October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Welcomes Howard Cumberland as Principal
PORTLAND, Ore. — Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to welcome Howard Cumberland as Principal in the firm's Portland office. He will be responsible for leading Geosyntec's efforts in increasing its west coast business related to ports, harbors, and waterfront development. Howard is a 20-year-career marine scientist with an emphasis in assessing and mitigating the ecological impacts associated with nearshore in-water activities from contaminated sediments, dredging, and redevelopment. Howard has managed, designed, and conducted remedial investigations and…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Receives Gold Rating for Safety
BOSTON, Ma. — Geosyntec Consultants has been recognized as a Gold Award winner for 2009 by the Harvard Contractor Safety Assessment Program. The Gold designation demonstrates outstanding performance in the assessment, which is an independent evaluation administered by ConstructSecure, Inc. It measures both historical performance and forward-looking factors within a company's safety program."Safeguarding the safety of our employees, our clients and the community is a Geosyntec core value, and are pleased to receive the Gold…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Project Cover Story for Geosynthetics Magazine
SAN DIEGO, Ca. — A Geosyntec Consultants project is the cover story in the August/September 2009 issue of Geosynthetics magazine. For the project, "Demonstration of Field-Scale Biofilter Cell System," Geosyntec provided design and construction quality assurance (CQA) services for the Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) in southern California. Geosyntec staff members Ron Johnson, PE, GE, and Sang-Sik Yeo, PhD, as well as IRWD's Randy Sundberg, PE, developed the article.The project purpose was to verify and…
October 2, 2013
Florida County Selects Geosyntec Team to Provide Solid Waste Engineering and Planning Services
Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce its selection by the Putnam County Board of Commissioners to provide a wide range of solid waste engineering and planning services. Geosyntec and its teaming partner, R. W. Beck, an SAIC Company, have entered into a five-year agreement to provide professional services in support of the County's solid waste management program. This is Geosyntec's first professional services contract with Putnam County. The "as needed" nature of the contract provides…
Geosyntec Consultants has been awarded a contract through the Navy Environmental Sustainability Development to Integration (NESDI) program to evaluate the efficacy of treating groundwater impacted by the presence of chlorinated solvent residual and soil fumigant compound, 1,2,3-trichloropropane (TCP). Geosyntec's research partner for this effort is Oregon Health Science and Science University's Dr. Paul Tratnyek. The research team, under the leadership of Principal Investigators Nancy Ruiz, Ph.D., of the Naval Facilities Engineering Services Command and John…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Supports Brady G2 Team for Navy EMAC Award
SAN DIEGO, Ca. — Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce its participation as a teaming partner to Brady G2. Brady G2 is a joint venture between Richard Brady & Associates and Gutierrez Canales Engineering, both small disadvantaged businesses. The U.S. Navy awarded the team, led by the Brady G2 of San Diego, Ca., one of five contracts under the Environmental Multiple Award Contracts (EMAC) program. With a contracting period of up to five years and…
COLUMBIA, Md. — The Carroll County Government recently awarded Geosyntec Consultants a contract to design/build/operate a landfill gas system at their Hoods Mill Landfill in Woodbine, Md. The closed landfill has a landfill gas migration problem, which requires remediation.Geosyntec's design at the Hoods Mill Landfill will incorporate two phases — the first represents the minimum required to address landfill gas migration issues, and the second phase, which is optional, will maximize landfill gas collection from…
October 2, 2013
Successful Long-Term Collaboration between Geosyntec, University of Toronto Leads to Over $10 Million in Funding
GUELPH, Ontario, Canada — Genome Canada is contributing over $5 million to a research project called "BEEM: Bioproducts and Enzymes from Environmental Metagenomes" being led by Dr. Elizabeth Edwards of the University of Toronto and Dr. David Major of Geosyntec Consultants. Collaborators include: Bangor University in Wales, UK; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Massachusetts; U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute; and Argonne National Laboratory. Their metagenomic approach is based on simultaneously sequencing and…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Staff Member Co-Authors ASCE Article on Permeation of BTEX through Unaged and Aged HDPE Geomembranes
