NWETC - Key Persons
Adam Wilbert is a cartographer and database consultant. He has developed Access databases for the National Park Service as well as database and GIS solutions for small businesses and non-profit organizations. In 2007 Adam founded CartoGaia, a freelance cartography firm that merges a passion for data with aesthetic design. CartoGaia produces data management solutions and high-end custom maps for land use agencies, non-profit organizations and recreational groups. He is also the author of "Access 2007: Queries in Depth" available in the Lynda.com online training library.
Mr. Wald has 30 years of experience as a hydrologist and hydrogeologist with extensive project work on streams, rivers, wetlands, and shorelands. He brings a background in both groundwater and surface water processes, floodplains and high flows, ordinary high water mark delineation, channel morphology, and other elements of applied hydrology. Before joining The Watershed Company, Alan was senior hydrologist with the Department of Ecology, WSDOT, and Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Since 1990, Anna Bremmer has facilitated marketing, project management analysis, and value analysis for environmental consulting, transportation and land use planning, civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, architecture, general contracting, construction management, and dispute resolution.
Anna earned SAVE International's designation of its highest level of competency, becoming a Certified Value Specialist (CVS) in 2011, making her one of 235 then active CVSs in North America. She earned her U.S. Green Building Council Professional Accreditation in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED AP) in 2005. Anna earned a bachelor of science in business administration with a marketing major and journalism minor from Oregon State University in 1989.
Annika Fain has participated in marine nearshore and stream ecological restoration projects for the past 20 years. Annika has a BS in Marine Ecology, MS in Environmental Science and Engineering, and MS in Geological Oceanography. As part of her graduate research, she collected data and studied water and sediment transport in the Columbia River Estuary and the Adriatic Sea.
She has managed and completed technical analyses for habitat restoration and mitigation projects involving wetlands, streams, rivers, and estuaries in the Pacific Northwest and California. Her experience includes field work in both freshwater and marine nearshore environments along the west coast of the United States. She has modeled hydrology, hydrodynamics, and hydraulics and sediment transport in estuary, coastal, river and floodplain systems using a variety of numerical models.
Annika is a Certified Floodplain Manager and has experience with performing benefit cost analysis and implementing the FEMA community rating system. She also has conducted marine water quality, marine biology, hydrology and water quality, and geological impact analysis and performed soil surveys and water quality monitoring.
Apryle Craig earned a BS in BioEngineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Master's in Ecology at Colorado State University. Her master's research investigated the impacts of elk browsing and riparian willow restoration on bird communities in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. She brings extensive experience from Rocky Mountain National Park where she worked as a park intepretive ranger, communicating the park's natural resources to non-scientists.
Job Titles:
- Senior Environmental Analyst With Seattle Parks
Barbara DeCaro is a horticulturist and senior environmental analyst with Seattle Parks and Recreation, where she develops policy, procedures, best management practices and complementary staff training programs for conservation and management of public landscapes. Barbara has extensive experience in facilitation, training adults, organizing educational seminars and presenting applied science information to the community, peers and government officials.
Barbara earned a Bachelor's degree in Botany from the University of Washington and a certificate in Low Impact Development from Washington State University. She is a member of the Northwest Horticulture Society, the Association of Zoological Horticulture and Washington Native Plant Society. She is also the principle of VERDE Consulting Group, a consulting collaborative that offers teaching and training programs, vegetation management planning and interpretive planning services.
Blair Barnhardt is an award winning National Highway Institute (NHI) Certified Instructor for FHWA, a National Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Trainer, and an America Public Works Association (APWA) Carl Vinson Institute Instructor for their Certificate of Public Works Management Program. He is one of the few rare individuals in this nation with direct experience orchestrating the work for all three sub-disciplines of in-place asphalt recycling covered in the FHWA/ARRA Basic Asphalt Recycling Manual (BARM) textbook.
In addition to teaching the NHI curriculum, he is also a subject matter expert for revisions to the FHWA/NHI In-Place Asphalt Recycling Technologies workshop and a contributing editor for the BARM, the textbook used in the NHI program.
Blair is a published author in every major industry trade publication including FHWA Public Roads, Asphalt Contractor and World Highways.
Most recently Blair designed and delivered two comprehensive online certificate programs for Auburn University and University of Kansas, and a webinar series for UC Berkeley ITS Tech Transfer Program. He covers every single technical detail of pavement management, in-place asphalt recycling and pavement preservation in a very easy to understand but often passionate delivery.
His consulting firm The Barnhardt Group (TBG) has a Pacific Division Office in San Bruno, CA and an Atlantic Division Office in Kennesaw, GA. Blair has flown from every corner in North America to train agencies just like you how to save millions by implementing his "Three Legged Stool" approach.
Job Titles:
- Consultant at Rockwell Collins
Brion Hurley is a Principal Lean Consultant at Rockwell Collins in Wilsonville, OR. He is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) from the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and Lean Master certified. He has a bachelor's degree in Statistics, and a master's degree in Quality Management and Productivity from the University of Iowa. He obtained a Certificate of Sustainability from the University of Iowa.
He has a Certificate of Sustainability from the University of Iowa, and has achieved Zero Waste Business Associate, SME Green Manufacturing Specialist, and Senior Certified Sustainability Professional certifications. He recently led the Rockwell Collins Wilsonville facility to the Leaders in Sustainability Gold Level certification from Clackamas County (Oregon).
