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Association for Environmental Health and Sciences Foundation Isaac Aboulafia is a registered professional engineer with over 17 years experience in the environmental engineering and remediation field. He specializes in feasibility evaluation, design, cost-estimating, implementation and construction of soil and groundwater assessment and remediation projects. He has expertise in soil and groundwater remediation projects utilizing innovative technologies such as in-situ chemical oxidation, bio-enhancements, enhanced soil vapor extraction, hydraulic removal/control and complicated engineered excavations. He has performed scores of due diligence and compliance assessments to identify and quantify environmental liabilities at sites including chemical manufacturing facilities, manufacturing plants, commercial shopping centers/restaurants/offices, multi-family residential properties and vacant land. Further, he has designed and implemented plentiful site characterization projects to quantify the extent of contaminated soil and groundwater. Mr. Aboulafia has vast experience in negotiating environmental issues with regulators and within the business community in support of rapid assessment and remediation of projects necessitated by real estate/business transactions. Mr. Aboulafia is MECX’s Chief Engineer, where he is responsible for evaluating and implementing new and emerging remedial technologies for the remediation of hazardous waste sites worldwide. Farid Achour is a Senior Science Advisor and Manager at ENVIRON International Corp in Irvine California. He has a MS in Hydrogeology from USTHB in Algeria and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Besanson in France, he joined the Swiss institute of Hydrogeology for post doctoral researches on water availability in semi arid areas. Dr Achour has 15 years of experience in quantitative hydrogeology and data analysis applied to environmental projects with specialty in geological and hydrogeological characterization and remediation in porous and fractured medias, fate and transport modeling in porous and fractured media, surface water-ground water interaction analysis, and geochemical modeling. Expertise also includes geostatistics, statistics applied to environmental projects. Gordon G. Alexander, P.E. wishes that he had presented last year so that he could brag about LSU’s football performance. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from LSU before coming to UC Davis for his master’s work. He has worked on various forms of in situ remediation for 22 years. George Alther has a MSC in Geology from the University of Toledo. He has manufactured organoclay for twenty years, in Michigan. He is sole owner of Biomin Inc, and manufactures in Michigan. He owns 7 patents and has published over 110 technical and scientific articles. George Alther has a MSC in Geology from the University of Toledo. He has manufactured organoclay for twenty years, in Michigan. He is sole owner of Biomin Inc, and manufactures in Michigan. He owns 7 patents and has published over 110 technical and scientific articles.

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Association for Environmental MeriahHealth Arias-Thode isand an Environmental Microbiologist with the U.S. Navy at the Sciences Foundation SPAWAR, Pacific, San Diego, CA. She has a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of TX at San Antonio, and a PhD in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As Project Manager she has worked on the examination of different sediment amendments and their potential toxicity to benthic community members. Her thesis work examined the diversity of bacteria under chromium (VI) reducing conditions. Pedro Avila-Pérez is Manager of Environmental Science Division, National Institute for Nuclear Research. He holds BS (biology), Master`s degree in Ecology and a PhD in Engineering (Water Science). His studies include evaluation of pollution in body waters, heavy metals transport, accumulation of heavy metals in aquatic organism, and applications of nuclear analytical techniques in environmental, health and related sciences. He is member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. Walter Bahm is currently involved with the 5-year Review Unit of the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund, State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). He previously worked with corrective action projects at DOE sites, industrial sites and other RCRA activities at the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). Cristina Barazzetti Barbieri, is a Criminalist at Instituto Geral de Perícias, Rio Grande do Sul State Government, Brazil. She coordinated the establishment of the Environmental Sector of Criminalistics Department at Instituto Geral de Perícias where she is currently working doing field surveys and environmental crimes assessments reports. Mrs. Barbieri presently teaches Environmental Forensics at PUC-RS University and is Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Environmental Forensics and Forensic Biology periodic. Mrs. Barbieri received a Biological Sciences degree from PUC-RS University,Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, a Specialist degree in Environmental Quality Management from PUC-RS University,Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, in 2002 and a Master of Science degree in Ecology from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in 2003. Bob Barnwell is a Geologist with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) located in Montgomery, Alabama. Since 2004, Bob has worked in the ADEM Land Division on CERCLA and RCRA projects at federal facilities located in Alabama. Bob provides geologic and hydrogeologic services for the environmental cleanup programs under the Defense and State Memorandum of Agreement. He is a state regulator for soil and groundwater investigations including site characterization, remedial alternatives, permitting, and risk assessments. His duties include oversight of perchlorate assessments at NASA and Department of Defense facilities. Investigations involve characterization and cleanup of perchlorate in soil and groundwater. Prior to ADEM, he worked for 16 years in the environmental consulting field conducting

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Association for Environmental assessments throughoutand the country basing out of Washington DC, Atlanta, GA, and Santa Health Sciences Foundation Fe, New Mexico. Since 2005, Bob has contributed to ITRC as a team member representing the state of Alabama for ITRC's Perchlorate team. Bob earned a bachelor's degree in geology from Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Georgia in 1988. He is certified as a Professional Geologist in Alabama and Georgia. Dennis D. Beckmann, PE, DEE is currently the Laboratory Program Manager and Senior Environmental Engineer for BP's Remediation Management function in Houston, TX. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. His current interests, in addition to managing the environmental contract laboratory program, include environmental forensics, groundwater monitoring optimization, and technical site support. He has over 30 years of experience in environmental site investigation and remediation. Mr. Beckmann received his BS in Civil Engineering and his MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Jeffrey C. Bensch is a principal engineer with Sierra West Consultants, Inc. He received his Bachelor of Science and Masters degrees from the University of Colorado and Cornell University, respectively. Mr. Bensch specializes in civil and environmental engineering, water resources, and construction management. Mr. Bensch has 25 years of professional experience and has been involved in environmental investigations and remediation projects for the past 20 years. Azra Bilgin, Ph.D., is a senior scientist with Brown and Caldwell, Inc, Denver, CO. Dr. Bilgin currently works on site assessment projects in Nevada, Arizona and Canada. Dr. Bilgin received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Environmental Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1997 and 1999, and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado in 2003. In 2005, under a SERDP grant she investigated arsenic geochemistry in groundwater at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Mark A. Bowland is a senior consultant, project manager and risk assessor with Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in Sacramento, California. He has a B.S. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California at Davis, and is a California Registered Environmental Assessor II with 16 years of experience in private environmental consulting. His experience encompasses complex, multi-pathway deterministic/probabilistic risk assessments/risk based cleanup levels, risk communication, toxicology, fate/transport modeling, litigation support, site investigation, remedial action objectives/workplans and regulatory support to public, private and military clients. His hazardous constituents experience includes metals, VOCs, SVOCs, PCBs, dioxins, PAHs, pesticides, radionuclides, asbestos, and petroleum at Superfund, private, schools, Voluntary

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Association for Environmental Cleanup & RCRA sites in the U.S.,Sciences U.K. and Hong Kong. Foundation His role in application of strategic Health and sampling, tiered/advanced risk assessment tools and integration of geostatistical applications has resulted development of risk assessment, communication, and mitigation tools critical to risk managers for decision making, and resulted in negotiated cleanup levels significantly reducing soil volumes requiring mitigation while achieving regulatory health protection standards. Roger C. Brewer, Ph.D, R.G, is senior scientist and environmental hazard assessment specialist with the Hawai’i Department of Health. His environmental experience includes regulatory compliance audits, field investigations, contaminant fate and transport, and human health and ecological risk assessments. Roger has also worked as an environmental consultant in the US, Asia and South America and as a senior geologist and environmental risk assessment specialist for the California Environmental Protection Agency. His academic background includes a PhD in geology. Lindsay Breyer, CIH is the Manager of Health and Safety Services for Walsh Environmental Scientists and Engineers in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Breyer received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado in 1975 and an M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 1993. He has been a Certified Industrial Hygienist since 1984. His work experience includes over 30 years experience in government, private industry, and consulting. At Walsh, Mr. Breyer provides services covering a range of EH&S issues including indoor environmental quality, vapor intrusion, industrial hygiene, and regulatory compliance. Jason Brodersen, P.G. is a Professional Geologist with 21 years of environmental consulting experience, including 18 years with Tetra Tech in Honolulu and San Francisco. He has specialized in the development of environmental policies and implementing complex investigation and cleanup projects, Brownfield and redevelopment, due diligence, guaranteed fixed price remediation, and water resource projects in Hawaii and California, including over 50 multi-increment/decision unit projects. Jason Brodersen, P.G. is a Professional Geologist with 21 years of environmental consulting experience, including 18 years with Tetra Tech in Honolulu and San Francisco. He has specialized in the development of environmental policies and implementing complex investigation and cleanup projects, Brownfield and redevelopment, due diligence, guaranteed fixed price remediation, and water resource projects in Hawaii and California, including over 50 multi-increment/decision unit projects. Neil Brown is Contaminated Land Officer for West Lothian Council in Scotland, UK. He has a BSc (Honours) in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh and is currently undertaking a Master of research degree in Contaminated Land Management at the University of Nottingham. In his role at West Lothian Council,

