Enrique Munoz Garcia, a Senior Engineer from our Kuala Lumpur office, and Andy Nelson, a Principal from our Perth office, have been invited to be Discussion Leaders at the SPE “Process Safety & Integrity” Workshop. Enrique and Andy will present during Session 4, which will focus on Accidental Loads and Response Assessment. The workshop will take place between the 7th and 9th of December in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its aim is to provide a platform…
September 28, 2015
October Conference & Event Roundup
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next month. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. For questions or edits regarding the Event Roundup or if you want your participation in an event included, contact us. In October, we have 42 practitioners from the Geosyntec Family of Companies giving 36 presentations and chairing or moderating 4 sessions at 15 events in 3 countries. Environmental Remediation and Risk…
September 22, 2015
Geosyntec Professionals Co-author Key Technical Memo for U.S. Navy
Geosyntec professionals Helen Dawson, Hester Groenevelt, and Todd McAlary co-authored a key Technical Memo issued recently by the U.S. Navy about the use of passive samplers for vapor intrusion investigations. This document summarizes the key findings of a 5 year research program about passive sampling in vapor intrusion investigations. Until Geosyntec performed this research for the Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), there was limited data to demonstrate and validate the use…
September 22, 2015
Paper by Ed Jones Receives an EPA STAA Honorable Mention
Geologist Ed Jones, Ph.D., (Houston) received a 2014 EPA Honorable Mention for Pioneering Research on Transport and Fate of Nanocopper in Water Environments. His paper, "Fate and transport of elemental copper (Cu0) nanoparticles through porous media in the presence of organic materials," was published in Water Research and was coauthored with Dr. Cumming Su of US EPA. The EPA's Extramural Research supports high quality research by the nation's leading scientists and engineers to improve EPA's…
This document summarizes the key findings of a 5 year research program about passive sampling in vapor intrusion investigations. Until Geosyntec performed this research for the Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), there was limited data to demonstrate and validate the use of passive samplers as a reliable method for the low concentration measurements of interest for human health risk assessment. Learn more here >>
September 13, 2015
Geosyntec Opens New Office, Expands Services in Alaska
Geosyntec Consultants has expanded its presence in Alaska with the opening of an office in Anchorage. The Anchorage office is home to three practitioners and primarily focuses on contaminated sites assessment, remediation services, and data management, visualization, and analysis. Office Location: 4101 Arctic Boulevard Suite 206, Arctic Business Park 1 Anchorage, Alaska, 99503 Senior Scientist Ben Martich, QEP Ben joined Geosyntec in 2013 and has 20 years of experience in environmental assessment and remediation with…
September 13, 2015
Mike Hardin to Discuss How Engineering Natural Systems into Low-Impact Design Is Changing the Game for Stormwater Management
At the Florida EHS Roundtable's November meeting, Engineer Mike Hardin, Ph.D., P.E, (Orlando) will discuss how engineering natural systems into low-impact design is changing the game for stormwater management. The Roundtable's meeting will be held on Thursday, November 5 at the Embraer Engineering and Technology Center in Melbourne, Florida and will explore the nexus between natural and engineered systems. Mike is a Geosyntec water resources engineer based in Orlando, FL and specializes in stormwater best…
September 7, 2015
Terence Holman Speaking at DFI/ADSC Micropile and Anchored Earth Retention Design and Construction Seminar September 15
Associate Terence Holman (Oak Brook, IL) will be speaking at this year's DFI/ADSC Micropil & Anchored Earth Retention Design and Construction Seminar on Tuesday, September 15. His presentation, titled "Minicaisson and Tiedown Design and Installation Challenges on 52nd And 53rd Streets, Manhattan," describes two case histories of minicaisson foundation and tiedown projects in the area of 52nd and 53rd Streets of the Borough of Manhattan. During his presentation, Terence will document the design and construction…
August 30, 2015
September 2015 Event Roundup