Job Titles:
- Principal Ecologist With Amec Foster Wheeler Environment
Charles Harman is a Principal Ecologist with Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, and Professional Wetland Scientist. Mr. Harman has 30 years of experience in wetlands management, including delineation, evaluation, permitting, and implementation of wetlands mitigation projects. Mr.
Chip Halbert has a strong track record of supporting the permitting needs of industry, mission-critical facilities, developers, and engineering design firms. Chip currently works for Landau Associates and leads their environmental permitting and compliance practice. Leveraging his expertise in air quality permitting and management of multi-faceted permitting efforts for industrial developments, Chip helps clients achieve their operational goals while maintaining compliance with environmental permitting requirements.
In addition to his environmental permitting expertise, Chip also has a strong track record in environmental site characterization, with special emphases on human health risk assessment, vapor intrusion assessments, and environmental statistics..
Chris Heilbrun, Regional Manager in the SoundEarth Strategies' Denver office, is a stormwater professional with over 9 years' experience designing, inspecting, and managing projects throughout the Western U.S. and Rocky Mountain Region. He has developed and implemented stormwater plan designs for clients from variety of large and small industries including oil & gas, developers, home builders, municipalities, and energy generation, transmission, and distribution. Chris's experience includes training and compliance program development, stormwater plan design and implementation, management of inspection services, business development, consulting teams, consent decree compliance, regulatory enforcement support and response, permit management, re-vegetation, and auditing.
Christopher Whitehead comes to NWETC with a broad range of experience gained over 10 years in the environmental health and safety field in service to private, state, federal, military, local, and NGOs throughout the United States. Mr. Whitehead currently works in the field of environmental data quality assurance. He is committed to environmental protection and in ensuring projects are designed and implemented placing quality and justice at their foundation.
Job Titles:
- Senior Stormwater Scientist
Curtis Hinman is a Senior Stormwater Scientist based in Bellingham, Washington. Mr. Hinman has led academic programs and managed a diverse portfolio of projects ranging from bioretention media research, green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) design and statewide and national LID training programs. His most current research focused on developing high-performance plant-soil systems for stormwater filtration. Prior to managing media filter research and LID education programs at Herrera Environmental Consultants, Curtis was faculty with Washington State University (WSU) Extension and Department of Biological Systems Engineering. As the University's Green Stormwater Infrastructure Specialist he co-designed and was lead scientist for the WSU Low Impact Development (LID) Research Program which is one of the largest LID research facilities in the U.S. Mr. Hinman is the author of the "Low Impact Development Technical Guidance Manual for Puget Sound" and the "Rain Garden Handbook for Western Washington". Curtis also serves on several American Society of Civil Engineers committees developing national guidelines for green infrastructure and bioretention systems. Mr. Hinman earned a B.S. degree in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning (specializing lake ecology and water resource management) from University of California Davis. He holds a Masters of Science degree with a concentration in stream ecology and watershed management from the Yale University.
Dr. Reinke has more than 20 years of NEPA experience working for private consulting firms and for DoD and other federal agencies. Currently he works at Edward AFB, CA where he is a Senior Environmental Scientist for NEPA and Natural Resources issues. Before coming to Edwards AFB he worked for the Army National Guard at both the installation and NGB headquarters level where he developed the initial NEPA guidance for the Army National Guard. Dr. Reinke received a BS in Biology/Chemistry from Southwestern Oklahoma State College (1973) and a MS in Botany (1975) and PhD in Plant Ecology (1980) from the University of Kansas. Dr. Reinke is a member of numerous national and international environmental organizations and is the senior author of two books. "The NEPA Reference Guide" 1999 Battelle Press and "Endangered Species, Legal Requirements and Policy Guidance"2001 Battelle Press both coauthored with Lucinda Low Swartz.
Job Titles:
- Principal Scientist at the Savannah River National Laboratory
Dr. Anna Sophia Knox is a Principal Scientist at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) in Aiken, SC where she conducts research on the remediation of contaminated sediments and soils and development of new materials for the stabilization of contaminants. She has a Ph.D. (1993) in Agronomy and Soil Science and has been a certified Professional Soil Scientist by the Soil Science Society of America since 12/20/99. Dr. Knox has 25 years of responsible experience in environmental science, with emphasis on the biogeochemistry and geochemistry of metals and radionuclides in natural and contaminated soils/sediments; the transformation, transport, and bioavailability of contaminants; and the remediation of contaminated soils/sediments.
She has published more than 95 scientific papers, book chapters, and patents; has presented numerous papers at scientific meetings and international conferences; and has organized several sessions and special symposia on contaminants in soils and sediments for international conferences/meetings such as the International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments, International Conference of Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (10th, 11th, and 13th ICOBTE), International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment (15th and 16th ICHMET2012), and others.
Dr. Knox is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the leading authorities in the area of active capping research. She has received several awards including a DOE Women of Excellence in Science and Engineering award and several Key Contributor Awards due to crucial contributions to the strategic goals of the Savannah River National Laboratory. Her participation in professional societies includes serving on the editorial boards for both the International Society of Environmental Forensic Journal and Journal of Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science.
Dr. Barrett L. Kays is an expert investigator and witness specialized in earth sciences involving soil, hydrology, and groundwater science. Dr. Kays has conducted numerous forensic investigations involving construction, water resource, sedimentation, flooding, wastewater, and contamination damages. He has also been involved in unusual eminent domain, and inverse eminent domain cases in federal and state courts. Dr. Kays uses state-of-art forensic techniques and complex temporal and spatial analysis in determining causation. He also has conducted expert investigations in twenty states and has testified before US Court of Federal Claims, US District Courts, and State Courts, as well as, federal and state administrative hearings.