AUSTIN, Texas — Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce that Zahirul Islam, PhD, PEng, co-authored the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering article, "Permeation of BTEX through Unaged and Aged HDPE Geomembranes," which was published in the August 2009 issue.In the article, Zahirul and his co-author, Prof. Kerry Rowe of the GeoEngineering Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, discuss the effects of aging high-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembranes on the diffusion and partitioning…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Welcomes John Banks as Associate
TAMPA, Fla. — Geosyntec Consultants welcomes John Banks, PE, as Associate. John has over 25 years of environmental engineering experience, including: all aspects of solid waste management; design of wastewater collection, treatment, and effluent disposal systems; stormwater system planning and design; roadway design; landfill design; operation plan development; and facility site selection and development.Before joining Geosyntec, John served as project director and manager for a major engineering consulting firm, where he was responsible for client…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Welcomes Chad Drummond as Associate
ORLANDO, Fla. — Geosyntec Consultants welcomes Chad Drummond, PE, as Associate. Chad has environmental and water resources engineering experience focusing on the areas of environmental remediation and restoration, applied numerical modeling, and surface water conveyance and treatment. He has worked on various impaired waters projects and has evaluated contaminant (including emerging contaminants) and nutrient migration within and between surface water and groundwater. Models employed include SWMM, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, ICPR, WASP, BASINS, MODFLOW, and RT3D/MT3DMS.In addition…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Consultants Announces Vero Beach Office Opening
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Geosyntec Consultants, Inc., recently celebrated the opening of its Vero Beach office, which is being managed by Tanhum Goldshmid, Ph.D. The office opened its doors in early 2009 in support of the Geosyntec's contract with the Indian River County Solid Waste Disposal District (SWDD).The SWDD's Indian River County Landfill facility includes a Class I municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill and a construction and demolition debris (C&D) disposal facility that serve the…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec's Guelph Office Honored with Workplace Education Award
GUELPH, Ontario, Canada — Geosyntec Consultants' Guelph office recently received the University of Guelph College of Management & Economics Workplace Education Award. The announcement was made at the Guelph Chamber of Commerce's 2009 Guelph Awards of Excellence Gala.The Workplace Education Award recognizes an organization in Guelph that exhibits excellence in supporting post-secondary education in some or all of the following ways:Providing tuition reimbursement for employees who take post-secondary courses or who undertake degree, diploma, or…
October 2, 2013
Keith Clutter Co-Authors Article on Modeling Property Value Loss in Terrorist Bombings
HOUSTON — MMI Engineering's Keith Clutter, PhD, along with Ericka Marie Stoltz and Fred Hudson of the University of Texas at San Antonio, co-authored the article "Modeling Property Value Loss in a City Due to Terrorist Bombings" published in the IEEE Systems Journal's June 2009 issue.The article is based on a study performed by the authors that uses a systems approach to determine property value loss due to damage from a terrorist bombing. A geometric…
GUELPH, Ontario, Canada — Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce that Evan Cox, Carol Aziz, PhD, PE, and Tom Krug, PEng, in its Guelph office have co-authored the publication In Situ Bioremediation of Perchlorate in Groundwater, which is part of the U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and U.S. Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) Monograph Series.Geosyntec staff are proud to be primary authors or co-authors on…
October 2, 2013
MEC Water Resources Joins Geosyntec Consultants
ATLANTA, Ga. — Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce the formal closing of its merger acquisition with MEC Water Resources, Inc., of Columbia, Mo. MEC Water Resources will continue to serve its clients as an operating unit of Geosyntec.According to Eric Strecker, PE, Geosyntec principal and chair of the firm's water and natural resources practice group, the merger of MEC Water Resources with Geosyntec "creates a team of specialists with a broad understanding of the…
October 2, 2013
Kelly Pollack Wittwer Article Studies Impact of Emerging Contaminant on Coral Symbionts
