Brian McTeague is the Quantitative Services Manager for the Squaxin Island Tribe’s Natural Resources Department in Kamilche Washington. His primary job duties include;

-Managing spatial data pertaining to the Tribe’s fishing, hunting, and shellfish harvesting activities.

-Providing GIS support and map & app production to all Natural Resources Department Programs.

-Development & deployment of field data collection activities and web applications.

-Engaging with The Tribe’s South Sound partners on conservation and restoration project planning, monitoring and evaluation.

-Management of Water Quality data and providing that data to the EPA.

Brian is a certified drone pilot, GIS Professional, and USCG licensed captain and a graduate of The Evergreen State College. He co-manages the Northwest Tribal GIS User Group, has attended, volunteered, and presented at many local, regional, and national conference, and was a 2014 co-recipient of an Esri Special Achievement in GIS award for a collaborative / multi-tribe web map application developed for the annual Canoe Journey in the Salish Sea that was hosted by the Squaxin Island Tribe in 2012.

Brian has coordinated and collaborated on multiple climate related projects with the purpose of better understanding potential impacts, conveying and sharing information, and building resiliencies within and amongst communities.

He is passionate in his efforts to protect The Tribe’s treaty rights to fish, hunt, and harvest shellfish as well other activities that sustain & enhance The Tribe’s cultural and natural resources. Brian strives to bring the ‘science of where’ to bare as we work collaboratively to protect, enhance, and restore the natural areas that we all call home and protect the myriad ecological services they provide.

Brian enjoys sharing time with family & friends, traveling, reading, listening to & playing music, cooking and being outdoors. Originally from Maine, Brian has lived in the Pacific Northwest for the past two decades and currently lives with his wife Alison aboard a sailboat named MoiMoi.