ESSA Technologies is an innovative consulting company specializing in environmental sciences and decision support.

Our mission is to bring together people, science and analytical tools to sustain healthy ecosystems and human communities.

The key to our success is a unique and rich combination of scientific expertise, advanced tools for systems analysis, and innovative communications techniques. We provide ideas, tools, and disciplinary expertise; our dedicated and knowledgeable team of scientists fills a niche in the consulting field — we work together in interdisciplinary teams with our clients, applying quantitative methods and qualitative concepts to resolve complex natural resource and environmental management problems.

ESSA Technologies is a Canadian company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Learn more about ESSA’s international projects and operations here.

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April 29, 2013 ESSA welcomes Jimena Eyzaguirre, Senior Climate Change Specialist

ESSA is pleased to welcome Jimena Eyzaguirre, Senior Climate Change Specialist and newest member of ESSA’s climate change adaptation team. Jimena brings with her over 10 years of Canadian and international experience in providing research, analysis and advice to inform government climate change policy and programming decisions.  In her previous role as Senior Policy Advisor [...]
March 5, 2013 From Sea to Sky: Assessing cumulative effects across Pacific Northwest ecosystems

The Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology is holding their annual meeting, and it is being organized by Darcy Pickard (ESSA), the Northern Vice President of the SNVB.   The meeting will be held Executive Suites and Resort in Squamish, BC. http://www.thesnvb.org/annualmeeting.html Registration to the annual meeting is now open, see more details here.  If you have any [...]
March 5, 2013 Plenary talk on cumulative effects by ESSA’s Lorne Greig at the SNVB meeting

http://www.thesnvb.org/plenary-2013.html
March 5, 2013 Workshops on R and QGIS hosted by ESSA staff at SNVB annual meeting

http://www.thesnvb.org/workshops-2013-r.html http://www.thesnvb.org/workshops-2013-quantum.html
March 5, 2013 ESSA welcomes new staff!

ESSA is pleased to welcome three new additions to our growing staff! Last fall we were joined by Erica Olson, a Systems Ecologist in our Vancouver office.  Erica has a considerable range of experience, primarily in marine ecosystems and is already involved with a range of projects, topics and clients.  Erica holds a B.Sc. in [...]
December 14, 2012 New Forest Vegetation (FVS) Tools

ESSA is just completing a two year project in partnership with the US Forest Service, allowing all geographic variants of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) to be integrated more closely with other landscape modeling and planning tools. FVS is the core forest-stand projection model used throughout the US, and is available for much of BC [...]

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