SANTA BARBARA, Ca. — Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce that Kelly Pollack Wittwer, PhD, along with Kimberly Balazs and Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan at the University of California, Irvine, co-authored the March 2009 Environmental Science & Technology article "Proteomic Assessment of Caffeine Effects on Coral Symbionts."The article, which is Kelly's thesis from her doctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine, examines the effects of caffeine on four species of coral symbionts. Their findings support…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Welcomes Jennifer Holder
SANTA BARBARA, Ca. — Geosyntec Consultants welcomes Jennifer Holder, PhD, as Principal. Jennifer's background in ecological risk assessment and extensive experience on large, complex sites has resulted in her excellent reputation for successfully assisting clients in reaching site-closure in a variety of regulatory contexts such as RCRA, CERCLA and NRDA.Jennifer has conducted ecological assessments in aquatic, sediment, and terrestrial habitats for a number of private sector clients and large Department of Defense facilities. Her field…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Welcomes Libby McDonald
OAKLAND, Ca. — Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce that Elizabeth (Libby) McDonald, PE, a civil and environmental engineer, has recently joined the firm's Oakland office as Senior Consultant.Throughout her career, Libby has applied her engineering skills to a variety of projects, predominantly in the fields of groundwater and soil contamination and wastewater treatment. She comes to Geosyntec after spending 14 years managing environmental liability for Hewlett-Packard (HP). At HP, she was responsible for setting…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Staff Author Article on Sustainable Stormwater Management for Federal Facilities
ATLANTA, Ga. — Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce that Steve Roy,LEED AP, and Ganesh Krishnan, PE, CPESC, co-authored an article in the May-June 2009 issue of The Military Engineer entitled "Sustainable Stormwater Management." The Military Engineer is the magazine of the Society of American Military Engineers.In the article, Steve and Ganesh, along with co-authors Russ Adams of Robins Air Force Base and Robert Goo of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discuss The Energy Independence…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Co-Authors Technical Guidance for Swedish EPA
COLUMBIA, Md. — The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvardsverket) recently published a guidance document, co-authored by Geosyntec, regarding bioavailability and its use in human health risk assessment. Geosyntec co-authored the document with SWECO, a civil/environmental consulting firm based in Malmo, Sweden and Dr. Edward Bouwer of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Although the document is primarily written in Swedish, it includes a brief summary in English. The document can be downloaded by clicking here."Geosyntec…
October 2, 2013
The Ghana Project: Real-World Engineering
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Geosyntec is supporting engineering students at the University of North Florida (UNF) in their efforts to improve the quality of life at the Tamale Children's Home in Tamale, Ghana. Known as The Ghana Project, UNF established the bi-annual service learning trip for engineering and other students in 2001. The mission of The Ghana Project is to improve the quality of life of those living at the Tamale Children's Home through sustainable engineering…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Studies LID Impacts for Future Design Techniques
BOSTON, Ma. — The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) retained Geosyntec to monitor and evaluate the stormwater flow from the Partridgeberry Place subdivision, a recent residential development located in the Ipswich River Watershed. The immediate project goal was to help improve groundwater base flow and develop a scientifically-based, reliable stormwater model to aid in other future low impact development (LID) designs within the Ipswich River Watershed. This study is rare in that it…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Staff Tell Their Story of "Saving Silver Lake"
BOSTON, Ma. — Geosyntec is pleased to announce that Steve Roy,LEED AP, and Andrea Braga, A.M.ASCE, have published the article "Saving Silver Lake" in the February 2009 edition of Civil Engineering, a top trade magazine published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.In the article, Steve and Andrea share their story of collaborating with Wilmington, Mass., to improve the water quality of Silver Lake, a key recreational amenity in the town. The town, including its…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Displays Leadership in Vapor Intrusion
Geosyntec Consultants is proud to announce that several staff members were contributing authors on five articles and the editorial column focusing on vapor intrusion in one of the most widely-read journals in the environmental remediation industry, Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation. The articles featured include:"Simulated Soil Vapor Intrusion Attenuation Factors Including Biodegradation for Petroleum Hydrocarbons," by Lilian Abreu, Robert Ettinger, and Todd McAlary"A Case-Study of Soil Gas Sampling in Silt and Clay-rich (Low-Permeability) Materials," by…
