Meet the founder.
Colten Lay is a hydrologist, botanist, restoration practitioner, and GIS specialist based in Moab, Utah. His experience includes watershed monitoring, spring inventories, rare plant surveys, vegetation monitoring, ecological assessments, environmental analysis, restoration implementation, and hydrologic field studies throughout the Colorado Plateau and Intermountain West.
His work has supported federal agencies, watershed partnerships, academic research, restoration projects, and long-term monitoring efforts involving springs, wetlands, streams, upland vegetation communities, rare plants, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, post-fire landscapes, and low-tech process-based restoration.
Academic Portfolio & Publications
Research projects, technical reports, presentations, publications, and academic work.
Areas of Experience
Watershed Monitoring
Hydrologic Assessments
Water Quality Monitoring
Spring & Wetland Inventories
Rare Plant Surveys
GIS & Spatial Analysis
Environmental Analysis Documents
Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration
Stream & Riparian Restoration
Hydrologic Instrumentation
Post-Fire Assessments
Wetland Delineations
Education
M.S., Natural Resources — Utah State University, 2025
B.S., Biology/Botany — Southern Utah University, 2014
GIS Certificates & Professional Training
EPA Watershed Academy Certificate