The Formation Environmental team of scientists and engineers apply scientific expertise across the soil – water – plant – climate continuum to model and analyze conditions & dependencies that inform regulatory, compliance and programmatic decision-making for clients.
Water
Our scientists and engineers help clients address water issues from field to landscape scale. This includes modeling surface and groundwater flow, solute transport, evapotranspiration and addressing impacts for mitigation of overdraft, water quality issues and large-scale water transfers. Formation’s expertise also includes assessing groundwater-surface water interactions, modeling root zone water quality, characterizing groundwater dependent vegetation and implementing workflows to calculate water demand to inform management plans.
Environment
Formation supports clients with technical and strategic support in environmental remediation and risk management. Our approach involves close communication with stakeholders to understand and comprehensively manage both short-term and long-term environmental liabilities. Our expertise and understanding of the regulatory framework, bioaccumulative contaminants of concern, land use and other setting-related issues help clients develop a successful remediation approach, settlement, or defense.
Energy
We support clients in strategic planning and management activities within utility corridors and energy sites. This includes analysis of multi-temporal data to isolate important trends that may inform management priorities. Our experts also work as embedded program managers to assist with vendor and contract management, program and data audits, quality assurance reviews, and to conduct vegetation-related outage forensics to provide insights for programmatic and regulatory reporting.
Technology
Our technology team provides end-to-end solutions from data aggregation to geospatial and predictive analytics to custom visualization and reporting. Formation owns and operates a variety of state-of-the-art sensors integrated with airborne or unmanned aerial systems (UAS). We also collect field –based data such as soil characterization, water assessment, plant phenology and meteorology variables. Datasets from these disparate sources is integrated into our custom analytics and modeling tools.
Agriculture
Variable field water consumption analysis & crop vigor monitoring.
Remediation
Feasibility studies, engineering and remedial design for mine sites, industrial sites and contaminated water systems.
Renewable Assets
Geospatial and business insights to identify cost avoidance opportunities, budget predictive modeling, workforce modeling, program cost sharing, program performance & KPI development and tracking.
Airborne Remote Sensing
High resolution LiDAR data collection for analytics of energy assets, vegetation and terrain.
Water Transfer & Air Quality
Science-based, adaptive approach to address air quality mitigation requirements associated with the transfer of conserved water.
Ecotoxicology Studies
Evaluate and manage ecological risks in industrial, mining and agricultural sites.
Weather Impacts
Tree risk and wind modeling algorithms, wildfire pathway modeling, and LiDAR inspection reports to inform wildfire related risk and mitigation.
Project Site Monitoring
Groundwater
Investigation, modeling and planning to develop water supplies, evaluate impacts and develop sustainable management strategies.
Natural Resources
Technical and strategic support for natural resource damage assessment and restoration.
Geospatial Analytics
Automated models, reports and visualization tools to convey information from land use change detection, advanced remote sensing analytics, and scientific data.
Electromagnetic Soil Surveys
Surface surveys to map the variation in soil type, salinity or moisture.
Through Formation’s core practice groups, our scientists provide expertise to address complex challenges:
Water
Comprehensive solutions for water resource management
Environment
Scientific and engineering expertise in remediation and risk management
Energy
Tools and analysis for regulatory compliance and operational efficiency
Technology
Data collection, modeling, analytics and visualization
Formation scientists help clients navigate some of the most critical water issues today. Our multidisciplinary team integrates regulatory and scientific expertise to inform water management decisions throughout North and South America.
Our scientists, engineers, and remote sensing professionals help clients address water issues from field to landscape scale. This includes mapping of evapotranspiration and addressing the impacts and mitigation of large-scale water transfers. Formation’s expertise also includes addressing groundwater – surface water interactions, modeling root zone water quality, evaluating groundwater dependent vegetation, and implementing workflows to calculate water demand and inform management plans.
We provide key technical and strategic support to assist in negotiation, settlement, and litigation processes for mining and other contamination sites throughout the West.
Our approach involves close communication with each of our clients to understand and comprehensively manage both short-term and long-term environmental liabilities. Our expertise and understanding of the regulatory framework, bioaccumulative contaminants of concern, land use, and other setting-related issues help clients develop a successfully remediation approach, settlement, or defense.
We offer customized geospatial solutions that provide clients with the analytics and tools they need to manage regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.
Formation scientists are experts at terrain analysis and vegetation characterization to support desktop review of ROW and asset proximity conditions. We specialize in UAV data acquisition utilizing ultra-high density LiDAR, thermal sensing, optical imaging, and bathymetric LiDAR to provide a rapid, cost effective approach to inspect and map energy assets. Our remote sensing experts and data scientists are also sensor agnostic and able to model and analyze data from a variety of sources.
Clients require applied solutions that often involve analysis of data from a variety of airborne, UAV, satellite and land based sources. Our scientists are experts at integrating disparate data to support clients with addressing critical issues, risk mitigation, and improved operational efficiencies.
Our remote sensing experts, data scientists, GIS professionals, and programmers collaborate with clients to provide custom analytics, modeling tools and client portals that integrate into their operational workflow. Formation operates the state-of-the-art Vapor 55 UAV, equipped with ultra-high density LiDAR, optical imagery, thermal or bathymetric sensors.