October 2, 2013
In Memoriam: Geosyntec Remembers Colleague Bill Ward
Geosyntec is saddened to announce the loss of colleague and friend Bill Ward. Bill died on Monday, March 2, 2009. Memorial services were held on Saturday, March 7, 2009 in Homer Glen, Ill. As an Associate of the firm based in the Oak Brook, Ill., office, he worked tirelessly during his 24-year career to develop watershed management plans, nonpoint source best management practices, and total maximum daily load assessments. In particular, his practice focused on…
October 2, 2013
Joe Esseichick, CHMM, CPG, Joins Geosyntec as Senior Scientist
ANN ARBOR — Geosyntec welcomes Joe Esseichick, CHMM, CPG, as Senior Scientist in the Ann Arbor, Mich., office. Most recently, he spent over five years with General Motors (GM), where one of his primary responsibilities was to develop and implement a common, global risk identification, management, and monitoring process. In an earlier position at GM, he was responsible for internal environmental, health and safety regulatory compliance auditing. He led or participated in over 50 environmental,…
October 2, 2013
Geosyntec Team Honored with Client Awards
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Geosyntec is pleased to announce that staff members Greg Roush, PG, and Dan Elliott, PhD, were honored with awards in St. Augustine, Fla., from long-time client CSX Transportation.Greg, based in Geosyntec's Atlanta regional office, received an Outstanding Performance Award, and Dan Elliott, based in the firm's Princeton, NJ, office, received a Conrail Award of Excellence in honor of their outstanding performance on projects last year. Greg and Dan accepted their awards during…
October 2, 2013
Lisa Austin Elected to the California Stormwater Quality Association Board of Directors
OAKLAND, Ca. — Geosyntec is pleased to announce that Lisa Austin, PE, was elected to the California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA) Board of Directors. CASQA assists the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and municipalities throughout the state of California in implementing the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater mandates of the Federal Clean Water Act. CASQA's membership is comprised of a wide array of stormwater quality management organizations and professionals from across the…
October 2, 2013
Dave Himmelheber, Evan Cox, Jeff Roberts, and Dan Cope Co-Author Papers in January 2009 Issue of Environmental Science and Technology
ATLANTA, Ga. — Geosyntec is pleased to announce that four staff members have co-authored papers appearing in the January 2009 edition of Environmental Science and Technology, which is a leading technical journal published by the American Chemical Society.Evan Cox, and Jeff Roberts co-authored the paper "Carbon and Chlorine Isotope Fractionation during Aerobic Oxidation and Reductive Dechlorination of Vinyl Chloride and cis-1,2-Dichloroethene" with researchers from the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) and Univerisity of Waterloo (Canada). David…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Geosyntec is pleased to announce that Kwasi Badu-Tweneboah, PhD, PE, has been invited to present at GeoAfrica 2009, the first African regional conference on geosynthetic issues. GeoAfrica 2009, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, is being organized by the Geosynthetics Interest Group of South Africa (GIGSA) under the auspices of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS)."Geosynthetics play major roles in waste containment, liquid impoundments, reservoirs, road and embankment construction, dams and…
October 2, 2013
Lilian Abreu to Present Vapor Intrusion Conceptual Site Model at US EPA National Forum
SANTA BARBARA, Ca. — Lilian Abreu, PhD, a senior staff engineer based in Geosyntec's Santa Barbara office, will be speaking at the National Forum on Vapor Intrusion, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The forum, to be held at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, is scheduled for January 12 — 13, 2009.Lilian's presentation, entitled "Vapor Intrusion Conceptual Site Model," will address the ways that vapor travels in the subsurface, seeping into buildings. Using the Abreu…
ATLANTA, Ga. — Geosyntec announces the appointment of Robert Bachus, PhD, PE, as Adjunct Professor with the Georgia Institute of Technology's (Georgia Tech) School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.Dr. Bachus, a principal engineer based in Georgia with more than 30 years of experience, focuses on geotechnical engineering, geosynthetic engineering, waste by-product characterization, and waste containment. In fact, he is nationally recognized for his expertise in geotechnical site characterization, in situ and laboratory testing, settlement and…
