Dan Underhill

Mr. Underhill is an ecologist with over 20 years of experience in permitting, preparing management plans, and coordinating with local, state and federal environmental agencies in Southwest Florida. His experience includes performing agency wetland jurisdictional determinations, benthic surveys, and protected species assessments and permitting. The preparation of environmental resource permit applications for docks, bridges, and dredge and fill to state and federal agencies. The preparation of mitigation plans, indigenous preserve management plans, protected species management plans, and environmental impact statements. Prior experience includes marine resource sampling techniques and the design and implementation of educational programs relating to coastal and wetland resources.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science – Natural Resource Conservation/Zoology, University of Florida, 1994

Certifications

  • Florida Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method (UMAM) Short Course, Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands, University of Florida, 2005

  • Environmental Permitting, South Florida Water Management District, 2007

  • ePermitting User Training, South Florida Water Management District, 2008

  • Florida Marine Contractors Workshop, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 2009

  • Smalltooth Sawfish Critical Habitat Workshop, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, 2009

  • Certified Arborist (N0. FL-6323A) International Society of Arboriculture