Meet the President
Norman Ecological Consulting, LLC is run solely by Frank J. Norman, a senior ecologist with over 18 years of experience in environmental consulting. He has worked with a number of firms in the Kansas City area including Applied Ecological Services, Burns & McDonnell Engineering, and Black & Veatch Engineering. Frank has also worked briefly after college for the Kansas Biological Survey in Lawrence, Kansas and the Missouri Department of Conservation in El Dorado Springs, Missouri.
His responsibilities over the years have included project management, office coordination and administration, wetland delineations, permitting, and mitigation, natural resource inventories, stream asset inventories, restoration plans, native seed collection, compilation of seed/live plant lists for projects and for growing. Frank has also done marketing, document quality control, and proposal preparations. He has conducted multiple large-scale wetland delineations, led major permitting efforts, and has designed and implemented wetland mitigations. Norman also has coordinated state and federal agency interactions, managed diverse and often complex projects—including extensive fiber optic cable, pipeline, transmission line and levee improvement projects—and supervised wetland crews in the field. He has worked throughout the United States in 26 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Districts and in 26 states. His experience in the consulting field has prepared him well to run his own ecological business.
Notable accomplishments include being:
a PWS or professional wetland scientist with the Society of Wetland Scientists
a certified Ute Ladies’-Tresses Orchid Consultant by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
a member of the Plant Subcommittee that revised the plant-related sections of the American Public Works Association BMP Manual Revision (2005-2007)
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on peer review committees for the Great Plains (2006) and Midwest 2008 regional supplements of the 1987 Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual
a volunteer leader in restoration efforts for the Grassland Heritage Foundation (2001-Present)
a volunteer ecologist for the Kansas Land Trust
He has received a masters of art in botany from the University of Kansas in 1989 and a bachelors of science in systematics and ecology from the University of Kansas in 1984.
