Category: News

AllenES enjoyed attending the MAMA’s reception at the Governor’s mansion on December 7, 2022.  Thank you to the MAMA Board of Directors and the sponsors for this event.

 

AllenES is pleased to share the news.  Katelyn Giles’ research has been published in the Marine and Petroleum Geology Journal.  Click link below to read the paper entitled “Sediment input, alongshore transport, and coastal sediment mixing in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico based on detrital-zircon geochronology.”☆

Will Pentecost, P.E. and Brad Young, CWB participated in the MDEQ Restoration Summit on November 10, 2022.  AllenES provided project details regarding the on-going NFWF funded Beneficial Use of Dredge Material for Coastal Restoration project and the Restore funded Beach Stormwater Outfalls Restoration project.  Both projects are located in coastal Mississippi.

The MS Women in Transportation Cultivating Partnerships event was held on November 10, 2022 at The District’s Cultivation Food Hall. Melissa Pringle, Ph.D. and Rick Sumrall, P.E. of Allen Engineering and Science, Inc. joined others in the Jackson area for the first annual event.

 

On October 26, AllenES partners Brad Young, CWB and Will Pentecost, P.E. presented at the Southeastern Water Pollution Biologists Association meeting in Gulfport, MS. Mr. Pentecost  presented the Beach Outfall Pilot Project which is designed to treat stormwater runoff for litter and other pollutants before reaching the Mississippi Sound. Mr. Young  co-presented with Scott Lemmons, Director of Freshwater Programs for the Nature Conservancy about the Loch Leven Island Floodplain Reconnection project in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

 

AllenES was pleased to serve as a sponsor for the 2022 MMA Environmental & Safety Conference.  The event was held October 20-21 at the Sheraton Refuge Hotel & Conference Center in Flowood, MS.

 

Pictured Left to Right:

Rick Sumrall, P.E.; Melissa Pringle, Ph.D. and Andrew Covington, P.E.

On October 25, Jay C. Estes, AICP of AllenES and Andrew Barrett of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources presented at the joint conference of the Mississippi and Alabama Chapters of the American Planning Association.  The presentation, titled “Risk Analysis and Mitigation Planning in a Changing World”,  focused on planning strategies designed to help communities become more resilient as impacts from climate change affect our weather patterns.  The session provided one hour of continuing education credits for AICP-certified planners.

 

 

 

Brad Young, Certified Biologist and Principal Scientist with AllenES, is currently assisting the MS Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks with tagging black bears in the Mississippi Delta.   Captured bears are measured, tagged, and fitted with satellite uplink collars that provide information on home ranges and habitat usage for this state-endangered species. Collars are also used to track female bears to winter dens so that cub births can be documented.

 

AllenES welcomes Andrew May to the Engineering Team!  Andrew received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University.  He previously served as an Intern with AllenES and joined the firm as a full-time employee this summer.  His project experience includes heavy civil construction oversight, material testing oversight, site inspections, general construction document management, construction verification surveying, site layout and development, solid waste engineering/permitting/compliance, stormwater management design, facility wastewater management, hydraulic modeling, and roadway design.  We are so pleased to have Andrew on board!

AllenES’ Construction Management and CQA staff are pictured working side-by-side with the contractor to complete the installation of 60-mil geomembrane liner on a closed rubbish landfill to support a MSW cell overlay.