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Association for Environmental he is responsible for overseeing the council's contaminated land inspection strategy and Health and Sciences Foundation ensuring land designated for housing is suitable for use. Dennis Callaghan serves as Director of Information Technologies/Principal at Environmental Standards. He has over 25 years experience defining strategic direction for information technology products, sources, and infrastructure; designing and implementing custom information systems for clients; and providing oversight of planning, design, implementation, and training issues for all internal computer systems. Mr. Callaghan is competent in streamlining and automating technical and business processes and procedures through applied information technology. He is also competent in designing and implementing web-based geographic information and environmental data management systems. Mr. Callaghan received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Ursinus College (Pennsylvania). Santiago-Alonso Cardona-Gallo is an Environmental Engineer and is currently professor of School of Geosciences and Environment, Faculty of Mines, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Campus Medellín. He has a BS in Environmental Engineer, MS in Environmental Engineering, and Doctor in Environmental Engineer from the University National of Mexico. As Project Manager he has worked on characterization of soils, bioremediation of hydrocarbons, landfill covers, barrier for treatment landfill leachates, constructed of plans for wastewater for treatment, management of dangerous waste. Camille Carter is a geologist with AECOM Environment in Long Beach, California. She has been working on hydrocarbon storage terminal sites with recovery systems, groundwater monitoring programs, and dissolved phase analysis. Ms. Carter received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Biology from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 2006. Ning-Wu Chang is a Senior Hazardous Substances Engineer with the Department of Toxic Substances Control of California Environmental Protection Agency. He is a licensed Civil Engineer in California and is currently the team leader for the ITRC’s Remediation Risk Management Team. He received his Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the State, Dr. Chang has worked for private consultant companies for more than 15 years on various projects involved with soil and groundwater remedial investigation/remediation system evaluation and design, landfill leachate treatment system evaluation and design, municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment system evaluation and design, industrial waste minimization, and permitting and compliance. Ning-Wu Chang is a Senior Hazardous Substances Engineer with the Department of Toxic Substances Control of California Environmental Protection Agency. He is a licensed Civil Engineer in California and is currently the team leader for the ITRC’s Remediation Risk Management Team. He received his Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina

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Association for Environmental at Chapel Hill. Prior toand joining the State, Dr. Chang has worked for private consultant Health Sciences Foundation companies for more than 15 years on various projects involved with soil and groundwater remedial investigation/remediation system evaluation and design, landfill leachate treatment system evaluation and design, municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment system evaluation and design, industrial waste minimization, and permitting and compliance. Gerald (Buzz) Chernoff, Ph.D., is a toxicologist in the Human and Ecological Risk Division of the Department of Toxic Substances Control in the California Environmental Protection Agency. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia for his work developing a mouse model of the fetal alcohol syndrome, and continued research in developmental toxicology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego where he also co-founded the California Teratogen Information Service and Registry. He then joined the faculty at Washington State University where he investigated the etiology and pathogenesis of lupine-induced crooked calf disease. For the past 19 years he has worked in various departments and agencies of the California State Government conducting and developing policy in the areas of human and ecological risk assessments. He has authored over 50 peer reviewed publications and several chapters on reproductive and developmental toxicology. Tait Chirenje holds a Ph.D. in Trace Metal Chemistry from the University of Florida and is currently an Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Geology at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He teaches various courses including Water Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Pollution and Regulation, Environmental Toxicology, and Remediation and Biotechnology. His research interests include (i) geochemical characterization of water bodies, (ii) brownfields assessment and (iii) urban geochemistry. He has published in the areas of trace metal and urban geochemistry and has recently worked on NJDEP and Philadelphia Water department grants assessing water quality in Hammonton Lake (Hammonton, NJ) and the Tacony-Frankford Watershed (Philadelphia, PA) and NJDCA grants assessing brownfields in South Jersey municipalities. Dr. Chirenje is a team co-leader of the Sustainability Initiative at Stockton College and a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Chemical Society and the Geological Society of America. Tait Chirenje holds a Ph.D. in Trace Metal Chemistry from the University of Florida and is currently an Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Geology at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He teaches various courses including Water Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Pollution and Regulation, Environmental Toxicology, and Remediation and Biotechnology. His research interests include (i) geochemical characterization of water bodies, (ii) brownfields assessment and (iii) urban geochemistry. He has published in the areas of trace metal and urban geochemistry and has recently worked on NJDEP and Philadelphia Water department grants assessing water quality in Hammonton Lake (Hammonton, NJ) and the Tacony-Frankford Watershed (Philadelphia, PA) and NJDCA grants assessing brownfields in South

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Association for Environmental JerseyHealth municipalities. Dr. ChirenjeSciences is a team co-leaderFoundation of the Sustainability Initiative at and Stockton College and a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Chemical Society and the Geological Society of America. Joel Coffman is an Environmental Scientist with US EPA Region 9. He has worked on California leaking underground storage tank (LUST) issues and projects for over 20 years as a site remediation manager for consulting firms and as a regulator. From 2000 to 2008, Joel was the PG in charge of cleanups for the Napa County Local Oversight Program, where he oversaw the assessment and remediation of petroleum contaminated sites. He joined EPA Region 9 in early 2008, where he works in the Waste Division, UST Office in San Francisco. His duties there include working with the State of California on acceleration of LUST case cleanups, revision of the California LUFT Manual and assisting agencies in reconciling their in-house caseload databases with the State’s GeoTracker database. He is also assisting in evaluation of various sustainability of remediation models, which are currently being developed. He has a BS in Geological Sciences from the University of Texas in Austin, is a PG in California and Texas and Certified Environmental Manager for Nevada. Melanie Columbus, B.ScH, is currently working on completing her M.Sc in Plant Biology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She also received her B.ScH in Biology at Queen’s University. Her lab focuses on various bioremediation techniques including remediation of both organic and inorganic contaminants using plant and algae species. Helder Costa is a Vice President at Haley & Aldrich, Inc. in Boston, MA. He holds a B.A. in chemistry from Boston University and an M.S. in Chemistry from San Diego State University; he has more than 23 years professional experience in environmental investigation, including forensic interpretation. He has applied innovative approaches involving compositional analysis of petroleum hydrocarbons, PAHs, and PCBs on many remedial investigations for manufactured gas plant, creosote wood-treating, PCB, and petroleum sites. James B. Cowart, P.E. is with Walsh Environmental Scientists and Engineers, LLC, Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Cowart has been responsible for assessing and remediating some of the largest vapor intrusion sites in the country, including: Headquarters CDOT Site in Denver, Colorado with VOCs in groundwater under 33 residential homes and 7 apartment buildings; and River Point at Sheridan, Colorado with an 800,000 sq. ft. mall and associated parking overlying an abandoned landfill with methane and VOCs. Mr. Cowart has published 6 papers on vapor intrusion since 2000. Todd Creamer is a Senior Geologist in the Remediation Practice at Geosyntec Consultants in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a technical leader in Geosyntec's international vapor intrusion practice, having managed and participated in projects from coast to coast. Todd specializes in pathway evaluation, site

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Association for Environmental conceptual model development andSciences sampling protocols. He is also currently serving on an Health and Foundation advisory workgroup for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection charged with drafting a revised comprehensive VI guidance document by the end of 2009. He is a licensed Professional Geologist in California and Wyoming. Gary Cronk is the President of JAG Consulting Group, Inc., a company in Santa Ana, CA that specializes in providing services for the design and implementation of in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO). Mr. Cronk has experience in design and implementation of over 30 ISCO projects in California. Overall, Mr. Cronk has over 35 years experience in hazardous waste site investigations, design of environmental remediation systems, and expert witness consulting. Mr. Cronk is a California Registered Professional Engineer, a California Certified Hazardous Substances Removal and Remedial Actions Contractor (A-HAZ), a Class A General Engineering Contractor, and a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM). He holds a Masters degree in Biological Sciences from Cal State Fullerton. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on the benefits of in-situ chemical oxidation. Stephen J. Cullen is a Principal Hydrogeologist with Daniel B. Stephens & Associates. Dr. Cullen is a Professional Geologist (PG) and a Registered Environmental Assessor, Level 2 (REA II) with the State of California, and a registered Certified Environmental Manager (CEM) with the State of Nevada. He has over 30 years of professional experience in subsurface investigations related to water resource and contaminant hydrogeology. His project experience includes numerous petroleum and chlorinated hydrocarbon remedial investigations. He has authored over 75 publications and presentations on environmental subsurface modeling, monitoring, and remediation including the “Lawrence Livermore Reports” on risk-based assessment of petroleum hydrocarbon sites, and the textbook “Handbook of Vadose Zone Characterization and Monitoring”. He has made presentations on various environmental topics to the United Nations, U.S.E.P.A., and to industry, and state and local governments. He is currently a member of the Single Shell Tank Integrity Program Expert Panel at the Hanford Site charged with long-term containment of high-level radioactive waste. Dr. Cullen can be contacted at [email protected]. Bill Cutler is a geologist and environmental scientist with over 20 years in practice, working for chemical manufacturers and now consulting. He has managed site investigations and remediation projects under CERCLA, RCRA Corrective Action and State Programs across the U.S. Over the past 4 years, he has been studying the occurrence of elevated soil arsenic at sites on the Island of Hawaii at former Sugar Cane plantations where arsenical herbicides were widely used. Michelle Dail is a graduating senior at California State University Long Beach. She is currently interviewing at medical schools across the country for admission

