Dan Wells

Dan Wells, President and Senior Wildlife Biologist, has conducted rare species and vernal pool surveys for HES since 1997.

He received a B.S. in Biology from Gettysburg College and a M.S. in Conservation BIology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY.

Dan has extensive experience conducting surveys for the native amphibians, reptiles and birds of Massachusetts, in addition to expertise in identification and certification of vernal pools.

Additional duties performed include GIS mapping and data analysis. He became President of HES in 2006.

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Julie Lisk is a field biologist who has assisted with private and public projects surveying state-listed reptile and amphibian species in Massachusetts. She produced a thesis project in Radcliffe Seminars on incorporating sustainable ecological habitat and modern housing needs.

She has also worked as a landscape architect performing design and consultation, and lecturing on all aspects of sustainable landscapes.

Self-initiated projects include wetlands research and monitoring of local populations of endangered turtles, state-listed amphibians, and continuous observation of local flora.

Julie gives a great deal of her time to activities that have community benefit and assist in the preservation of wildlife and improvement of human co-existence with endangered species.

Julie Lisk

Dr. Bryan Windmiller holds a Ph.D. in Biology and a Master's degree in Environmental Policy, both from Tufts University. He has worked as a consulting wetland wildlife ecologist since 1987. At Hyla Ecological Services, Bryan specializes in conducting population and habitat use studies of rare amphibians, reptiles, and aquatic invertebrates for regulatory agencies. He also conducts and participates in a variety of academic research projects, focusing in recent years on: the impacts of residential development on mole salamander populations, movement patterns of wood turtles, and the distribution of aquatic beetles and bugs in New England ponds and vernal pools.

Bryan has taught wetland ecology at Harvard University (Radcliffe College) Graduate School of Landcape Design and will be teaching a week-long seminar on the inventory and monitoring of amphibian and reptile populations at the Humboldt Field Research Institute in Maine in May, 2003. He was a conservation commissioner in Concord for four years and is active in several local conservation programs. Click here to review some of Bryan's publications.