Consulting

 

I consult in a variety of areas, including the following:


  1. •  Ecology of the Gulf of California and coastal Sonora and Baja California


  3. •  Ecology of tropical coastal wetlands


  5. •  Ecology of the Sonoran Desert and its Sky Island region


        •  Invertebrate zoology


        •  Book editing and publishing


        •  Environmental non-profit management


Recent consulting projects:


•  Expert testimony and consultation for CONANP (Mexico’s National Park Service), in support of a proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site designation for the El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve.   In 2013, the Pinacate Reserve received World Heritage Site status http://www.mexidata.info/id3679.html; on Earth Day 2014 President Enrique Peña Nieto, Sonora governor Guillermo Padrés Elías, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Director of the National Park Service (CONANP) flew in a helicopter brigade to the Pinacates to host a VIP celebration http://rockypoint360.com/president-pena-nieto-visits-pinacate/.  To see my iPhone photos of the president at this celebration, click here President Peña Nieto.


  1. • Invertebrate Consultant, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)/USGS Coastal Biogeographic Risk Assessment Program


  1. • The Pacifica Bay Development Project (Baja California), by the Mithun Group.  Conservation site planning for an environmentally-friendly resort community on the northwest coast of Baja California.


  1. • The Sea of Cortez Exhibition, produced by David J. Wagner, LLC.  A traveling art exhibit sponsored by The Susan K. Black Foundation and David Wagner, LLC.  Planning and on-site logistics in an expedition to the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) by 35 professional artists participating in the exhibition.


  1. • Start up and launch consulting for Blue Ridge Discovery Foundation (2011) and SABCC/Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center (2009) - 501(c)3 not-for-profit organizations.


•  Strange Days on Planet Earth and The Shape of Life: 8-part PBS television series produced by Sea Studios Foundation in cooperation with National Geographic Television and the National Science Foundation.  http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/


Rates vary based on for-profit Vs. not-for-profit status, location, and length of project.  Contact Rick Brusca at:  rbrusca@desertmuseum.org


Download Brusca’s C.V. here:  Brusca CV.pdf