March 16, 2022

The Watershed Company

Spilsbury Pucci

The Watershed Company has hired Dawn Spilsbury Pucci as a GIS analyst/ecologist/drone pilot. Spilsbury Pucci is a forest and fish ecologist with 21 years of experience in the Pacific Northwest. She is also a FAA licensed UAS (drone) pilot and supporting The Watershed Company with UAS aerial imagery. Spilsbury Pucci also supports The Watershed Company teams with GIS services, nearshore ecological expertise, climate resiliency planning, habitat restoration planning and monitoring, and facilitation of public processes. She has a diverse set of skills and experiences including facilitation of citizen committees and technical work groups, management of restoration programs and scientific communications to policy and legislative decision makers. Spilsbury Pucci coordinates the Puget Sound Ecosystem Monitoring Program's Salmonid Work Group, which aims to support Federal, State, Tribal and other salmon ecology and recovery monitoring and research partners through-out the Sound.

Prior to joining The Watershed Company, Spilsbury Pucci worked in the public sector where she managed a salmon recovery grant program focusing on habitat protection and restoration. She was involved with the development of Island County's first sea level rise and flood risk assessment. She was a member of several Puget Sound and State advisory committees and work groups pertaining to salmon recovery, monitoring and nearshore climate adaptation. She has also worked for a tribal government as a forest and fish ecologist and was involved in the adaptive management program and cultural resources module development that supports the State Forest Practices program.