October 7, 2013
Geosyntec Announces New Sacramento Office Address
Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce the opening of a new office location in the Sacramento region, effective Nov. 10, 2011. For more information on the new facility contact Joe Niland, 916-637-8325 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .New Address :Geosyntec Consultants 3043 Gold Canal Drive, Suite 201 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 Main Office: 916-637-8048 Fax: 916-637-8321
Eleven members of the Geosyntec team gave podium, poster, or workshop presentations at the 84th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC 2011) , held Oct. 15-19 in Los Angeles. WEFTEC is North America's largest water quality exhibition and conference, with an annual attendance of more than 18,000 water and wastewater professionals.For 2011, technical sessions and workshops focused on a variety of topics including collection systems; membrane technologies, plant operations, treatment, and management;…
October 4, 2013
Michael Kavanaugh Supports National Research Council Initiative on Sustainability and U.S. EPA
Michael Kavanaugh, PhD, PE, NAE, Geosyntec principal engineer based in California, served on the National Research Council Committee on Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At the request of U.S. EPA, the committee developed an operational framework for integrating sustainability as one of the key drivers with the regulatory responsibilities of the agency. The results of the committee's efforts have been published in Sustainability and the U.S. EPA available through the National…
October 4, 2013
Lokesh Padhye Co-Authors Three Articles Appearing in Environmental Science and Technology
Geosyntec is pleased to announce that Dr. Lokesh Padhye has co-authored three articles that have been published in the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science and Technology. All three articles are based on Dr. Padhye's research while at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he earned his PhD in Environmental Engineering prior to joining Geosyntec as a senior staff engineer based in Kennesaw, Georgia. To access abstracts on the articles, click on the titles below:PolyDADMAC and…
October 4, 2013
Dave Himmelheber Co-Authors Sediment Remediation Article Appearing in Water Research
Dave Himmelheber, Ph.D. (Columbia, MD) has co-authored the publication "Evaluation of a Laboratory-Scale Bioreactive In Situ Sediment Cap for the Treatment of Organic Contaminants", to appear in the November 2011 issue of Water Research. The paper documents the construction of a laboratory-scale bioreactive sediment cap designed to biotransform dissolved organic contaminants, specifically chlorinated ethenes, to environmentally-acceptable end products. The experiments assessed the feasibility of the treatment approach, which is particularly applicable at locations where contaminated…
October 4, 2013
City of Malibu Legacy Park Project Receives CASQA Award
Geosyntec's client, the City of Malibu, received additional recognition for its Legacy Park Project from the California Stormwater Quality Association. For more information on the award and Geosyntec's participation in the recent CASQA conference, read "Geosyntec Water Resources Professionals Present at Annual California Stormwater Quality Association Conference."
David Adilman, PG, and Erik Petrovskis, PhD, PE, made presentations at a National Groundwater Association (NGWA) conference Sept. 26-27. The " NGWA Focus Conference on Fractured Rock and Eastern Groundwater Regional Issues , " held in Burlington, Vt., addressed the evolving science and developing technologies for fractured rock aquifers.The conference allowed groundwater professionals, resource managers, and state and regional regulators to interact, compare characterization techniques and remedial solutions, and explore policy initiatives regarding the fractured…
Ranjiv Gupta, PhD, and Jeremy Morris, PhD and PE — both of Geosyntec's Maryland office — presented an overview of issues related to geothermal heat and municipal waste landfills during a workshop held Oct. 7 in Kyoto, Japan.The Second U.S.-Japan Geoenvironmental Engineering Workshop featured leading researchers in geoenvironmental engineering discussing challenges both countries face in the sustainable management of waste. The recurring workshop fosters an exchange of knowledge and ideas with the goal of developing…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Earns Spot Inside PSMJ Circle of Excellence
Geosyntec was recognized by PSMJ Resources, Inc., as a Circle of Excellence honoree at the management consulting firm's Breakthrough 2012 Conference, held in Chicago Oct. 6.Geosyntec is one of the 48 firms earning Circle of Excellence status from among the 234 firms participating in PSMJ's annual benchmarking survey. In addition to financial performance, consideration for Circle of Excellence status included factors related to overall firm development and management. Highlights among these were investment in staff…
