOR THIS CONTRACT (Complete one Section E for each key person.) 12. NAME 13. ROLE IN THIS CONTRACT 14. YEARS EXPERIENCE Erin C. Hodel Marine Environmental a. TOTAL b. WITH CURRENT FIRM 15 11 15. FIRM NAME AND LOCATION (City and State) CSA Ocean Sciences Inc., Stuart, Florida 16. EDUCATION (DEGREE AND SPECIALIZATION) 17. CURRENT PROFFESIONAL REGISTRATION (STATE AND DISCIPLINE) MS, in Marine Biology N/A 18. OTHER PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS (Publications, Organizations, Training, Awards, etc.) Ms. Hodel is a marine biologist with over 15years of experience in marine environmental science. She is currently the Program s Director of the Ports, Harbors, and Beaches division at CSA Ocean Sciences. She has served as a Project Manager, Chief Scientist, and/or Field Scientist on a diverse range of marine environmental studies including benthic characterization and mapping, habitat damage assessment, and monitoring and restoration of coral reef, seagrass, and nearshore hardbottom habitats. She has extensive experience conducting long-term, multi-year biological monitoring programs for nearshore hardbottom in relation to beach nourishment projects, with lead roles in more than 10 long-term monitoring programs in Florida, including two projects in Broward County. In addition, she has strong experience conducting seagrass surveys and coral health assessments (including threated Acropora corals) in south Florida. Ms. Hodel has over 14 years of experience as a scientific diver with over 4,250 logged dives. She is a Rescue-Level SCUBA diver (PADI) with multiple specialty certifications. 19. RELEVANT PROJECTS a. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) (2) YEAR COMPLETED Miami Harbor Sediment Tracing Study, Miami, Florida PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION (if applicable) Ongoing N/A (3) BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE Check if project performed with current firm. Project Manager and Lead Field Scientist for a sediment tracer study conducted several years following construction of the Miami Harbor Dredging (Phase III) Project in order to examine sediment transport pathways and dominant oceanographic processes in the vicinity of Government Cut and the federal channel. Led all field aspects of the study, which included four rounds of sediment sampling in a 9-month period for tracers and other data collection on Middle and Outer Reefs and deployment and maintenance of moorings housing oceanographic equipment. Coordinated all GIS aspects of the study and display of tracer results in figures and co-authored all reports with teaming partners. b. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) (2) YEAR COMPLETED Coral and Seagrass Mitigation for the Miami Harbor Construction Dredging (Phase III) Project, Miami, Florida PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION (if applicable) 2016 N/A (3) BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE Check if project performed with current firm. Field Scientist in large-scale coral and seagrass mitigation programs for the Miami Harbor Dredging (Phase III) Project. Member of team that successfully relocated over 800 stony corals, sea fans, and octocorals from the project footprint to natural reefs and a newly constructed mitigation reef. Participated in the post-transplantation monitoring of 115,000 seagrass plants successfully transplanted into a newly filled dredge hole north of the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami which created 17 acres of new seagrass habitat. c. (1) TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State) (2) YEAR COMPLETED Broward County Outfall Coral Monitoring, Broward County, Florida PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION (if applicable) 2016 N/A (3) BRIEF DESCRIPTION (Brief scope, size, cost, etc.) AND SPECIFIC ROLE Check if project performed with current firm. County Water and Wastewater Services North Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Pompano Beach. The monitoring surveys were initiated to monitor success of stony and soft corals relocated to the cover material on the outfall pipe following damage to benthic resources during maintenance dredging of the Hillsboro Inlet in 2002. Reference colonies were also tagged and monitored. CSA also reattached an additional 40 “corals of opportunity” (corals naturally detached from substrate due to bio-erosion or storms) to the cover material and performed monitoring surveys of these colonies as well as respective reference colonies as additional mitigation.