FOCUSED REMEDIATION SEMINARS - Key Persons
Alex Jernigan is a Remediation Manager for Gregg Drilling, LLC. He collaborates with environmental consultants to ensure Gregg's Remediation…
Andrew Lindemann has been involved with the environmental industry for over two-decades. He started his career at Geotech manufacturing…
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- Eastern Regional Sales Manager for ESC Lab Sciences
Bill Slack is one of the two principals of FRx, Inc., an environmental remediation company focused on providing…
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- Chemistry Services Manager at SiREM
Brent is the Chemistry Services Manager at SiREM and an environmental analytical chemist with advanced technical experience in passive sampling, spectroscopy, chromatography, mass spectrometry, and chemistry informatics. Throughout his career, he has worked with scientists, engineers, and consultants, applying his chemistry and information technology expertise to help them solve unique problems in the laboratory and the field. He is focused on supporting and advancing SiREM's passive sampling portfolio.
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- Is Director of Technology for FRx. Chapman Brings 20 Years of
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- Bioaugmentation Coordinator
Corey is the Bioaugmentation Coordinator at SiREM with technical experience in the growth, scale-up, and field implementation of several anaerobic microbial bioaugmentation cultures to degrade contaminants including chlorinated solvents, petroleum hydrocarbons, and other recalcitrant compounds. Throughout his career, he has provided technical support throughout the planning, injection, post-injection monitoring and data analysis stages for hundreds of field bioaugmentation events. He is focused on providing insights for optimal bioremediation success.
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- President
- CPG - President
- President of Cox
- President of Cox - Colvin & Associates, Inc
Craig Cox serves as President of Cox-Colvin & Associates, Inc, and is responsible for providing managerial and technical oversight on major environmental projects conducted by the firm. In addition to his consulting activities, Mr. Cox presents at numerous regional and international conferences on the topics of groundwater contaminant migration and remediation, source area evaluations, and vapor intrusion assessment. Mr. Cox is the inventor of the Vapor Pin® sub-slab soil gas sampling device, the primary architect of a variety of environmental database applications, and is a founding member and serves on the board of the Association of Vapor Intrusion Professionals (AVIP).
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- Technical Service Manager
Darin Skutt has worked for Carus for 22 years with the last year in the Technical Solutions Group. Darin conducts laboratory testing and product demonstrations for Carus municipal, industrial, and environmental customers and prospective new customers. These product demonstrations include technical training, safety presentations, and the installation of safe chemical handling and dosing systems. He is a graduate from Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL with a BS degree in Chemistry, ACS Certified. Mr. Skutt is a member of AWWA, WEF, and the American Chemical Society.
Mr. Fleming is a founder of TRS and Director of Federal Programs & West Coast Sales….
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- Scientist
- Environmental Scientist
David Holmes is a scientist with ten years' experience across a range of site investigation and remediation designs and techniques on both closed and active sites. He has a background in environmental management and holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Southampton. This involved experiments and modelling of multi-phase flow during aeration of landfills at various scales.
He began his career in 2014 with a remediation contractor, working as a scientist in support of remediation projects and technology development. In 2016, following a project where 160,000 L (42,000 US gallons) of LNAPL were recovered, David led the design and development of a of a novel method of Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (LNAPL) monitoring, the LNAPL probe, which won best Science advance at the 2017 UK Brownfield Briefing Award, and UK Spill Innovation award in 2018. He also managed a research and development laboratory, where his efforts were focused on into destructive treatments of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in water, the use of chemical dosimetry for remediation design and validation, and method development for accurate field-based metals analysis using Xray Fluorescence. In December 2020, he joined Geosyntec where he took an integral role in projects which have included in situ bioremediation of a chlorinated hydrocarbon plume in fractured bedrock, third party reviews for regulators, complex site investigations (including for PFAS), land transaction liability estimations, large-scale NAPL sites and nationally significant nuclear decommissioning projects.
David is the chair of the Society of Brownfield Risk Assessors (SoBRA) NAPL working group and a guest lecturer at the Universities of Portsmouth and Greenwich. He has continued to collaborate with both Universities, where he has supervised thirteen MSc projects to successful completion and secured several research grants. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management and a Chartered Scientist.