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Association for Environmental to an MD/PhD program. and At CSULB,Sciences Michelle works with Dr. Stephen P. Mezyk on the use of Health Foundation Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) to remove contaminants, such as beta-lactam antibiotics, from wastewater. She was funded to do this research by Women and Philanthropy, CSULB Provost Undergraduate Research Grant, and the Target Specialty Products, Inc. Scholarship. Stephanie Dobyns currently works as the Marketing Manager for Regenesis. Her past work experience at an environmental consulting firm included oversee and execution of onsite groundwater and soil sampling and monitoring well installation. Her current projects include site analysis and presentation of in-situ bioremediation and chemical oxidation sites. She’s co-authored multiple presentations discussing the successful application of in-situ remediation technologies worldwide. Ms. Dobyns attended the University of California, San Diego where she earned her degree in Earth Science. While attending UCSD, she also assisted in the study of atmospheric effects of volcanic releases in South America. Education: B.S. Earth Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Travis R. Doom will be graduating in May 2009 from Arizona State University, earning a B.S.E. bioengineering. Travis purses a strong interest in environmental systems engineering and the socio political structures of innovation. Currently Travis serves as an undergraduate research associate for Professor Rolf Halden at the Biodesign Institutes’ Center for Environmental Biotechnology and works as a research intern with the Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes (CSPO), all at Arizona State University. Travis also serves as a peer mentor for the Advantage Academic Success Program and was a camp mentor for the School of Engineering’s E2 camp. During the previous summers Travis completed an NSF funded research project at the University of Colorado Boulder under the guidance of Professor Karl Linden and worked as a math and science tutor at Glendale Community College. Ken Esposito has over 20 years of experience performing and managing geological field investigations, laboratory analyses, and geochemical studies. He has designed, implemented, and conducted ground water and surface water sampling programs to determine contaminant sources and fates, as well as estimating background water quality conditions. His work experience covers a wide range of activities, including determination of acid rock drainage sources, fate and transport of constituents, emergency response, mineralogical analyses, and solid-phase identification. His areas of expertise include: mineralogy, aqueous geochemistry, clay chemistry and mineralogy, instrumental analyses, acid rock drainage, natural background water quality, and mercury spill clean-up. Robert S. Fagerness, PE, is the Principal Engineer with Central Valley Environmental, Inc, Fair Oaks, California. Mr. Fagerness is a Licensed Civil Engineer in the State of California with a combined 20 years of professional experience in both the private and public sector. He has fifteen years of

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Association for Environmental experience in the privateand sector dealing with regulatory and permit compliance, soil and Health Sciences Foundation groundwater investigations, and soil and groundwater remediation of hazardous waste sites. He also has five years of regulatory experience with the State of California Regional Water Quality Control Board (Central Valley Region) and Solano County Department of Environmental Management. Mr. Fagerness received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Resources Engineering from California State University, Humboldt in 1989, and a Master of Science Degree from California State University of Sacramento in 1995. Paul H. Fallgren has a BS and MS from University of Wyoming. Senior Scientist in Waste and Environmental Management division at WRI. Soil and water remediation/treatment specialist working in bioremediation and chemical oxidation (in situ and ex situ) of soils and groundwater contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons, halogenated organic compounds, and other toxic organic compounds; bioremediation of acid mine drainage; electrochemical remediation of soil and water with chlorinated organic compounds and nitrate; pretreatment and membrane treatment of oil and gas produced water; advanced filtration products for anions, metalloids, and microorganisms; enhancement of biogenic methane production from organic bearing materials; water/wastewater treatment process development. Herbert H. P. Fang, Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Hong Kong is an expert in environmental biotechnologies, including anaerobic degradation, nutrient removal, membrane separation, biofilm, bioremediation, etc.. He has published over 160 journal articles, presented over 100 papers in international conferences, and have received over 2800 citations. Professor Fang is the recipient of several research awards, including most recently the China’s State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (2008). His present research interests include bioremediation of contaminated anthropogenic sediment, biofilm-related corrosion and microbial contaminants in water supply, hydrogen production from wastewater and waste, biodegradation of endocrine disruptors, etc. using DNA-based molecular techniques and advanced analytical technologies, such as atomic force microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy, and Xray photoelectron spectrometry. He is the Editorial Board Member of Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology (Springer), and a former Editorial Board Member of Chemosphere (Elsevier), Biofilms (Cambridge), Advances in Environmental Research (Elsevier) and World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (Kluwer). Professor Fang is also a visiting Professor of 13 universities, eleven in China and two in Taiwan. Manoochehr Fathi-Moghadam Education: B. Sc., 1972, Soil and Water Engineering, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran M. Sc., 1980, Engineering Sciences, University of Arkansas, USA

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Association for Environmental Ph.D., Health 1996, Civil Engineering (Water Resources), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, and Sciences Foundation Canada Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Hydraulic Structures, School of Water Sciences Engineering, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran, Publications: 20 pier review journal papers + 65 conference papers Membership: Professional Engineers Ontario Robert J. Fellows is a Senior Research Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. He followed his Ph.D. from the University of Dayton with positions in academia where his research efforts concerned the mechanisms associated with the regulation of plant carbon partitioning and translocation, as well as metabolic responses to water stress in a number of crop species. Dr. Fellows joined PNNL in 1986 and has been involved in programs dealing with soil availability, plant metabolism, animal availability, and ecotoxicological aspects of food chain transport of organic (energetics), inorganic (metals), and radiological pollutants. He is currently investigating the feasibility of using plants to phytoextract radioisotope contamination at the Hanford Site in Washington State. Stephanie Fiorenza is the regional remediation technology coordinator for BP in their southern US and Latin American region. She also has primary responsibility for chlorinated solvent-impacted sites and bioremediation approaches. She has been involved with sustainable remediation since the inception of SURF in 2006 and is now focused on sustainable remediation efforts within BP. Prior to joining BP she managed innovative remediation technology pilot tests at US DOD sites. She received her Ph. D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Rice Engineering and her B. A. from Brown University. David Fleming earned his Bachelors of Science in Environmental Health/Toxicology from Western Washington University in 1985. Mr. Fleming has worked in the Environmental Health, Consulting, and Remediation fields for 25 years. From 1983 - 1989 he held various environmental regulatory positions with the former Washington State Game Department, U.S. EPA Region 10, King County Solid Waste, and the Department of Environmental Health & Safety at the University of Washington. He is presently a founder, partner and vice president of marketing and sales for TRS which specializes in providing in situ thermal remediation of soil and groundwater using Electrical Resistance Heating (ERH). Juliana Freitas is a PhD student at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo. She is a civil engineer and has a MSc in sanitary engineering, both from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Deepa Gandhi is a Project Engineer with Geosyntec Consultants in their Oakland, California office. She earned her master’s degree from University of California at Davis after completing undergraduate studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Ms. Gandhi specializes in developing

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Association for Environmental innovative and cost effective solutions for sites, particularlyFoundation through the use of in situ and Health and Sciences biological remedies for treatment of compounds such as chlorinated solvents, perchlorate, and chromium in groundwater. Edgar Suárez García is currently a research student at School of Geosciences and Environment, Faculty of Mines at Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín. His work has focused on Design and Operation of passive treatments systems for Landfill Leachate and decentralized Wastewater Treatment Plants. Mr. Suárez has a BEng in Biological Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín. Stephen Gleadall, BEng, is the Projects Manager for Terra Vac (UK) Ltd, one of the leading contaminated land and groundwater remediation specialists in the United Kingdom. He is responsible for the day to day management of remediation projects and the design, development and construction of remediation equipment. Since joining Terra Vac at the beginning of 2006, he has been actively involved in a number of remediation projects involving a varying range of techniques using ‘traditional’ and ‘leading edge’ technologies and on varying scales, including the two largest free product recovery projects undertaken in Europe. In 2007/08 he project managed the first full scale application of electric resistive heating (ERH) technology in the UK for the successful in-situ remediation of chlorinated solvent in soils and groundwater on a former industrial site to be developed for residential end use. The project is the subject of CL:AIRE Technology Demonstration Project bulletin TDP 26 and, earned Terra Vac the coveted award of ‘Most Innovative Remediation Method’ at the Brownfield Briefing Remediation Innovation Awards 2008. He is currently working towards an MRes in Contaminated Land Management at the University of Nottingham. Diego E. Gomez is a Civil and Environmental Engineer, currently studying towards an Environmental Engineering Ph.D. degree at Rice University, Houston, TX. He has a BS in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile (2002), a M.Sc. in Environmental Technology from Lancaster University, UK (2003) and a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from Rice University, US (2007). His work and research experience focuses on contaminant fate, transport and monitoring; remediation technologies and bioremediation; and use of computational tools and models for environmental risk assessment. Mr. Gomez currently works on ethanol and biofuel related groundwater impacts, in projects sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute and BP Global. Kevin Graves is currently the UST Program Manager with the California State Water Resources Control Board. Mr. Graves has 15 years of experience with groundwater investigation and remediation. He received a Bachelors degree from UC Santa Barbara in mechanical engineering and a Masters degree from California State University Sacramento in civil engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in both civil and mechanical engineering.

