Carmen Jones MSc MCIEEM Director
Carmen Jones is a Director of TerrAqua Ecological Services and an experienced ecologist with twenty years of experience working in the field of ecology including working within NGOs and managing her own ecological consultancy before co-founding TerrAqua Ecological Services Ltd. She has a sound understanding of ecological survey methods, environmental legislation and the planning system and a long history of providing specialist ecological advice for clients and their projects.
She has managed a significant number of projects including those undertaken on behalf of various clients from differing sectors including large scale developers, landowners, and Government agencies including the Environment Agency, Forestry Commission and Forest Research.
Carmen is fully familiar with and has contributed to both Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and ecological impact assessments (EcIA). Her specialities include strategic assessments, habitat regulation assessments, bat ecology survey techniques, mitigation and sound analysis, habitat surveys including Phase I, protected species survey and mitigation including EPS development licence application. She is currently licenced to undertake work on Bats, Dormouse, Otter, White Clawed Crayfish, Water Vole, and Great Crested Newt. She has extensive experience in NVC woodland and grassland survey techniques and significant experience in bird survey techniques and monitoring
Carmen is fully accredited by Environment Agency to undertake River Habitat Surveys (RHS).
In addition to the hands on ecological expertise she is also highly experienced in undertaking the role of Clerk of Works, Code for Sustainable Homes Assessment and client liaison.
Dyfrig Jones BSc Director
Dyfrig Jones is a Director of TerrAqua Ecological Services Ltd and highly experienced ecologist with over 25 years -experience terrestrial and aquatic ecology. He has a strong record of acting in an advisory capacity as part of the senior management team for NGOs targeting both riparian and wetland environments. He has acted as an environmental representative on CAMS Stakeholder Groups across Wales and on the West Wales River Basin Liaison Panel which involved the strategic development and implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Wales. He has managed a large number of projects including those promoting the socio-economic benefits of fishing to rural communities; targeting habitat enhancement for protected species and species translocation; and the development of catchment management plans.
Dyfrig has a long record of ecological project management including management of large multi-site contracts undertaken on behalf of various clients including Government agencies including the Environment Agency. Forestry Commission and Forest Research and developers.
He has site management, ecological clerk of works and site design experience ranging from an advisory role on the management plans for SSSI and NNR wetland sites in Wales through the restoration and re-creation of wetlands from historically “improved” agricultural and forestry land to the designing of a large wetland/lake restoration programme on a SINC site in conjunction with the industrial owners and other interested local partners (local angling association and bird interest groups). Experience in the design of ecological features and their long term management implication within small site specific SUDS schemes associated with the management of agricultural diffuse pollution.
In addition to his significant management experience Dyfrig is a highly experienced hands on ecologist with a long history of project and field work. He currently holds a number of protected species licences in this field and has extensive surveying experience of otters, water voles, dormice, great crested newt, river invertebrates, native white clawed crayfish, riparian vegetation, RHS, Phase 1 and NVC. He also has considerable experience in the scientific analysis of the environmental needs of these species at local and catchment spacial scales.
