Providing Solutions using Information Technologies

FERIT (Forest Ecosystem Research and Information Technologies) is a small company located in Thunder Bay, Ontario, that provides consulting services to support forest management, wildlife management, conservation planning, and environmental impact assessment. At FERIT we work either directly with your planning team or with your principal consultant to arrive at integrated solutions to even the most difficult challenges in forest management planning and environmental impact assessment.

FERIT focuses on the application of computer modelling and data analysis, and we have experience with spatial forest planning technologies, landscape pattern analysis, spatial wildlife habitat modeling, wildlife population dynamics modeling, effects of climate change assessment, cumulative effects assessment, bioacoustic wildlife monitoring, geospatial technologies, geostatistical analysis, remote sensing, and GPS.

Rob Rempel, PhD. Principal, FERIT. Rob is an ecologist interested in understanding the often complex relationships between our environment and the valued products and services that can provided by healthy ecosystems. His interests focus on forecasting the effects of forest management, resource development, planning decisions, and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem integrity. Rob has years of experience developing habitat models and analytical tools to support wildlife research, monitoring, and policy issues.

FERIT is listed in the directory of Canadian Forestry Consultants. Canadian-Forests