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Association for Environmental Christopher Griggs, is a ResearchSciences Physical Scientist withFoundation the U.S. Army Engineering Health and Research Development Center in the Environmental Engineering Branch located in Vicksburg, MS. Mr Griggs has a BS in Environmental Science from the University of West Alabama, and a MS in Chemistry from Mississippi College. His current research inolves insitu metals stabilization to reduce the bioavailability of heavy metal contaminants in soils, and and the investigation of the fate and transport of DOD contaminants such as strategic metals, energetics, and explosive residues. Related projects include range sustainability with an emphasis on reactive berms and impact areas for explosive residues and heavy metals, the development and modification of biogenic soil amendments, and effects of speciation on the environmental chemistry of tungsten. Stoyan Groudev is professor of microbiology at the Department of Engineering Geoecology at the University of Mining and Geology “Saint Ivan Rilski”, Sofia, Bulgaria. His main scientific interests are in the field of geological microbiology, biohydrometallurgy, ecology and environmental protection and remediation. He has more than 40 years of experience in these fields and has participated in more than 150 research projects, many of them with international participation and commercial-scale application. His current activities are connected with prevention of acid mine drainage, treatment of waters and soils polluted with radionuclides, heavy metals, arsenic and oil, bioremediation of post-mining areas, bacterial pretreatment of gold-bearing ores and concentrates and microbial leaching of nonferrous, precious and rare metals from mineral raw materials and wastes. Paul Hadley is a Senior Hazardous Substances Engineer in the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). With over 25 years of experience, he has worked on topics related to risk and remediation through both DTSC and the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC). Currently he is involved with both the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) and DTSC’s Green Remediation Team. Rolf U. Halden, P.E., Associate Professor, is the Specialty Area Coordinator for Environmental Engineering and Water Resources at Arizona State University and maintains a research laboratory in the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at ASU’s Biodesign Institute. He received his M.S. in Biology (1992) from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, and his M.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Halden has an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, where he served from 2001 to 2007 as a co-founding member of the Center for Water and Health. Prior to joining academia, he was post-doctoral fellow (1997) and project engineer (1998 - ‘01) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Halden’s expertise is in the area of sustainable environmental biotechnologies and the application of mass spectrometry-based tools for environmental exposure assessment.

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Association for Environmental Paul B.Health Hatzinger, Ph.D.and is a senior scientist at the Princeton Research Center of Shaw Sciences Foundation Environmental, Inc. in Lawrenceville, NJ. He joined Shaw in 2003 after working as a research scientist at Envirogen for 6 years. Paul’s current areas of research focus on the development of in situ and ex situ bioremediation technologies for emerging contaminants and the use of isotopic methods to distinguish contaminant sources. He has been performing research on perchlorate biodegradation and bioremediation since 1999. Paul has served at the Principal Investigator on several research projects focused on perchlorate treatment, including three field demonstrations of in situ remedial approaches, and projects evaluating the use of stable isotopes to delineate natural from anthropogenic perchlorate in the environment. In addition, Paul works closely with the engineering group at Shaw that has designed and constructed 5 full-scale bioreactor systems for treatment of perchlorate in groundwater. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters, including several on perchlorate treatment and forensics. Paul has been a member of the ITRC Perchlorate team since inception. He earned a bachelor's degree in Biology and Environmental Science from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY in 1986, and he holds both a master's degree (1991) and a doctoral degree (1996) in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Terry Hazen received his B. S. and M. S. degrees in Interdepartmental Biology from Michigan State University. His Ph.D. is from Wake Forest University in Microbial Ecology. Dr. Hazen was Professor, Chairman of Biology and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Puerto Rico for 8 years. Currently he is Head of the Ecology Department, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Microbial Communities Department of the Joint BioEnergy Institute, and co-director of the Virtual Institute for Microbial Stress and Survival and the Microbial Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery Program of the Energy Biosciences Institute at E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and has authored more than 205 scientific publications. Dr. Hazen received in 2005 the DOE BER Distinguished Scientist Award (one of only four ever given). His area of specialty is environmental microbiology, especially as it relates to bioremediation, water quality and bioenergy. Gorm Heron is Vice President and Senior Engineer with TerraTherm, Inc. He is responsible for site evaluation and treatment design. He specializes in a broad rage of thermal remediation methods, including Thermal Conduction Heating and Steam Enhanced Extraction. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Heron conducted research on thermal remediation at the US EPA lab in Ada, Oklahoma, and at University of California at Berkeley. He was the lead engineer with SteamTech Environmental Services from 1999 to early 2004, where he designed and implemented field-scale steam and electrical heating systems. He is based in south central California.

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Association for Environmental John Hicks, PG is a hydrogeologist and Project ManagerFoundation with the Parsons Corporation in Health and Sciences Denver, CO. He has a BS degree in geology from Principia College in Illinois, an MS degree in geology with emphasis in hydrogeology from the Colorado School of Mines, and 24 years of experience working in the environmental consulting industry. His areas of emphasis have included work plan development, remedial investigation-related field data collection and analysis, enhanced bioremediation, natural attenuation and risk-based corrective action assessments, remedial process optimization, and report preparation for sites contaminated with fuels and chlorinated solvents. Brian Hitchens, PG, CHG, is a senior hydrogeologist with Geosyntec Consultants in San Diego, CA. Mr. Hitchens recieved a BA in Geology from the College of Wooster in 1997 and recieved a Masters degree in Structural Geology at the University of Wyoming in 1999. Mr. Hitchens has been involved with many diverse projects, with responsibilities including project management, litigation support, data analysis and visualization, reporting, and negotiation with regulatory agencies. He specializes in applied in-situ remedial technologies, bioremediation, and data management and visualization. Andy Hong is professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah. He has been developing new methods for remediation of PCB-contaminated soil and sediment. Recently, he applied pressure assisted ozonation technique for treatment of produced water, refinery wastewater, and wastewater containing pharmaceutical compounds with good results. Dr. Hong’s recent interest in petroleum compounds involves extraction of bitumen from oil sands and resource recovery from petroleum byproducts. Deyi Hou, D.E., P.E., is a project engineer with Parsons Corporation in Walnut Creek, California. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the States of California and Nevada. Mr. Hou received a Master of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, California in 2003 and a Degree of Engineer in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University in 2005. Mr. Hou currently works on projects for utility, petroleum, and manufacturing clients in California. His work includes the characterization, remediation and long-term monitoring of contaminated soil and groundwater at former oilfield and refinery sites, former manufacturing sites, former natural gas gathering stations and manufacturing plants. Yuanxing Huang, is a Ph.D student in Environmental Engineering field of University of Utah. She has a BS in Environmental Science from Shanxi University, and MS in Environmental Science from Fudan University, China. Her current research focused on the degradation of recalcitrant contaminants in the water by ozonation.

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Association for Environmental SusanHealth S. Hubbard is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she and Sciences Foundation leads the Environmental Remediation and Water Resources Program and is an Associate Director of the Berkeley Water Center. She received her B.S in Geology from UC Santa Barbara; her M.S. in Geophysics from Virginia Tech; and her Ph.D. in Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1999. Her research focuses on advancing the use of geophysical methods for shallow subsurface characterization and monitoring, with a particular emphasis on development of fusion methods that have been used to guide and evaluate environmental remediation treatments. She edited the first book on hydrogeophysics, and has published over 50 papers on this topic. Dr. Hubbard serves as a Co-Editor for the Vadose Zone Journal and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydrology. More information about Susan’s research can be found at http://esd.lbl.gov/sshubbard/ James A. Jacobs, P.G., C.H.G. is a hydrogeologist focused on in-situ remediation of soil and groundwater impacted by heavy metals including Cr (VI), arsenic and lead as well as chlorinated solvents and petroleum hydrocarbons. He has over 25 years of experience and a BA in English and geology and a MA in geology. Jim has been a lecturer and three-time Fulbright grant winner in environmental engineering, teaching workshops and a graduate class in environmental assessment and in-situ remediation methods at colleges and technical meetings. He has co-authored two CRC Press books, and written over 100 articles on water treatment and environmental issues and has made more than 50 presentations. Jim has been an officer or board member in a variety of professional societies, including the Groundwater Resources Association, the California Council of Geoscience Organizations and the California Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists. He has been a scientific Advisor of the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences. Alfred Jaouich (Ph.D. Minnesota,1975) is head of the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at University of Quebec/Montreal/Canada. He is doing research in soil and groundwater passive remediation. The revegetation and restoration of abandoned asbestos mining sites are also a major field of research for his group. It is major concern in Canada. Some of the sites have important base metals concentrations that can be exploited if the economy improves. Alan Jeffrey, Ph.D., is Senior Geochemist at DPRA/Zymax Forensics in San Luis Obispo, California. Dr. Jeffrey received his PhD in Chemical Oceanography from Texas A&M University for research using stable isotope ratios to determine the origin of natural gas. He has over 20 years of U.S. and international experience in environmental and petroleum geochemistry. Much of his work has focused on the use of geochemical techniques to solve environmental problems, including sources of spilled hydrocarbon fuels and fugitive methane seeps. C.Y. Jeng is a staff toxicologist at the Department of Toxic Substances Control in California EPA. Before joining DTSC in 2007, he was a senior manager at ENVIRON International Corporation for 7 years, and also worked 10 years in

