March 18, 2019
Geosyntec Staff Contribute to the AEHS 29th Annual International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy, and Air
Geosyntec professionals Ravi Arulanantham, Rula Deeb, Robert Ettinger, Theresa Gabris, Matthew Mraw, and Sam Williams will make technical contributions at the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS) 29th Annual International Conference on Soil, Water, Energy, and Air at the DoubleTree Mission Valley in San Diego, California on March 18-21, 2019. Geosyntec-led contributions include four platform presentations, one session chair, one poster presentation and one workshop moderator. Additionally, Sam Williams served on the West Coast…
March 13, 2019
Lelio Mejia and Jintai Wang to Present at Geo-Congress 2019
Lelio Mejia, Ph.D., P.E., G.E. (California) and Jintai Wang, Ph.D., (Virginia) will present at Geo-Congress 2019 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on March 24 – 27, 2019. Lelio will present "The Panama Canal: A Wonder of Engineering" and Jintai will present "The Effect of Shaking History on Liquefaction Resistance of Sand Deposit Using Shake Table Testing." Lelio is a Senior Principal Engineer based in California with more than 35 years of experience in…
March 12, 2019
Geosyntec to Present at Asset Integrity Management - Pipeline Integrity Management Under Geohazard Conditions
Geosyntec professionals will make technical contributions at Asset Integrity Management - Pipeline Integrity Management Under Geohazard Conditions (AIM-PIMG) at the Norris Conference Center in Houston, Texas on March 25-28, 2019. Geosyntec staff in attendance will be: Rodolfo Sancio, Tony Rice, Logan Brant, Ali Ebrahimi, and Alex Greene. Asset Integrity Management – Pipeline Integrity Management Under Geohazard Conditions Conference will present the advances in managing ground movement hazards that have been made in the last decade.…
March 4, 2019
Staci Capozzi Coauthored a Paper on Dehalorespiring Biofilms on Carbonaceous Sorptive Amendments for Biofouling Journal
Staci Capozzi, Ph.D. (Maryland) coauthored a paper entitled "Colonization and growth of dehalorespiring biofilms on carbonaceous sorptive amendments" that was published in Biofouling: The Journal of Bioadhesion and Biofilm Research in Volume 34, Number 8 on February 21, 2019. Staci was the lead author, and her coauthors were Coline Bodenreider, Ana Prieto, Rayford B. Payne, Kevin R. Sowers and Birthe Veno Kjellerup. Staci is a Senior Staff Scientist based in Maryland focused on data mining,…
February 27, 2019
David Bertrand to Present on Environmental Risk Management at the Innovation in an Era of Challenging Sites Conference
David Bertrand, P.Geo (Ontario) will present on "Environmental Risk Management" at the Innovation in an Era of Challenging Sites (IECS) conference at the Pearson Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario at 9:30 a.m. on February 28, 2019. David is a Principal Hydrogeologist at Geosyntec with more than 20 years of experience. He has completed Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessment activities in the Province of Ontario and internationally. David has also directed many soil…
Geosyntec professionals will make a significant technical contribution at RemTEC at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver on February 26-28, 2019. Geosyntec-led contributions include conference co-chair, Rula Deeb, who will provide opening and closing remarks, one keynote speaker, two Scientific Advisory Board members, Mike Kavanaugh and Heather Rectanus, four platform presenters, two session chairs, one panelist and two workshop instructors. Additionally, Emily Stockwell and Chelsea Bokman coordinated RemTEC's Student Program which includes one-on-one student mentoring…
February 22, 2019
Marc Rogoff Provides Insight on the Waste and Recycling Industry for Waste Advantage Magazine's Year in Review
Marc Rogoff, Ph.D. (Florida) shared his perspective in an article entitled "2018 Year in Review: An Industry in Transition" for Waste Advantage Magazine published on January 31, 2019. Marc, along with David Biderman, Will Flower, and Michael D. Paglia discussed significant changes they have seen over the past year in the waste and recycling industry. Topics included: technologies that will help move the waste and recycling industry forward; acquisitions that took place in 2018 and…
February 21, 2019
Seth Kellogg to Present at PFAS Seminar at AHMP Meeting in New Jersey
Seth Kellogg, P.G. (New Jersey) will speak at a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) seminar hosted by the New Jersey Chapter of the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals (AHMP) in Newark, New Jersey from 5:30 – 9:00 p.m. on February 26, 2019. Seth's presentation will provide a technical overview of PFAS challenges, such as its incidence in the environment and the dynamic regulatory climate surrounding this emerging contaminant, among other related issues. PFAS characterization and…
February 18, 2019
Julie Konzuk and Carol Cheyne Coauthor Paper on the Characterization of a Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Journal of Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry
