October 1, 2014
Robert Roseen to Present as Part of Climate Change and Floodplain Development Planning Program
Rob Roseen, Ph.D., P.E. of Geosyntec's Portsmouth, New Hampshire office, will participate in a panel discussion for an upcoming program presented by the New Hampshire Chapter of the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC). The program, to be held on Tuesday, October 7 at the Hugh Gregg Coastal Conservation Center in Greenland, New Hampshire, is entitled "Flood Plain Impact on Development." It will focus on floodplain developments in the state of New Hampshire that…
September 30, 2014
Geosyntec Bioremediation Experts Participate in Environmental Business Council of New England Program
Doug Larson, Ph.D., P.E., LSP and David Adilman, P.G. of Geosyntec’s Acton, Massachusetts office will both participate on a panel for an upcoming program presented by the Rhode Island Chapter of the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC). The program, to be held on Thursday, October 9 in Providence, Rhode Island, is entitled “Bioremediation and Sustainable Technologies for Site Restoration.” It will bring together experts from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM)…
September 29, 2014
Geosyntec Briefs Malaysian Department of Environment on Radioactive Wastes
Geosyntec provided an extended briefing to the Malaysian Department of Environment (DOE) Deputy Director General (Dato Dr. Ahmad Kamarulnajuib bin Che Ibrahim) and a team of more than 30 senior DOE officers from DOE headquarters and 6 states.Held on 18 September 2014 in Ipoh, Malaysia, the briefing was part of a DOE exercise in capacity building for their staff and the topic was management and disposal of naturally occurring radioactive material, or NORM wastes.Geosyntec has…
September 23, 2014
City of Rochester, New Hampshire Selects Geosyntec Team to Provide Stormwater Engineering Services
The city of Rochester, New Hampshire has selected a team led by Geosyntec Consultants to provide professional engineering services related to their planned stormwater infrastructure capital improvements. The three-year, on-call contract will allow Geosyntec to help the city with projects related to municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) and NPDES compliance, nutrient management, stormwater drainage, Capital Improvement Planning (CIP), stormwater management plans (SWMP), wetlands, stream restoration, and others. In fact, the team, which includes VHB,…
September 16, 2014
Geosyntec Projects Receive California Awards for Innovative Stormwater Management
Two Geosyntec initiatives featuring innovative environmental strategies for managing and funding stormwater projects for regional runoff treatment through natural processes earned distinguished awards this week from the California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA). The Measure M Tier 2 Grant Program supported by Geosyntec's water resources engineers and geospatial practitioners for the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) in Orange, California, earned CASQA's 2014 award for Outstanding Stormwater BMP Program. It was presented to OCTA officials and Geosyntec…
September 15, 2014
Kavanaugh-Chaired NRC Committee Evaluates U.S. EPA Tools for Sustainability Assessment and Management
A new report from the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Scientific Tools and Approaches for Sustainability, chaired by Geosyntec's Michael Kavanaugh, Ph.D., P.E., NAE, BCEE, WEF Fellow, provides the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with recommendations and guidance for use of sustainability tools and methods in the Sustainability Assessment and Management (SAM) process. For every major decision, the report says EPA should include a strategy to assess implications for the three dimensions of sustainability…
September 15, 2014
Event RoundUp: CASQA's 10th Annual Conference
California Stormwater Quality Association September 15-17, 2014 Garden Grove, California Geosyntec Participants: Workshops: Prinicipal Eric Strecker (Portland) - Selection and Design of BMPs on Public Works Projects Associate Kathleen Harrison (San Diego Old Town) - Industrial General Permit Associate Lisa Austin (Oakland) and Assoicate Brandon Steets (Santa Barbara) - Watershed Planning and the MS4 Permit: How it all Fits Together Paper Presentations (lead author): Project Engineer Megan Otto (Los Angeles) - Reasonable Assurance Analysis Approach…
Practitioners from Geosyntec Consultants will host a one-hour webinar August 13 addressing the challenges of vapor intrusion in Australia. The free event begins at 11 a.m. AEST. This webinar is the second in a bimonthly series recently initiated by Geosyntec. Interested parties can register on our mailing list to receive notices of future webinars. Vapor intrusion occurs when there is a migration of subsurface volatile chemicals from contaminated groundwater or soil into the indoor air…
Philip Reidy, P.E., a senior water resources engineer and principal consultant for Geosyntec in Malaysia will be among the speakers at the 13th International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD2014), set for September 7-12, 2014, in East Malaysia (Borneo). Mr. Reidy will present "Innovation in Combined Sewer Overflows and Flood Mitigation: Implementing Intelligent Distributed Infrastructure" on September 11, 2014. The event will be held at the Borneo Convention Centre in Kuching, Sarawak. The theme for ICUD2014…
Derek Tomlinson, P.E., P.Eng., a Geosyntec senior engineer and hydrogeologist based in Pennsylvania, is a co-instructor for an upcoming course covering in-state regulations for vapor intrusion (VI) mitigation. The course, "Act 2 Toolkit: Vapor Intrusion," is set for September 17, 2014, at Penn State Great Valley's Musser Auditorium in Malvern, Pennsylvania. It is the first in a series sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists (PCPG). Pre-registration is required for attendance. Mr. Tomlinson's co-instructor…
