We bring direction to delivery
Cornice aligns technical expertise, regulatory requirements, people, and field execution so complex environmental work moves forward with clarity, confidence, and control.
When environmental delivery loses coordination
Complex projects rarely lack expertise. Problems develop when responsibilities are fragmented, decisions are made without full project context, specialist inputs are not integrated, or environmental requirements become disconnected from design and field execution.
Cornice provides the senior environmental Project Control needed to establish clear roles, decision pathways, technical oversight, and coordination across delivery.
The result is earlier issue identification, better-supported decisions, and environmental requirements that remain aligned with project objectives.
Cornice works across the interfaces between technical requirements, regulatory pathways,
project decisions, specialist teams, and field execution.
One Delivery Model. Three Areas of Support.
Project
Control
Bring structure, accountability, and senior leadership to complex environmental delivery.
We align teams, responsibilities, communication, decisions, and next steps so projects move from reaction back to control.
Technical &
Regulatory Support
Translate environmental requirements and technical evidence into practical, defensible project pathways.
We provide senior technical guidance, regulatory strategy, specialist integration, review, and oversight where experience is a required attribute.
Training & Capability
Building
Strengthen the people, systems, and judgment behind successful delivery.
We develop practical capability through applied training, mentorship, tools, and support grounded in real environmental work.
Our Roots are Technical.
Our Role is Integrated.
Cornice brings decades of experience in fisheries, aquatic systems, wildlife, vegetation, and habitat into the larger project context, connecting ecological requirements with regulatory strategy, project decisions, specialist teams, and field execution.
Our technical foundation gives us the depth to understand the work. Our integrated approach allows us to coordinate it within the full reality of the project.
Our Impact: See Project Control in Practice
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Flood Risk Management in Jasper National Park
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Growing Capability, Confidence, and Consistency
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Integrated Environmental Leadership
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Coordinated Emergency Response across Multiple Infrastructure
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Technical & Regulatory Support in Critical Habitat
Senior leadership
stays connected
to the work we do
Cornice was founded in 2013 by environmental professionals who brought decades of experience from day one.
Today, Jim Trask and Robyn Black remain actively connected to project strategy, technical decisions, team coordination, and delivery. Together, they combine Project Control, regulatory and operational leadership, and senior ecological expertise developed across more than five decades of environmental consulting.
Jim Trask, RPBio, PBiol, CPESC
PRINCIPAL & SENIOR ECOLOGIST
Jim brings more than 30 years of ecological consulting experience and senior technical leadership across fisheries, aquatic systems, wildlife, vegetation, habitat, restoration, and permitting.
Robyn Black, RPBio, PBiol
DIRECTOR-OPERATIONS & CORPORATE STRATEGY
Robyn brings more than 25 years of experience in regulatory strategy, project delivery, and environmental operations. She is known for aligning people, process, and priorities in fast-moving environments.
Let’s bring the work together
When environmental responsibilities are fragmented, decisions are delayed, or specialist inputs are disconnected from delivery, Cornice establishes the structure and senior oversight necessary to move the project through to the finish line.
