Scott Bellows, Ph.D., Director of GIS Services
Co-Director of Environmental Services

Email: sbellows@remsainc.com 
Office: (757) 722-0113 x23
Fax: (757) 722-4571

Scott holds a Ph.D. in Ecological Sciences from Old Dominion University and a Masters of Science in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has 13 years experience studying the ecology of populations, communities, and landscapes. He is very familiar with current and historical in situ sampling methods and analysis of floral and faunal surveys, and he has a good “working knowledge” of ecological and natural history literature. He has been directly involved in the study of all major non-marine animal taxa, plant communities (especially wetlands), epidemiology, and metapopulation and landscape ecology. Dr. Bellows is on the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries’ Mammal Taxa Committee. He currently has over one dozen publications in peer-reviewed journals. During this research, he has worked with a broad range of species, including, but not limited to: small mammals, bats, reptiles and amphibians, birds, fish, endangered species (e.g., canebrake rattlesnake, Delmarva fox squirrel), invasive species (e.g., cotton-stainer bug [Dysdercus], Phragmites australis), and nuisance species (e.g., beaver, mosquitoes).

In addition to his ecological background, Scott has seven years experience in the GIS field. He is the Director of GIS Services at REMSA and provides GIS support in mapping and spatial analysis and modeling. He spent four years teaching Geographic Information Science (GIS) and related courses at Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk Virginia. Scott has six years experience in GIS modeling, and is proficient in the integration of all spatial data formats. He spent several years working with the Mosquito Control Commission for the City of Chesapeake, Virginia (CMCC) developing GIS models to identify the habitats of mosquito species responsible for the transmission of West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis. This research has earned him three research fellowships (2002/2003-2005/2006) from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, Hampton Virginia. Scott has also worked with researchers at the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research Project (VCR/LTER) in developing GIS models for isolating geomorphic landscape features.