B.S. Environmental Science and Management (concentration in ecology, biodiversity, and evolution), University of California, Davis, 2012
- Vollmar Natural Lands Consulting: Staff Ecologist, 2015-present
- Zone 7 Water Agency: Technical Field Coordinator, 2015
- Urban Creeks Council: Program/Field Manager, Program Coordinator, Intern, 2012-2015
- U.C. Davis Herbarium: Intern, 2012
- U.C. Davis Botanical Conservatory: Intern, 2012
Ms. Neuhaus has a unique professional background combining non-profit and government work. Her undergraduate work focused on ecology, botany, and GIS. Since earning her degree, she spent two years managing the Living Arroyos program, an environmental stewardship program to restore riparian habitat in Alameda County, and trained hundreds of volunteers in stream restoration tasks and native plant care. She has led and coordinated monitoring, reporting, and on-the-ground implementation for multiple riparian restoration projects in the Livermore-Amador Valley. She has experience with many field survey techniques, including California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM), electroshocking, seining, dipnetting, and water quality testing. She is proficient in ArcGIS, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite software and data collection using Trimble GPS units.
Ms. Neuhaus has applied her skills to a variety of projects in Northern California. In her three years with Urban Creeks Council, she was involved in a baseline study of riparian habitat in eastern Alameda County conducting CRAM, vegetation, and fish surveys on thirty sites. She also worked with Point Blue Conservation Science to develop a method of using publicly available citizen science bird survey data to evaluate quality of riparian habitat, and worked on over twenty-five soil bioengineering projects using live willow material for bank stabilization and erosion control. Since joining VNLC, Ms. Neuhaus has conducted multiple different biological surveys including California tiger salamander larval seine surveys, California red-legged frog surveys, aquatic invertebrate surveys, botanical and rare plant surveys, visual encounter surveys and amphibian spotlight surveys.
Ms. Neuhaus holds federal permits to conduct surveys for California red-legged frog and larval surveys for California tiger salamander.