Julie Konzuk, Ph.D., PEng (Ontario) and Carol Cheyne (Ontario) coauthored a paper entitled "Practical application of 1H benchtop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for the characterization of a nonaqueous phase liquid from a contaminated environment" published in the journal of Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry (MRC) on pages 1-8 on December 17, 2018. Their coauthors were Darcy Fallaise, Hannah Balkwill Tweedie, E. Erin Mack, and James G. Longstaffe. Julie is a Principal Environmental Engineer based in…
February 12, 2019
Geosyntec Announces New Office Location Serving Mobile, Alabama
Geosyntec Consultants is pleased to announce our new location serving the Mobile, Alabama area. Our new office will focus on helping clients develop watershed management plans; assisting clients with their environmental restoration projects, including stream and coastal restoration; collaborating on projects funded through the Restore Act, and contributing to the assessment and remediation of contaminated sites. Supported by a nationwide team of experts, the office will also serve industrial and municipal clients throughout the region.…
February 11, 2019
Janet Goodfellow to Present on Industrial Wastewater Pre-treatment at the NESOWEA Annual Industrial Wastes Seminar
Janet Goodfellow (Ontario) will present "Industrial Pre-treatment: Going Beyond End-of-Pipe Options" at the Northeast Section of the Ohio Water Environment Association (NESOWEA) Annual Industrial Wastes Seminar at the Days Inn Richfield Banquet and Conference Center in Richfield, Ohio from 11:30-12:15 a.m. EST on February 21, 2019. Janet is a Principal Engineer based in Ontario with 19 years of professional experience focused on water and wastewater challenges for the food and beverage sector. The seminar is…
February 8, 2019
Leslie Griffin Named to Top 100 Most Influential Women List by Engineering Georgia Magazine
Leslie Griffin, P.E. (Georgia) has been named one of the Top 100 Influential Women in Georgia in the January/February 2019 issue of Engineering Georgia magazine. "As the number of women in the architecture, engineering and construction industry continues to grow, their contributions are becoming clear and undeniably beneficial for the community," says Engineering Georgia. "Engineering Georgia's second annual list of influential women celebrates the diversity of female leaders, policy makers and visionaries who have spent…
January 29, 2019
Geosyntec Staff Contribute to the 2019 Battelle Sediments Conference
Geosyntec professionals will make a substantial technical contribution at Battelle's Tenth International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in Louisiana on February 11-14, 2019. Geosyntec-led contributions include four platform chairs, eight platform presentations, one panelist, two short-course instructors, and two poster presentations. Geosyntec has also collaborated with universities and other parties in the preparation of conference materials delivered by others. Geosyntec professionals will be at booth #132…
January 18, 2019
Allison Haddon Coauthors Paper Analyzing the Pampean Flat‐Slab Region in the Journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Allison Haddon (California) coauthored a paper entitled "S‐Wave Receiver Function Analysis of the Pampean Flat‐Slab Region: Evidence for a Torn Slab" published in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems on pages 4021-4034 in Volume 19, Issue 10 on October 17, 2018. Her coauthor was Ryan Porter of Northern Arizona University. Allison is a staff scientist based in California, with an M.S. in Geology and an emphasis in Geophysics from Northern Arizona University. She has experience as…
Jessica Yeager, P.E., LSP (Massachusetts) has been named Vice Chair for the Ascending Professional Committee of the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC). Jessica is a Senior Engineer based in Massachusetts with more than nine years of professional experience focused on environmental engineering and specializing in remedial design and implementation. She has designed remedial systems for high vacuum extraction (HVE), enhanced in-situ bioremediation (EISB), Liquid Boot® sub-slab vapor intrusion mitigation, air sparging, sub-slab depressurization,…
Mark Johnson (Maryland) will join a panel discussion on "Evolving Ethics Issue – Interplay of Due Diligence Ethical Issues Between Environmental Engineers and Lawyers" at the New York State Bar Association Meeting in the New York Hilton Midtown from 11:40 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on January 18, 2019. Mark is a Principal Engineer based in Maryland with more than 20 years of experience focused on earth site investigation and remediation, groundwater assessment and remediation, subsurface…
January 7, 2019
Beth Gross Named President of ASCE Geo-Institute
Beth Gross, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE (Texas) has served on the Board of Governors for the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for four years and has recently been named President for this more than 13,000-member organization. Beth is a Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer based in Texas with more than 25 years of experience focused on environmental site characterization and management, as well as siting, design, permitting, operations, construction, and closure of…