Dr. Kays has a success rate of 85 percent in his expert cases because he expertly uses science to analyze and answer each important allegation in the litigation case, and is extremely thorough in determining how best to present and explain the evidence so the trier of fact can easy apply his scientific findings to the legal case. He has been commissioned by USDOJ, USACOE, USFWS, State DOJ's, State DOT's, cities, counties, banks, institutions, corporations, and property owners.
Dr. Bryan Ham is a professional analytical chemist, an analytical chemistry instructor, mass spectrometrist, chemistry book author, and software coder (VB.Net and VBA for MS Access and Excel). He has worked in analytical chemistry laboratories for over 25 years including environmental, petrochemical (monomers/polymers), petroleum, foodstuff, and life sciences research, giving him a very broad background in analytical chemistry analysis, instrumental analysis, and laboratory management. He has a BA in Chemistry, and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry.
Dr. Johns is an aquatic scientist who specializes in aquatic ecological risk assessments (ERAs), particularly those associated with contaminated sediment. The focus of his 30 years of professional experience has been on the effects of toxic pollutants on aquatic organisms. Dr. Johns is responsible for the management of large, multi-task, multi-disciplinary environmental investigations, including remedial investigation/feasibility studies (RI/FSs) and natural resource damage assessments (NRDAs). He has served as the program manager for investigations at several large Superfund sites, including the Lower Duwamish Waterway RI/FS and the Portland Harbor ERA. Dr. Johns has also served in an advisory capacity as a technical expert in the regulatory arena, providing technical review and comments on proposed environmental regulations. In addition, he has provided technical support to clients involved in litigation regarding mining sites, petrochemical facilities, heavy industrial sites, and ports.
As a principal investigator at the EPA National Research Laboratory in Narragansett, Rhode Island, he served as assistant technical director of the joint EPA/US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Field Verifications Program, one of the first comprehensive programs to assess the impacts of contaminated sediment on aquatic species, and one of the first applications of an ERA to contaminated sediments. Dr. Johns is a recognized expert on the use of bio-assessment techniques to evaluate sediment contamination, and he was responsible for the development of the Neanthes bioassay used by EPA and USACE.
Job Titles:
- President and Co - Founder of Geotech Computer Systems, Inc
Dr. David W. Rich is the President and co-founder of Geotech Computer Systems, Inc. He has a B.S. in geology from the University Of Notre Dame, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in geology from The University of Illinois. He has over 30 years of experience in the petroleum, mining, and environmental industries, having worked for Texaco (now Chevron), Shell, Sabine Corporation, and Grant Environmental/Scientech in addition to Geotech. He is the author of the book Relational Management and Display of Site Environmental Data, from CRC Press/Lewis Publishers.
Dr. Gaynor has more than 30 years of analytical chemistry and environmental management and consulting experience. For eleven years she worked closely with the USEPA through the Contract Laboratory Program (CLP). In 2000, she founded Phoenix Chemistry Services, to provide expert analytical chemistry consulting services, data validation, and quality assurance services to laboratories and engineering companies performing hazardous site investigation and remediation services as well as long-term monitoring for all environmental contaminants in solids, liquids, air, sediment, and biota. She has extensive experience in the development and performance of analyses of environmental samples on GC and GC/MS systems, while ensuring compliance with quality assurance programs. She has managed the GC/MS section of a large environmental laboratory, and has worked as the Quality Assurance Officer of a microbiology laboratory. Dr. Gaynor has provided software training for chromatographic instrumentation in laboratories serving the needs of environmental, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and clinical industries.She has also developed and taught in-house courses for laboratory personnel on chromatography and quality assurance. Dr. Gaynor is a member of The NELAC Institute Chemistry Expert Committee.
Dr. Geof Givens is a statistician with broad expertise in applied statistics and particular interest in statistical methods for conservation biology, ecology and the environment. After retiring as Emeritus Associate Professor of Statistics from Colorado State University, he founded Givens Statistical Solutions LLC where he leads a diverse array of scientific projects. He has authored over 120 journal articles and scientific reports, along with the bestselling textbook Computational Statistics which is used in over 25 countries. He has served as US Delegate to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission since 1992 where he has made major contributions to cetacean management worldwide.
Job Titles:
- Registered Scientist With the American Fisheries Society
Dr. Merz is a registered scientist with the American Fisheries Society. He has over 20 years of experience working with aquatic resources and has been the principal scientist on several salmonid habitat restoration programs in the California Central Valley. He has taught environmental science, salmon biology and restoration courses for the past fourteen years.
Joe is known for his work with human and fisheries habitat interactions, and for his ability to communicate with scientific and stakeholder audiences alike. He has earned degrees in Environmental and Systematic Biology (Bachelors), Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo (1991); Biological Conservation (Masters), California State University, Sacramento (1994); and Conservation Ecology (Ph.D.), University of California, Davis (2004).
Dr. Merz has worked for California public, provide and non-profit entities on resource monitoring and fisheries habitat enhancement. He is noted as an environmental studies and natural resources lecturer, and for his successes working with stakeholders. He has coauthored a variety of peer-reviewed publications*, focusing on river rehabilitation, fish movement, invasive species, woody debris/redd associations, and evaluation of spawning habitat enhancement, among others. In line with his professional interests, he is a member of the Ecological Society of America, the American Fisheries Society and the Southwestern Association of Naturalists. Dr. Merz has been honored with a variety of awards and has received research and restoration grants from multiple stakeholders for restoration related projects in California, Oregon and Washington for salmonid habitat restoration; salmonid management and reintroduction; monitoring of fish migration and movement; fish passage improvement; and assessment of invasive species interactions with native salmonid populations.
