Dr. Robert Woithe
- Ph.D. in Systems Ecology and Environmental Science-Environmental Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.
- M.S. in Systems Ecology and Environmental Science-Environmental Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.
- A.B. in Biology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.A.
Robert Woithe, Ph.D., is a senior environmental scientist and Associate Vice President in Atkins North America’s Water Resources Sector with extensive experience in large-project management, aquatic and marine ecology, and natural resource monitoring and assessment. For the past 10 years Dr. Woithe’s exclusive focus has been monitoring and assessment programs to detect environmental status and impacts in rivers, estuaries, and marine systems. He is lead scientist and project manager for several large, long-term monitoring programs that collect, process, and analyze several million measurements a year. Bob has extensive experience throughout the continental U.S. and Alaska in the design and implementation of environmental monitoring studies, environmental permitting, mitigation, habitat and wetland restoration projects, and public coordination for public, private, and non-profit clients. He is also a member of Atkins’s corporate Scientific Diving Control Board and the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council's Coastal Migratory Pelagics and Data Collection Advisory Panels.
Specialties:
- Certified Senior Ecologist
- Professional Wetland Scientist
- Environmental monitoring and quantitative environmental analysis
- Hydrobiological monitoring
- Water quality monitoring and analysis
- Estuarine, marine & wetland ecology
- Natural Resource Valuation & Natural Resource Damage Assessment
- Ecological Economics
- Systems Ecology
- Marine and estuarine oil spills
- Gulf of Mexico, Tampa Bay, Alafia River, Hillsborough River
- Environmental effects of seawater desalination