Ravi Arulanantham, Ph.D. (California) coauthored a chapter entitled "Human Health Risk Assessment in Site Remediation" in the book "Fundamentals of Environmental Site Assessment and Remediation." His coauthors were California regulators Chawn Y. Jeng and Yue Rong. Edited by Yue Rong and released by CRC Press, the book includes a comprehensive review of environmental policies and regulations, with a focus on site assessments, risk management, and communication. Ravi's chapter provides an overview of human health risk…
December 31, 2018
Nandra Weeks Made Significant Contributions to Air & Waste Management Association's 54th Annual Conference and Exhibition in Jupiter, Florida
Nandra Weeks, P.E., (Florida) served as moderator for a "Waste Recycling Roundtable" at the Air & Waste Management Association's 54th Annual Conference and Exhibition in Jupiter, Florida. The roundtable focused on current issues, potential solutions, and explored outside-the-box thinking related to recycling. Nandra also served on the Technical and Student Environmental Challenge Committees for this event. Geosyntec was a Gold Sponsor for the event and provided the award for the four winning teams of the…
December 28, 2018
Marc Rogoff, Jeremy Morris, and Bill Gaffigan Coauthor Article on Solid Waste in the SWANA Virginia Newsletter
Marc Rogoff, Ph.D. (Florida), Jeremy Morris, Ph.D., P.E. (Maryland), and Bill Gaffigan, CVA (Maryland) coauthored an article entitled "Industry Trends: Uncertain Times for Solid Waste Agencies" in the Old Dominion Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America in Virginia (SWANA VA) 2018 December Newsletter. The article focuses on what has been happening in the solid waste industries, China's new policies on U.S. recycling, and possible solutions to current and future challenges. Marc is…
December 21, 2018
Andrea Rocha, Jacques Smith, and Duane Graves Presented at the National Ground Water Association 2018 Groundwater Week in Las Vegas, Nevada
Andrea Rocha, Ph.D., Jacques Smith, Ph.D., and Duane Graves, Ph.D. (Tennessee) delivered a presentation entitled "Next Generation Sequencing for Management of Surface Water/Groundwater Interaction and Quality" at the National Ground Water Association's (NGWA's) 2018 Groundwater Week at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 3, 2018. Andrea is a Senior Staff Scientist based in Tennessee with more than 10 years of experience focused on leading-edge research using an array…
December 20, 2018
Melissa Setz Selected to Serve a Three-Year Term as a Member of the Geo-Institute's Embankments, Dams, and Slopes Committee
Melissa Setz, P.E. (Georgia) was selected to serve a three-year term as a member of the Geo-Institute's Embankments, Dams, and Slopes (EDS) Committee. The Committee develops guidance documents to address current topics requested by practitioners. They also execute special funded projects such as assessing landslide risk, serving on EDS event reconnaissance teams, and conducting webinars. Additional duties include award nominations and conference development. The committee will meet next during the upcoming annual Geo-Institute Conference, Geo-Congress…
December 19, 2018
Rishab Mahajan Presented on Water Quality Modeling at the Fox River Study Group in Illinois
Rishab Mahajan, P.E., CFM, CPSWQ (Illinois) gave a presentation entitled "Fox River Water Quality Modeling Update" at the Fox River Study Group (FRSG) Annual Meeting at the Fox Metro Water Reclamation District on October 25, 2018. Other presenters at the meeting were Cindy Skrukrud who presented "Fox River Water Quality Trends Analysis," and Tom Muth and Karen Clementi who presented "Fox Metro Environmental Initiatives and Solar Energy." Rishab is a Project Engineer based in Illinois…
December 18, 2018
Glenn Rix Provides Public Information on Earthquake Impacts to Infrastructure in a Georgia Public Broadcasting Interview Following Earthquake in Tennessee
Glenn Rix, Ph.D., (Georgia) was recently interviewed by Georgia Public Broadcasting to provide public information on the durability of infrastructure following the magnitude 4.4 earthquake that hit Tennessee. Glenn explained how engineers spend time and effort ensuring their buildings will resist horizontal forces, which often determines how well they will withstand an earthquake. He discusses how building codes guide engineers and builders in making structures earthquake resistant to help protect human life. Glenn gives examples…
December 3, 2018
Geosyntec Contributes to the Florida Remediation Conference
Geosyntec professionals will make significant technical contributions at the Florida Remediation Conference at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida on December 5 – 6, 2018. Jim Langenbach, P.E., BCEE (Florida), as Conference Chair, will open the conference by delivering "A Word from the Chair;" Rula Deeb, Ph.D., BCEEM, PMP (California), Mike Burcham, P.E., (Texas), and Joseph Bartlett, P.E. (Florida), will deliver technical presentations; and Joe Applegate, P.G. (Florida) will moderate a session. Additionally, Phil…
