About Us

EcoGENESIS is a cutting edge environmental consulting business founded on the principles of the care and stewardship of the ecological systems which sustain humanity. Our philosophy is based on an integrated, balanced approach to co-existence between humans and their surrounding environment.  We excel in designing, permitting and managing large-scale wetland mitigation and habitat restoration projects in both tidal and freshwater environments with our thirty years of professional experience in the environmental industry.  We believe that  both localized projects such as living shorelines and large-scale habitat and wetland restoration present progressive, innovative, resilient and sustainable solutions to difficult, systemic, ecological and environmental issues such as habitat loss and fragmentation, water quality and quantity issues, endangered species, pollinator loss, and disaster and flood mitigation.

Our principal scientist and managing member, Pamela Fetterman, has emerged as a current leader in the fields of environmental and ecological restoration, management and regulation. Having worked on both sides of the permitting desk in both the public and private sectors, she skillfully guides clients through the complex channels of federal, state and local wetland mitigation banking, environmental permitting and local development review regulations.  EcoGENESIS employs highly skilled staff and hand-picked 1099 subcontractors with expertise in the following:  site feasibility  analysis, wetland delineation, assessment and permitting, environmental permitting, endangered species surveying and permitting, wetland, stream  and habitat restoration design, permitting and construction management, mitigation and restoration monitoring, management and stewardship of public and private lands, GIS analysis and modeling of environmental data, mitigation and conservation banking, ecological valuation, plant identification, and ecological design services. We also regularly collaborate with other scientific and engineering firms to achieve successful, integrated landscape scale restoration design and construction projects that include stream, aquatic, wetland and upland habitat components.

As a small, women-owned business, we understand the meaning of value and the importance of providing high-quality, professional services at an affordable price.

Our clients include wetland, stream and other compensatory offset mitigation bankers and providers, national and international consulting firms, developers, energy providers, single-family residential homeowners, federal, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, agri-business and other regulated industries.

Awards and Professional Affiliations

  • Beta Beta Beta Biological Society
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  • Society of Wetland Scientists
  • Society of Ecological Restoration
  • Association of Professional Soil Scientists
  • Ecological Restoration Business Association Board Member
  • Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program Technical Advisory Committee Member

PJF at GCPWMBPamela Fetterman, Principal Scientist / Managing Member

Pamela has 30-plus years of experience in environmental and ecological resource management, permitting, and water use regulations. Her career has largely focused on the fields of wetland science and hydrology.  She has amassed proven expertise in evaluation of impacts to wetland structure and function, delineation and verification of wetland and surface water boundaries jurisdictional to Florida and the United States, large scale wetland restoration and mitigation banking design and permitting, ecological restoration, natural lands management, and conservation banking.

She received her B.A. in Environmental Studies in 1992 from New College, which requires publishing and defense of a thesis in order to graduate, and her M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of South Florida in 2007.  Her New College thesis focused on bathymetric mapping and water quality analysis of a lagoon on Siesta Key experiencing eutrophication, and her Master’s thesis  analyzed and documented statistically significant wetland loss using GIS spatial analysis and aerial interpretation between 1929 and 2000 in Pinellas County, Florida.

Pamela is the founder and Principal Scientist of ecoGENESIS, LLC, which provides feasibility analysis an due diligence review, wetland delineation, environmental permitting, endangered species surveying and permitting, land management, mitigation, monitoring, ecological valuation and ecological design services to primarily the ecological restoration and mitigation banking industry,  federal, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, agri-business and other private enterprises.