Geosyntec announces our 2025 class of Principals and Senior Principals. These individuals exemplify the values that define the firm: collaboration, inclusion, innovation, safety, and passion for excellence.
Brandon Steets, PE, and Jared Ervin, PhD, coauthored “Bacterial community analysis of recreational beach waters reveals human fecal contamination and pathogenicity across varying field conditions” in Volume 281 of Water Research. The article, which is available online, will be published in Volume 281 on August 1, 2025.
Geosyntec practitioners will speak, moderate, and lead a training workshop at the Twentieth Annual California Stormwater Quality Conference (CASQA) from October 21 through 23, 2024.
Jared Ervin, PhD, (California) and Brandon Steets, PE, (California) coauthored "Modeled and measured SARS-CoV-2 virus in septic tank systems for wastewater surveillance" in the September 2023 edition of Journal of Water and Health.
Jared Ervin, PhD, Brandon Steets, PE, and Aaron Poresky, PE, coauthored “Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Dry Weather Flows and Potential Flow Sources as Assessed by Conventional and Advanced Bacterial Analyses” in the Journal Environmental Pollution, Volume 337, on November 15, 2023.
Geosyntec will present at the Nineteenth Annual California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA) at Paradise Point in San Diego, California, on September 11 to 13, 2023. Lauren Godinez, Neftali Romero, EIT, Brandon Steets, PE, Zahra Maleki, PhD, Megan Otto, PE, Rinta Perkins, Jared Ervin, PhD, Maxwell Dugan, PE, Kelly Havens, PE, Stephanie Zinn, and Maia Coylar, PE, Lisa Welsh, PhD, Kelly Havens, PE (California), and Aaron Poresky, PE (Oregon), will speak at the conference.
Brandon Steets, PE, and Jared Ervin, Ph.D., (California) coauthored a paper titled "Assessing multiple fecal sources to surf zone waters of two recreational beaches by bacterial community analysis" published in journal Water Research on August 1, 2022.
Jared Ervin, Ph.D., (California) will present "Understanding the Factors that Affect the Detection and Variability of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater" in the Water Research Foundation webcast at 1:00 p.m. EDT on March 15, 2022.
Brandon Steets, PE, and Jared Ervin, Ph.D., (California) coauthored a paper entitled "Pathogens in Urban Stormwater Systems: Where Are We Now?" published in the February 2022 issue of the Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment.
Brandon Steets, PE, (California) Jared Ervin, Ph.D., (California), and Avery Blackwell, PE (California), coauthored a paper entitled, "Sources of Low Level Human Fecal Markers in Recreational Waters of Two Santa Barbara, CA Beaches: Roles of WWTP Outfalls and Swimmers," which was published in the journal Water Research on June 20, 2021.
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