Michael F. Bloom, PE, CFM, BCEE, an associate engineer based in Geosyntec's Texas office, will present an Oct. 27 update on federal stormwater regulations impacting the design and construction of roadways in Texas.Bloom will address the annual conference of the Texas Association of County Engineers and Road Administrators in San Antonio. Among the attendees will be county engineers and county staff responsible for the design, maintenance, and construction of the 144,000 miles of county roadways…
October 4, 2013
De Flaun Co-Authors Paper on Bacterial Transport Research
Mary de Flaun, PhD, a principal engineer in Geosyntec's Princeton office, has co-authored the publication of "Lessons Learned from Bacterial Transport Research at the South Oyster Site", to appear in the September-October 2011 issue of Groundwater, Journal of the Scientists and Engineers Division of the National Ground Water Association.The paper documents the experiments performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy to characterize bacterial presence in aquifers. The body of research associated with…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Water Resources Professionals Present at Annual California Stormwater Quality Association Conference
Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce that the California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA) selected the Malibu Legacy Park Project to receive the 2011 Outstanding Stormwater BMP Implementation Project — Comprehensive Regional Project. The selection was announced at the CASQA 7th Annual Conference on September 27 in Monterey, California. This year's conference was co-chaired by Geosyntec's Lisa Austin, P.E. (Oakland). The City of Malibu, the project's owner, relied on Geosyntec Consultants to provide stormwater consulting and…
Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce that Pat Lucia, Ph.D., P.E., senior practitioner in geotechnical engineering based in Oakland, California, has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the 42nd Annual Ohio River Valley Soils Seminar, a conference sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Cincinnati Section Geotechnical Group. Dr. Lucia will be speaking on "The Practice of Forensic Engineering" and discussing the how the best science of failure analysis and the…
Geosyntec professionals will be making presentations at a conference sponsored by the National Groundwater Association (NGWA) on September 26 and 27, 2011.David Adilman (Boston) and Carl Elder (Boston) will be co-presenting "Application of Bioremediation for TCE in a Crystalline Bedrock Aquifer." The presentation summarizes the results of studies demonstrating how emulsified vegetable oil (EVO) and bioaugmentation were used to reduce trichloroethene (TCE) concentrations in deep bedrock (250 feet below ground surface) from concentrations exceeding 100…
October 4, 2013
Sancio Reports on Test Program Simulating Submerged Ice-Induced Seabed Displacement for Oil and Gas Pipelines
Rodolfo Sancio, Ph.D., P.E., based in Geosyntec's Houston, Texas, office, was the lead author of "Large Scale Indenter Test Program to Measure Sub Gouge Displacements" at the 21st International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions held in Montreal in July. Ice gouging of the seabed presents a serious hazard to offshore pipelines in environments where there are icebergs or where the sea freezes each winter. The test program described in the paper…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Personnel to Present at Upcoming Philadelphia LID Symposium, September 25-28, 2011
Eight Geosyntec personnel will be making six presentations at the upcoming Philadelphia Low Impact Development Symposium, September 25 — 28:Joe Jeray (Brookline) will present Optimizing LID Performance with Real-Time Controls on Monday, September 26 at 3:40 p.m. during Session 21 — Models II/Track VI Models & CSOsJudd Goodman, P.E. (Oakland), and co-author Aaron Poresky, P.E. (Portland), will present Implementing LID-Based Hydromodification Controls on Tuesday, September 27 at 1:45 p.m. during Session 42 — Attenuation/Track III…
BOCA RATON, Florida — Geosyntec Engineer Rohit Goswami, Ph.D., EIT, LEED AP, co-authored the paper, "Comparison of Numerical Techniques Used for Simulating Variable-Density Flow and Transport Experiments," published online in the preview manuscript section of ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. Rohit's co-authors were T. Prabhakar Clement, Ph.D., P.E., Professor and Arthur H. Feagin Chair of Civil Engineering, and Joel H. Hayworth, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Research, both of Auburn University.In the paper, the authors examine…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Consultants Awarded Grant Funding by New York City for Innovative Stormwater Green Infrastructure Demonstration Projects
