Caren J. Crandell is a Doctoral Candidate in the UW School of Forest Resources and has focused on wetland ecology and restoration and, most recently, the ethnobotany of an intertidal marsh species.  She teaches courses in these areas at UW Bothell and the University of Idaho.  During her graduate career, she has worked as a project manager in the Regulatory Branch of the Seattle District of the Corps of Engineers.  She values the opportunity to work on complex problems and to provide a bridge between the scientific world of ecological research and the legal world of wetland regulation.  She currently works on cases involving large wetland and stream mitigation projects.

Torrey (Victoria) Luiting is a wetland biologist with over 12 years experience in wetland delineation, project permitting, project management, wetland and stream restoration, and mitigation design and monitoring.  Torrey received her Master’s Degree in 1996 from the College of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences under Si Simenstad and Streamside Studies’ Robert Naiman and is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin Green Bay.  At ICF Jones & Stokes, she specializes in wetland and stream restoration projects, focusing on integrating ecological, hydraulic, permitting, and public needs to affect positive changes in the landscape.

Prior to joining ICF Jones & Stokes in 2005, Torrey worked for five years for a small consulting company that specialized in master planned developments and then for three years for the Seattle District Corps preparing permit compliance materials, conducting interagency coordination, and reviewing Nationwide and Individual permits. Torrey has worked with local city planning departments, NMFS, USFWS, WDFW, Ecology, and the Corps to permit a variety of projects, ranging from small-scale development projects to large scale wetland and stream restoration projects, to the annual maintenance dredging of the Duwamish and Snohomish Rivers.

Stephen Stanley is a aquatic ecologist with over 30 years experience in wetland and watershed assessment, management and regulation. He has a BS in aquatic biology and environmental studies from UC Santa Barbara.  At the Department of Ecology, Stanley has developed guidance and models for characterizing and analyzing watershed processes in Western Washington.  For the past 10 years he has co-taught the fall quarter of the Wetland Certificate Program at the University of Washington.