Barry Nerhus

Barry Nerhus is an experienced biologist whose career spans environmental consulting, nonprofit work, academia, and more. Each aspect of Barry’s work is rooted in one common cause: understanding and conserving life in habitats throughout southern California and beyond.

Barry Nerhus is the founder and senior biologist of Endemic Environmental Services, Inc., a consultancy offering a wide array of services that provide his clients with navigation through environmental permitting processes, as well as protecting and restoring rare species and habitats.

Barry Nerhus graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 2011 with a Master of Science Degree in Biology. Today, he teaches part-time at a local community college and also runs online educational courses to help inspire the love of ecology, nature, and conservation in others. Barry also serves as a professor at Coastline Community College and offers courses in numerous life sciences including introductory ecology and herpetology. Additionally, Barry is an adjunct lecturer for the Masters in Conservation and Restoration Science program at University of California Irvine.

Barry Nerhus specializes in herpetology and has extensive experience working with and studying Southern California’s native pond turtle, the southwestern pond turtle. His observations of the rare species sparked his passion for conservation biology.