Jay Stebbings

Background

About Jay Stebbings

Jay is a Biodiversity Officer at the Environment Agency in Lincoln, Lincolnshire. He has six years of experience relating to bat surveys, ecological appraisals, ecological report writing and mitigation, and is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. He also has thorough experience of a wide range of protected species surveys, including bats, great crested newts, birds, otter, water vole, badger, reptiles and habitats. Jay has undertaken project management for the ecological input to several national and regional infrastructure schemes, including transport, energy, environmental asset maintenance and flood alleviation. He also manages numerous smaller projects from initial surveys through to reporting and mitigation. Among a range of qualifications, Jay possesses a Class 2 Bat Survey Licence, a Class 1 Great Crested Newt Survey Licence, and holds inter-disciplinary qualifications such as CSCS, Confined Spaces and Emergency First Aid at Work, which contribute to his work as an Ecologist. Project work undertaken by Jay relating to bats has included scoping surveys, activity surveys, programming and deployment of SM2 and AnaBat remote bat detectors and detailed bat call and data analysis for several large wind farm developments. Jay is familiar with BatSound, BatScan, Analook and Kaleidoscope bat call analysis software. In addition, Jay has designed bespoke bat roost boxes for use in mitigation strategies for roosts including maternity roosts of over 150 bats within schools and private residences. Throughout the work undertaken in his role as an Ecologist, Jay has made extensive use of GIS mapping, including production of Phase 1 Habitat Survey maps, faunal survey maps, figures to illustrate mitigation and management plans, and interpretive projection of large volumes of data obtained from data centres or during extensive or successive surveys.