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Association for Environmental major oil and chemical companies including Amoco and Shell. He received a Ph.D. from the Health and Sciences Foundation University of Wisconsin at Madison. Joonseon Jeong is a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in University of California, Irvine (UCI) under supervision of Dr. William J. Cooper. He graduated from School of Chemical and Biological Engineering in Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, and worked as a postdoc in the same university. His research interests include the physico-chemical water treatment using Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs). Song Jin is a Principal Scientist at MWH Americas, located in Fort Collins Colorado. He received a Ph.D. in environmental microbiology and biogeochemistry from the University of Wyoming. He has over 15 years of combined academic and industrial experience in the areas of remediation of contaminated soil, groundwater and treatment and beneficial use of wastewater from oil, gas and mining industries. He led the development and applications of microbial fuel cell technology in enhancing in situ degradation of petroleum and chlorinated contaminants. Dr. Jin holds 12 awarded and pending patents, including biological source treatment and prevention of acid mine/rock drainage, electrically induced reduction of chlorinated compounds in the subsurface, and in situ bio-gasification of coal and oil shale. He has published more than 100 in peer review journals and professional proceedings. Antony D. G. Jones is a manager with ENVIRON based in Irvine, California. He received a B.Sc. in Biology from York University, and a doctorate from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom before conducting post-doctoral research at King's College London. Tony has more than 10 years of experience in environmental microbiology and biochemistry addressing environmental liability and risk issues concerning contaminated land and water, consumer products, and impacts on natural resources. Tony has participated in the design and implementation of several remedial investigations and feasibility studies. These have included bioattenuation assessments, technology evaluation of different in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) processes, pilot tests of effectiveness of ISCO application, and assessment of the impacts of ISCO on bioremediation. Yuliya Kalmykova is a PhD candidate within Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. She has studied sorption properties of the natural and rest product materials and possibility of their use for contaminated water treatment. She is currently involved in the project on landfill leachates treatment in cooperation with Sweden's leading recycling company Renova AB. Leslie Karr is an environmental engineer and has worked for the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center, Port Hueneme, CA for the past 28 years. Project interests include RDT&E relating to sediment remediation, range sustainability,

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Association for Environmental and natural resource issues. She has a B.S. and M.S. from University of Southern Health and Sciences Foundation California. William B. Kerfoot is president of Kerfoot Technologies, Inc., located in Mashpee, Massachusetts. He is a Licensed Site Professional (hazardous waste) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has over 25 years’ experience in site assessment and remediation. He has over 10 years’ experience in the design and implementation of subsurface ozone treatment systems. Site regions range from local drycleaner facilities or gasoline retail outlets to multiple block region plumes in major urban city regions. Dr. Kerfoot has conducted training workshops for AEHS and NGWA on in-situ chemical oxidation and contaminated soils, sediments, and water. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the AEHS West Coast Conference and Board of Directors of the International Ozone Association, Pan American Group. He was technical lead for ozone technology for both Letterkenny Army Depot and Paducah Workplan. Dr. Kerfoot holds numerous patents in processes and equipment currently used in groundwater retrieval, flow measurement, and remediation. Dr. Kerfoot has recently developed remediation technologies based upon oxidative microbubble reactions and has authored over fifty scientific publications. Rose Knox is a Senior Environmental Engineer at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) in Boston, Massachusetts. Rose has worked with the Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup’s Policy and Program Development group since 2000. Her main duties include conducting technical analyses to support the development of policies and regulations under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan. Rose’s recent projects include evaluating the impacts of the most prevalent sources of perchlorate contamination in environmental media in Massachusetts. These perchlorate sources include blasting agents, military munitions, fireworks, and hypochlorite (bleach) solutions. Rose recently completed a research study at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus to evaluate the potential release of perchlorate to the environment as a result of a typical "community-type" fireworks display. As part of this study, Rose conducted groundwater modeling to evaluate the fate and transport of perchlorate in groundwater. Rose has been active in the ITRC since 2004 serving as a Perchlorate Team Member representing MassDEP. Prior to joining MassDEP, she was a Principal Engineer at a large environmental consulting firm responsible for feasibility studies and remedial design. Rose earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s of Science Degree in Environmental Engineering from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Rose is certified as a Professional Engineer in Massachusetts. Stephen S. Koenigsberg, Ph.D. is a Principal in the Irvine, California office of ENVIRON. He has 20 years of environmental remediation experience and is a recognized developer of widely used remediation products and technologies. He specializes in and helps define the emergent field of expedited site closure. This practice integrates best treatment protocols with novel uses of molecular biology,

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Association for Environmental analytical chemistry, geophysics, fate and transport modeling, and risk assessment to Health and Sciences Foundation optimize remedial design and management, limit costly active treatment, and obtain monitored natural attenuation (MNA) or equivalent outcomes as a final remedy. Koenigsberg was a founding principal of Regenesis, an internationally recognized environmental remediation products company where he co-invented and developed the company’s foundation bioremediation products including ORC® and HRC® . He also directed the development of the abiotic treatment products RegenOx® for chemical oxidation and MRC® for metals complexation (recipient of a 2004 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award). He has published over 150 technical articles focusing on bioremediation and environmental biotechnology. Koenigsberg received his M.S. and Ph.D from Cornell University and is an adjunct professor at several institutions, including The California State University at Fullerton where he also serves as Chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Council. Jennifer Lambert is a geologist with Tetra Tech NUS in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. She has recently completed an MSc in Earth Science from the University of Waterloo. She worked for Tetra Tech NUS prior to graduate school and has approximately 6 years of experience in environmental consulting. She has primarily worked on CERCLA remedial and pre-design investigations under contracts for the US EPA and Navy. Her undergraduate degree (Geology, BA) is from Hamilton College. Hope Lee (Ph.D.) is an environmental microbiologist in the Biological Systems Department at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, ID. Dr. Lee is formally trained in environmental microbiology and molecular biology. During the past 10 years, Dr. Lee has directed the development and optimization of innovative biotechnologies for application in surface, groundwater, and soils remediation. She has experience in management and technical oversight of multiple remediation projects and serves as the technical lead on projects primarily focused on (a) the acceptance of natural (or enhanced) attenuation and (b) the optimization of biological degradation of contaminants in situ. Ir. J.P.A.Lijzen is project manager at the Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands. He graduated in 1990 at Wageningen Agricultural University in Environmental Science, with a focus on environmental fate and ecotoxicology. Since then he has been working on projects concerning environmental technology and soil protection. From 1997 onwards he worked at the RIVM on the integrated risk assessment of soil and groundwater contamination, including human risk assessment and ecotoxicological risk assessment. Mayor projects were the establishment of remediation objectives for the soil (1999), the evaluation of the Dutch Intervention Values (published in 2001), revision of the site-specific risk assessment of contaminated soil and deriving quality standards for soil quality management. Currently he coordinates the applied research on soil and groundwater quality in relation to risk

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Association for Environmental assessment (for humans,and ecosystems, leaching/contaminant migration, construction Health Sciences Foundation products), supporting the Dutch governmental soil policy. Steven Linder has been the Program Manager for US EPA Region 9's Underground Storage Tanks Program since March of 2004. Steve and his staff work with states, tribes and territories within Region 9 to provide funding, technical assistance, and other types of assistance in order to facilitate cleanup of LUST sites and prevention of leaks from operating UST facilities. Steve's program is also responsible for direct program implementation within the Indian Country portions of the Region. Due to the increase in funding due to the recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, EPA Region 9's UST Program will manage the distribution of approximately $35 million in resources during this fiscal year. Steve has been working in the environmental cleanup industry since 1987. In 1990, Steve came to EPA's Superfund program. Steve has worked on cleanup projects in EPA's Superfund, Brownfields, RCRA Hazardous Waste, and Underground Storage Tanks Programs. Most notably, Steve was the technical team leader for US EPA's efforts to obtain settlements in the Santa Monica Charnock MtBE matter. Steve has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a registered professional engineer in California. Robert Lee Lippincott is the current team leader for the ITRC perchlorate team that is presenting this classroom training session. Lee obtained his doctorate in environmental analytical chemistry in 1992 at Drexel University. He has been employed as a Senior Project Chemist for the Northeast Region with a Princeton remediation firm and left to pursue research project management opportunities with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. For the past 18 years Lee has managed drinking water and spill fund research for the state with a focus on trace organic contaminants. Lee is also a professor of chemistry at Mercer County Community College. He is an expert in chemometric analysis and analytical capability assessment for the states drinking water, ground water, and surface water quality standards. Jun Lu, Ph.D. has over 20 years of professional experience in various fields of environmental consulting. He has a bachelor and master degree in geology and Ph.D in geochemistry. He is a California Professional Geologist, Certified Hydrogeologist and Certified Engineering Geologist. Over the last eight years, he has been exclusively involved with environmental forensics projects in California and other parts of the country. He specializes in planning and implementing NAPL forensic programs for purposes of leak detection, source identification, liability apportioning, site characterization and remediation. Sites he has worked on include petroleum refineries, terminals and pipelines, underground storage tanks, oil fields and various types of industrial properties. Currently, he is a Principal Technical Specialist with AECOM Environment, a global environmental consulting firm.

