Tom Touchet is a Senior Wetland Scientist for AECOM located in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Tom has 
experience in environmental restoration, wetland and upland plant ecology, wetland delineations and mapping, wetland mitigation design and monitoring, and federal, state, and local environmental permitting. Tom is also a Certified Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS) and is a member of AECOM’s scientific SCUBA diving team (Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver certified) and has performed numerous underwater ecological surveys (SAV surveys, benthic characterizations, oyster habitat surveys, etc.), eelgrass (Zostera marina) restoration projects, and long-term monitoring for underwater restoration projects. Tom is an FAA certified small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) pilot (i.e. commercial drone pilot) for AECOM and has applied this technology for ecological restoration projects.
Tom has a BS in Biology and Earth & Space Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a MS in Environmental and Forest Biology with a concentration in Wetland Plant Ecology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.
Tom has served the Society for Ecological Restoration’s Northeast Chapter as the Massachusetts State Director (2008-2012), Vice Chairperson (2012-2018), Acting Chairperson (2014), and a Director At-Large (2018 – present).
Tom has a BS in Biology and Earth & Space Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a MS in Environmental and Forest Biology with a concentration in Wetland Plant Ecology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.
Tom has served as the Massachusetts State Director (2008-2012), Vice Chairperson (2012-2018), and Acting Chairperson (2014) for the Society of Ecological Restoration’s New England Chapter.