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Who We Are and How We Do Business

EMI provides scientifically-based solutions to environmental problems. We provide professional consulting and environmental facilitation services in adaptive management and the preservation of threatened and endangered species, habitats and watersheds. Our goal is to meet the needs of society while sustaining biodiversity for future generations.

EMI provides innovative solutions to environmental challenges by

• Completing on-site scientific assessments, which provide sound scientific data as foundation for interpreting federal, state, tribal and international laws.
• Evaluating biological and physical relationships within ecosystems before recommending specific courses of action.
• Delivering expert community presentations, facilitation and mediation services.

EMI operates on the values of trust, cooperation and communication. We provide the best service for the lowest cost.

Interdisciplinary teams are tailored to fit the project. Subcontracting with other specialists in hydrographic mapping, geographic information systems, city planning, law, or archeology helps us keep our overhead low, our flexibility high and our expertise current.

EMI recognizes that every project includes environmental and social issues and concerns.

We listen to people. We strive to meet social needs while maintaining environmental sustainability. We offer opportunities for our clients and the public to understand our research and the processes we use in creating management objectives and practices.

EMI is active at home and throughout the world because sustaining life systems is more than a local endeavor.

EMI staff are dedicated to fieldwork and research. We believe that to address an environmental problem correctly, you need to know the environment firsthand. We have extensive experience working with indigenous cultures, helping to preserve the ecosystems that help them preserve culture.

Our field experience includes terrain as diverse as Florida and North Dakota, Japan, Turkey, Southeast Asia, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Siberia, Costa Rica and geography throughout the West.

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EMI Professionals

Dave Wegner

Since the 1970’s, Dave Wegner has been coordinating teams of experts, designing and implementing river rehabilitation programs. He has been developing and practicing methods for preserving threatened and endangered species and assessing and documenting the biological diversity of ecosystems throughout the world.

From 1982 through 1996, Dave coordinated the most extensive series of ecosystem studies and rehabilitation work ever attempted on a river system, which took place in the Grand Canyon. Dave led the research team, the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies (GCES), in their landmark controlled flood of the canyon from Glen Canyon Dam, in April 1996. The effects of this flood have been studied internationally. Lessons learned are being applied to other river systems throughout the world.

Dave’s expertise lies in the areas of aquatic ecology, river engineering and the application of science to risk assessment and adaptive management, as well as environmental facilitation and education. His professional career includes work with states across the nation. Since 1997, Dave has continued to work with Department of the Interior as an independent consultant, through projects associated with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, Bureau of Land Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His expertise also has been called upon by Native American Tribes, the Department of Agriculture U.S. Forest Service, Dept. of State, Dept. of Justice, Dept. of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and Idaho Power Co.

Professional awards include numerous commendations for public service. He is the recipient of the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation’s Resource Management Award and has received commendations from the national Research Council, the Hualapai Tribe, Hopi Tribe, Zuni Pueblo, and the Colorado River Indian Tribes.

Nancy Jacques

Nancy Jacques joined EMI in 1997. With 20 years experience in education and in directing environmental nonprofit organizations, Nancy administers communication systems, helping to facilitate outreach, manage workshops and nonprofit affairs.

Nancy has specialized in systems theory and analysis and is a writer and columnist for regional presses. Her book, The Heartcore Alternative: Reinterpreting our Relationships to Each Other and Earth in a Global Age was published in 2001.