Naomi Valentine is the Ecological Restoration Team Lead at SWCA Environmental Consultant’s Massachusetts operation. Ms. Valentine is based in SWCA’s Amherst office but manages a team of Ecological Restoration specialists who work across the Northeast and beyond. Naomi’s background is in wetland ecology and sustainability science and she manages and implements a wide range of ecological restoration projects in her role at SWCA. Some of these projects include wetland mitigation, soil and vegetation management planning, streambank restoration, riparian restoration, coastal restoration and enhancement, climate resilience enhancement, and many others.

Naomi also enjoys participating in volunteering projects in the greater Amherst area and regularly helps with river clean-up, hiking trail maintenance and improvement projects, and supporting local land trust initiatives