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Association for Environmental Jun Lu, Ph.D. has over 20 years of professional Foundation experience in various fields of Health and Sciences environmental consulting. He has a bachelor and master degree in geology and Ph.D in geochemistry. He is a California Professional Geologist, Certified Hydrogeologist and Certified Engineering Geologist. Over the last eight years, he has been exclusively involved with environmental forensics projects in California and other parts of the country. He specializes in planning and implementing NAPL forensic programs for purposes of leak detection, source identification, liability apportioning, site characterization and remediation. Sites he has worked on include petroleum refineries, terminals and pipelines, underground storage tanks, oil fields and various types of industrial properties. Currently, he is a Principal Technical Specialist with AECOM Environment, a global environmental consulting firm. Kimberly B. Lull, is currently a student in her third year at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She is working towards a BS in Environmental Studies and has been active in her independent studies researching mercury levels and testing both water and soil samples for trace metals. Ms. Lull has been working for about a year at the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlantic City, New Jersey as an environmental trainee intern specializing in environmental compliance where she has been revising regulatory plans for the center such as the EPA's Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Plan. She also has been monitoring air quality and performing surveys of endangered species at the FAA Technical Center. Ms. Lull also has experience in GIS software, statistical programming, trace metal analyzers, mercury analyzers, and GPS systems. Terrence M. Lyons is currently employed as an environmental engineer with the National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Lyons received his BS from the University of Cincinnati and received his MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Lyons has provided technical advice to numerous Superfund sites, RCRA Corrective Action sites, and federal facility sites. His research interests include sediment research, chemical dechlorination and stabilization/solidificatiion of soils and sediments. Robin Mackenzie: Originally starting his career as an archaeological surveyor, Robin Studied Communication and Management Studies at Napier University, Edinburgh. After returning to archaeology for a short while, he then joined a waste management company in 1989 as Environmental Compliance Manager and was responsible for the management, acquisition and disposal of the company’s property portfolio and environmental standards. Gaining his Registered Environmental Auditors Accreditation and Membership of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment in 1995, Robin specialised in Due Diligence and Environmental Risk concentrating on contaminated land and groundwater investigation and assessment and worked for many American owned Multi National companies including oil and gas, electronic and

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Association for Environmental Sam Mowbray is the Division Manager of the Environmental Analytical Laboratory and Health and Sciences Foundation Ocean Monitoring at the Orange County Sanitation District; a position he has held for 13 years. He has worked extensively in the area of water quality, and participated in several research projects relating to chemicals of emerging concern and water reclamation. He received his undergraduate and graduate education at UCLA in the areas of microbiology and molecular biology, and did post-doctoral research at the Nucleic Acid Research Institute and at Brown University. He was assistant professor in the area of molecular microbiology and genetics at Smith College and research assistant professor at UCLA. As a Principle Scientist and Manager he worked in various areas of product development for the IOLAB division of Johnson and Johnson for 15 years. Frank Muramoto has over 20 years of professional experience in various fields of environmental consulting. He has a bachelor and masters degree in geology from the University of California. He is a California Professional Geologist and Certified Hydrogeologist. Sites he has worked on include petroleum refineries, terminals and pipelines, underground storage tanks, and various types of industrial properties. Currently, he is a senior program manager with AECOM Environment, a global environmental consulting firm. Jonathan Myers is a senior geochemist with Shaw Environmental, Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He holds B.S and M.S degrees in Geology and a Ph.D. in Geochemistry, and has twenty-six years of experience in applying principals of geochemistry to solve environmental problems. His specialties include performing computer simulations of groundwater treatment systems, natural attenuation investigations, environmental forensic investigations, environmental statistics, radiological data evaluation, background metals investigations, and geochemical evaluations. Dr. Myers has authored more than 30 peerreviewed research papers and book chapters, and teaches short courses on geochemical evaluation and environmental forensic techniques. Paul Nathanail is Professor of Engineering Geology at the University of Nottingham (www.nottingham.ac.uk) and Managing Director of Land Quality Management Ltd (www.lqm.co.uk). His research, teaching and consultancy interests span the spectrum of risk based contaminated land management and sustainable urban regeneration. His team have developed decision support tools for site investigation design, human health risk assessment and remediation strategy selection. LQM are known for their work in training regulators and consultants and in peer reviewing countless reports for local authorities and developers. They pioneered the use of bioaccessibility in UK human health risk assessment and worked with CIEH to publish generic assessment criteria for 31 substances in December 2006 and are developing new GAC for publication in Spring 2009. Paul is involved in a number of professional and industrial for a. He chairs the IAEG Commission C20 on Risk Based Land Management. Paul is a Specialist in Land Condition (www.silc.org.uk) and, as a Chartered Geologist,

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Association for Environmental Hieu Nguyen is the Technical Support Engineer for CETCO, based in Santa Ana, Health and Sciences Foundation California. He is a graduate from University of Idaho with Chemical Engineering background and joined CETCO in 2007. Hieu has 3 years experience with manufacturing processes, product quality control and chemical reaction analysis. Joseph E. Odencrantz, Ph.D., P.E. is Technical Director and Western Region Manager for Beacon Environmental Services, Inc. Dr. Odencrantz is a recognized expert in site investigation and remediation, fate and transport processes and forensic evaluations. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine at Orono. He has published extensively on fate and transport of organics in surface and groundwater systems, natural attenuation, cleanup levels, policy and the treatment of affected water bodies. Dr. Odencrantz was also Visiting Professor at the Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Kyoto University from January through June, 2007. Thomas K. O'Neill (Tom) - Tom O’Neill has twenty-eight years experience in the fields of environmental engineering and science. Currently he is the Section Chief for the Operations & Maintenance Section of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Site Remediation Program. The Operations & Maintenance Section is responsible for the management of remediation activities at all state lead publicly funded hazardous site projects. The projects range from the remediation of gas station underground storage tank releases to state lead Superfund sites. Prior to becoming a Section Chief Tom worked as an NJDEP on Scene Coordinator at numerous emergency and removal actions and as a Construction Manager at a wide range of planned site remediation projects. The Operation & Maintenance Section also includes the Deed Notice Inspection Program which serves as part of New Jersey’s institution and engineering controls for both publicly funded and private party hazardous sites. In addition to his duties with the NJDEP Tom serves as Team Leader for the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council’s Remediation Process Optimization and the new Green and Sustainable Remediation teams. He has earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University’s Cook College and a Master of Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Newark College of Engineering, both in environmental science. He holds a Certificate in Public Management issued by Rutgers and the NJ Department of Personnel. Kirk O’Reilly is a Managing Scientist in Exponent’s Environmental Sciences practice. He has more than 20 years of experience investigating the interaction between environmental and biological chemistry, and spent 15 years as an in-house consultant for a major oil company. He is a recognized expert in bioremediation, environmental chemistry, and innovative remedial technologies, and played a significant role in developing the oil industry’s technical response to

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Association for Environmental managing MTBE. Dr. O’Reilly has provided litigation support in toxic tort suits, and managed Health and Sciences Foundation projects focused on the remediation of soils, sediments, and groundwater, as well as on improving industrial wastewater treatment. He has participated in collaborative research projects with regulators at the federal, state, and local levels, and taught technical courses sponsored by regulatory agencies, universities, and industrial trade groups. Dr. O’Reilly was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 2007. Gwen O’Sullivan is an Environmental Chemist with Trium Environmental Solutions Inc. (TRIUM). Dr. O’Sullivan earned a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Limerick, Ireland and a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from Queen’s University of Belfast, Ireland. Her responsibilities within Trium include project management, business development, litigation support, and independent scientific investigation. Dr. O’Sullivan’s technical expertise includes environmental chemistry, environmental forensics and contaminated land and groundwater. She has worked on numerous projects including the development of remediation technologies, stable isotope analysis, application of natural attenuation (NA) as a risk based groundwater remediation strategy and development of novel techniques for tracing the fate and behaviour of organic compounds with the environment. Takashi Oyabu received a B.E. in electronics engineering and Ph.D. in engineering from Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan in 1971 and 1984, respectively. He joined the Electronics Research Laboratory of Denki Onkyo Co. Ltd., Tokyo, in 1973, where he worked in various areas of semiconducting films, with particular interest in galvanomagnetic devices. He joined the Department of information Engineering, Kanazawa Women's College, in 1980. After that, he joined the Department of Sociology, Toyama University of International Studies, in 1991 and was a Professor. He is a Professor of Kanazawa Seiryo University since 1998. His current research is on indoor environmental issues, for example airborne chemicals and its decreasing technique using indoor plants. He has studied the characteristic of plant-purification capability and its evaluation using various kinds of chemical sensors. Michael J. Pardus, REM is a Vice President and a Senior Technical Expert with ARCADIS. He received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and master’s degree in environmental pollution control from The Pennsylvania State University. Drawing on more than 30 years of combined industrial and consulting experience, Mr. Pardus has extensive experience in the metals industry including the fate and transport of metals in the environment. Mr. Pardus is a Registered Environmental Manager with the National Registry of Environmental Professionals. Donald G. Patterson Jr. earned his BA degree from the University of Northern Colorado and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Arizona State University. Following three years of post-doctorate research with Professor Carl Djerassi at

