Scientific solutions to complex environmental, water and energy issues
Formation Environmental LLC is a rapidly growing consulting firm with offices in Boulder, CO, Sacramento, CA, Calipatria, CA and project offices throughout the U.S. Our multi-disciplinary team provides scientific, technical and strategic expertise in environmental engineering, soil science, water resources, vegetation management and remote sensing.
The Formation team has significant depth and expertise working with clients throughout North and South America.
Solutions
At Formation, many of our clients have complex and unique challenges that require a customized solution to meet the needs of regulatory requirements, compliance driven schedules, programmatic improvements, risk management, stakeholder engagement, or advanced geospatial insights. Our team excels at working with each client to characterize problems and to create solutions through applied science and cutting-edge technology. To achieve this many of our team members collaborate effectively across multiple practice areas to assemble the best combination of experts. This may result in remote sensing professionals and data scientists working together with agronomists and soil scientists to model and analyze crop vigor for a precision agriculture client.
Technical & Strategic Support
Formation scientists and engineers are working with clients on some of the most challenging environmental issues facing our world today. Our water scientists are helping clients navigate critical water issues, ranging from groundwater dependent vegetation analysis during the California drought to mapping and modeling soil to inform best management practices for air quality mitigation at the Salton Sea. The Formation Environmental team provides key technical and strategic support to assist in negotiation, settlement and litigation processes for clients who work in mining, industrial or other contamination sites. While we are hired for our collective scientific expertise, our team also supports clients through stakeholder engagement, development of project communication materials and technical writing for regulatory reports.
Technology
Formation’s technology team is a vital complement to each of the other practice areas, supporting science and engineering projects with high accuracy remotely sensed data for modeling and the creation of greater geospatial intelligence. We own and operate several unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and a variety of sensors. Our team is well-versed in working with ultra-high density LiDAR data, thermal infrared, HD video, hyperspectral and satellite imagery. We also collect data using a variety of ground-based equipment such as Eddy-covariance for meteorological data, spectrometers for phenological metrics, electromagnetic induction and soil coring for high throughput soil mapping.
Modeling & Analytics
The team of Formation scientists, programmers, statisticians, and data scientists model and analyze data from a variety of sources to provide greater geospatial intelligence. Our team has extensive experience on using several numerical models including Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender (APEX), Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM2), HYDRUS 1/2/3D, MODFLOWd, Noah-MP, Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF), etc. Depending on the project, our clients may ask us to create visualization tools, GIS databases or client portals to interact with and consume the analysis. Often our work support clients in long-term decision management and strategies.
Led by senior-level scientists and engineers, our team of professionals offer depth of experience and multi-disciplinary expertise in our core practice areas.
Water Resources Engineers
Soil Scientists
Engineering Geologists
Hydrogeologists
Agricultural Engineers
ETa Analysts
Soil Technicians
Agronomists
Crop Scientists
Civil Engineers
LiDAR Analysts
Remote Sensing Analysts
Certified Arborists
Engineering Geologists
Statisticians
Meteorologists
Geological Engineers
Environmental Scientists
Environmental Engineers
Geologists
Chemists
Botanists
Risk Assessors
Aquatic Biologists
Ecotoxicologists
Restoration Ecologists
UAS Pilots
Aeronautical Engineers
LiDAR Analysts
GIS Analysts
Applied Physicists
IT Developers
Database Analysts
Data Scientists