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next month. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. For questions or edits regarding the Event Roundup or if you want your participation in an event included, contact us. In September, we have 19 practitioners from the Geosyntec family of companies giving 26 presentations, teaching two (2) courses, chairing a symposium, and participating in two (2) panel discussions at eight…
August 25, 2015
Geosyntec Practitioners Demonstrating International Leadership at CleanUp 2015 Conference in Melbourne, Australia
The Geosyntec family of companies will have a high-profile role at the 6th International Contaminated Site Remediation Conference (CleanUp) in Melbourne, Australia. During the conference, held September 13-16, 2015, Geosyntec will have a total of 14 platform presentations, including 2 keynotes, and 3 invited speakers, as well as sponsoring and presenting a unique audience-interactive panel session on remediation and instructing two short courses. Presentations will be made by Lange Jorstad, Garry Smith, Ryan Wymore, Bruce…
August 24, 2015
Judd Goodman to present a Hydromodification 101 Webinar
Judd Goodman, P.E., a Geosyntec water resources engineer based in Oakland, California, will host a webinar on September 10th at 11:00am PDT/2:00pm EDT to explore hydromodification and a step-by-step approach that water resource engineers can use to predict, model, and mitigate long-term fluvial geomorphic impacts (i.e., stream channel instability) caused by land use alteration. This webinar is presented through Forester University. If left unmanaged, hydromodification can cause increased channel erosion, sedimentation, planform migration, and baseflow…
Todd Creamer, P.G. (Portsmouth) and Eric Lovenduski (Albany) accepted invitations to be instructors for a Continuing Education Seminar on vapor intrusion sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) and the Licensed Site Professional Association (LSPA) of Massachusetts. The popular seminar, entitled “The Vapor Intrusion Issue and What We Have Learned: An Updated Perspective on Investigating the Pathway, Sampling Techniques and Effective Mitigation Measures,” focuses on recent developments in investigating the vapor intrusion pathway,…
August 18, 2015
Jamey Rosen to Present at SAME's Joint Engineer Training Symposium on Geosyntec's Data Management Tools
Associate Jamey Rosen (Toronto) will be speaking at the Society of Military Engineers' (SAME) 2015 South Central/ South Atlantic Joint Engineer Training Symposium Thursday, August 27. Jamey's presentation is titled "Barrier Wall Installation at Wolf Creek & Center Hill – Data Management" and is being co-presented with Vanessa Bateman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Jamey is a leader in Geosyntec's Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization practice. Geosyntec Consultants specializes in designing, developing…
Three (3) articles co-authored by five (5) Geosyntec practitioners were featured in the August 2015 edition of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources' Waste and Resource Recovery Committee Newsletter. This edition of the newsletter focused on the Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) final rule that was published in April 2015. The Geosyntec co-authored articles are (Geosyntec practitioners in bold): "EPA's Coal Combustion Residuals Rule: Review of Applicability, Exemptions, And Technical Requirements"…
Principal Mark Hanna, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP, (Los Angeles) is speaking at the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) LA Post and the Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) "Regional Resilience Workshop." The workshop will discuss infrastructure resilience within the LA River region with the goal of bringing together leaders, experts, and community members—concerned about the LA River region's ability to respond to an infrastructure disaster—to problem solve technical and public policy solutions. The workshop will focus…
Geosyntec Principal Gary Wealthall, Ph.D. (Guelph) and Sr. Engineer Derek Tomlinson, P.E., P.Eng. (Philadelphia) were contributing authors to the Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) recent document entitled “Generic Work Plan to Assess Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid Mobility in the Subsurface at Manufactured Gas Plant Sites.” This work plan, published August 4, 2015, provides standardized characterization protocols for assessing subsurface DNAPL mobility that can be reproduced at multiple manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites to yield an…
August 4, 2015
Geosyntec Announces the Appointment of 12 New Principals
