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➢ EIS for County Ocean View Recycling/Convenience Center (Hawaii DEM 2008) <br /> ➢ EA for Hakalau Forest NWR Kona Forest Unit (NEPA) (USFWS 2008) <br /> ➢ EA for Villages I, 4 & 5 of La`i`opua Housing (DHHL 2007) <br /> ➢ EA for County Purchase of Rice Property, Waipio (Hawaii Finance 2007) <br /> ➢ EA for Waikoloa Emergency Road (Hawaii DPW 2007) <br /> ➢ EA for County Reed's Bay Beach Park Improvements (Hawaii P&R 2007) <br /> ➢ Botanical Study for Sale of County Lands, Paauilo (Hawaii Finance 2006) <br /> ➢ NEPA EA for ARC of Hilo Facilities Expansion (Private 2006) <br /> ➢ EA for South Hilo Sanitary Landfill Expansion (Hawaii DEM 2005) <br /> ➢ EA for Pohoiki Bypass (Hawaii DPW 2005) <br /> ➢ EA for County La'aloa Street Extension (Hawaii DPW, 2004) <br /> ➢ EA for State Kahikinui Forest Restoration, Maui (DLNR 2004) <br /> ➢ Environmental Report, Keauhou Mauka Lands (Kamehameha School 2004) <br /> ➢ Botanical and Wetlands Study for Maku`u Hawaiian Homes Offsite Water System (DHHL 2004) <br /> ➢ EIS for County East Hawaii Regional Sort Station (Hawaii DEM 2004) <br /> ➢ NEPA EA for Housing, Kapolei, Oahu (DHHL 2003) <br /> ➢ EA for Kulani Correctional Facility Wastewater (DPS 2003) <br /> ➢ NEPA EIS for Puainako Extension (FHWA/Hawai`i DPW 2000) <br /> ➢ NEPA EA for Mohouli Road Extension (FHAW/Hawai`i DPW 2000) <br /> ➢ NEPA EA for Kawailani Street Improvements (FHWA/Hawai`i DPW 2000) <br /> BIOGRAPHY: <br /> Ron Terry, Ph.D., earned a B.A. in Geography in 1980 from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Supported by <br /> a National Science Foundation grant, he received a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, also in Geography, in <br /> 1988. He was Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from 1987-1992. During <br /> his professorship he began his consulting business, and started full-time consulting in 1992. He remained an <br /> Affiliate Professor at UH-Hilo and continues to occasionally lecture. He has been active on various State <br /> boards and commissions related to environmental science, including the Marine and Coastal Zone Management <br /> Advocacy Council (MACZAC), to which he was appointed by Governor Cayetano in 2000 and served on till <br /> 2008; the Mauna Kea Management Board, to which he was appointed for two terms from 2004-2012; and the <br /> State's Environmental Council, (2016-2024) to which he was appointed in February 2016 by Governor David <br /> Ige and where he helped lead revision of the State's EIS Administrative Rules. Terry has also served on the <br /> UH-Hilo Chancellor's Advisory Council and Chancellor Selection Committee, as well as the boards of the <br /> award-winning journal Environment Hawaii, the Nahelehele Dry Forest Working Group, and Hilo Bayfront <br /> Trails, Inc., of which he is co-founder. <br /> COMMUNITY PRO-BONO PROJECTS: <br /> An important component of Geometrician Associates' work is pro bono projects, including the following: <br /> ➢ Prepared Forest Stewardship Grant for Ha`ola, Inc., (Panaewa Hawaiian Home Lands Community <br /> Association), 1998 <br /> ➢ Special Permit for Edith Kanakaole Cultural Learning Center, Keaukaha, 2000 <br /> ➢ Assisted Kua 0 Ka La Charter School in obtaining permits, 2002 <br /> ➢ Assisted Hawaiian farmers in Hamakua to confirm farming rights in Conservation District, 2006 <br /> ➢ Conducted EA for Kamoleao Laulima Community Resource Center Incubator Kitchen, 2009 <br /> ➢ Prepared SMA Permit Application for creation of Kaipalaoa Bayfront Park, 2012 <br /> ➢ Prepared Biological Assessment for Na Kalae Wa'a Property, North Kohala, 2015 <br /> ➢ Prepared SMA Assessment for Ka `Umeke Kaeo Charter School Relocation, 2019 <br /> ➢ Prepared Section 7 Endangered Species Act Consultation for Hilo Bayfront Trails Phase 2, 2022 <br /> ➢ Assisted Ka `Umeke Kaeo Charter School with SMA Permits and Land Use Legal Proceedings, 2025 <br />