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NWETC Team

Dr. Mike Johns

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Dr. Johns is an aquatic scientist who specializes in aquatic ecological risk assessments (ERAs), particularly those associated with contaminated sediment. The focus of his 30 years of professional experience has been on the effects of toxic pollutants on aquatic organisms. Dr.

Dr. Kirk Cameron

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Dr. Kirk Cameron is the founder and president of MacStat Consulting, Ltd. in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a statistical consulting firm specializing in environmental statistical applications and problem-solving.

Dr. Joseph E. Merz

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Dr. Merz is a registered scientist with the American Fisheries Society. He has over 20 years of experience working with aquatic resources and has been the principal scientist on several salmonid habitat restoration programs in the California Central Valley.

Dr. Deb Gaynor

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Dr. Gaynor has more than 30 years of analytical chemistry and environmental management and consulting experience. For eleven years she worked closely with the USEPA through the Contract Laboratory Program (CLP).

Dr. Dave Rich

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Dr. David W. Rich is the President and co-founder of Geotech Computer Systems, Inc. He has a B.S. in geology from the University Of Notre Dame, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in geology from The University of Illinois.

Dr. D. Michael Johns

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Dr. Barrett L. Kays

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Dr. Barrett L. Kays is an expert investigator and witness specialized in earth sciences involving soil, hydrology, and groundwater science. Dr.

Dr. Anna Sophia Knox

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Dr Laurel J. Standley

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Danny C. Reinke, PhD

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Dr. Reinke has more than 20 years of NEPA experience working for private consulting firms and for DoD and other federal agencies. Currently he works at Edward AFB, CA where he is a Senior Environmental Scientist for NEPA and Natural Resources issues.

Curtis Hinman

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Curtis Hinman is a Senior Stormwater Scientist based in Bellingham, Washington. Mr.

Christopher Whitehead

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Christopher Whitehead comes to NWETC with a broad range of experience gained over 10 years in the environmental health and safety field in service to private, state, federal, military, local, and NGOs throughout the United States. Mr.

Chris Heilbrun

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Chris Heilbrun, Regional Manager in the SoundEarth Strategies’ Denver office, is a stormwater professional with over 9 years’ experience designing, inspecting, and managing projects throughout the Western U.S. and Rocky Mountain Region.

Chip Halbert

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Chip Halbert has a strong track record of supporting the permitting needs of industry, mission-critical facilities, developers, and engineering design firms. Chip currently works for Landau Associates and leads their environmental permitting and compliance practice.

Charles R. Harman, P.W.S.

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Charles Harman is a Principal Ecologist with Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, and Professional Wetland Scientist. Mr.

Bryan Ham, Ph.D.

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Dr. Bryan Ham is a professional analytical chemist, an analytical chemistry instructor, mass spectrometrist, chemistry book author, and software coder (VB.Net and VBA for MS Access and Excel).

Brion Hurley

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Brion Hurley is a Principal Lean Consultant at Rockwell Collins in Wilsonville, OR. He is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) from the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and Lean Master certified.

Brian Fulfrost

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Brian is currently founding principal at Oregon Freshwater Simulations and also teaches GIS for sustainable planning at Washington State University in Vancouver, WA and at San Francisco State University.

Blair Barnhardt

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Blair Barnhardt is an award winning National Highway Institute (NHI) Certified Instructor for FHWA, a National Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Trainer, and an America Public Works Association (APWA) Carl Vinson Institute Instructor for their Certificate of Public Works Management Progra

Barbara DeCaro

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Barbara DeCaro is a horticulturist and senior environmental analyst with Seattle Parks and Recreation, where she develops policy, procedures, best management practices and complementary staff training programs for conservation and management of public landscapes.

Apryle Craig

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Apryle Craig earned a BS in BioEngineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Master's in Ecology at Colorado State University.

Annika Fain

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Anna Bremmer

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Since 1990, Anna Bremmer has facilitated marketing, project management analysis, and value analysis for environmental consulting, transportation and land use planning, civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, architecture, general contracting, construction management, and dispute resolution.

Amanda Royal

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Prior to joining Brooks Applied Labs, Amanda Royal received her B.S. degree in Environmental Resource Management from Arizona State University and worked as an Environmental Program Specialist with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

Alan Wald

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Mr. Wald has 30 years of experience as a hydrologist and hydrogeologist with extensive project work on streams, rivers, wetlands, and shorelands.

Aihui MaHam, Ph.D.

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Dr. Aihui MaHam is a professional analytical chemist, an analytical chemistry instructor, and a chemistry book author. She is an expert in the field of inorganic materials chemistry, and their characterization.

Adam Wilbert

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Adam Wilbert is a cartographer and database consultant. He has developed Access databases for the National Park Service as well as database and GIS solutions for small businesses and non-profit organizations.

Robert D. Mutch, Jr., P.Hg., P.E.

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Robert Mutch has more than forty years of experience in hydrogeology, groundwater and contaminant fate and transport modeling, environmental forensics, and remediation engineering.