Crissy
Sutter, MS
Senior Ecologist
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Crissy Sutter is a senior ecologist
at Pandion Systems. Her main focus is natural resource assessment
and management, particularly for public lands conservation, including
traditional field surveys and mapping of natural resources as well
as more recent techniques of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
remote sensing and modeling.
 Crissy
holds a BA in Wildlife Management from the University of Massachusetts
Amherst (1989) and an MS in Life Sciences/Ecology from Indiana
State University (1994). She recently earned a Certificate in GIS
from Pennsylvania State University (2005) as the first step in
obtaining a Masters Degree in GIS. Crissy also holds certificates
in GPS from Trimble, Inc., and has completed multiple GIS training
courses from ESRI, Inc.
Like her educational background, Crissy's
work experience is multidisciplinary and comprehensive. She has
practical experience developing, implementing, and managing large
projects (up to 100,000 acres) for ecological assessment and evaluation.
Crissy also has more than 9 years experience in spatial representation
and analysis of natural resources using GIS, and more than 4 years
experience in developing models that use mathematical equations
to simulate and predict real events and processes.
As both a
consultant and as a public lands manager (in Florida and Mississippi)
she has extensive experience in land management including the following:
- Natural Area Evaluation and Assessment
- Land Management Planning
- Natural Resource Inventory and Mapping
- Invasive Exotic
Plant Management (IEPM)
- Habitat Restoration Planning and Management
- Translating Ecological Principles to Regional Planning Approaches
- Risk Assessment
Modeling
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Bat Ecology
- Project Management
Crissy’s other interests include
a wealth of nature-based activities from camping and kayaking to
bird watching and plant photography. She shares this enthusiasm
with her young family through native plant gardening, nature hikes,
and at-home science experiments ranging from building volcanoes
to raising butterflies and worm-farming. |