November 30, 2018
Staci Capozzi Coauthored a Paper on the Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Wastewater Published in the Journal Chemosphere
Staci Capozzi, Ph.D. (Maryland) coauthored a paper entitled "Positive Matrix Factorization Analysis Shows Dechlorination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls during Domestic Wastewater Collection and Treatment" that was published in the journal Chemosphere on pages 289-296 in Volume 216, on October 22, 2018. Staci was the lead author, and her coauthors were Ran Jing, Lisa A. Rodenburg, and Birthe Veno Kjellerup. Staci is a Senior Staff Scientist based in Maryland focused on data mining, source apportionment, polychlorinated biphenyls…
November 29, 2018
Geosyntec Project Earns ENR California's Best Project Recognition for 2018 Specialty Construction
Geosyntec's project, Humboldt Bay Power Plant Decommissioning-Caisson Removal, was named one of Engineering News-Record (ENR) California's Best Projects for 2018 Specialty Construction on October 2, 2018. The project owner was Pacific Gas and Electric Co., the lead design firm was McMillen Jacobs, the general contractor/civil engineer was APTIM, and Geosyntec provided engineering support to APTIM for removal of the caisson. Pacific Gas and Electric's Humboldt Bay nuclear power plant in Eureka, California was built in…
November 28, 2018
Geosyntec Staff Featured at the Air & Waste Management Association's Vapor Intrusion Technology Conference
Geosyntec professionals will be making significant technical contributions at the Air & Waste Management Association's (A&WMA) 9th specialty conference on Vapor Intrusion, Remediation, and Site Closure Technology Conference at the Westin Phoenix Downtown in Phoenix, Arizona December 5-6, 2018. Continuing the momentum from the eight previous vapor intrusion specialty conferences sponsored by A&WMA, this event will bring together internationally recognized scientists, engineers, regulators, and attorneys with experience in bringing sites to closure in a technically…
November 27, 2018
Geosyntec Staff Contributing to the 2018 Alabama Mississippi Bays and Bayous Symposium
Wade Burcham, P.E., LEED AP BD+C (Alabama) and David Vance, P.G. (Georgia) will present at the 2018 Alabama Mississippi Bays and Bayous Symposium at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center in Mobile, Alabama on November 28 - 29, 2018. Wade is a Principal Civil and Environmental Engineer based in Alabama with more than 21 years of professional experience focused on natural stream stabilization, water resources engineering, stormwater management, municipal engineering, and contract administration. David is…
November 26, 2018
Geosyntec Staff Contributing to the SERDP & ESTCP Symposium 2018
Geosyntec professionals will be making significant technical contributions at the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) Symposium 2018: Enhancing Department of Defense's (DoD's) Mission Effectiveness at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. on November 27 – 29, 2018. Professional staff with poster presentations are: Helen Dawson, Ph.D. (Washington, D.C.), Jason Conder, Ph.D. (California), Rula Deeb, Ph.D., BCEEM, PMP (California), and David Reynolds, Ph.D., P.Eng. (Ontario).…
November 21, 2018
Ali Ciblak Coauthors Paper on Degradation of Chlorobenzene in Groundwater in the Journal Chemosphere
Ali Ciblak, Ph.D. (Georgia) coauthored a paper entitled "Immobilized Palladium-catalyzed Electro-Fenton's Degradation of Chlorobenzene," published in the Chemosphere journal on October 22, 2018. His coauthors were Roya Nazari, Ljiljana Rajić, Sebastián Hernández, Ibrahim E. Mousa, Wei Zhou, Dibakar Bhattacharyya, and Akram N. Alshawabkeh. Ali is a groundwater remediation professional based in Georgia with more than seven years of experience focused on the assessment, selection, and implementation of remedial actions for contaminated sites and treatment technologies.…
Melissa Setz (Georgia) coauthored a paper entitled "Lithium Extraction to Determine Ammonium in the Exchange Complex of Bentonite" that was published in the Geotechnical Testing Journal in Volume 42, Issue 1 on August 16, 2018. Her coauthors were Craig H. Benson, Sabrina L. Bradshaw, and Kuo Tian. Melissa is a Geotechnical Engineer based in Georgia focused on characterization and remedial investigations; geotechnical engineering quality control practices; and implementation and compliance. Her professional experience includes a…
November 8, 2018
Kevin Kopp Coauthors Paper on Thermal Effects in Modeling of MSW Landfills for the International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics
Kevin Kopp (California) coauthored a paper entitled "Incorporating Thermal Effects in Modeling of municipal solid waste (MSW) Landfills" that was presented at the International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG) and published in the Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics: Towards a Sustainable Geoenvironment on October 11, 2018. His coauthors were: Girish Kuma, Krishna R. Reddy, James L. Hanson, and Nazli Yesiller. Kevin is a Senior Staff Engineer based in California, focused on…