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- Founder and President of MacStat Consulting, Ltd
Dr. Kirk Cameron is the founder and president of MacStat Consulting, Ltd. in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a statistical consulting firm specializing in environmental statistical applications and problem-solving. He has over 20 years of experience in teaching and consulting to USEPA, DoD, DoE, the US Air Force, and private environmental and medical firms. Dr. Cameron is the primary author of both USEPA's Interim Final Guidance document for the statistical analysis of groundwater monitoring data (1992) and the recently published major update to this guidance entitled the Unified Guidance (2009). He has designed training courses on the statistical analysis of groundwater monitoring data and presented to regulators, consultants, and environmental professionals around the country. He also filmed a commercial videotape training series on groundwater data analysis. More recently. Dr. Cameron developed a no-cost, publicly-available, geostatistical and statistical-based software tool (GTS v1.0) for the US Air Force and DoD to optimize sampling frequencies and locations at sites undergoing long-term ground-water monitoring (LTM).
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- Principal of Clear Current
Dr. Laurel J. Standley, Principal of Clear Current, is an independent environmental consultant with over twenty years experience in water quality and policy. Her areas of expertise include developing water management plans, tracking sources of contamination to water resources, and protecting freshwater resources for uses such as safe drinking water sources, healthy fisheries, and reduced flooding. Examples of her work include the following:
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- Chief Technology Officer for Statpoint Technologies, Inc
Dr. Polhemus is Chief Technology Officer for Statpoint Technologies, Inc. and directs the development of STATGRAPHICS. He received his B.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, under the tutelage of Dr. J. Stuart Hunter. Dr. Polhemus spent two years as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and six years as an assistant professor in the Engineering School at Princeton University.
Dr. Polhemus founded Statistical Graphics Corporation in 1980 to develop and promote the STATGRAPHICS software program. In 1983, he founded Strategy Plus, Inc., which developed EXECUSTAT for DOS. Dr. Polhemus founded NWP Associates, Inc., in 1993 to develop STATLETS, a set of Java applets which permit statistical data analysis over the Internet. In 1999 development of STATGRAPHICS was assumed by Statpoint Technologies, Inc.
Dr. Polhemus lives in northern Virginia with his wife Caroline and is the proud father of four sons: Christopher, Gregory, Leland, and Michael.
Job Titles:
- Environmental Chemist and Engineer
Dr. Pamela Schultz is an environmental chemist and engineer with over 20 years of experience working in government, industry, and consulting. She obtained her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Providence College in 1992 and her master's degree in Environmental Systems Engineering from Clemson University in 1996. She worked as a senior environmental engineer at Merck & Co., Inc., conducting contaminant fate and transport modeling and human health risk assessments for air permitting and remediation projects.
Dr. Richard F. Carbonaro has worked as an environmental engineer for over fifteen years, specializing in the fate and transport of contaminants in soil, groundwater and sediments. Rich consults on a wide range of environmental engineering topics, including remediation of heavy metals, water quality, contaminant fate and transport, groundwater geochemistry, hazardous waste remediation, and environmental forensics.
Dr. Carbonaro has a Ph.D. from the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied the sources, sinks, and speciation of chromium in heterogeneous media. He has developed numerical models for modeling chromium fate and transport in groundwater during in-situ remediation, and has worked on numerous chromium contaminated sites (see specific project experience below). He has published several peer-reviewed papers on transformations of chromium and other trace metals in aquatic systems and has been a presenter or co-author on over 60 presentations at technical conferences.
Prior to joining Mutch Associates, Dr. Carbonaro was a member of the full time faculty of Manhattan College for 9 years. While at Manhattan College, Dr. Carbonaro managed several federally-funded research projects related to water quality monitoring of urban pollutants, transport modeling of metals in sediments, modeling of metals in lakes for toxicity assessments, and partitioning of metals onto organic carbon. He has taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in water chemistry, drinking water treatment, fate and transport modeling of environmental contaminants, and environmental statistics. He currently holds the position of part-time Research Associate Professor at Manhattan College.
Dr. Rocko Brown is an expert design geomorphologist who uniquely balances applied and scientific aspects of geomorphology and engineering. He focuses on process-based assessment and restoration of fisheries resources through channel manipulation integrating geomorphic, hydraulic and ecological frameworks. He has extensive experience in hydraulic and sediment transport modeling and design for fish passage improvements, channel design, large wood and instream habitat structures, and bank stabilization.
Rocko has led the design of seasonal floodplain, spawning habitat, and fish passage projects in a diverse array of physical and regulatory settings. He has made contributions to spawning habitat rehabilitation efforts, including assessment, modeling, design and construction of projects on several of California's most-important rivers. Dr. Brown has published heavily on evaluating the interactions of topography and flow hydrology for geomorphic processes needed for salmonids to complete their life cycle and how to design functional riverscapes that honor these linkages. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from Temple University and Master's and Doctorate Degrees in Hydrologic Sciences from the University of California, Davis. He has been an instructor with NWETC since 2009.
