MSc (College of Applied Biology); RPBio
Darcie Quamme, MSc, College of Applied Biology, RPBio, is an aquatic ecologist with 28 years experience in assessment and enhancement and restoration projects in standing and flowing waters. Darcie successfully brings together government agencies, industry and non-profits at a regional, provincial and national levels in projects such as private landowner enhancement, and development of protocols to prioritize and evaluate and monitor wetland and stream restoration. Darcie has authored over 50 papers providing guidance and prescription to industry, government and non-profits in aquatic assessment, habitat enhancement and evaluations of suspended sediment, sediment quality and soil evaluations.
Darcie is a member of the College of Applied Biology and the Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, Erosion and Sediment Control Working Group, Living Lakes Canada Steering Committee for the Water Data Hub and Local Reference Condition, Kootenay Connect advisory team and the BC Bat Action Committee. In 2019, Darcie was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Regional District of Central Kootenay Mosquito Control Program. Recently, Darcie provided training and advice to the BC Wildlife Federation Wetland Effectiveness Monitoring Program and developed a monitoring program to aid permitting and review processes for Six Mile Slough, a large-scale restoration project, in collaboration with the province of BC and the Creston Valley Wildlife Management Area. Currently, Darcie is the Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network for Wetlands Project Manager for the Columbia Basin collaborative project.