Edward Samanns
ADC 30 Committee Member Senior Program Manager, Natural Resource Management Louis Berger US, Inc. Ph: (974) 407-1468 [email protected] |
Mr. Edward Samanns, PWS, CE is the senior program manager for natural resource
management at Louis Berger with over 30 years of experience working in the environmental and transportation space. Mr. Samanns specializes in ecological restoration/mitigation and related topics including stream and wetland ecology, permitting, threatened and endangered species, invasive species management, natural resource management and NEPA compliance. Mr. Samanns served as the principal investigator and author of NCHRP Synthesis 302 Mitigation of Ecological Impacts (2002), NCHRP 25-25 Task 68: Implementing Measures to Reduce Highway Impacts on Habitat Fragmentation (2011), NCHRP 25-25 Task 93: Long-Term Construction and Maintenance Cost Comparison for Road Stream Crossings: Traditional Hydraulic Design vs, Aquatic Passage Design (2017), and FHWA TOPR No. 6601- 13069 Feasibility Study for the Development of a Framework for an Effective Stormwater Quality Credit/Trading/Banking Plan (2016). Mr. Samanns is also a co-author of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Engineering Specification Guidelines for Wetland Plant Establishment and Subgrade Preparation (1998). Mr. Samanns recently joined the ADC30 committee and looks forward to working with the committee members in the coming years to continue its good work to advance the application of sound science in the planning and management of transportation systems, and to support efforts to disseminate research into the hands of practitioners to use in making positive changes. |