Job Titles:
- President of Alpine Analytics
Dr. Routledge is president of Alpine Analytics, located in Durango, Colorado. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering, an MBA, an MS in Statistics (with emphasis in ecology, environmental science & natural resource management), and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Root has over 30 years of scientific, engineering, business and management experience in industry and government. He was on the industrial engineering faculty at Oregon State University.
Mr. Haddad is a vice president for Haley and Aldrich where he is involved in vapor intrusion investigations, remediation and modeling, risk assessments, planning and strategy, development and implementation of RI/FS programs, engineering designs, hydrogeological activities, computer modeling, and operation and maintenance programs. He led an unprecedented, and perhaps largest, indoor air investigation at a Superfund site. His work established a benchmark for other EPA sites. Mr. Haddad has used his skills to allocate remedial costs among potentially responsible parties at several sites, and to allow redevelopment of several contaminated properties into commercial uses. He supervised the development of remedial design for several Superfund sites, developed and used soil, groundwater, and air dispersion model, and is an expert in hydrogeological applications. Mr. Haddad is also a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley Extension Program where he has taught the course "Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Environment". In addition, Mr. Haddad serves on the seminar committee of the Groundwater Resources Association where he has chaired several seminars on various topics including vapor intrusion.
Mr. Sandoval's qualifications include more than sixteen years of experience in the GIS and spatial analysis industry, where his skills have allowed him to gain extensive experience in all aspects of GIS program development, project management, data analysis, system design, client development, grant writing and project reporting. He also has experience in habitat assessment, environmental monitoring and hydrographic surveying.
Erin has more than a decade of experience as an environmental consultant in Seattle, and she specializes in remediating contaminated sites as part of larger redevelopment projects, guiding them through Washington State Department of Ecology's Voluntary Cleanup Program or completing cleanups in accordance with formal Agreed Orders and Consent Decrees.
Ioana Petrisor, Ph.D, has over 18 years of experience as a biochemist, specializing in environmental forensics. She has up-to-date knowledge and has applied a variety of forensics methods to track the source and age-date contaminants in soil and water. She identified and applied cutting-edge investigative techniques such as dendroecology, which uses tree rings to detect age-date contamination and its release into soil and water, even after site mitigation. Dr. Petrisor is the Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Forensics Journal, providing a scientific lead of the Journal. She has managed and conducted innovative research for the U.S. DOE, U.S. DOD, and European Community on environmental characterization, as well as projects relating to the development of innovative remedial technologies for a variety of contaminants in soil, aquatic sediments, and water.
James has over 20 years of successful CEO and leadership experience in the education, business, and consulting fields. The majority of his time has been spent in the non-profit sector. His career has been distributed between various international and stateside locations. The international experiences were in challenging locations including Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, and Western Africa. As a CEO internationally, James used a wide variety of skill sets to address difficult and unpredictable environments, and created an extensive international network across many continents. James' passion is for developing people, organizations, and businesses. His formal education includes a BA in History and Education and a MA in Educational Leadership from Pacific Lutheran University. His Ph.D. work (Candidate in Philosophy achieved Univ. of WA) was in the area of Business Administration, Advanced Leadership Sequence, and Technology Integration. James holds three professional certificates as a Teacher, Principal, and Superintendent. Additionally, he spent six years in a leadership capacity of Project Leadership in the State of Washington. James' combination of experience and passion for developing people serves him well in leading and developing organizations.
Jan Dean, Ph.D Fisheries Science Virginia Tech University 1982, has taught five-day electrofishing courses for the USFWS National Conservation Training Center in several states (MO, AR, LA, AL, FL, NM, AZ, MI, CO), some multiple times, and in New South Wales, Australia since 2008. He has also taught three-day electrofishing classes in CA and AZ for the Northwest Environmental Training Center. Jan has served as an instructor/consultant for an electrofishing workshop in CO and for two workshops for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He served on the graduate committee for two MS students at the University of Missouri for a project involving electrofishing for Smallmouth Bass, Blue Catfish and Flathead Catfish. Jan has served as an instructor for electrofishing workshops at AFS meetings in Savannah GA, Kansas City MO and Oklahoma City OK. Jan has authored or co-authored papers on output performance of boat and backpack electrofishers, on response of invasive species to electricity and on the historical development of electrofishing. He has made presentations on electrofishing research at American Fisheries Society meetings and has consulted on projects involving evaluation of unique boat electrofishers and on electrical barriers to control movement of invasive species. Jan has worked for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, for Northwestern State University of Louisiana, and he retired from the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Dr. Heath has 30 years of experience in the fields of chemical product safety and environmental contamination. Drinking water contamination has been a theme of her work throughout her career, from her dissertation topic (public drinking water supplies wells contaminated with chlorinated solvents) to her early work as an intern with a state health department (primarily lead, chlorinated solvents and petroleum products in drinking water) and on throughout her long consulting career (e.g., assessing risks associated with domestic use of contaminated groundwater) and continuing on to her work as an expert witness in litigation.
Dr. Heath's education provides a broad perspective on public health issues in general and drinking water specifically, from her nursing degree (she is a registered nurse in Colorado and New York) to her M.S. in Nutrition and Toxicology (North Carolina State University), from her B.S. in Public Health (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) to her M.A. in Public Policy Studies (Duke University), and on to her Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology (Cornell University), which included minors in Organization Behavior and Public Policy.