The Geosyntec family of companies is pleased to announce the promotion of 12 individuals to the position of Principal. Each of these new Principals has made significant contributions to delivering outstanding projects to first-class clients, developing strong relationships with those clients, building our practices, leveraging their own expertise and experience of their colleagues, recruiting outstanding staff, and working collaboratively with their co-workers. Please join us in congratulating them on achieving this career milestone. Paul Brookner,…
August 4, 2015
Tasha Kamegai-Karadi elected President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Orange County Section
Tasha Kamegai-Karadi, P.E. (Huntington Beach) was elected President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Orange County Section and will serve for the next calendar year. The Orange County section has 350 professional members from local companies such as Boeing, So Cal Gas, Fluor, DWR, and AQMD. The section performs outreach at local middle and high schools, hosts Girl Scouts activities, and awards scholarships to local college students; last year alone they reached more than…
August 2, 2015
Derek Tomlinson Instructing Course on LNAPL Science, Management and Technology in September and Novemeber
Derek Tomlinson, P.E., P.Eng., a senior engineer in Geosyntec's Philadelphia office, is among the instructors for a two-day classroom training course entitled, “Light Nonaqueous-Phase Liquids: Science, Management, and Technology.” The next session will take place September 15-16 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport in Seattle, Washington. The course is based on the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) Technical and Regulatory Guidance document, Evaluating LNAPL Remedial Technologies for Achieving Project Goals (LNAPL-2), and is…
July 29, 2015
August 2015 Event Roundup
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next month. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. American Law Institute SeminarAugust 11 Tuesday, August 11: Principal Mike Houlihan (Columbia) is co-presenting a telephone seminar titled "The EPA's New Coal Combustion Residue Disposal Rule: What You Need to Know."2015 SC/SA Joint Engineer Training Symposium (JETS) August 26 – 28Nashville, TN Thursday, August 27: Associate Jamey Rosen (Toronto) is a…
An article co-authored by Principal Duane Graves, Ph.D., (Knoxville), titled “Performance of an anaerobic, static bed, fixed film bioreactor for chlorinated solvent treatment,” was recently published in Biodegradation, a Springer publication. Duane was a co-author along with Michelle M. Lorah, Ph.D., and Charles Walker, Ph.D., of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The article provides a detailed evaluation of anaerobic, fixed film, bioreactors bioaugmented with a dechlorinating microbial consortium as a potential technology for cost effective,…
Senior Consultant Helen Dawson, Ph.D., (Washington, DC) wrote a key summary of the EPA's June 2015 "Technical Guide for Assessing and Mitigating the Vapor Intrusion Pathway." This summary is a valuable way to inform clients and stakeholders about the ways that the new EPA guidance might affect vapor intrusion investigations going forward. Geosyntec's Vapor Intrusion Practice Team leveraged the new guidance as a valuable opportunity to promote the technical and regulatory expertise that continues to…
The Geosyntec family of companies is pleased to announce the promotion of 18 individuals to the position of Associate. Each of these new Associates has made significant contributions to delivering outstanding projects to first-class clients, developing strong relationships with those clients, building our practices, leveraging their own expertise and experience of their colleagues, recruiting outstanding staff, and working collaboratively with their co-workers. Please join us in congratulating them on achieving this career milestone. Matthew Bardol,…
June 30, 2015
July 2015 Event Roundup
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend in July. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. For questions or edits regarding the Event Roundup or if you want your participation in an event included, contact us. Annual Environmental Permitting Summer School July 7-July 10, 2015 Orlando, FL Associate Mark Ellard (Lake Mary) is co-instructing "Comprehensive Watershed Evaluation, Planning and Management.” Senior Hydrogeologist Todd Kafka (Tampa) is co-instructing…
June 29, 2015
Kwasi Badu-Tweneboah Elected an ASCE Fellow
Associate Kwasi Badu-Tweneboah, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, (Jacksonville) has been elected by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to the grade of Fellow, a position held by fewer than 4% of ASCE members. This honor is awarded to ASCE members that have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that change lives around the world. Dr. Badu-Tweneboah joined Geosyntec in 1987 and has over 25 years of consulting and research experience focusing on the design…