ATLANTA, Ga. — Geosyntec Consultants (Geosyntec) announced today it received funding for the design, installation, measurement, and analysis of two projects incorporating actively controlled, distributed green infrastructure ("high-performance green infrastructure") approaches for urban stormwater control under a New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Green Infrastructure Grant Program. Both projects focus on leveraging advanced technology in mitigating combined sewer overflows (CSOs), a particularly expensive and environmentally challenging issue for many urban areas. Geosyntec's project…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec to Present at Upcoming Battelle International Symposium in Reno, Nevada June 27-30, 2011
Reno, Nev. — Geosyntec will be well represented at the June 27 — 30 Battelle International Symposium on Bioremediation and Sustainable Environmental Technologies in Reno, with two employees serving on the Steering Committee, one serving as a Session Chair, five giving platform talks, and two presenting posters. In total, 20 Geosyntec engineers and scientists served as contributing or lead authors for sessions at this conference.James Wang,Ph.D., P.E., will give a platform presentation on Electrokinetic Technology…
ATLANTA, Ga. — Geosyntec water resources engineer, Aaron Poresky, P.E., has been selected as a co-presenter for the 2-day seminar series on Low Impact Development (LID) Applications for Water Resources Management sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Aaron will be partnering with Rod Frederick, P.E., D.WRE., of Michael Baker, Jr., Inc., to present strategies that can be applied by engineers, designers, planners, and landscape architects to new and retrofit projects for urban…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Consultants Signs Strategic Teaming Agreement for High Performance Green Infrastructure Computing Platform
Geosyntec Consultants announced today it has executed a strategic teaming agreement with ioBridge, Inc. of Marlborough, Mass., to develop and deploy "smart" technologies for the management of urban stormwater infrastructure.Geosyntec and ioBridge have committed to the exclusive use of ioBridge's remote control and monitoring hardware and software platform as part of Geosyntec's advanced water resources engineering applications. The ioBridge platform is used to support Geosyntec's OptiRTC applications, a suite of Geosyntec-developed computing services for monitoring…
October 4, 2013
Owen Cadwalader Presents at NovCare 2011
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, Owen Cadwalader, a geochemist in Geosyntec's Boston office, presented at NovCare 2011, a forum on advanced methods for subsurface characterization and monitoring organized by leading universities in the United States and Germany. In his presentation titled, "Real-time and Low Cost Performance Monitoring Methods for Ozone Treatment of VOCs in the Vadose Zone," Owen discussed a real-time soil gas monitoring system developed by Geosyntec to examine the performance of an ozone…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Consultants Awarded WERF Funding for Innovative High-Performance Green Infrastructure Research
ATLANTA, Ga. — Geosyntec Consultants (Geosyntec) announced today it has been awarded funding under a Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) program for the design, installation, measurement, and analysis of a series of actively controlled, distributed green infrastructure ("_̥high-performance green infrastructure") approaches for urban stormwater control. Geosyntec will demonstrate through this $175,000 research effort that the integration of currently available, innovative, flexible, and inexpensive hardware and software architectures provides a new suite of tools for sewer…
October 4, 2013
Mark Ellard Presents LiDAR Paper at World's Largest Floodplain Management Conference
ATLANTA, Ga. — Mark Ellard, PE, CFM, presented his paper titled, "Hydro-enhancement of LiDAR Data to Support Floodplain Modeling," at the 2011 Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) national conference in Louisville, Kentucky on May 18, 2011. The world's largest and most comprehensive conference of its kind, AFSPM 2011 featured 200 experts conducting plenary and concurrent sessions and sharing state-of-the-art techniques, programs, and resources to accomplish flood mitigation, watershed management, and related goals.Light Detection and…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Featured in Forbes "Boston Best in Business"
ATLANTA, Ga. — The May 9, 2011 issue of Forbes distributed throughout the northeastern U.S., featured Geosyntec in the "Boston Best in Business" section. This one-page piece featured Geosyntec's progress in the region since the Geosyntec flag was planted there in 1999. It also highlights Geosyntec's leadership in the development and application of soil and groundwater remediation technologies, low impact development techniques for stormwater management, and the design of landfill systems to optimize re-use including…
October 4, 2013
