Experienced Technical Editor and Writer for Environmental Consultants

If you are a project manager, subject matter expert, or business owner in the environmental consulting industry, you probably work on many reports for clients and regulatory agency reviewers every year. Maybe you are interested in making your environmental reports better. Perhaps you’d simply like to spend less time fine-tuning your technical reports. Or you might be tired of fixing the same errors in the reports produced by less-experienced writers at your company.

I can help.

I’ll make sure your grammar, punctuation, and spelling are correct. I’ll make sure your acronyms are introduced correctly and your sources are cited. I’ll check the consistency of information presented in text, tables, and figures. I’ll fix your formatting to make it easier for clients and agencies to read and understand your reports. If needed, I’ll make your documents compatible with federal Section 508 accessibility guidelines. And if you’d like to have a custom in-house style guide, I’d love to create one for you.

Do you need someone to do the desktop review of cultural resources in your project area? I know all the resources: NRHP data, SHPO databases, historical maps, aerial imagery, and more. I know how to help because I’m a subject matter expert myself. I’m a professional archaeologist. I don’t do fieldwork anymore, but I do file searches and write literature reviews and historic contexts. I understand the appropriate level of effort needed for desktop reviews, and I’ll help you get the job done.

Do you write business plans, marketing plans, quarterly reports, or board reports for your business? Having another set of eyes on your internal documents will increase your firm’s professionalism and help you communicate effectively with your internal staff and outside stakeholders.

Perhaps you have written a nonfiction book and need some help with it. I can do that, too. My experience and expertise translate well to nonfiction book editing. I use my technical editing skills to assess the organization, flow, and argument in your manuscript. My copyediting expertise means I can help you fix clunky sentences, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and all the other bits and pieces that need to be done to create a polished book.

Workflow: Typically, clients send reports to me in Microsoft Word, and I use track changes and comments for edits. Formatting changes are not usually tracked.

Contracting: If you think you’ll have ongoing work, such as multiple environmental resource reports or permit applications, we’ll usually set up a master services agreement. Your project managers can then send specific tasks to me along with the project and task numbers for billing. If you have one specific project you’d like help with, we can set up a consulting agreement with a specific scope of work. I take ACH payments, checks, and credit card payments.