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Association for Environmental oxidation/reduction processes. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Health and Sciences Foundation the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the recipient of the 2008 ARCS scholarship from the Orange County chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation. Michael T. Saul is vice president of CL Solutions, which provides microbes for soil and ground water treatment. Mr. Saul has over 20 years of experience in the environmental industry. He started in water resource management with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. He moved from there into environmental consulting, where he was involved in the remediation of metals and organic chemicals using a wide range of technologies. Since founding CL Solutions in 1999, he has provided technical support and design assistance for the application of bioaugmentation to over 200 sites. Mr. Saul has a MS in Geology from Southern Illinois University. John Scandura manages the Brownfields and Environmental Restoration Program in the Cypress regional office of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. This program oversees the remediation of regulated facilities, active and former military bases, federal and state superfund sites, and brownfields properties in Southern California. Mr. Scandura has worked for the State since 1985. He is an advisor to DTSC’s Green Remediation Team and serves on the Greener Cleanups Task Force for the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials. Before joining the state, Mr. Scandura spent four years in the environmental consulting business. He has a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine and a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mr. Scandura is a planning commissioner for the City of Huntington Beach, California. He is married and has two children in middle school. Peter Scaramella is a Staff Toxicologist with AMEC Geomatrix, Inc. in Oakland, CA. He has a BS in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has more than four years of experience in risk assessment, toxicology, air quality, and statistical analysis. His work involves addressing questions arising from possible human exposure to chemicals in the environment, providing technical support for risk-based investigations, and quantifying multipathway and multi-chemical risk assessments. He has conducted numerous studies evaluating the vapor intrusion pathway for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and designing sampling plans based on site-specific conditions and objectives for characterization. John D. Schell, Ph.D. earned his Ph.D. in Toxicology from the Joint Graduate Program in Toxicology of the University of Medicine and Dentistry, Rutgers University, and has more than 20 years of environmental assessment experience, focusing on human health and ecological impacts of PCBs, dioxins,

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Association for Environmental enjoys Health the outdoors and and living in Big Sky country. His interests include fishing, backpacking, Sciences Foundation and canyoneering. Matthew C. Small, Ph.D., R.G. has over twenty years of experience in both the private and public sectors, degrees in engineering and geology, with minors in public policy and environmental law. He has worked at the regional, national, and international level to devise solutions for PCB cleanups, solvent releases, UIC permits, well head protection programs, landfills, gasoline additives, risk-based cleanup goals, wastewater treatment, high profile enforcement on tribal lands, and a variety of issues related to underground storage tanks. He has worked with States, Tribes and the Pacific Islands to devise mutually acceptable risk-based cleanup goals and evaluate remedial alternatives. Matt also led the effort to create national guidelines for remediation by natural attenuation and participated in creating guidance for risk-based corrective action (RBCA), resulting in EPA OSWER directives and ASTM guidance documents. Shane A. Snyder is the Research and Development Project Manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). SNWA serves the regional water needs for more than 2,000,000 permanent residents and more than 40,000,000 visitors annually. Dr. Snyder also serves as an Associate Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Thiel College and a Ph.D. in Zoology and Environmental Toxicology from Michigan State University. Dr. Snyder’s research has focused on the aqueous fate, transport, and treatment of emerging contaminants, such as endocrine disrupting compounds, pharmaceuticals, perchlorate, perfluorinated organics, and novel disinfection byproducts. He has published more than 60 manuscripts and book chapters on the detection and treatment of endocrine disruptors and pharmaceuticals in water. Dr. Snyder served two terms on EPA Advisory Committees for the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program and has severed on two expert panels for EPA’s Candidate Contaminant List III. He also is a member of the Research Advisory Council for the WateReuse Foundation and is a member of the American Water Works Association’s Water Science & Research Division Board of Trustees. Dr. Snyder is the Principal Investigator of several national projects that address the occurrence, fate, and relevance of endocrine disruptors and pharmaceuticals in US drinking water. In April of 2008, Dr. Snyder testified before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works for a subcommittee hearing entitled “Pharmaceuticals in the Nation’s Water: Assessing Potential Risks and Actions to Address the Issue.” Weihua Song was born in Tianjin, P.R. China, in 1976. He received a B.S and in Environmental Chemistry and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Nanjing University in 1999 and 2002. He completed his Ph.D. with Professor Kevin E. O’Shea at Florida International University in 2006. Dr. Song is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor William J. Cooper at University of California, Irvine. His research interests are in the area of Environmental Chemistry,

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Association for Environmental particularly interested in and reactivity, transformation and fateFoundation of pharmaceutical compounds in Health Sciences natural and engineered environments. Bak Srikanth is the Regional Director of Customer Solutions and manages sales activities for Applied Technology focusing on the Southern California and Arizona areas. He has nearly 20 years experience in the water treatment and purification industry. Bak earned both a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering as well as a Master’s degree in Mathematics. His industry related experience includes working with companies such as Millipore Corporation, Aquafine Corporation, Light Stream Technologies, featuring diverse technologies such as membrane separation (RO/UF/MF), UV treatment, deionization, vacuum distillation, and pre-treatment technologies. During his career, Bak has worked on projects for water, wastewater, and ultrapure water treatment in the environmental remediation, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries, as well as for municipal utilities. Bak is the author/co-author of over 25 publications and paper presentations, including peer-reviewed papers, appearing in leading industry journals worldwide. He also delivered numerous seminars and papers on water treatment to various parts of North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Curtis C. Stanley received his B.S. degree in Geology with an emphasis in Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1979. Curt started with Shell in 1979 after graduation and has worked (as a hydrogeologist) in various Shell organizations including Environmental Affairs, Engineering and Project Management and the Environmental Directorate at Shell’s Westhollow Technology Center. In addition to his advanced geologic training at Shell, he has participated in advanced hydrogeologic training at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Waterloo. As the Global Discipline Leader for R&D and Advocacy, Curt coordinates global R&D/Advocacy efforts and provides technical support to the various organizations within Shell such as Manufacturing (Refining and Chemical), Retail, Distribution, Pipeline, Waste Sites, and Exploration and Production, and Legal. He has conducted or supervised subsurface investigations and remedial action at over 500 locations in 43 states (and several countries). Curt is certified through AIPG as a Certified Professional Geological Scientist. In addition, Curt is a licensed geologist in North Carolina and Texas. He is also an EPA Peer Reviewer and is the chairman of the American Petroleum Institute’s (API's) Soil/Groundwater Technical Task Force. As part of Curt’s efforts through API, dozens of research projects, technical bulletins and outreach programs have been finalized since the early 1980’s. These efforts have focused on site assessment, risk assessment, and remediation related to petroleum hydrocarbons and oxygenates. Curt is also a member of the ASTM E50 Committee on Environmental Assessment. Curt participated in development of the several ASTM Standards

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Association for Environmental relatedHealth to risk-based decision making along with associated national RBCA training and and Sciences Foundation implementation programs. Additionally, Curt was the chairman of the RBCA Leadership Council which served as an industry/stakeholder forum helping to facilitate implementation of risk-based decision making in various regulatory programs (RCRA, Superfund, Brownfields, VCP’s, OUST, etc). Finally, Curt is a member of the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) wich is a multi-stakeholder group involved in evaluation of sustainability concepts with respect to remediation. Clint Strachan is a geotechnical engineer with 30 years of experience with mine facilities design, construction, and reclamation on projects worldwide. Mr. Strachan has a Bachelors Degree in Agricultural Engineering and a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. Mr. Strachan is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer with MWH Americas in Fort Collins, Colorado. Darko Strajin, P.Eng. is an Ontario Regional Manager for Environmental Services at Trow Associates. He is an engineering geologist focusing to in-situ groundwater remediation. Darko has 20 years of consulting experience in environmental field. Areas of expertise include environmental site assessments and design and implementation of innovative, insitu remediation systems for impacted soil and groundwater. His focus has been remediation of Brownfield sites in Toronto. His broad experience in engineering enables him to provide superior services to the environmental industry. Edgar Suárez García is currently a research student at School of Geosciences and Environment, Faculty of Mines at Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín. His work has focused on Design and Operation of passive treatments systems for Landfill Leachate and decentralized Wastewater Treatment Plants. Mr. Suárez has a BEng in Biological Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín. Kerry L. Sublette is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Geosciences and Sarkeys Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Tulsa. He also serves as the director of the Integrated Petroleum Environmental Consortium (IPEC). He earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1985 and worked for six years in research and development for Combustion Engineering before joining The University of Tulsa faculty. His research interests include bioremediation of hydrocarbon-impacted soil, remediation of brine spills, restoration of soil ecosystems, ecological indicators of soil ecosystem restoration, and microbial ecology of aquifers impacted by BTEX, MTBE, and chlorinated hydrocarbons. Dr. Sublette has over 20 years of experience in environmental engineering, over 100 peerreviewed publications, and 13 patents. He also chairs the annual International Petroleum Environmental Conference.

