Audrey Layden is a biologist with 15 years of experience in biological resource surveys, project management, and environmental compliance monitoring on small and large-scale renewable energy generation and transmission, utility, development and transportation projects throughout Southern California and Nevada. Audrey is approved as an Authorized Desert Tortoise Biologist on several projects. Her survey and compliance monitoring experience includes desert tortoise, nesting birds, burrowing owl, desert kit fox, Mojave fringe-toed lizard, California gnatcatcher and jurisdictional waters. Audrey is also experienced as a Qualified Stormwater Pollution Protection Plan (SWPPP) Practitioner (QSP) designee. She is proficient in writing habitat assessments, species-specific technical reports and conducting desktop reviews for special-status species. Audrey has worked on and managed projects for Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, CalTrans, EDF Renewables, SoCalGas and United States Geological Survey on lands managed by Bureau of Land Management, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, military bases and private lands.

Ryan Layden is a biologist with 15 years of experience in biological resource surveys, project management, jurisdictional delineations and regulatory permitting, and environmental compliance monitoring on renewable energy generation and transmission, utility, development, and transportation projects throughout southern California and Nevada. Mr. Layden routinely performs both reconnaissance-level and formal aquatic resource delineations, authors Jurisdictional Delineation Reports, and prepares Clean Water Act permit applications (Sections 404 and 401) and Streambed Alteration Agreement Notifications (1602), and oversees project construction compliance. Ryan has been approved as an Authorized Desert Tortoise Biologist on several projects and he holds a USFWS 10(a)(1)(A) permit to conduct surveys for coastal California gnatcatcher and vernal pool branchiopods. Ryan’s survey experience includes desert tortoise, burrowing owl, desert kit fox, least Bell’s vireo, California gnatcatcher, fairy shrimp, arroyo toad, western spadefoot toad, Mojave fringe-toed lizard, and nesting birds. He also compiles maps and data collection tools using GIS software.