Mr. Pizarro provides technical and design assistance for clients with remedial environmental sites requiring heavy metals stabilization and industrial facilities with metals-impacted waste streams. He collaborates with…
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- President of Microbial Insights
Dora Taggart is the President of Microbial Insights. Since joining Microbial Insights in 2001, the array of MBTs developed…
Dr. Blayne Hartman received his Ph.D. in geochemistry from the University of Southern California in 1983. He worked for Unocal (Union Oil Company) for 4 years specializing in surface geochemical methods for petroleum exploration. In 1988 he started his own company (TEG) initially providing geochemical exploration services to the oil industry and in 1989 entered the environmental market by offering certified mobile environmental laboratory services in California. In 1998, he co-founded & operated H&P Mobile GeoChemistry, a partnership offering on-site laboratory analysis, direct push environmental sampling, and soil vapor surveys. He sold H&P in 2008 and is currently an independent consultant offering vapor intrusion, soil gas, and analytical support. Dr. Hartman has over 30 years of soil gas experience and 19 years of vapor intrusion experience.
Dr. Hartman is a nationally recognized expert on soil vapor sampling, soil vapor analysis, and vapor intrusion. He has provided training on soil gas methods and vapor intrusion to County and State regulatory agencies in over 30 states, many of the EPA regions, the DOD, ASTSWMO, and numerous stakeholder groups and consultants. He was an instructor in the EPA-OUST training, ITRC vapor intrusion training, API petroleum vapor intrusion training and ASTM vapor intrusion courses and has given vapor intrusion training in England, Australia and Brazil. He has written numerous articles on the collection, analysis, and interpretation of soil vapor data, including chapters in five textbooks. He has participated in technical workgroups on soil vapor methods for EPA, CA-EPA, CA Regional Water Boards, County of San Diego, ITRC and ASTM, and has reviewed/edited instructional manuals for the EPA OUST and Superfund groups.
Over the past four years, Dr. Hartman has been a contributing author/editor to vapor intrusion and soil gas guidance documents to federal EPA, CA-EPA, San Diego County, ITRC, DOD, API, and more than 25 individual State documents. He has been involved with six research studies with EPA-ORD on soil gas methods, soil gas temporal variations and indoor air variations in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, & 2007.
Dr. Mueller received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Plant & Soil Science, and a Master of…
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- CTO
- Founder
- Founder and CTO for Groundswell Technologies, Inc
- President / Groundswell Technologies, Inc.
Dr. Mark Kram is the Founder and CTO for Groundswell Technologies, Inc., a group specializing in automated Cloud-based monitoring and modeling of environmental sensor and analytical instrumentation networks. Dr. Kram earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.S. degree in Geology from San Diego State University, and his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has over 30 years of experience using innovative environmental assessment techniques, has authored articles, national standards and book chapters on the subject, and has taught graduate-level courses on related topics. Dr. Kram is an internationally recognized expert in site characterization and remediation, and has been instrumental in the areas of sensor development and implementation, innovative GIS applications, DNAPL site characterization, chemical field screening, well design, direct push well acceptance, mass flux/discharge based remediation performance, and groundwater basin yield and storage change assessment. Dr. Kram has patented inventions for automated sensor-based contouring and multivariate analyses, automatic determination of groundwater basin storage change, water sustainability to protect from basin overdraft, seawater intrusion and stream depletion, and for in-situ measurement of groundwater contaminant flow rates and directions. Dr. Kram has been featured in Forbes, is an active member of the National Ground Water Association (NGWA), American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM Subcommittees D18.21 and E50.02), and the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC), and is currently preparing national guidance for vapor intrusion and environmental characterization applications. Dr. Kram recently co-chaired an ASTM International symposium on continuous soil vapor chemical measurements, served as Editor for the ASTM International book entitled "Continuous Soil Gas Measurement: Worst Case Risk Parameters", is the recipient of the NGWA's prestigious Technology Award, and received the 2014 ASTM Committee D18 Technical Editors Award.
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- Inside Sales Representative for Carus
Dylan Kemmerer is the Inside Sales Representative for Carus. In addition to assisting Carus' Remediation Team, Dylan serves…
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- Director of Remedial Services for Bio - Enhance
Mr. Raes is the Director of Remedial Services for Bio-Enhance. Mr. Raes has over thirty (30) years of experience…
Frank Phillips has been involved in the Environmental Industry since 1988. Much of this work history has been with…
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- President
- President / Ivey International, Inc.
- President, Senior Environmental Specialist / Ivey International Inc.
George (Bud) Ivey, is the President and Senior Remediation Specialist with Ivey International Inc. of Vancouver, Canada. He has over twenty-eight years of environmental remediation experience, and has worked on more than 1500 environmental projects internationally. His multi-disciplinary education background includes: Organic Chemistry, Geological Engineering, and a Master's Certification in Project Management. In addition to receiving several international environmental awards, he also holds several international environmental patents for the Ivey-sol® surfactant remediation technology.
