Katherine Marlin

Ecologist

Bio
Relevant Experience
Education & Credentials

Bio

Ms. Katherine Marlin is a field biologist in Integral’s botany group based in the San Francisco Bay Area office. She has four years of academic and professional experience in natural resources, with expertise in California flora and vegetation, plant identification, vegetation surveys, plant community mapping, and special-status species and sensitive habitat assessments. She also has experience supporting NEPA and CEQA document preparation and monitoring mitigation site performance.

Prior to joining Integral Consulting, she worked as a field biologist in the botany group at H. T. Harvey & Associates.

Relevant Experience

Planning and Permitting

Regulatory Permitting Support, Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Solano Counties, California — Assisted with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Regional Water Quality Control Board, and San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission permitting for multiple projects, including emergency projects.

CEQA/NEPA

Saratoga-to-the-Sea Trail, Santa Clara County, California — Monitored post-construction vegetation recovery as part of a mitigation plan to track recovery of sensitive riparian habitat. The project also included CEQA and regulatory permitting support and rare plant surveys.

Regnart Creek Trail Project, Santa Clara County, California — Estimated restored vegetation cover using statistically defensible methods and prepared the monitoring report. The project included CEQA documentation and regulatory permitting.

Wetland Delineation

Commercial Development Wetland Delineation, San Mateo County, California — Flagged wetland delineation boundaries and determined top-of-bank and tidal lines based on geomorphological and vegetation characteristics.

Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Wetland Assessment, San Mateo County, California — Conducted a wetland assessment on District property in support of off-site mitigation for an urban development project.

Residential Development Wetland Ground-Truthing, Alameda County, California — Ground-truthed wetland spatial data collected by drone for a residential development project.

Lower Silver Creek Long-Term Monitoring Project, Santa Clara County, California — Conducted wetland delineation and mitigation success transects in support of long-term monitoring.

PG&E Biological Resources Support, Santa Clara County, California — Assisted with wetland delineation, ground-truthing habitat mapped from aerial imagery, and special-status plant surveys.

Botanical Surveys

Fremont Older Open Space Preserve Rare Plant Surveys, Santa Clara County, California — Prepared a special-status species table and collected herbarium specimens in support of rare plant surveys.

San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority Shoreline Flood Control Project, South Bay, California — Assisted with biological field data collection across a large shoreline flood control project footprint.

Santa Clara Valley Water Rare Plant Surveys, Santa Clara County, California — Conducted rare plant surveys, refined habitat mapping, developed methods to estimate average smooth lessingia density, and submitted special-status plant records to the California Natural Diversity Database.

South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, San Francisco Bay Area, California — Served as a botany specialist supporting habitat mapping and preparation of Biological Resource Reports for this multi-county restoration program.

Riparian Restoration Mitigation Monitoring Plan, San Mateo County, California — Developed a compliance matrix and photographic point map and assisted with preparation of a Mitigation Monitoring Plan for a riparian restoration project.

Congdon’s Tarplant Seed Collection, Milpitas, California — Collected seeds from Congdon’s tarplant at a project site in Santa Clara County.

PG&E Biological Resources Support, Santa Clara County, California — Assisted with wetland delineation, ground-truthing habitat mapped from aerial imagery, and special-status plant surveys.

Strauss Wind Energy Project, Santa Barbara County, California — Served as a field leader for rare plant surveys.

Education & Credentials

Highlights

4 years of experience

Plant ecology

Plant identification and rare plant surveys

NEPA and CEQA document preparation

Fire ecology

Statistical data analysis (R)

Education & Credentials

M.S., Natural Resources, Forest, Watershed and Wildland Sciences, Cal Poly Humboldt, California, 2022

B.S., Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 2017

Professional Experience

Field biologist 2, H. T. Harvey & Associates, 2023–July 2026

Invasive species technician, Maui Invasive Species Committee, 2021–2022

Teaching associate, field crew leader, Cal Poly Humboldt, 2019–2021

Research technician (range/botany), University of Idaho Grouse and Grazing Project, 2018

Intern, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, 2016–2017

Professional Affiliations

International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist

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