Services: Infrastructure, Engineering & Environmental Consulting
Core Services
Cypress provides an extensive line of environmental consulting services, engineering and construction. Our focus areas of expertise are:
- Civil engineering design
- Ecosystem restoration
- Engineering modeling
- Coastal resiliency
- Wetlands (delineation, permitting, mitigation, restoration, construction & management)
- Remediation
- Environmental metrics for assessment and project performance
A detailed listing of service offerings is below.
Key Staff Qualifications
Recognition & Project Performance
2018 Society of American Military Engineers: Mobile Post – Small Business of the Year
2015 Gulf Guardian Award – Civic 1st place. Awarded to Bayou Auguste tidal creek & marsh restoration. Project partners MSU Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain & Biloxi Housing Authority.
2012 Third-ever USACE Mobile District wetland mitigation bank to reach full final approval and credit release.
2010 First-ever USACE Mobile District wetland mitigation bank to reach full final approval and credit release.
2010 Second-ever USACE Mobile District wetland mitigation bank to reach full final approval and credit release.
Noble, C.V, Wakeley, J.S., Robert, T.H., and Henderson, C. J. “Regional Guidebook for Applying the Hydrogeomorphic Approach to Assessing the Functions of Headwater Slope Wetlands on the Mississippi and Alabama Coastal Plains,” Ecosystem Management and Restoration Research Program, ERDC/EL TR-07-9, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg MS, 2007.
Foster, M. A. and L. L. Battaglia. 2013. Hurricane Katrina Effects on a Wetland Mitigation Bank in Coastal Mississippi: 7-Year Impacts on Plant Community, Invasive Species and Management. National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference. May 7-10, 2013, New Orleans, LA. National meeting.
Brzuszek, R., Walker, J., Schauwecker, T., Campany, C., Foster, M. 2011. Planning and Design Strategies for Communities at Risk from Wildfire. Practicing Planner. March 2011.
Brzuszek, R., J. Walker, T. Schauwecker, C. Campany, M. Foster and S. Grado. 2010. Planning Strategies For Community Wildfire Defense Design In Florida. Journal of Forestry. July / August 2010 108(5): 250-257.
Foster, M. 2010. “Wetlands Ecology & Coastal Landscape Architecture Applications” Invited presentation. 2010 Mississippi ASLA Twin States Conference. March 25-28, 2010. Biloxi, Mississippi. Regional meeting.
Battaglia, L. L., S. Paudel, M. A. Foster and M. S. Woodrey. 2009. Climate change and proliferation of exotic species threaten coastal ecosystems. Invited symposium presentation. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, 20th Biennial Conference. November 1-5, 2009. Portland, OR. National meeting.
Battaglia, L. L., M. S. Woodrey, H. J. Kalk and M. A. Foster. 2009. Back to the future: how do we develop ecologically appropriate targets for restoration under increased climatic extremes? Invited symposium presentation. 19th Conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration International. August 23-27, 2009. Perth, Australia. International meeting.
Foster, M. A. and L. L. Battaglia. 2009. Hurricane effects on vegetation community composition at a coastal mitigation bank in Mississippi. Poster presentation. National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference. May 5-8, 2009, Salt Lake City, UT. National meeting.
Brzuszek, R., T. Schauwecker, C. Campany, J. Walker and M. Foster. 2008. Greenbelt Design as Defensible Space in Community Planning. Invited presentation. National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Education Conference. Tampa, Florida. November 6-8, 2008. National meeting.
Criss, G. A., M. A. Foster, and G. A. Carter. 2006. Vegetation Classification for Fire Fuel Model Assessment in the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge. Twenty-Sixth Annual ESRI International User Conference. San Diego, California. August 7–11, 2006. International meeting.