She has decades of experience with lead (Pb), from animal studies in the laboratory to collection of blood samples from children, from a school drinking water fountain to expansive hard rock mines, from residual of leaded gasoline to serving as an expert in childhood lead poisoning cases. Her experience with PFOS and PFOA is more recent, including extensive research, development of case studies, and development of meeting presentations and informational papers.
Joe Maroney is the Director of Fishery and Water Resources for Kalispel Tribe of Indians and has 20 years experience as a fisheries biologist. He has a working knowledge of Columbia Basin resource management issues with regard to Federal Columbia River Power System and FERC projects and its impact on anadromous and resident fish resources. He also has extensive experience with resident fish issues throughout the Columbia Basin. His background also includes electrofishing and applying rotenone to streams to remove non-native brook trout, as well as removing northern pike. He is also experienced in constructing barriers in streams to protect native salmonids. Joe is a licensed Washington State Aquatic Pesticide Applicator.
Job Titles:
- Owner of OB - 1 Air Analyses
Joe O'Bannon is the owner of OB-1 Air Analyses and has over 30 years public and private sector air quality experience. His experience includes air quality and climate change analyses pursuant to CEQA/NEPA; criteria and greenhouse gas emissions inventories; government and community relations, public education, and consensus building; regulatory compliance issues; legislative review; and expert testimony. He is industry-and-agency-recognized as a successful problem solver, able to approach problems from a variety of directions and find win-win solutions. He has the balanced capacity to comprehend technical aspects and communicate these in terms understandable to the nonprofessional.
Mr. Simon is an environmental consultant with over 26 years of broad-based experience in assessing, managing, and mitigating issues associated with hazardous substances and petroleum constituents. As a Director of Gnarus Advisors he is responsible for directing environmental projects throughout the United States. Mr. Simon's areas of expertise include remediation, due diligence, environmental insurance, liability risk transfer, and environmental management. He also routinely provides litigation support and expert testimony. In addition, Mr.
Jordan Peabody has helped dozens of organizations improve their workplace documents. Since 2001, he has led writing workshops for City of Seattle, Puget Sound Clean Air, Community Transit, Western Washington University, Hillsboro Police Department, Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, and many other groups throughout the Northwest and across the country. He has practiced what he preaches. Jordan has written and edited for both private companies and public agencies, including CCI Solutions, Tacoma Police Department, Washington State Department of Health, and the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services.
Jordan uses his entire skill set to help others learn. With a bachelor's degree in Communication from Biola University in La Mirada, California, he's found a way to blend his passion for public speaking with his love of the written word and the visual arts. The result is a training experience that is practical, relevant, and engaging.
Keivan is the winner of 2014 the prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award.
Kevin offers expertise in numerous areas-growth, development and management of forest stands; ecosystem data compilation and analysis; forest and population simulation model development and use; ecosystem assessment model development and use; spatial analysis and cartography; and software development to create integrated tools.
Kevin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in forest management and silviculture from the University of Washington where he is currently a doctoral candidate in forest biometrics. He has worked for several research cooperatives to develop mathematical simulation models addressing growth and yield of young managed forests, wildlife habitat management, and wildfire risk assessment.
Kevin Ceder is an Ecosystems Analyst with Cramer Fish Sciences. Kevin has 10 years experience using quantitative methods to support data-driven, integrated resource management, planning and assessment. He excels in developing tools that reduce complex processes to easy-to-use and easy-to-understand systems for decision-makers. Kevin has over 10 years of experience using R as his primary data management and analysis tool and excels in providing R programming solutions. He has provided R training and coaching to a diverse clientele.
With CFS, he is a lead environmental statistician, helping clients visualize the complex relationships between land management activities and the affected environment. Kevin's focus is on analysis and modeling of forest ecosystems to help stakeholders understand the influence management activities can have on terrestrial and aquatic habitat-and ultimately their influence on salmon and trout. He combines doctoral-level understanding of ecosystem processes with expert tool-building skills to lead the development of integrated mathematical simulation models.
Larry has been an ecologist for 45 years, with experience in both the public and private sectors. With a M.S. degree in biology from Baylor University, with his thesis researching primary production in east Texas peatlands, his interest through the years has been on the ecological functions of natural systems. He has worked as a natural resources biologist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (park operations), an ecologist for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation in coastal management and wetland regulation, and as an ecological consultant in California, Oregon, and Washington. During the fall of 2016, Larry taught an upper level undergraduate class entitled Wetland Ecology, at The University of Montana Western. Larry has written a number of journal and newsletter articles, and has participated in a number of conferences over the years. He recently published his new e-book, "Creative Habitat Restoration: Comprehensive Planning, Implementation, and Long-Term Management".
Larry has taught courses in habitat restoration in Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Texas, and in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has mentored many entry-level biologists in the science of habitat restoration.
Lindsay Burton is the Facilitator for ExxonMobil Environmental Services Company (EMES) Green and Sustainable Remediation (GSR) network as well as the Operations Integrity Management System (OIMS) Coordinator. She has been with EMES since graduating from Clemson University in 2013 with a BS in Biological Systems Engineering and has had previous assignments managing a portfolio of retail remediation sites in addition as well as a project development role.
Job Titles:
- Partner at Windward Environmental
Ms. Saban, a partner at Windward Environmental, has served as a project manager, lead scientist, or technical advisor for environmental assessments and evaluations over the past two decades. She has managed and conducted environmental studies on the local, national, and international level, for both private- and public-sector clients. She has extensive negotiation experience in client-stakeholder interactions and managing complex projects related to ecological risk assessments (ERAs), sediment investigations, and natural resource damage assessments (NRDAs). She has been a leader in assessing and managing potential liabilities for clients, creating mutually beneficial solutions for both the regulated entities and the regulatory participants. She is currently managing and providing technical advice for multiple industrial and municipal clients on waterways that require expertise on liability management related to natural resource damage (NRD), ecological risk, and contaminated sediments. She is focused on risk management strategies to reduce potential exposure in a cost-effective manner.