A team of Geosyntec engineers, in partnership with local landscape architects, contributed to a winning entry in a low-impact development (LID) design competition sponsored this spring and summer by the City of Chattanooga and other regional partners in Tennessee. As part of the Resource: Rain LID Design Challenge, the team earned a first-place award for "Streamline Broad Street," an urban redevelopment design that re-imagines the Chattanooga Broad Street corridor leading from the Tennessee Aquarium through…
July 13, 2014
Geosyntec Consultants Expands Environmental Management and Sustainability Services with Green Harbor Energy
With the addition of a group of leading practitioners, Geosyntec today expands our environmental management and sustainability services to include consulting, engineering, and marketing services so that clients can monetize their energy efficiency savings, renewable energy production, and renewable fuel production through environmental credit markets. These services are now offered through Green Harbor Energy, a subsidiary of Geosyntec Consultants. Green Harbor Energy (GHE), led by Managing Director Paul MacGregor, Ph.D., is a full service provider…
July 9, 2014
Michele Briening Earns Licensed Site Remediation Professional Credential for New Jersey
Michele Briening, an engineer for Geosyntec Consultants based in New Jersey, recently earned accreditation as a New Jersey Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP). This credential for environmental professionals was created following ratification of the New Jersey Site Remediation Reform Act in 2009. The act moved the direct supervision of site remediation projects from case managers with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to certified LSRPs. Practitioners who earn the LSRP certification are responsible for…
June 18, 2014
Event Roundup: Geosyntec Events for June 22-28, 2014
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next week. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. 2014 Global Waste Management Symposium Global Waste Management Symposium June 22-25, 2014 Orlando, Florida Geosyntec Participants: Principal Jim Stout (Houston) Principal Greg Corcoran (San Diego) Senior Staff Engineer Rutuparna Joshi (Jacksonville) Project Engineer Craig Browne (Tampa) Senior Engineer Rebecca Oliver (San Diego) For More Information: Jim Stout 1-281-810-5054 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Beth Gross, Ph.D., P.E., a geotechnical engineer and an Associate of Geosyntec Consultants based in Texas, has accepted an invitation to join the Board of Governors for the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She will serve a three-year term beginning in October 2014. The ASCE's Geo-Institute is a specialty membership organization focused on geo-professionals and the geo-technics industry, which includes agencies and private firms around the United States that provide geotechnical,…
Mark Hanna, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP, a water resources engineer and an Associate for Geosyntec Consultants based in California, is among a group of panelists invited to discuss California's historic drought and the water supply regulatory challenges related to stormwater runoff. The upcoming panel will be one of several at a half-day conference, "A Call to Action: A Southern California Stormwater Meeting," sponsored by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Dr. Hanna's panel, addressing…
Terry Holman, Ph.D., P.E., a civil engineer and an Associate of the firm based in Illinois, is among the delegates from the United States participating in the 12th International Workshop on Micropiles, underway this week in Krakow, Poland. Dr. Holman will present an invited lecture, "Pile Testing and Performance: an International Perspective," during the workshop's short course on micropiles, set for June 11 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He also will present a technical paper,…
Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce the promotion of a new group of practitioners to the role of Associate in the United States and the United Kingdom. Please join us in congratulating these experienced engineers, scientists, and innovators in their new roles within the firm. Robert Annear Associate Portland Robert Annear, Ph.D., P.E., is a water resources engineer with more than 15 years of experience in water quality modeling and providing surface water system assessments…
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next week. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. Please call or email the contact person listed to learn specific details on our participation. For questions regarding the Event Roundup, please contact us. Energy, Utility & Environment Conference EUEC 2014 November 3-5, 2014 Phoenix, Arizona Geosyntec Participants: Senior Scientist Gregory Coleman (Charlotte) Senior Scientist Curtis Laush (Austin) For More Information:…
Geosyntec Consultants will contribute two presentation papers and six posters on the decommissioning and disposal of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) at the 4th Asian and Oceanic Congress on Radiation Protection (AOCRP-4).The organizer of this year's congress, set for 12-16 May 2014 at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur, is the Malaysia Radiation Protection Association (MARPA) in collaboration with the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA).The AOCRP-4 serves as a scientific platform dedicated to…
Geosyntec today announced the formation of Savron as the exclusive vendor of STAR technology, a proven method for the safe and effective treatment of contaminated soil and liquid organic waste. Savron has been formed around the key practitioners of the technology — David Major, Gavin Grant, and Grant Scholes — who have been involved in the commercial development of this patented technology since its inception in 2005 at the University of Edinburgh.STAR is a revolutionary…
Geosyntec practitioners will share dozens of examples of their most creative thinking and valued solutions during the 9th International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, organized and presented by Battelle May 19-22, 2014, in Monterey, California.This year's technical program includes more than 900 platform and poster presentations in 68 breakout sessions as well as six panel discussions. The sessions and panels are organized according to 15 event tracks that address the innovative application…
