GTA is pleased to share that Kim McNew has been promoted to Associate.

For the past five years, Kim has played a central role in helping GTA’s clients advance complex projects with clear pathways through assessment, design, permitting, construction, and monitoring across the Mid-Atlantic.

Kim is a Professional Wetland Scientist who focuses on the full life cycle of aquatic resource projects. Her expertise includes stream restoration assessment and design, wetland restoration/creation assessment and design, wetland delineation and functional assessment, mitigation planning and design, federal and state permitting, construction observation, and post construction monitoring for public and private clients.

Clients benefit from Kim’s ability to translate field conditions into practical designs and approvals. Recent work includes managing construction for approximately 2,200 linear feet of stream restoration and a 2.2-acre off site wetland in Cecil County, guiding a 0.5-acre wetland mitigation build, and directing a 6.43-acre Tier II reforestation effort. She has also led targeted stabilization such as a 100-linear-foot streambank project at an industrial facility and stream stabilization adjacent to a senior living community where her coordination with county and state reviewers moved the project to action.

Her project experience spans residential communities and mixed-use developments in Maryland and Virginia, and extends into Pennsylvania and Delaware. Kim has also supported major logistics and industrial initiatives throughout northern Maryland. In addition, she contributes to transportation and utility projects involving water, sewer, and transmission corridor evaluations. These assignments reflect a broad geographic reach that includes Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Kim’s experience creates tangible value during compliance and closeout. On a recent restoration and monitoring assignment, she helped the client achieve release from future monitoring by focusing the final year of data collection and agency communication on performance objectives. She has also prepared permit modifications and coordinated compensatory mitigation credits when field realities required a pivot, maintaining project momentum and regulatory alignment.

Kim holds the Professional Wetland Scientist credential from the Society of Wetland Scientists. She is a member of the Society of Wetland Scientists and the Mid-Atlantic Stream Restoration Association. Her academic background includes an MS in Environmental Science from Towson University and dual BS degrees in Biology from Salisbury University and Environmental and Marine Science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Kim’s continued leadership strengthens the practical, science-based support GTA provides to clients.