Ms. Saban is effective at reducing complex issues to the cornerstone elements that require the focus needed to complete the project. In this capacity, she has been involved in numerous stakeholder groups as a lead sediment specialist, ecological risk assessor, and NRD consultant. Currently, Ms. Saban has written several articles on managing environmental liabilities and early restoration. She has authored technical briefs on early resolution of NRD liabilities and has taught seminars and university extension courses on NRDAs.
Lloyd Tommila is a graduate of Portland State University, with a Masters in Conflict Resolution. His experience includes mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution training, group facilitation, community dialogue, process improvement, research, public policy and legislative work. Since 2005, he has served as a Senior Mediator for the Dispute Resolution Center (DRC) of Thurston County, mediating hundreds of cases spanning a broad range of needs, including family, workplace, property, organizational, multi-party, and victim-offender mediations.
With over 32 years of experience in environmental science and engineering as a project engineer, project manager, senior engineer, and technical director, Mark Selman, Principal-Selman Engineering, LLC, brings a wealth of practical knowledge and experience in environmental problem solving to the classroom.
Dr. Harclerode is an environmental scientist with 11.5 years of experience in investigation and characterization of hazardous waste sites. As a Project Manager, she is experienced in designing and managing remedial investigations with multi-disciplined teams. In addition, she specializes in the development and application of integrated assessment approaches to comprehensively define sustainability objectives and evaluate environmental, social, and economic impacts of remediation and wastewater activities.
Michele Zukerberg has over 18 years of professional experience in natural-resource management. Her areas of expertise include conservation-land management and habitat restoration. Michele received her Master of Forestry degree from Duke University, with a focus on sustainable forestry. She worked as a forester on public lands and as an independent consultant certifying forestlands and mills under the Forest Stewardship Council's third-party certification system.
Nate Holloway will be leading Day 2 of the CESCL class, both in the classroom and the field trip. Nate has over 8 years of experience in the allied fields of environmental science, construction, and engineering; particularly as they relate to water treatment, environmental remediation, and project management. He has provided Certified Erosion and Sediment Control consulting, training, and oversight on a number of high profile projects throughout Washington State and other areas of the country. Nate has a B.S. in Conservation Biology & Ecology and is a certified trainer for Erosion & Sediment Control Lead Certification (CESCL) and Chitosan Enhanced Sand Filtration Operator (CESFO).
Owen L. Schmidt, BA, MA, JD, has more than 32 years of service with the Federal Government. He has served as Senior Counsel with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the General Counsel in Portland, Oregon, where he advised the Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and other USDA agencies in Washington and Oregon. He was also a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Oregon.
Job Titles:
- Global Practice Director for Site Remediation and Revitalization at CH2M
- Green Associate, CH2M
Paul Favara is a Global Practice Director for Site Remediation and Revitalization at CH2M. He has over 30 years of experience in site characterization, remediation engineering, and implementing site cleanup remedies. He has been a member of the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) since 2007, and has served as an officer on the SURF Board of Directors as Vice President in 2010 and President in 2011.
Dr. Philp is an instructor and researcher whose research interests include Petroleum, Environmental and Forensic geochemistry with the emphasis on molecular and isotopic characterization of oils, gases, rock extracts and contaminants for the purposes of source determination, characterization of depositional environments, maturity, biodegradation and for correlation purposes.
He has been a Professor of Petroleum Geochemistry at the University of Oklahoma since 1987, and in addition has presented papers at a number of International meetings. He has taught a number of Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry courses in the following countries and to the following companies: Yacimentos Petroleo Fiscales, Buenos Aires, Argentina; China at invitation of Academia Sinica to lecture at various institutes and universities; Japanese National Oil Company in Tokyo; Petrobras, Brazil; New Zealand Geological Survey on petroleum geochemistry; INTEVP - Caracas, Venezuela; Taiwanese National Oil Company, Taipei; Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corporation, Dar-es-Salem, Tanzania; Peruvian National Oil Company; ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia; Ecopetrol Colombia; Petronas Malaysia; Indonesian Petroleum Association; Shengli oil field China; Petrovietnam, Hanoi and HoChiMinh City; Sonatrach, Algeria.
Job Titles:
- Senior Environmental Engineer in the Policy and Technical Support Unit of the Washington State Department of Ecology 's Toxics Cleanup Program
Pete Kmet is a senior environmental engineer in the Policy and Technical Support Unit of the Washington State Department of Ecology's Toxics Cleanup Program. Mr. Kmet has extensive experience in site remediation, has played a key role in the development of MTCA legislation amendments, related rules, policies and technical guidance, and has presented on these topics at numerous MTCA workshops throughout the state. Mr. Kmet also serves as the mayor of Tumwater.
Priscilla Tomlinson is an expert in the fields of risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. She has over 20 years of experience in the fields of risk assessment, toxicology, and hazardous waste. She has taught classes covering 2001 MTCA revisions and has applied MTCA rules at numerous cleanup sites.