Jake Wilson manages Gregg Drilling's Northern California remediation division. His 12 years in the industry started at the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board before moving on to environmental consulting where he worked as a field geologist and eventually a project manager.
Jake's experience from consulting and being a regulator in the environmental industry keeps him mindful of overall project goals which leads to collaborative remediation programs that are effective and considerate of all stakeholders in a project. He enjoys overcoming the unique challenges in logistics, setup, and implementation that come with projects in the environmental industry.
Jake has a degree in Geology from San Francisco State University. His work experience prior to Gregg Drilling was focused towards subsurface investigation and remediation. He has worked in the field on projects throughout the western US including Alaska but was never able to convince someone to send him to Hawaii for work.
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- Founder of Eagle Synergistic Optimizing Technologies
Janet Castle is the founder of Eagle Synergistic Optimizing Technologies, LLC. Her passion for integrating her experience with petrophysics,…
Mr. Paré P. Eng., has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Laval University. He has been involved for the… Continue reading
Jeffrey Popiel graduated with a BS from the University of Colorado in 1992. He is President and CEO of…
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- Founder and President of Geo
Jim Wilson is the founder and President of Geo-Cleanse International, Inc. With an educational background in engineering, environmental consulting and…
John is currently the application manager at Field Data Solutions/Field Environmental Instruments for real-time and field data collection development and integration services. The primary focus of this effort is to support remediation and investigation projects by integrating the wide selection of devices, hardware, and sensors with effective and efficient communication, data storage, reporting, and alerting software applications.
John received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. During his 31 years of civil and environmental engineering experience, John has worked for major environmental remediation and consulting firms; with emphasis in field data collection technologies, field data management, GPS/survey data collection and management, and field instrumentation.
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- Vice - President of Pace Analytical National Center for Testing & Innovation
Johnny Mitchell is the Vice-President of Pace Analytical National Center for Testing & Innovation (PNCTI) and is responsible for establishing PNCTI's…
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- Program Manager for the Pace Analytical Energy
Joshua Richards is the Program Manager for the Pace Analytical Energy Services division. Joshua leads the sales and technical effort for…
Mr. French is Vice President of Vertex and has over 30 years of experience and expertise in environmental engineering, specializing in site assessment and remediation. Kevin has…
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- Vice President
- Director of Sales & Marketing for Cox - Colvin & Associates, Inc
Laurie Chilcote serves as Director of Sales & Marketing for Cox-Colvin & Associates, Inc, and is Vice President of Vapor Pin Enterprises, Inc. and Vapor Pin do Brasil. In her role as Managing Director and Vice President of Vapor Pin Enterprises and Vapor Pin do Brazil, she provides managerial and technical oversight on all US and international marketing and sales for the Vapor Pin®, manages the firms US and international Patents and Trademarks, and establishes and oversees the firm's network of international distributors. Ms. Chilcote provides lectures and poster presentations at numerous regional and international conferences as well as training to environmental firms, regulatory agencies, and developers on the Vapor Pin® technology, implementation, and quality control. Ms. Chilcote is a founding member and serves on the board of the Association of Vapor Intrusion Professionals (AVIP).
Melody is an Environmental Microbiologist at SiREM based in Guelph, Ontario and she carries out molecular testing and research for bioremediation projects. She has 4 years of experience working with next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics technologies. Her background is in environmental microbiology and her master's degree focused on the microbiology of bentonite clay for use in Canada's nuclear waste management.
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- Senior Sales & Marketing Manager / Ivey International Inc.
- Senior Sales and Marketing Manager for Ivey International Inc
Mike is the Senior Sales and Marketing Manager for Ivey International Inc., and joined the IVEY team in April of 2022. He has over 30 years of international technical sales and marketing experience in green packaging, printing, and related coatings industries. His primary role is to support domestic and international sales of IVEY's award-winning environmental remediation and decontamination products, with a predominate focus on increasing the DECON-IT® surface decontamination product line sales within the broader environmental, commercial, and oil and gas market application sectors.
Mitchell D. Brourman received his BS in Geology from Edinboro University, his MS in Hydrogeology from Ohio University, and is a licensed Professional Geologist by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. After several years of environmental consulting in New Jersey, Mr. Brourman returned home to Pittsburgh, PA, and spent the better part of 22+ years in the technical and business risk management of the portfolio of environmental liabilities associated with the former Koppers Company.
