Co-Director, NRDA Consulting Group; Senior Environmental Scientst
jamie.holmes@briwildlife.org
802-299-0848

Jamie is an environmental scientist who has worked on contaminant fate and transport analyses, surface and groundwater assessments, ecological effects assessments, and natural resource restoration planning since 1991. He has assessed natural resource damages at per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) sites, chemical manufacturing sites, refineries, mine sites, and nuclear sites throughout the country. Jamie has managed natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) activities at dozens of sites nationwide, where he has worked on evaluations of injuries and damages, injury quantification, equivalency analyses, and geographic information systems (GIS) spatial analyses.

He joined BRI in 2024 as co-director of BRI’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Consulting group, where he directs projects that assess the impacts of contaminants releases on natural resources, evaluates compensable damages for those releases, and evalutes projects that restore the resources and habitats that have been harmed. Jamie is a telecommuter living in Vermont.

• Darmouth College, 2001 – M.S., Earth Sciences
• Middlebury College, 1990 – B.A., Environmental Studies/Biology

Jamie’s research has focused on remote sensing of oil slicks, hydrograph separation in stormflow, geochemical mixing models, and sources of acid mine drainage. In addition, Mr. Holmes has extensive field experience in flow measurement and water, soil, and sediment sampling.

Holmes, J.V. and J. Lipton. 2018. Calculating damage to alpine brown trout using equivalency analysis. In Equivalency Methods for Environmental Liability: Assessing Damage and Compensation Under the European Environmental Liability Directive, J. Lipton, E. Özdemiroğlu, D. Chapman, and J. Peers (eds.). Springer, Dordrecht. pp. 269–281.

Hu, C., L. Feng, J. Holmes, G.A. Swayze, I. Leifer, C. Melton, O. Garcia, I. MacDonald, M. Hess, F. Muller-Karger, G. Graettinger, and R. Green. 2018. Remote sensing estimation of surface oil volume during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico: Scaling up AVIRIS observation with MODIS measurements. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 12(2): 026008 doi: 10.1117/1.JRS.12.026008.

Garcia-Pineda, O., J. Holmes, M. Rissing, R. Jones, C. Wobus, J. Svejkovsky, and M. Hess. 2017. Detection of oil near shorelines during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Remote Sensing 9(6):567. doi: 10.3390/rs9060567. Available: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/6/567.

Wallace, B.P., B.A. Stacy, M. Rissing, D. Cacela, L.P. Garrison, G.D. Graettinger, J.V. Holmes, T. McDonald, D. McLamb, and B. Schroeder. 2017. Estimating sea turtle exposures to Deepwater Horizon oil. Endangered Species Research 33:51–67.

Holmes, J.V., G. Graettinger, and I.R. MacDonald. 2017. Remote sensing of oil slicks for the Deepwater Horizon damage assessment. Chapter 17 in Oil Spill Science and Technology, Second Edition, M. Fingas (ed.). Elsevier. pp. 889–923. Available: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128094136000175.

Sun, S., C. Hu, L. Feng, G.A. Swayze, J. Holmes, G. Graettinger, I. MacDonald, O. Garcia, and I. Leifer. 2016. Oil slick morphology derived from AVIRIS measurements of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Implications for spatial resolution requirements of remote sensors. Marine Pollution Bulletin 103(1–2):276–285. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.12.003.

MacDonald, I.R., O. Garcia-Pineda, A. Beet, S. Daneshgar Asl, L. Feng, G. Graettinger, D. French-McCay, J. Holmes, C. Hu, F. Huffer, I. Leifer, F. Mueller-Karger, A. Solow, M. Silva, and G. Swayze. 2015. Natural and unnatural oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 120:8364–8380. doi: 10.1002/2015JC011062.

Edson, J.T., J.V. Holmes, J.E. Elliott and C.A. Bishop. 2011. The Rocky Mountain Arsenal: From environmental catastrophe to urban wildlife refuge. Chapter 4 in Wildlife Ecotoxicology: Forensic Approaches, J.E. Elliott, C.A. Bishop, and C.A. Morrissey (eds.). Springer, NY. pp. 93–151.