Embedded Ecology is an ecological engineering and geospatial services project that enhances relationships between living organisms with the environment. We support individuals, communities and businesses to live in a way that allows for ecological embeddedness to be apart of our existence. Our focus is to provide effective solutions in an efficient manor as a small scale owner operator.

Founded by Alvin Bartley in 2025, the project provides consulting and project specific services. Alvin has a background in Natural Resources Engineering and six years experience as a consulting engineer, project manager and on the ground ecological restoration.. 

Embedded Ecology seeks to colloborate on projects in Aotearoa and abroad providing services in: Catchment Management & Enhancement, Constructed Wetland Design and Wetland Restoration, Geospatial Solutions, Ecological Restoration & Enhancement and Land Management..

Alvin's experience covers catchment mapping and flow modelling, asset management, climate change and resilience planning, stormwater quality and quantity assessment and improvement, water sensitive urban design of wetlands and raingardens, strategic planning, overland flow path and hydrological assessment, constructed wetland and riparian management.

Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) underpins much of the research, planning and interpretation integral to our services. Alvin is familiar using desktop applications ArcGIS QGIS, PostGIS, MapBox and Koordinates as well as phone applications: QField, QField Cloud, Field Maps, Survey123. Alvin has experience developing data management systems for organisations to enable efficicent communication between teams, particularly when teams are working in different locations.