EAS Engineering, Inc.

Stephen P. Langley, M.S.

Education

Manhattan College, B.S. in Biology, 1968

University of Miami, RSMAS, M.S. in Biological Oceanography, 1974

Current Status

Mr. Langley has almost thirty years of experience in conducting environmental impact assessments in coastal areas, fifteen of which have been in South Florida with local engineering firms. As Senior Project Scientist of EAS Engineering, his primary responsibilities include collection and interpretation of scientific data to support the firm’s environmental permitting services and preparation of documents such as environmental impact assessments, HEP analyses, DRI applications for development approval, and various environmental permit and zoning applications. Mr. Langley also is proficient in the use of AutoCad, has prepared conceptual design alternatives for numerous marinas, has prepared construction plans for wetland restoration projects, and is responsible for wetland delineation and mapping.

Previous Experience

Prior to joining EAS Engineering, Mr. Langley was Senior Project Scientist for a local Miami engineering firm, where he was responsible for gathering support data and technical information for the firm’s engineering projects and preparing DRI applications, permit applications to local, state, and federal governmental agencies, applications for Binding Letters of Interpretation, and special exception and zoning variance petitions to various local municipalities. He also conducted field inspections to assess environmental impacts of proposed projects.

Mr. Langley has also worked as a Project Manager over a monitoring team for one of the largest seagrass mitigation efforts ever attempted in the U.S. In this capacity at another local engineering firm he was responsible for budget preparation and control, staffing, scheduling, quality control, and report preparation. Before being promoted to Project Manager, Mr. Langley executed the following tasks: preparation for DRIs and master plans for three Dade County parks and marinas, an office complex in South Dade County, and a mobile home development in Cape Coral; Environmental Impact Statements for the Southwest Florida Regional Airport in Fort Myers and a U.S. Army Communications Facility in South Dade; feasibility studies for several major developments from Vero Beach to the Florida Keys; and numerous federal, state, and local permit applications. Mr. Langley was principal author or a literature survey of water quality in the Key Largo Coral Reef Marine Sanctuary and was involved in a study of American crocodile populations at Florida Power and Light’s Turkey Point Power Plant in South Dade and the Port Bougainville development in Key Largo, a study of phytoplankton communities in Florida Bay, and a study of offshore marine communities for Florida Power Corporation in Crystal River, Florida.

Before entering the private sector in 1978, Mr. Langley served for three years in the U.S. Peace Corps. His work included design of a ciguatera toxicity monitoring program to identify sources of ciguatera in the commercial fishery of the island republic of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and a study of the effects of a major oil spill in the Straits of Magellan in collaboration with the Patagonian Institute in southern Chile. Mr. Langley served a tour of duty in the U.S. Army as a medical lab technician in a Brigade Dispensary at Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, and at Bassett Army Hospital, Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Alaska.

Summary

Mr. Langley has successfully used his biological training and experience in a wide variety of demands. He has most recently gained a great deal of experience in planning, implementing, and managing environmental projects in the context of engineering, both for small projects and those with budgets approaching one hundred million dollars. He is intimately familiar with the environmental permitting process and has gained the respect of clients and agency staff-members.

Publications

Langley, S.P. & G. Lembeye V. 1977. Preliminary data on the macrobenthos, sediment characteristics and petroleum content in the sediments of two estuaries in Puerto Espora (Tierra del Fuego) contaminated by the Metula oil spill. Annals of the Patagonian Institute, 8:375-388 (in Spanish).

Langley, S.P., L. Guzman & C. Rios. 1980. Dynamic aspects of Mytilus chilensis (Hupe, 1840) in the Straits of Magellan. Annals of the Patagonian Institute, 11:319-332 (in Spanish).

Gaby, R., S.P. Langley, M.T. Park & R. Curry. 1980. Key Largo Coral Reef Marine Sanctuary: Literature Survey and Water Quality Monitoring Program. NOAA, Office of Coastal Zone Management Technical Report, 196 pp.

Gaby, R. & S.P. Langley. 1985. Seagrass mitigation in Biscayne Bay, Florida. In: Oceans ‘85, Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management. O.T. Magoon (ed.), pp. 904-919.

Gaby, R. & S.P. Langley. 1986. Port of Miami seagrass restoration: analysis of management and economics of a large scale dredge mitigation project. Proceedings of the XIth World Dredging Congress, Brighton, UK. World Organization of Dredging Associations (in press).

Organizations

Florida Associations of Environmental Professionals

Florida Native Plant Society

Registration

Certified Environmental Professional, No. 92034880, June 4, 1992 (Environmental Assessment)

EAS Engineering, Inc. 55 Almeria Ave. Coral Gables, Florida 33134 * 305.445.5553 * 305.444.2112 fax Email:ESwakon@eas-eng.com