Jonathan L. Dasler, PE, PLS

Jonathan L. Dasler received a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering, cum laude, from the University of Portland in 1984. He was registered as a Professional Engineer in the state of Oregon in 1987 and registered as a Professional Land Surveyor in Oregon and California in 1990. Mr. Dasler was certified by the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping as an Inshore Hydrographer in 1989. He is a board member of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) Hydrographer Certification Board and a past board member of The Hydrographic Society of America. His experience includes 18 years of contract project management on hydrographic and land surveying projects for with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), port authorities, and private sector firms. He was selected by the United States Department of the Interior to participated on a survey protocol evaluation panel to review hydrographic survey methodology for studies in the Grand Canyon by the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. Under contract to NOAA, he was responsible for extensive charting surveys for large portions of San Francisco Bay and the offshore approaches to Los Angeles, Long Beach, El Segundo, and Port Hueneme harbors in California. He has led the effort to map sediment movement using high-resolution multibeam bathymetric surveys of the Willamette River bottom in the Portland Harbor superfund site as part of a Remedial Investigation/ Feasibility Study in Portland, Oregon. Most recently, he oversaw the hydrographic surveying effort in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, which involved bathymetric mapping with a multibeam sonar and side scan sonar and magnetic surveys to search for WWII vintage ordanance. Mr. Dasler is a Vice President and the Director of Marine Services at David Evans and Associates, Inc. in Portland, Oregon were he has managed hydrographic projects since 1989.