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Association for Environmental Aklilu Health Tesfamichael, is and a Civil andSciences Environmental Engineer in Geosyntec’s San Diego, CA Foundation office. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Utah State University where he conducted research evaluating human health risk-benefit analysis of pesticides in drinking water. Since joining Geosyntec, Dr. Tesfamichael’s work areas include human health risk assessment, contaminated site characterization, risk-based water quality management, and groundwater and surface water modeling under various environmental regulatory programs including DTSC, RWQCB, and USEPA. He has been involved in feasibility studies and remedial investigation of hydrocarbon impacted sites including LNAPL distribution and recovery modeling, designing and supervising water resources projects, stormwater management, and BPM selection and designs including detention basins and bioswales. Additionally, he has assisted in the preparation of risk assessments for chemical release sites and redevelopment projects. Karen Thorbjornsen holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geology and is a registered Professional Geologist. She has twelve years of environmental consulting experience with Shaw Environmental, Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee. She has performed background studies for metals and PAHs in environmental media and statistical analyses of environmental data at numerous sites across the United States. She specializes in geochemical evaluations of metals – a technique used to distinguish natural concentrations from site-related contamination in soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediment. Her geochemical evaluations are performed to delineate the extent of contamination, refine lists of chemicals of concern, optimize long-term monitoring programs, confirm the success of soil removal actions, and characterize background distributions. Ms. Thorbjornsen has authored several papers on geochemical evaluations of metals and teaches short courses on the technique. Tim Thorpe, FGS, ARSM is a senior engineering geologist for Black and Veatch in the UK. He is responsible for carrying out contamination assessments and waste characterisation in accordance with the UK regulatory regime at a large variety of sites including water treatment works, military facilities and flood defences across the country. He has a MSci in Geology (Earth Resources) from Imperial College, London and is currently working towards an MRes in Contaminated Land Management at the University of Nottingham. He won the Cullis Testimonial prize for achievements in mining geology for his work at a zinc lead mine in Ireland. Li-Jyur Tsai is an associate professor of the Department of Environmental Engineering and Science in Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Taiwan since 2001. He has a B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the National Chung- Hsing University, Taichung in 1986 and a M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei in 1988. Mr. Tsai studied the fate, binding speciation and remediation techniques of heavy metals in contaminated soil, ground water, and river sediments since 1996. He

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Association for Environmental currently works on the biosorption of heavy metal ions from wastewater with chemically Health and Sciences Foundation modified agricultural waste, dispersion of zero-valent iron nanoparticles and remediation of contaminants in groundwater with nanoscale zero-valent iron. Seema Sutarwala Turner, PG, CEG. Ms. Turner is a Senior Associate at ENVIRON International Corporation with over 9 years of experience in environmental investigations and analyses, engineering geology, and geotechnical engineering. Mrs. Turner has performed environmental site sampling and monitoring of ground water and surface water in streams, a petroleum refinery, an amusement park, and former testing and manufacturing facilities. Mrs. Turner has conducted numerous remedial site investigations which included soil, soil gas, and ground water sampling. This included low flow micro-purge, ground water sampling and monitoring, soil sampling, installation of soil gas probes, and supervising installation of bedrock wells using Air Rotary techniques. She has sampled, monitored, and traced surface water and ground water. She has observed and collected pertinent site data and information, performed geologic analyses of field data and historical information, prepared geotechnical cross sections and geologic presentations for reports, mediations and court presentations, and she has prepared written reports. She has provided consultation services to public agencies, developers, insurance companies and attorneys. In addition to ground water and soil sampling, Mrs. Turner has participated in assessing indoor air quality for volatile organic compounds in residential and commercial properties and schools in Southern California. In this capacity, she has performed indoor air quality surveys by conducting chemical inventories and setting-up SUMMATM canisters with flow controllers. Mrs. Turner has an M.S. in Geology from Vanderbilt University and a B.S. in Geology from the College of William and Mary. Mrs. Turner is also a California-licensed Professional Geologist and Certified Engineering Geologist. Rock J. Vitale, CEAC, CPC, is the Technical Director of Chemistry/Principal of Environmental Standards, Inc. Mr. Vitale, a company founder, is a Certified Professional Chemist, Certified Environmental Analytical Chemist and sits on the Board of Directors for the American Institute of Chemists, the US EPA ELAB, and the National Registry of Certified Chemists. Mr. Vitale has 25 years experience in the environmental field and has authored and peer-reviewed numerous published manuscripts relating to data validation, laboratory auditing, and analytical methodologies. Environmental Standards, Inc. is a consulting firm specializing in providing Environmental Chemistry Consulting expertise. Richard A. Vogl, PG, CHG, CEG, is a Principal Hydrogeologist with GeoHydrologic Consultants, Inc. in Huntington Beach, California. Mr. Vogl is a licensed professional geologist in California, Arizona, and Oregon, and a certified hydrogeologist and certified engineering geologist in California. Mr. Vogl completed both his B.S. and M.S. in Geology from California Sate University Los Angeles and completed the certificate program in Environmental Site

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Association for Environmental Assessment and Remediation fromSciences the University of California Irvine. Mr. Vogl has over 20 Health and Foundation years of experience performing environmental assessment and remediation projects on the west coast. His current focus has been assessment and remediation of petroleum contaminated sites involving MTBE, TBA, and other oxygenates. In addition, Mr. Vogl has a very diverse background in remediation of other recalcitrant compounds using cutting edge innovative technologies, as well as the more classical remedial technologies. Michael J. Wade is Principal Scientist of Wade Research, Inc., a small business started in 1992 that provides geochemical consulting services to a variety of government agencies, industrial clients, and law firms. Dr. Wade was educated as an organic geochemist and has 30 years of post-doctoral experience conducting a variety of research programs with special emphasis on organics pollution in the environment. He regularly provides expert testimony services both through the deposition process as well as in court testimony in the areas of petroleum product identification, hydrocarbon fingerprinting techniques, and age-dating of petroleum product releases. Periodically, Dr. Wade publishes research articles in the peer reviewed technical literature on various aspects of forensic geochemistry. Christopher Watt is the Director of Geoenvironmental Services and firm principal at LACO Associates. He holds a bachelors degree in Geology and is a Certified Engineering Geologist. In this position he has completed several fixed fee remediation projects, supervised soils and geo-hazard investigations, and currently manages 10 staff members. A primary focus is using technology to the reduce cost and improve the data quality of subsurface explorations and remediation programs. Elizabeth Wells is currently a Water Resources Control Engineer in the Department of Defense Section, Groundwater Protection Division, at the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board. She is the Water board project manager for investigation and remediation activities at the Former Naval Air Station Moffett Field in Mountain View, California. She works collaboratively with U. S. EPA to oversee environmental activities conducted by the Navy at the former naval base. Prior to joining the Water Board in early 2007, Ms. Wells was a Senior Engineer at Geomatrix Consultants (recently purchased by AMEC) for 19 years. She directed site investigations and provided litigation support on complex, multi-dimensional projects involving soil and groundwater contaminated by various chemicals. Alan F. Weston Ph.D. is director of the CRA Innovative Technology Group. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kent, England, in Chemistry and was an Assistant Professor at the Welsh National School of Medicine. After coming to the U.S., he worked for Allied Chemical and Occidental Chemical, where he became Director of Remedial Technology. The Innovative Technology Group provides CRA projects with innovative approaches to remediation, including

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Association for Environmental naturalHealth attenuation, enhanced bioremediation, chemical oxidation, permeable reactive and Sciences Foundation barriers, constructed wetlands, phytoremediation and solidification/stabilization technologies. He manages the CRA treatability study laboratory, which is a key part of this effort. Alan has over 20 years experience in hazardous waste site remediation. He also provides clients with expert opinions in the areas of analytical chemistry, QA/QC, and the analysis of dioxins, PCBs, PAH and mercury. Anna Willett is the Director of the Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (ITRC). ITRC is a private-public partnership with the mission of removing barriers to the acceptance and use of innovative environmental technologies. With its national network of environmental professionals, ITRC provides information resources to the environmental community on a wide variety of technical topics. Anna is a nationally recognized expert on in-situ (subsurface) remediation technologies. Her expertise includes chemical and biological treatment processes for groundwater and soil, as well as environmental chemistry and microbiology. Prior to coming to ITRC, she served as the industry representative on ITRC’s Board of Advisors form 2005 to 2007 and launched ITRC’s Industry Affiliates Program. Anna came to ITRC from Comprehensive Environmental Utility Services, LLC (CEUS), where she was a Senior Vice President and Partner. Prior to CEUS, Anna worked as a Senior Engineer at Haley and Aldrich, Inc., a Research and Development Manager for Regenesis, and a Chemical Engineer at Pharmacia Corporation. She holds an M.S. in chemical engineering from Northwestern University and a B.S. in biological engineering from Cornell University. Sam Williams, PG, CHG, CEM is a principal hydrogeologist for Geosyntec Consultants. He has over 25 years of profession environmental consulting experience and is the manager of Geosyntec’s San Diego operations. He has a B.S. in Geophysics and an M.S. in Hydrogeology from San Diego State University. For 10 years, Mr. Williams was also an instructor at the University of California at San Diego for the Regulatory Framework of Hazardous Materials and Toxic Substances course. Areas of specialization include assessment of groundwater conditions at landfills, development and implementation of innovative remedial technologies, vapor intrusion assessments and mitigation, risk-based corrective action, and litigation support. Zhong Xiong is an environmental engineer, based in the AMEC Geomatrix Oakland, California office. He received a B.S. and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering, both from China, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Auburn University. His research work involved developing and testing nano-scale materials for enhanced remediation of groundwater and soil. Dr. Xiong is currently focused on designing, testing, and implementing innovative approaches for cost-effective groundwater and soil remediation including bioremediation and nano-scale zero valent iron injection.

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