Meet the President
Norman Ecological Consulting, LLC is run solely by Frank J. Norman, a senior ecologist with over 22 years of experience in the field of ecology. 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.
An experienced plant ecologist, botanist and project manager, Frank Norman has worked nationally in 26 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Districts and in 27 states with extensive experience in the Midwest focusing on wetland, restoration, and inventory projects. Norman is a certified professional wetland scientist (PWS) through the Society of Wetland Scientists and a Nebraska Department of Roads qualified wetland scientist. Frank has a reputation for his expertise with native flora, vegetation monitoring, native restoration design, rare plant surveys, and wetlands assessments. He has diverse project experience with municipalities, non-profits, government agencies, private companies, and individual landowners. He also has coordinated state and federal agency interactions and managed wetland crews in the field. He has conducted large-scale wetland delineations, led major permitting efforts, and has designed and implemented wetland mitigations.
Notable accomplishments include:
-
Certified Ute Ladies’-Tresses Orchid Consultant by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
-
Member of the Plant Subcommittee that revised the plant-related sections of the American Public Works Association BMP Manual Revision (2005-2007)
-
Served on peer review committees for the Great Plains (2006) and Midwest 2008 regional supplements of the 1987 Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual
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.