Philip Reidy Presents at the 2011 EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress
ATLANTA, Ga. — Philip C. Reidy, P.E., will present his paper, "Innovation in Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Reduction: Implementing Intelligent Distributed Infrastructure" at ASCE's Environmental & Water Resources Institu''s (EWRI) 2011 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Palm Springs, Calif., on Tuesday, May 24th. His presentation is part of the Water, Wastewater and Stormwater technical track at the Congress.In his paper and presentation, Phil outlines design techniques and controls technology necessary to produce the…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec and SiREM Staff Present at RemTEC 2011 in Chicago
Several representatives of Geosyntec and SiREM served as session co-chairs or presenters at RemTEC Summit 2011 in Chicago.Dave Major, Ph.D. (Toronto) served as Session Co-Chair for "Biological Reduction and Oxidation of Contaminants."Mike Kavanaugh, Ph.D. (Oakland) served as Panel Lead for the "Future of Subsurface Remediation Efforts in the United States: Barriers to Success."Bruce Marvin (Oakland) presented "Full-Scale Implementation of a Combined Ozone, Air Sparge and SVE Remedy for Treatment of a Mixed VOC DNAPL Source…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Consultants Opens Suburban Philadelphia Office
Geosyntec Consultants announces the opening of its new suburban Philadelphia office. Dr. Mary DeFlaun, Managing Principal of Geosyntec's Princeton, New Jersey office and her team of professionals established the new satellite office to provide an enhanced client service experience for customers in the region. Christopher Voci, Derek Tomlinson and Michael Lambert, site remediation specialists, will direct the operations of the new office."We are excited to expand our presence in the Philadelphia market, which will enable…
October 4, 2013
Neal Durant Partners with International Academics to Co-Author Article for April 2011 Issue of Water Research
Neal Durant, PhD, of Geosyntec's Columbia, Maryland, office partnered with researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) to co-author a paper in the April 2011 issue of the academic journal Water Research. The article, titled "Natural and Enhanced Anaerobic Degradation of 1,1,1-Trichloroethane and its Degradation Products in the Subsurface — A Critical Review," presents a state-of-the-science review of degradation processes affecting 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA) in groundwater systems. The article focuses on the capabilities and limits…
October 4, 2013
Geosyntec Staff Teach at the Florida Chamber of Commerce's "Growth Management, Energy, Climate Change and the Environment Short Course"
BOCA RATON, Fla. — On February 22-24, 2011, Geosyntec staff will be teaching at the Florida Chamber of Commerce's "Growth Management, Energy, Climate Change and the Environment Short Course" in Orlando, Fla.Geosyntec is a long-time supporter of this conference, which focuses on recent and anticipated changes affecting growth management, environmental protection, water management, and evolving energy policy, with an emphasis on Florida's environment and economy. The conference is attended by attorneys, regulators, and consultants, along…
ATLANTA, Ga. — Alok Jha, PhD, delivered his lecture, "Hurricane Risk to Offshore Wind Turbines in US Waters," at Stanford University on February 2, 2011. His presentation was a part of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center's Winter Seminar Series.In his lecture, Alok gave an overview of the engineering challenges that need to be addressed in analyzing offshore wind turbines to include the metocean loads imposed where both the aerodynamic and hydrodynamic loads may…
October 4, 2013
Zahirul Islam's Journal Paper Receives Honourable Mention as "One of the Best Papers Published in Geosynthetics International in 2008"
AUSTIN, Texas — Geosyntec staff member Dr. Zahirul Islam's paper, " Leachate Chemical Composition Effects on OIT Depletion in an HDPE Geomembrane," received Honorable Mention as "one of the best papers published in Geosynthetics International in 2008." It was published in the April 2008 issue of the Geosynthetics International journal and was co-authored by R. Kerry Rowe of the GeoEngineering Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Y. Grace Hsuan of Drexel University…
October 4, 2013
Leading Water Quality, Groundwater Remediation Expert Mike Kavanaugh Joins Geosyntec Consultants
OAKLAND, Ca. — Internationally recognized water quality, water treatment, and groundwater remediation expert Mike Kavanaugh, PhD, PE, recently joined Geosyntec Consultants as Principal based in the firm's Oakland, Ca., office.With more than 35 years of experience, contributions to over 80 technical publications, and more than 150 presentations to audiences that included congressional and state committees, Mike is a proven leader in the water, water quality, and groundwater engineering industry. His professional practice started in the…
