WILLIAM TAYLOR
M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering
(206) 267-1411

William Taylor is the principal in charge and provides guidance and oversight to project managers in his firm. Mr. Taylor's academic background is in marine and freshwater aquatic ecosystems analysis. As a senior scientist, Mr. Taylor has almost 20 years experience in water quality, fisheries, habitat restoration, data analysis, and modeling. His experience in modeling has ranged from lake phosphorus loading and whole lake trophic status modeling to dissolved oxygen sag modeling and instream flow modeling using the USFWS IFIM model. His technical background covers the areas of pollutant loading, water quality dynamics, and modeling; aquatic habitat analysis, population dynamics, limnology, food web interactions, aquatic chemistry, hydrology and hydraulics, coastal and estuarine ecology, and impacts of toxic substances. As principal-in-charge, Mr. Taylor provides guidance and oversight to staff and project managers. He is involved upfront with monitoring program development, which includes preparation of Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP). The QAPP process provides explicit project objectives and ensures that data collection and analysis efforts are designed to meet those objectives.