Environmental Program Management

  • Ensuring environmental compliance requires in-depth knowledge of complex environmental laws and regulations. To do so effectively and efficiently, while meeting operational needs requires experience.

    Marea environmental offers a combination of knowledge and experience, providing our customers with a comprehensive service that will ensure their needs are met.

    Specifically, Marea Environmental provides expertise in:

    • Environmental Cleanup

    • Emerging Contaminants (including PFAS, or per and polyfluoroalkyl substances)

    • National Environmental Policy Act Compliance

    • Waste Reduction/Management and Recycling Solutions

    • Environmental Liabilities Reporting and Auditing Compliance

    • Hazardous Waste Management

    • Facilities Environmental Compliance Auditing

    • Experience managing large programs for the federal government, requiring an integrative approach with many environmental laws under a variety of unique and vital conditions

    • A history of developing positive relationships with regulatory agencies, working to make potentially contentious relationships solid and mutially beneficial

    • Proven ability to “right size” compliance, reducing costs and management load to the client

    • Document Management

    • Regulatory Coordination

    • Design Plan Reviews

    • Public Outreach

    • Permitting Support

    • Process Development and Planning

Policy and Process Development

  • There is an art to creating effective policy. Composing it in a way that provides sufficient information and details needed for compliance, while keeping it straight-forward and user-friendly for the end user to utilize efficiently.

    Process development is much of the same. While you integrate more “hows” to the “whats” of policy, the concept of an easy to use, sufficiently detailed document is equally important.

  • The staff at Marea Environmental has prepared process documents for a wide variety of environmental programs and operational activities, serving government, educational, and scientific communities. Whether a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for managing lab waste, or a guidebook for the in and outs of a program, Marea Environmental can help.

    Our staff has also written environmental policy at federal agencies at the headquarters level including Environmental Liabilities, Environmental Cleanup, and Environmental Compliance.

    • Policy Development and Maintenance/Updates

    • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

    • Process Guides

    • Environmental Management Manuals

Natural Land Management

  • Natural, native landscapes are vital to our ecosystems, providing food sources and other benefits to vital species. Whether a garden for pollinators or a specific shrub for a favorite songbird, providing habitat is key to species survival and our own.

    Marea Environmental is passionate in our desire to preserve, enhance, and restore native ecosystems, and we have the practical experience to fulfill that passion in small scall settings.

  • Our staff has had years of practical experience in creating and managing small scale natural ecosystems in the public and private sectors. Aditionally, we are adept at optimizing financial resources, utilizing low-maintenance options, this providing a product that works economically as well as aesthetically.

    • Invasive Species Identification and Removal

    • Invasive Species Management Plans

    • Native Plantings

    • Small-scale Habitat Restoration

    • Self-sustaining Native Pollinator Gardens

Briefing and Reporting Materials

  • Often, environmental activities require that information be provided to lay people in the community. It can be a challenge to effectively provide complex information to those with differing skillsets. Reaching these audiences is a lesson in balance which the staff at Marea Environmental excel.

  • The staff at Marea environmental has developed hundreds of briefings and other materials to many audiences, ranging from the public to admirals. Let us write one for you too!

    • Slide Decks

    • Infographics

    • Information Papers and Packages

    • Posters

    • Briefing reports

    • Visual Aids

    • Proposal Review/Development

Training

  • You can have the best policy, guides, and procedures in the world, but it is targeted training on these topics that provides the most effective outcomes.

    Training is an opportunity to connect directly with your audience, whether administrative staff or field personnel, to provide information that is accessible and useful. Just as importantly, it is a platform to learn from those people about the daily activities and issues that they face.

    The staff at Marea Environmental excels at providing comprehensive and meaningful training at any level.

  • As subject matter experts and educators, the staff at Marea Environmental provides an approach to training that is rooted in formal education principles and and understanding of requirements. Our approach leverages formal education, and experience at management and the field level to provide a comprehensive training experience for our customers.

    • Training slides and booklets

    • In person courses

    • Web-based training

    • Training program development

Regulatory Affairs

  • Working with regulators can be a daunting task. Their expertise and detailed knowledge of the regulations and requirements also comes with a potential for enforcement. As industry professionals, you are an expert in your operational activities.

    At Marea Environmental we will ensure that our customers can stand on equal footing with regulatory agencies, to come up with a solution that is beneficial to all parties, and maintains environmental compliance.

  • Life is often about relationships, about understanding other perspectives, and building trust.

    Our staff has shown time and again the ability to develop positive relationships among the client, government entities, and regulators, coming into contentious environments and building thoughtful and productive environments. The results are often lower regulatory burdens, reduced costs, and a supportive relationship with your regulators.

    • Meeting Support

    • Regulatory Requirements Reviews and Findings

    • Site Walkthroughs

    • Permitting Support

Outreach and Education

  • Effectively reaching public audiences and educating them on environmental, industry, or other scientific topics requires an understanding of subject matter and appropriate means of communication. To reach public audiences an engaging and direct approach is best, and is where Marea Environmental excels.

  • Marea Environmental offers to our clients the benefit of our staff’s 25+ yrs of combined experience in outreach and education on scientific and environmental programs. We have a broad range of knowledge and skill in providing the most pertinent and important scientific information in a way that can reach a variety of audiences. Whether a student or an adult, corporate retreats or staff meetings, Marea Environmental can meet your outreach and education needs.

    • Outreach Materials and Packages

    • Signage Design

    • Social Media Graphics

    • Public User Surveys

    • Nature Centers Staffing and Materials

    • Public Meeting Support

Environmental Management Systems

  • The best way to ensure that your organization is meeting environmental requirements in a consistent manner is to implement an EMS, or environmental management system. Using an EMS enables groups to identify compliance issues before potentially costly fines, and to develop plans to prevent future regulatory violations.

    The staff at Marea Environmental are experts in EMS development and applying EMS principles. We support our customers in using these techniques to the customer’s benefit.

  • The staff at Marea Environmental has implemented EMS under varying conditions (variety of facility size and type) and is poised to help our customers in design, implementation, and updating their EMS program. Marea Environmental will ensure a simple but effective and economic approach, using the most applicable technology to streamline the use of EMS for our clients.

    • EMS Resources Identification/Set-up

    • Initial EMS Development

    • Integration of Existing Procedures

    • Review and Update of Existing EMS