Dyanne Sheldon
Natural Resources Manager
Email Address: dyanne.sheldon@otak.com
Phone: 425-739-7972
Dyanne Sheldon has worked as a naturalist and educator since 1976, and as a field ecologist in the Pacific Northwest since 1981. She is a wetland ecologist with decades of experience in wetland delineation, impact assessment, regulatory compliance and compensation design, implementation, and monitoring. Sheldon has taught habitat restoration courses for nearly a decade including courses for the Army Corps of Engineers, Dept of Ecology, and WA Dept of Transportation wetland ecologist and landscape architects staff in order to improve their design approach and conditioning of mitigation plans.
She has taught for the Wetland Science and Management Certificate Program at the University of Washington for over 10 years, receiving their Teacher of the Year award based on consistent student evaluations for excellence. Sheldon has worked as both an agency staff person and a private consultant: she has a deep understanding of natural system ecological processes and the implications of applying regulations to those systems.