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Robert
W. Cleary was
a Professor of Civil Engineering at
Princeton University and a Professor of
Geosciences at the University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil. He received his Ph.D. degree in
Chemical Engineering and is currently a
groundwater consultant and an adjunct
professor in the groundwater program of the
University of Waterloo. His research
interests and practical experience include
all aspects of groundwater contamination,
remediation, hydrology, modeling, site
characterization, litigation support and
remediation strategies. In addition to
numerous technical articles and reports, Dr.
Cleary has authored several book chapters
dealing with groundwater hydrology and
modeling. Considered one of the outstanding
teachers in the field, Dr. Cleary is the
principal lecturer in the National Ground
Water Association's MODFLOW course and
Princeton Groundwater Inc.'s Groundwater
Pollution and Hydrology and Remediation
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Bernard
H. Kueper has a Ph.D. from the
University of Waterloo and is a full
professor in the Department of Civil
Engineering at Queen’s University. His
research focuses on the subsurface behavior
and clean-up of dense, non-aqueous phase
liquids (DNAPLs) such as chlorinated
solvents, PCB oils, and creosote. This work
is focused on both unconsolidated geologic
deposits, such as sands and gravels, as well
as fractured clay and rock. Dr. Kueper has
carried out laboratory experimentation,
field work, and numerical modeling to study
the specific processes which govern the
subsurface fate of these liquids, as well as
methods of site remediation. Dr. Kueper has
published extensively in these areas and has
lectured on the topics of DNAPL behavior and
remediation in professional short-courses in
Canada, the U.S.A., Switzerland, Denmark,
and Great Britain. Current work includes the
valuation of waterflooding, surfactant
flooding and alcohol flooding as methods of
in-situ DNAPL removal, as well the
measurement of capillary pressure and
relative permeability curves in fractured
rock. Dr. Kueper is a licensed professional
engineer who also serves as a technical
consultant to private industry. This work
has included providing technical expert
testimony in court and at public hearings,
meetings with U.S. E.P.A. and state
regulatory agencies, oversight of site
investigation activities, and the
preparation of a variety of technical
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David
M. Nielsen, is President and CEO of
Nielsen Ground-Water Science, Inc. and the
Nielsen Environmental Field School (www.envirofieldschool.com),
where he specializes in teaching practical,
hands-on ground-water and environmental
training programs for practicing
environmental professionals. He is a
Certified/Licensed/Registered Professional
Geologist, Professional Hydrogeologist, and
Certified Ground-Water Professional with 30
years of field experience managing and
conducting ground-water and environmental
projects across North America. He also has
25 years of training experience, having
developed, managed and instructed hundreds
of ground-water and environmental field
training programs and developed and managed
dozens of major ground-water and
environmental conferences across the U.S.
and internationally, including the 2004 and
2006 North American Environmental Field
Conference and Exposition (www.envirofieldconference.com).
His areas of special expertise include
ground-water monitoring and sampling
programs; ground-water monitoring well
design, construction and development;
accelerated/expedited site characterization;
environmental applications of drilling and
direct-push technology; and assessment of
petroleum hydrocarbon and MTBE releases. He
is the Editor and author of several chapters
for The Practical Handbook of Environmental
Site Characterization and Ground-Water
Monitoring (Second Edition, 2005), and
served for 12 years as Editor of
Ground-Water Monitoring and Remediation and
Chairman of ASTM Subcommittee D 18.21 on
Ground-Water and Vadose Zone Investigation
and Remediation. He holds undergraduate and
graduate degrees in Geology from Miami
University and Bowling Green State
University, respectively. |
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Gregory
J. Rorech P.E., specializes in
the evaluation, development, design and
implementation of both conventional and
innovative remediation technologies. Mr.
Rorech has been utilizing his chemical
engineering expertise to assist industrial
and municipal clients with environmental and
process concerns for more than 15 years. In
1999, he founded Progressive Engineering and
Construction, Inc. located in Tampa,
Florida. As President of Progressive
Engineering and Construction, Inc., Mr.
Rorech is responsible for directing the firm’s
current work at CERCLA, RCRA, hydrocarbon
and consent order sites throughout the
United States. Mr. Rorech’s expertise with
site assessments, remedial strategy
development, regulatory negotiation,
economic analysis, innovative design,
implementation and operation enables him to
develop cost effective closure strategies
for his clients. Remedial technologies
recently implemented include in-situ
biological remediation, phytoremediation,
air sparging, permeable treatment barriers,
enhanced vacuum extraction, chemical
oxidation, ion exchange, reverse osmosis,
electrochemical precipitation, monitored
natural attenuation, enhanced reductive
dechlorination, vacuum extraction, land
farming, and biological and physical
treatment units for liquids and vapor. Mr.
