M.S., Wildlife and Fisheries Biologist
Mr. Sloat is a wildlife and fisheries biologist with more than 15 years of experience, and extensive knowledge of biological resources throughout California. He has managed many projects ranging from small private land restoration to region-wide biological inventories. Mr. Sloat received his B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology in 1988 from the University of California, Davis, and his M.S. in Ecology in 1998 from U.C. Davis.
Mr. Sloat is an expert ornithologist, and also has extensive experience with threatened and endangered terrestrial and aquatic species. He excels at coordinating natural resource improvements by working with a diverse group of stakeholders. He currently coordinates a large-scale water-quality monitoring program focusing on collecting background physical and biological data for the major tributaries of the upper Pit River in northeastern California. Working with private interest groups and state and federal agencies, project activities include the development of a watershed management strategy, and the coordination and management of several restoration projects.
Mr. Sloat’s biological experience covers a wide range of species and projects. He has conducted several large-scale biological inventories in northern California focused on documenting the distribution and abundance of wildlife species including northern goshawk, spotted owl, great gray owl, willow flycatcher, and rare carnivores. He served as the lead ornithologist to develop avian monitoring programs related to the management of Staten Island for waterfowl and shorebirds, and for documenting avian communities and habitat associations in eastern Merced County related to future landscape conservation planning. Mr. Sloat collected baseline data on the distribution and abundance of several anadromous fish species (e.g., coho salmon, king salmon, sea-run cutthroat trout), and developed a long-term monitoring strategy to document population trends of fish using private timberlands. He has also conducted biological surveys, habitat assessments, and impact analysis on a wide variety of utility, gas, and water holding facilities. For his graduate work, he studied waterfowl populations and habitat associations of artic nesting geese.