Adam Ringia

Background

About Adam Ringia

Adam is currently the Water Rights Office Manager for Pueblo of Laguna in Northwestern New Mexico, and the Executive Director of the Southwest Tribal Fisheries Commission, he was recently selected to the National Fish Habitat Partnership Board as the National Tribal Liaison. He has experience as a field biologist, a supervisor/program manager/department director, and federal law interpretation and application. His responsibilities have included project management and design, budgeting, negotiation, contracting, data analysis and presentation, site evaluations (for wildlife habitat and endangered and threatened species), interdiction of illegal wildlife imports, proposal drafting, teaching, public outreach, and many others. He has also worked as a liaison between tribal interests and state and federal concerns on a variety of issues. He has experience conducting research with birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and insects, on threatened and endangered species, cave ecology, wildlife disease ecology, tropical biology, and with wildlife habitat delineations, mist-netting birds, avian and mammalian nest searching, radar and night-vision migration surveys, capture and handling of raptors, hair-snare, track plate, and camera trap sampling. Specialties: Aerial Photogrammetry Animal Behavior Studies Biological Field Studies Budget Management Environmental Compliance Monitoring Field Biology and Sampling GIS Applications for Plant and Mammal Populations Habitat Based Mapping Ornithology Project Management Project Planning Quantitative Analysis Statistical Data Analysis Stream Habitat Studies Terrestrial and Wetland Ecological Investigations Threatened and Endangered Species Surveys Wildlife and Habitat Inventory Wildlife Biology and Ecology