Rorech is a contributing author on five
books and has written extensively on
groundwater and soil remediation
technologies. |
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John
A. Cherry holds geological
engineering degrees from the University of
Saskatchewan and the University of
California, Berkley and a Ph.D. in
hydrogeology from the University of
Illinois. He was a faculty member at the
University of Manitoba for four years before
joining the faculty at the University of
Waterloo in 1971 where his research focused
on field studies of the migration and fate
of contaminants in groundwater and
groundwater remediation. He retired from the
University of Waterloo in 2006 and was
granted the title Distinguished Professor
Emeritus in 2007. He co-authored the
textbook “Ground Water” with R.A. Freeze
(1979) and co-edited and coauthored several
chapters in the book “Dense Chlorinated
Solvents and Other DNAPLs in Groundwater”
(1996). In addition to research concerning
subsurface contaminant behavior, he has
participated in development of several
technologies for groundwater monitoring and
remediation and co-holds several patents. He
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
and has received awards for groundwater
contamination research from scientific and
engineering societies in Canada, the United
States and the U.K. He held the Research
Chair in Contaminant Hydrogeology at the
University of Waterloo (1996-2006) and is
currently the Director of the University
Consortium for Field-Focused Groundwater
Contamination Research, established in 1988,
and is an adjunct professor in the School of
Engineering at the University of Guelph. |
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Michael
C. Kavanaugh is Vice President and
the Global Science and Technology Leader for
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. He is a chemical and
environmental engineer with over 35 years of
consulting experience. Dr. Kavanaugh has
been project engineer, project manager,
principal-in charge, technical director or
technical reviewer on over 200 projects
covering a broad range of environmental
issues. He has co-authored over 35 peer
reviewed technical publications, edited two
books, and has made over 100 presentations
to technical audiences, legislative bodies,
and public advocacy groups. He has chaired
two boards under the National Research
Council, the Water Science and Technology
Board from 1989 to 1991 and the Board on
Radioactive Waste Management from 1998 to
2000. Dr. Kavanaugh has a B.S. and a M.S. in
Chemical Engineering from Stanford and UC
Berkeley, respectively and a PhD in
Civil/Environmental Engineering from UC
Berkeley. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in
Guatemala from 1964 to 1966. He is a
registered professional engineer in
California and Michigan and a Board
Certified Environmental Engineer by the
American Academy of Environmental Engineers.
Dr. Kavanaugh is also a Consulting Professor
in the Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Stanford University. He was
elected to the National Academy of
Engineering in 1998. |
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Murray
D. Einarson is a senior consultant
with Geomatrix Consultants in Oakland,
California, and an Assistant Consulting
Professor in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at Stanford
University. He has a B.A. in geology from
the University of California, Santa Barbara,
and an M.Sc. in hydrogeology from the
University of Waterloo. Mr. Einarson has
over 20 years of experience as an
environmental consultant, and is a
registered geologist in California. Mr.
Einarson’s professional interests focus on
developing and promoting superior methods
and technologies for environmental site
characterization and in situ remediation,
including developing better ways to
characterize and remediate sites with
dissolved plumes. He is currently the
project manager for UC Davis’s ethanol
controlled release experiment at Vandenberg
Air Force Base, California. He has published
over a dozen technical papers, and is a
coauthor of U.S. E.P.A.’s 1997 guidance
document “Expedited Site Assessment Tools
for Underground Storage Tank Sites - A Guide
for Regulators”, and an ASTM Standard on
Accelerated Site Characterization. He is a
frequent lecturer for US EPA, California
State regulatory agencies, and industry
groups. |
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Richard
P. Brownell is Vice President and
Technical Director of Hazardous Wastes
Program for Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. He is a
civil and environmental engineer and has
provided a broad range of services to
private and public sector clients for over
30 years. He has authored and coauthored
over 60 technical papers on a wide range of
environmental topics and presented training
on hazardous waste regulations and other
topics. Mr. Brownell is a registered
professional engineer in New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and several other
states, and a Diplomat (DEE) of the American
Academy of Environmental Engineers. As a
Technical Director for Malcolm Pirnie, he
reviews all major site investigation,
remediation and brownfields activities for
the firm’s nationwide practice. He has a
Bachelor of Civil Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MS of
Civil Engineering/Sanitary from Stanford
University, and an MBA in Management from
New York University. Dr. Kavanaugh and Mr.
Brownell have jointly prepared material for
these courses. Dr. Kavanaugh will teach west
coast courses. Mr. Brownell will teach the
same material in east coast courses. |
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