Nicole Wright

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About Nicole Wright

Nicole has extensive experience designing, planning, and executing hydrological and instream flow studies. Nicole's professional experience encompasses a wide range of environmental projects for government, industry, academia, First Nations, and NGOs in Canada, Australia, England, and the United States. She has led studies designing habitat suitability criteria for macroinvertebrates, evaluating the impacts of climate change on wetlands and instream flows, examining potential ecohydrological effects of reservoir drawdown and flooding on adjacent wetland and riparian areas, assessing the potential impacts of groundwater pumping on river flows, assessing the impact of wetland condition and function from residential inflows, determining lake residency times, and designing and implementing small and large-scale water and energy balance studies for wetlands. Nicole is passionate about the conservation and restoration of wetlands, and strives to improve monitoring methods through the development and application of quantitative assessments of wetland functions. She applies her knowledge of best management practices, legislation, guidelines, and current research to develop effective, project-specific recommendations for the sustainable management, mitigation, and restoration of wetlands and riparian areas. Nicole has authored peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and in conference proceedings, environmental assessments, EAC amendments, and scoping, baseline, and monitoring reports. Her technical and third-party reviews encompass a wide range of hydrological issues, including the regulatory framework for surface and groundwater management in British Columbia; potential impacts to instream, wetland, and riparian condition and function from proposed hydroelectric, pipeline, and mine projects; and hydrological guidance for wetland restoration.