Experience

Questa Engineering

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Ecologist

  • 2001 - Present

   Working with the National Park Service to re-establish populations of native ranid frogs in the Merced River in Yosemite National Park. Developed ecological aspects of study plan to remove Benbow Dam on the South Fork Eel River for California State Parks, organized teams of citizen scientists to conduct monitoring and frog eggmass rescue efforts prior to dam de-construction  Subcontractor to San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to assess amphibian and reptile issues, develop models to evaluate alternate in-stream flow proposals for the Tuolumne River below Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and Alamada Creek below Calavares Reservoir.  Subcontractor for California Energy Commission investigation of hydropower-related pulsed flow effects on river breeding frogs.  Designed stream restoration features for frog habitat in several California fish passage projects. Show less



Dept. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

• Research Associate

  • 2008 - Jun 2011

  Sarah is affiliated with the Power Lab Sarah is affiliated with the Power Lab



Consultant to US Forest Service

• Ecologist

  • 2002 - 2006

  •Helped design flow studies, developed 4e conditions, reviewed draft license applications, developed monitoring plans for FERC relicensing of several California hydropower projects: Pit 3,4,5; Rock Creek Cresta Reach of N. Fk. Feather River; Spring Gap Stanislaus; Upper American River Project; DeSabla Project (Butte Ck. and West Branch Feather River). •Drafted the Ecology section of the USFS Conservation Assessment of Rana boylii. •Helped design flow studies, developed 4e conditions, reviewed draft license applications, developed monitoring plans for FERC relicensing of several California hydropower projects: Pit 3,4,5; Rock Creek Cresta Reach of N. Fk. Feather River; Spring Gap Stanislaus; Upper American River Project; DeSabla Project (Butte Ck. and West Branch Feather River). •Drafted the Ecology section of the USFS Conservation Assessment of Rana boylii.