April 30, 2014
Event Roundup: Geosyntec Events for May 4-10, 2014
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next week. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. Please call or email the contact person listed to learn specific details on our participation. For questions regarding the Event Roundup, please contact us. 2014 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) May 5-8, 2014 Houston, Texas MMI Engineering Participants: Principal Paul Summers (Houston) Business Development Manager Della Mullan (Houston) Staff Engineer Chelsea Drenick…
INW and Geosyntec Consultants announced today a comprehensive, nationwide partnership to integrate INW's sensor and telemetry hardware with Geosyntec's web-based visualization and control decisions software, OptiRTC. __ Geosyntec plans to adopt INW's telemetry and sensor technologies to enhance its core hardware solutions for remote data acquisition from field sites. INW plans to utilize OptiRTC to provide users with solutions that include remote data visualization; sensor data integration with web-based data such as weather; operational alerting;…
April 23, 2014
Chelsea Drenick to Present on Wind Farm Site Selection at Offshore Technology Conference
Chelsea Drenick, P.E., a civil engineer for MMI Engineering — part of the Geosyntec family of companies — will present a paper on the selection of viable wind farm sites during the 45th Annual Offshore Technology Conference in Houston on May 8, 2014.The paper offers a case study comparing three offshore wind farm sites based on their potential for energy and revenue generation. Ms. Drenick performed multi-year energy time history analyses of potential wind farms…
April 22, 2014
Event Roundup: Geosyntec Events for April 23 - May 3, 2014
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next week. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. Please call or email the contact person listed to learn specific details on our participation. For questions regarding the Event Roundup, please contact us. Philadelphia Science Festival PSF Kick-Off Party: Science Carnival After Hours April 25, 2014 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Geosyntec Participants:Associate Chris Voci (Philadelphia) Staff Geologist Emily Jacesko (Philadelphia) Project Engineer…
Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce that it is a Gold Sponsor for the Mine Closure Solutions 2014 Conference to be held 26 through 30 April in Ouro Preto, Brazil. This conference reflects the growing desire among South American countries for mine closure planning and sustainable redevelopment practices. Lucas de Melo, Ph.D., P.E., a senior geotechnical engineer based in Maryland, and Victor Damasceno, Ph.D., P.E., a civil engineer based in Florida, will lead Geosyntec's team…
Daniel Elliott, Ph.D., a senior consultant and an environmental engineer for Geosyntec based in New Jersey, will present an invited lecture on nanoremediation this week in Vienna, Austria.The lecture, "Differential Reactivity of nZVI Towards Lindane — Implications for QA/QC and Field Scale Use," is part of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the NanoRem Consortium, being held April 7-9, 2014, at the University of Vienna.Dr. Elliott, a member of NanoRem's Project Advisory Group, was invited to…
April 2, 2014
Event Roundup: Geosyntec Events for April 6-12, 2014
See which conferences, symposia, and other events our practitioners will attend next week. Click the name of the conference to visit that event's website. Please call or email the contact person listed to learn specific details on our participation. For questions regarding the Event Roundup, please contact us. Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) North Carolina Chapter 2014 Spring Conference April 7-10, 2014 Raleigh, North Carolina Geosyntec Participants:Senior Engineer Fabian Benavente (Greenville) For More…
April 2, 2014
Darrell Nicholas Joins Geosyntec in Tennessee
Darrell Nicholas, P.E., has joined Geosyntec Consultants as a civil engineer and Senior Consultant for the firm based in Tennessee.Mr. Nicholas has more than 35 years of experience in construction management and quality assurance for a wide range of complex, multiple stakeholder projects. For the past decade, he has concentrated his practice on the remediation of contaminated sediments.Applying his problem-solving skills and knowledge of mechanical and hydraulic dredging technology, Mr. Nicholas has supported remediation of…
Derek Tomlinson, P.E., P.Eng., a Geosyntec senior engineer and hydrogeologist based in Pennsylvania, is among the instructors for a series of two-day courses in 2014 entitled "Light Nonaqueous-Phase Liquids (LNAPL): Science, Management, and Technology. The first session is April 1-2 at the InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza in Missouri.The course series is based on the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) Technical and Regulatory Guidance document, Evaluating LNAPL Remedial Technologies for Achieving Project Goals…
March 30, 2014
Rula Deeb to Present Key Findings on Contaminants of Emerging Concern and Public Health During Webinar on April 1
An upcoming webinar hosted by the Water Research Foundation (WRF) will examine the issue of emerging contaminants that impact the nation's drinking water and feature insights from a senior practitioner at Geosyntec Consultants.Rula Deeb, Ph.D., BCEEM, PMP, a principal civil and environmental engineer for the firm based in California, will be among the presenters for "Broadening the National Dialogue on Contaminants of Emerging Concern and Public Health." The online event begins at noon Eastern on…
MMI Engineering, part of the Geosyntec family of companies, is among the exhibiting sponsors for the 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, set for March 30 — April 2, 2014, in New Orleans. In addition, Morgan Reed, D. Eng., a chemical engineer for MMI based in Texas, is a scheduled presenter for a special session focused on advanced technologies that reduce atmospheric emissions in the petrochemical and refining sectors.His presentation, "Hazards Management for Building Locations…