Principal Mark Hanna (Los Angeles) will be presenting the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Stormwater Capture Master Plan at this evening's final hearing. Geosyntec was awarded this project as the prime contractor two years ago and will be closing the project out Thursday, June 25. Project Engineer Rebecca Batchelder (Los Angeles) was critical to this project and Sr. Engineer Aaron Poresky and Sr. Staff Engineer Scott Mansell (Portland) were integral as well. The…
June 15, 2015
Geosyntec Project Wins a 2014 Texas Rain Catcher Award
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) recently awarded a 2014 Texas Rain Catcher Award to the City of Austin’s Twin Oaks Library for excellence in the application of rainwater harvesting. Geosyntec staff from the Austin and Brookline offices, in collaboration with the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF), installed an OptiRTC (Opti) internet-enabled real-time controller to optimize the water conservation and stormwater runoff reduction benefits of an existing 5,000-gallon rainwater harvesting system at the library. The…
May 25, 2015
June 2015 Event Roundup
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next month. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. For questions or edits regarding the Event Roundup or if you want your participation in an event included, contact us. In June, we have 14 practitioners from the Geosyntec Family of Companies giving 15 presentations and chairing or moderating 2 sessions at 9 events in 4 countries. MODFLOW and More 2015…
Principal Mike Kavanaugh, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, WEF Fellow, will be giving a lecture titled “Reflections on Sustainable Futures: The Trade-Off Challenge” on Friday, May 22 at Stanford University as part of The Perry McCarty Distinguished Lecture Series. Mike's lecture will address how, inevitably, development decisions confront a “trade-off” problem. For environmental professionals, who often have a lead role in development projects, the “trade-off” challenge has become more complex over the past 50 years. In this…
May 18, 2015
Brandon Steets to Present a Series of Webinars on Pathogens in Urban Stormwater Systems
During the months of June and July 2015, Brandon Steets, P.E., is leading or co-presenting a series of four live webinars on the single most frequent cause of water quality impairment in the U.S., elevated fecal indicator bacteria (FIB). American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Continuing Education and ASCE’s Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) are the sponsors. The webinars are based on the EWRI 2014 publication “Pathogens in Urban Stormwater Systems.” Brandon was a…
May 17, 2015
Geosyntec Professionals Contribute to New ITRC Guidance on Integrated DNAPL Site Characterization and Tools Selection
Continuing Geosyntec’s long history of contributing to the latest scientific advancements in the cleanup of sites contaminated with dense nonaqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) and DNAPL mixtures, several senior Geosyntec professionals played a key role in a recently published guidance manual from the Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (ITRC). The guidance, entitled “Integrated DNAPL Site Characterization and Tools Selection,” reviews the current knowledge of DNAPLs and their subsurface behavior. Using an integrated site characterization (ISC) approach that emphasizes adequate…
J. David Krause, Ph.D., MSPH, CIH, a Geosyntec senior toxicologist and national practice leader for building health sciences based in Tallahassee, Florida, is a co-editor of the American Industrial Hygiene Association's (AIHA) publication "Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Legionella in Building Water Systems." David is a co-editor along with fellow editors William Kerbel of Environmental Health Investigations, Inc., Brian G. Shelton of Pathogen Control Associates Inc., and John P. Spingston of TRC Environmental. This publication…
Glenn Rix, Ph.D., a Principal geotechnical engineer based in Georgia, has been appointed to the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering (COGGE). As a focal point within the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (BESR), the committee's scope encompasses Earth processes and materials, including the mechanics of rock and soil, and focuses on safe and responsible human development, risk assessment, and mitigation of natural and anthropogenic hazards. At Geosyntec Consultants Inc.…
