Copperhead Environmental Consulting

2 days ago

Lakes and rivers can become prone to algal blooms—just when it’s time for summer fun! Water can start looking, smelling, and tasting foul. Worse, humans and wildlife can face toxicity risk. Enter Matt Huddleston, Ph.D., and the Copperhead Green Team.

At our laboratory in Paint Lick, Kentucky, we culture algae and cyanobacteria and subject them to various algaecides. Then, we partner with certified applicators to develop situation-specific treatment plans that target the bad stuff and protect resources such as fish, aquatic insects, and beneficial algae.

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Copperhead Environmental Consulting

1 week ago

It’s thumbs-up all around at Copperhead as we welcome Carrie Glover, our new Vice President of Human Resources. With 27 years of HR leadership, Carrie is ideally suited to help us attract top talent and support the needs of our growing business.

As you can see, Carrie is also ideally suited for beekeeping, a common activity on her family’s 25-acre property in Jessamine County, Kentucky. There, she also enjoys gardening and caring for chickens. Learn more about Carrie at the Copperhead website. (There’s a link in the comments.)

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Copperhead Environmental Consulting

2 weeks ago

It takes fascination, focus, and fortitude to blaze trails in bat ecology. Wildlife Biologist Jacob Alexander has those attributes in spades—and now he also has a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service federal permit to handle threatened and endangered bat species. That gives Copperhead Environmental Consulting 13 professionals with this important permit!

Jacob can now handle Indiana bats, gray bats, and northern long-eared bats in the performance of mist-netting, radio-tagging, and other essential hands-on procedures.

Jacob’s past is well-suited to the go-anywhere demands of our leading-edge bat work. An avid outdoorsman, he hiked the entire Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia in 2019. Before making The Great Outdoors his workplace, he was a roadie/lighting technician for country music superstar Dierks Bentley, as well as others in the music industry.

The protection of wildlife and their habitats has long been a passion for Jacob. For example, he worked as a climbing arborist in urban forestry, and he led studies in the health and translocation of eastern box turtles. He is thrilled to continue working with the Copperhead team to protect our threatened and endangered bat species.

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