In 2012, his entrepreneurial spirit was awakened when Mr. Brourman saw the need for reliable and nimble real-time monitoring technologies. With his FEI business partner, Anthony Visco, he co-founded Field Data Solutions. The company specializes in delivering real-time field monitoring data from environmental remediation sites remotely, providing access from your desktop or mobile device. Mr. Brourman also continues working at FEI, the firm he co-founded in 1995, which has expanded to 11 full-service locations. Mr. Brourman has volunteered in the local community at several levels, included being elected to Borough Council, and is an avid Pittsburgh sports fan and outdoor enthusiast.
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- Engineer
- Technical Sales Director - North America
- Technical Sales Director - North America / Provectus Environmental Products, Inc.
Mr. Troy Lizer is an engineer with over 20 years of technical and professional design and sales experience. Mr. Lizer received Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron and began his career as an Application and Design engineer in machining and grinding applications for over a dozen years before transitioning into the environmental and remediation industry as the North American Sales Manager for a chemical manufacturing company. Mr. Lizer focused on technology application and selection through proper implementation to ensure project success. Mr. Lizer would coordinate laboratory services to provide analytical testing and confirmation data on amendment selection and loading to determine the best practice approach as well as economic justification for design criteria. His experience is in oxidative and reductive technologies as well as biological remedies for sites striving to eliminate common contaminants (chlorinated, SVOC, BTEX, etc.) as well as emerging contaminants (1,4-dioxane) both in situ and ex situ. In January 2020, Mr. Lizer assumed the role of Technical Sales Director-North America with Provectus Environmental Products in order to focus on product and process development in the environmental industry with a company and colleagues that are dedicated to the successful application of proven and evolving technologies.
Mr. Will Moody is an environmental scientist with 15 years of professional experience focusing primarily on in situ remediation…
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- Business Development Manager for Carus LLC
Pamela serves as a Business Development Manager for Carus LLC and is responsible for new product and business development…
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- Vice President of Marketing & Sales at EPRO
Peter is the Vice President of Marketing & Sales at EPRO and joined the company in 2015. Prior to…
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- Principal Scientist at SiREM
Phil is a Principal Scientist at SiREM with more than 25 years of experience focused on environmental microbiology, molecular genetic testing,…
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- President and Co - Founder of Dakota Technologies, Inc., Developed Much of Dakota 's Underlying Time - Resolved Laser - Induced
Randy St. Germain, President and co-founder of Dakota Technologies, Inc., developed much of Dakota's underlying time-resolved laser-induced…
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- Project Manager With TRS Group
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- President
- President / Geologic Science and Technology Group, Inc.
- Senior Environmental Specialist
Mr. Poynor is a registered Professional Geoscientist, managing an environmental consultancy focused on Real Property mitigation. Mr. Poynor has over 33 years of environmental expertise with broad experience in regulatory compliance, contaminant assessment and remediation. Specific experience includes assessment and remediation of soils and ground water impacted by chlorinated hydrocarbons, petroleum fuels, crude oil, condensate, PCBs, 1,4-dioxane, creosote, furans, dioxin and metals; design and oversight of waste reclamation of characteristically hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams; design of groundwater treatment systems; design and oversight of large scale remediation projects; testing and interpretation of aquifer characteristics; supervising remediation system design, installation, operations, maintenance and decommissioning.
Shannon Thompson, P.E., has been working in the environmental engineering industry for over 20 years. She has…
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- Sales Manager
- US Sales Manager, Remediation for Carus Corporation
Tim Colgan is the US Sales Manager, Remediation for Carus Corporation. In addition his remediation responsibilities, Tim serves as the Regional Sales Manager, Municipal Water, Industrial, and CARULITE® catalysts. Some of Tim's overall responsibilities include: site reviews, technical product education, sales, and inception of solutions for customer needs.
Tim's 28-years' experience with Carus Corporation includes: Research Chemist, Market Development Specialist, Industrial Applications & Phosphate Manager, Electronics & Fine Chemicals Program Manager, and Alexander Gases Manager.
Tim graduated in 1990 from Southwest State University, Marshall, MN with an American Chemistry Council Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry. Tim resides near Minneapolis, MN. He is a member of American Water Works Association (AWWA), Minnesota section, Minnesota Rural Water, International Ozone Association (IOA), Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Association (EOSA), and National Safety Council.
Tom Kelly is the Northeast US Sales Manager, Remediation for Carus. In addition to his remediation responsibilities, Tom serves…
Tyler Schierholtz is a licenced Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), a certified Environmental Professional (EP), and a graduate of the University…