Judy has more than 20 years of experience conducting a broad range of environmental support and related projects. She has managed and conducted projects involving revitalization of urban properties, industrial process and waste management analysis, information management, historical operational and ownership research, liability analysis, preparation of cost evaluations, and regulatory analysis. She has worked on sites involving petroleum refining, ship restoration, engine manufacturing, missile assembly, and chemical manufacturing. She has prepared guidance and participated in regulatory studies, such as evaluating the use of CERCLA 106 orders for removal actions and the effectiveness of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) evidentiary hearing process, and has experience conducting data analysis on large amounts of environmental data to identify trends, such as one for EPA HQ that involved the analysis of Biennial Report and Toxic Release Inventory data.
Building Sustainability into Your Corporate DNA:
Dave Dobb
Dave is a PhD chemist with 28 total years of experience in the analytical environmental field. His high level of dedication to quality and precision combined with his ability to enthuse others to follow suit has assisted laboratories in obtaining ISO and NELAC certification. The latest audit of a lab he manages resulted in comments from the auditor that it was a privilege and an honor to audit a laboratory of such high caliber. He has performed oversight, final review, and sign-off on more than 50,000 sample analyses for 47 diverse parameters require a strong understanding of organic, inorganic, and field analytical chemistry. He has maintained technical expertise with analytical instrumentation, analytical methodologies, QA/QC program development and oversight, project planning, project management and data evaluation procedures. These efforts have resulted in 57 publications or presentations covering many diverse analytical and environmental topics.
Layla Hani
Layla has a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Environmental Science from Rutgers University. She has Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification for Existing Buildings and has conducted audits of office space to identify resource conservation opportunities and recommend sustainable practices. She provides technical support on RCRA and CERCLA projects and is adept at evaluating, analyzing and presenting data in a variety of formats, for different clients who have a range of goals and needs. Project support has included a range of activities including review of remedial design documents, data validation, public outreach, training, and audits. She has also performed extensive scientific analysis in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields.
Strengthening Strategy through Sustainability
Jerry Touhey
Jerry delivers programs designed to reduce the cost of building operations pertaining to energy use.? He has completed this service for 32 buildings, working with an additional 30 other organizations. His expertise is based on 30 years of experience managing accounts, coordinating financing and implementing engineering projects working for companies such as the American Red Cross, McAlliance Energy Group, and Dean Witter. For example, he has directed over 2,000 training contractors for the American Red Cross resulting in the training of 120,000 students. He has a proven record of accomplishment in sales and marketing and has successfully reorganized sales departments while delivering strong financial gains and increasing employee morale?
Rob Young
Rob is a professional geologist with more than 24 years of environmental management experience. He manages the technical oversight of CERCLA investigation and remediation activities at private and Federal facilities and has reviewed hundreds of CERCLA and RCRA investigation/remediation documents. He regularly provides technical support to in negotiation meetings with state, private industry and federal facilities representatives. He has also performed more than 30 facility assessments at steel plants, chemical manufacturers, electroplating facilities, hazardous waste storage/recycling operations, power generation plants, and maintenance facilities. He is well-versed in the applicable federal and state regulations, as well as appropriate guidance for a variety of regulated sites.
Michael Smith
Mike is a combustion and energy expert with 28 years of experience and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He leads air quality assessments and risk exposure activities for the EPA, state agencies and private clients. As a trained research engineer, he provides expertise in energy systems and combustion process engineering, as well as environmental risk and regulation. Mike's scientific and regulatory background has helped clients navigate hundreds of air permit applications under various RCRA and the Clean Air Act requirements. He has also led research on the use of alternate energy sources and energy conservation technologies. He helps organizations identify and develop solutions for their sustainability and energy challenges that lead to increased efficiency and cost savings.
John Calanni
John has 14 years of experience as an environmental biologist, specializing in the collection and statistical analysis of scientific data and consensus building between stakeholders. He has planned and implemented aquatic toxicology experiments; conducted statistical data analysis; developed ecological and human health risk assessments; developed standard operating procedures for aquatic toxicity testing; and developed sampling and analysis plans, data quality objectives, and quality assurance program plans under various regulatory programs. He has performed air quality modeling using SCREEN3, D2PC, and ISCST modeling tools and air quality data analysis, statistical interpretation, and reporting. He led an air quality group at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and served as liaison for air quality issue negotiation between the U. S. Army and Federal, State, and local regulatory agencies. John's abilities to collect and analyze appropriate data and work with all stakeholders allow him to help clients develop strong sustainability strategies. He is currently working on his PhD in Public Administration-Environmental Policy.
Resolving Environmental Risk
Karla Brasaemle
Karla has extensive expertise in geology, hydrogeology, and geophysics with 20 years of experience providing project management, technical expertise, and support for federal, state, county, municipal, financial, and industrial clients. Her experience includes the design, management, and coordination of hazardous waste investigations involving geophysics, surface water monitoring, and groundwater monitoring programs; geologic investigations; geological, surface water, sediment, and groundwater sampling techniques; water quality assessment methodologies and analysis; groundwater monitoring system design and installation; evaluation of surface-water run-off patterns; erosion control; design and operation of geophysical surveys for hazardous waste site characterization, delineation of fractures for groundwater migration, groundwater plume location, and buried metal detection; inspections to determine if groundwater extraction and treatment systems are operating properly and successfully; economic analysis of remedial technologies and actions, including evaluation of landfill gas compliance monitoring programs; environmental issues associated with military base closures; radiation monitoring, assessment of issues related to radiation; and policy and regulation analysis. She relies on this varied expertise to provide risk strategies for remedial actions.
