Allison Schein is a Registered Professional Biologist (R.P.Bio.) in B.C. under the College of Applied Biologists with over fourteen years of experience as an Aquatic Biologist. She has provided water quality-related expertise to First Nations as part of the environmental assessment and discharge permitting processes, including evaluating water quality issues and concerns related to various mining projects in British Columbia and Yukon. For example, Allison has reviewed baseline surface water and aquatic resources monitoring reports and provided recommendations on the collection and interpretation of baseline water quality, sediment quality, benthic invertebrate, and periphyton data. She has participated in the derivation of site-specific water quality objectives (and other benchmarks) for receiving environments at and downstream of mine sites in Yukon and British Columbia, on behalf of First Nations. In addition, Allison co-authored a technical report to support the development of guidance for conducting baseline monitoring and developing site-specific water quality objectives for quartz mining in Yukon. Allison has participated in the design of field sampling programs by writing Quality Assurance Project Plans and Field Sampling Plans that outline the reasons for the sampling and how the samples will be collected. She has freshwater, estuarine, and marine field experience where she has measured water quality parameters and collected fish, plankton, benthic macroinvertebrate, periphyton, sediment, and water samples. Allison’s skills include field work, data compilation, database development and management, statistical data analysis, document review, report writing, and report editing.