Ralph is a marketer, project manager, producer, director, actor, writer, and business/team leader. He specializes in video production, online/e-learning/CBT production, and media/social network marketing. His background is in video and television production, and he has produced and directed material that has been broadcast on MTV, FOX, The Travel Channel, The Learning Channel, and The Discovery Channel.
Ralph leads NWETC's content development and creation, producing all video productions and e-learning modules as well as overseeing social media presence and outreach.
Richard Grassetti is an environmental planner with over 32 years experience in environmental impact analysis and regulatory compliance. He is a recognized expert in the CEQA process, and has served as an expert witness on CEQA and planning issues in California. Through his firm, Grassetti Environmental Consulting (GECo), he manages the preparation of CEQA and NEPA documents, as well as the numerous local agency planning and permitting documents. In addition to his consulting practice, Mr. Grassetti serves as adjunct faculty in environmental studies at California State University, East Bay. He has presented numerous papers on environmental impact assessment at statewide and international conferences.
Rick McBroom has over 25 years of experience in all aspects of the Stormwater field. As a Trainer, he brings real world experience from both Private and Public sectors prospective and will share that knowledge with you to help you manage projects while meeting regulatory requirements efficiently. Rick is actively involved with all aspects of the NPDES permit and currently manages the following programs:
Stormwater Pollution Prevention
Construction Erosion and Sediment Control
MS4 Permit Management
Stormwater outfall monitoring
IDDE program management
Hazmat response
Robert Mutch has more than forty years of experience in hydrogeology, groundwater and contaminant fate and transport modeling, environmental forensics, and remediation engineering. His areas of specialization include numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport, fate, and reaction during in situ treatment and monitored natural attenuation, aquifer testing, DNAPL behavior, fractured rock hydrogeology, aerial photographic interpretation, and groundwater-related natural resource damages. Mr.
Mr. O'Brien (MS, Indiana Univ., Mathematics) is a member of the adjunct faculty at Washington State University Tri-Cities teaching courses in mathematics and statistics and performing consulting for selective clients. He has over 30 years of experience in applied statistics and research in environmental statistics and engineering. He has been a senior level scientist at Shaw Environmental, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the US EPA, the US Census Bureau, and performing outside consulting work. His interests are in the areas of environmental and engineering statistics, site characterization and remediation, environmental monitoring, sampling, and other applied statistical applications.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Ruth Sofield is an Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in the Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of Asarum Consulting
Scott A. Andrews serves as co-founder of Asarum Consulting, which provides policy and technical assistance on Tribal environmental regulation, assessment and compliance, as well as, climate change issues. As Environmental Compliance Manager for the Swinomish Tribe from 2001 to 2020, Mr. Andrews' responsibilities spanned environmental regulation and enforcement and the development of related policies and ordinances. He also managed shoreline protection, air quality and hazardous waste programs. He served as one of the lead authors of the Swinomish Climate Change Initiative, an award winning project hailed as the first major tribal climate change adaptation plan in the nation. Over his career, Scott's professional experience has included a variety of positions for governmental and non-profit organizations, including Legal Counsel for the Natural Resources Committee of the Nebraska Legislature and the Kansas State Director for Sierra Club. Mr. Andrews holds a Master's in Watershed Management /Forestry, a law degree and is a member of the Washington State Bar Association. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fiji he developed a village aquaculture program. Scott lives and works on the ceded lands of the Coast Salish Peoples. To fulfill his creative side, he writes and produces plays for the stage.
Job Titles:
- GIS Specialist and Instructor at Huxley College
Stefan Freelan is a GIS Specialist and Instructor at Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University. In addition to teaching GIS, Cartography and GPS he assists with academic research projects and is Co-Director of the Institute for Spatial Information and Analysis. He has a MS in Geography and a BA in Environmental Ethics. Prior to joining to WWU he was a GIS Analyst as a private consultant and with local Planning Departments.
Stephen Dailey comes to NWETC with a broad range of experience gained over 25 years in the environmental consulting industry in service to private and public sector clients primarily in the western United States. Mr. Dailey is currently the principal of an environmental consulting firm based in Shoreline, Washington. He is committed to responsiveness and stewardship throughout the project life cycle.
Mr. Dailey is experienced in every phase of the site investigation process including site identification; assessment; characterization; remedial design, construction, and operation & maintenance; and closure. He has performed and managed sampling and analysis of environmental media for a broad range of hazardous substances and constituents including petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, PCBs, pesticides, and metals. Additionally, Mr. Dailey is experienced in operations at remote locations.
Mr. Dailey's firm's client base includes other consultants, contractors, real estate management firms, law firms, agricultural operators, industrial facilities, and transportation facilities.
Dr. Michelsen is an environmental scientist and geochemist with over 25 years of experience in aquatic site investigation and cleanup, regulatory support and permitting, expert witness and litigation support, and alternative dispute resolution. She has provided technical assistance and oversight of investigations and cleanups at more than 70 contaminated sediment sites in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California, and British Columbia, and has developed technical guidance and training for federal and state agencies, consultants, and scientists. Specialty areas include development of sediment and tissue quality guidelines, and development and large-scale implementation of regulatory programs for aquatic environments, including the Sediment Management Standards (SMS) in Washington State, and the Sediment Evaluation Framework for managing dredged material in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
Tyson Waldo is a GIS Instructor at Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University. In addition to teaching GIS he works as a fish habitat biologist for the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. He has a MS in Geography and a BA in Political Science. Prior to working for WWU and NWIFC, he worked as an inventory forester for private consulting firms in central Oregon.