Claire Marcussen
Claire has twenty-four years of experience in environmental toxicology and chemistry, with the last eighteen years spent in environmental consulting, managing, conducting risk assessments and a variety of technical projects. She possesses comprehensive knowledge of EPA and state risk assessment guidance, as applied to federal and private sector projects. She previously worked with Exxon Biomedical Sciences as an Environmental Toxicologist and Chemist.
Clarence Callahan
Clarence is a highly experienced environmental professional that has provided risk assessment expertise to private companies, regulatory agencies, and research facilities, providing him with a well-rounded base of both technical and regulatory knowledge. He has provided management and supervision of highly skilled teams, and developed environmental clean-up criteria and guidelines, assessed ecological risk, implemented cost-effective project management strategies, reviewed technical documents, and contributed to research efforts. Synthesis of his commitment to education and the environment with experience in management and in the field, results in an environmental risk assessor that can provide substantial support to project managers and policy makers.
Guiding Green Remediation and Environmental Compliance
Rich Howard
Rich has 32 years of experience in the management of environmental projects and application of soil science. He is a Registered Environmental Assessor and has an MS in Soil Science from the University of California. He has expertise in management principles and skills in communication and negotiation to conduct and lead large complex projects in the environmental consulting field and the public sector. He has managed a wide variety of remediation projects from a carbon neutral redevelopment project of a 1.8-acre site for Habitat for Humanity to McClellan AFB, the highest ranking Air Force NPL site, where he has reviewed more than 500 deliverables and participated in the technical meetings (e.g., data gap analysis; groundwater and vadose zone technical working group meetings; dispute resolution joint technical team) and on-board technical document reviews.
Mac McRae
Mac is a professional geologist with twenty years of geological and environmental consulting experience, as well as specific expertise in the evaluation of Risk Based Corrective Action (RBCA) for petroleum hydrocarbon contamination and Natural Attenuation (NA) of chlorinated solvents in groundwater. His fields of expertise include environmental and hydrogeologic assessments; soil and groundwater contaminant assessments and evaluations; soil and groundwater chemical data evaluation and regulatory liaison. Other strengths include Geologic Map Interpretation; Structural Analysis of rock and mineral structures and Optical Microscopy of minerals. He is familiar with various federal regulations including CERCLA and RCRA and has experience performing environmental audits, assessments and developing and verifying corrective actions.
Jana Dawson
Jana has more than 16 years of experience in the environmental consulting industry, including extensive experience providing technical reviews of documents and activities involving the identification and characterization of hazardous waste, in particular rad waste. Her reviews focus on oversight of the development and review of waste analysis plans to support characterization, permitting, treatment, and disposal of RCRA hazardous waste in accordance with all EPA, state, and federal regulations. She is familiar with EPA regulatory requirements, particularly RCRA, but addresses issues related to the Clean Water Act (CWA), the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Act (NPDES), Clean Air Act (CWA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and others. She also has experience in the analysis and data validation of radionuclide data generated from alpha pulse height spectrometry, gamma-ray detection, gas proportional counting, liquid scintillation, and ICP/MS instrumentation. She has provided extensive support for notable nuclear facilities such as Rocky Flats, WIPP, and the Savannah River Site.
Kathy Dare
Kathy has more than sixteen years of technical experience in the management of environmental and engineering projects and the application of geotechnical and construction engineering. She supports various assignments as an engineer specializing in environmental, geotechnical and field engineering; regulatory review of corrective action and permitting documents; inspections; subsurface exploration programs; sampling plans; community relations support; training; laboratory testing; data analysis; assorted computer software programs; and numerous aspects of engineering design for residential, commercial, and industrial facilities, with a focus on landfills and barrier wall technologies. Her review of CERCLA investigation (RI/FS) and design documents (RD/RA) for more than fifty facilities nationwide has given her the perspective needed to design sustainable approaches
to remediation.
Pioneering Tools for Greening Our World
Jim Burden
Jim has 16 years of experience working in a laboratory. He has provided support for field analytical programs, including the deployment of two field analytical laboratories. He performs validation on data packages and reviews analytical deliverables for technical and narrative content. He operated laboratory instrumentation in a production environment including but not limited to GC-ECD, GC/MS semivolatiles, GC/MS volatiles analysis of water, soil and air matrices, Lachat, and TOC analysis. He also conducts maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of all operated laboratory equipment, including the documentation of repairs to enhance defensibility. This wide range of expertise provides the ability to design analytical tools for identifying health hazards
and risks.
Mark Doolittle
Mark has an MS in Microbiology and twenty-seven years of experience in genetics, microbiology and molecular biology. He has developed and validated a cutting-edge technology for Real-Time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for microbe rapid detection and quantification. He coordinated the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Beaches Water Quality Testing Program to ascertain the impact of adjacent residential development and stormwater runoff on beach water quality. Activities included sample collection, laboratory analysis, data processing and reporting, and establishment of communication channels. He has the expertise to develop biological detection techniques that can be used to help green our world.