Mr. Jones has seven years of experience working with the threatened and endangered species of the Edwards Aquifer system. Mr. Jones’s experience includes ecological monitoring services and habitat assessments for listed Eurycea species, and all levels of due-diligence activities for listed karst invertebrate species (karst terrain feature surveys, karst feature excavation and habitat assessment, and presence/absence surveys).
Working under the supervision and USFWS 10(a)1(b) scientific permit of Dr. White and Mr. Crawford; Mr. Jones has been actively involved in biologic, habitat, and risk assessment projects occurring in central Texas Eurycea habitat in the Northern Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, as well as assessing potential aquifer recharge features and conducting biological and hydrogeologic surveys of caves in Bexar, Hays, Travis, and Williamson Counties, Texas. He has helped to pioneer a mark-recapture study involving the Georgetown salamander, providing the first population estimates for the species as well as information on reproductive timing and movement (results published in Herpetological Conservation and Biology). He specializes in wildlife population monitoring and assessing habitat for central Texas Eurycea species and cave-dwelling invertebrates in the central Texas karst.
Mr. Jones also conducts regular cave and spring monitoring surveys for the Williamson County Conservation Foundation in support of the Williamson County Regional Habitat Conservation Plan