EEHS School 2021 Day 3

Frank represents Geosyntec Consultants with over 15 years of experience in environmental and geotechnical consulting, environmental health & safety, risk communication design and risk assessment, and academic research. He received his Bachelor degree in Environmental Science from Old Dominion University and continued his higher education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a Master of Science (2015) and Doctor of Philosophy (2019) in Risk Communication and Assessment. Some of his key achievements in that time include taking a small assessment opportunity on a Fortune 100 company site in Pennsylvania and expanding it into a successfully managed and well-executed $5M+ multisite facility upgrade project. Frank served as the Environmental Compliance Technical Lead for UNC for all $20MM-plus Capital Expenditures and smaller capital projects. Since moving to North Carolina in 2009, Frank has established strong working relationships with regulatory agencies, which has allowed him to collaborate to develop innovative approaches to meet project needs, particularly with NC Brownfields, environmental due diligence auditing and compliance, and coal ash pond risk assessment.

Dore Chiang serves as Wood’s Global Technical Leader for Environmental Remediation. She has had a long and successful career focusing on working collaboratively with industrial and governmental clients investigation and treating a wide range of organic and inorganic contaminants. She is known for developing innovative solutions that sustainably destroy legacy and emerging contaminant permanently, such as 1,4-dioxane biodegradation and PFAS destruction. She has served as project technical director for numerous clients including the U.S. Air Force, ExxonMobil, Total, BP, Lockheed Martin and many others.

Mr. Morris has 35+ years of geologic/hydrogeologic and litigation support and expert witness/expert report experience.  His technical specialties include hydrogeologic investigation using innovative site characterization tools, and creation of Hydrogeologic Site Conceptual Models (HCSM).  Mr. Morris has extensive experience in environmental forensics, statistical evaluation of groundwater monitoring data, and performing geochemical investigations.  In addition to hydrogeology and site characterization, he is a subject matter expert in the areas of CERCLA and State Superfund compliance, RCRA facility investigation, corrective action, remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS), risk-screening/risk-based decision making, and risk assessment (RA), remedial design/remedial action (RD/RA), brownfield redevelopment and site restoration planning, permitting, and coordination of redevelopment stakeholders.  Mr. Morris is also a subject matter expert in the strategic evaluation of remedial solutions and has been directly involved in analysis and/or implementation of numerous remedial technologies including SVE, injection of additives for aerobic and anaerobic enhanced in-situ bioremediation (EISB), phytoremediation, in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO), injection of reagents for stabilization/fixation of metals, and construction of Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRBs). Lastly, Mr. Morris is experienced in preparing remediation liability financial forecasts (Sarbanes-Oxley environmental liability financial reserve estimates), and maintaining project life-cycle financial/cost forecasts.

Ryan Trail is a partner in the Environmental & Natural Resources practice group of Williams Mullen.  Mr. Trail represents companies facing complex environmental regulatory issues in the industrial, manufacturing, real estate and banking industries. He helps companies maintain compliance with constantly evolving environmental laws and regulations, and he counsels landowners, potential purchasers and lenders on environmental liabilities related to contaminated real estate. Ryan also helps clients obtain and comply with numerous environmental permits, including industrial wastewater discharge permits, stormwater permits and air permits.

Ryan counsels clients on matters involving the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund). He also advises industrial clients on chemical reporting requirements featured in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). Ryan frequently advises clients on matters involving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC).

He has been recognized in Greenville Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite of the Upstate” for Environmental Law (2014, 2019, 2021) and “Legal Elite of the Midlands” for Environmental Law (2020).  Ryan serves on the Greenville Chamber of Commerce’s Environmental Issues Committee and is involved with business-related trade associations throughout South Carolina, including the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance, the Upstate Employers Network and the Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association.

Ryan earned his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2008. He graduated with his B.A. in History from Presbyterian College in 2004.

Lindsay Boone is a Technical Program Manager at Enthalpy’s Ultratrace Lab specializing in PFAS analysis.  She received her Master’s in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.  Lindsay has worked extensively with Waste Water Treatment Plants throughout the state of North Carolina on both sampling techniques and date interpretation for PFAS compounds within their influent and effluent samples.

Dr. Bilgen Yuncu is a project manager and remediation group leader at Draper Aden Associates in the Cary, NC office. She specializes in the application of physico-chemical treatment processes and bioremediation of hazardous compounds in soil and groundwater. Dr, Yuncu is the lead engineer on many of Draper Aden Associates’ in situ bioremediation projects. She is an author of several publications and an active presenter of in situ remediation technologies at national and international conferences.

Maria Scicchitano has 5 years of experience in wastewater treatment design and industrial discharge permitting. Her primary areas of practice are in industrial and municipal wastewater process evaluation and optimization, biological treatment system design, and industrial pretreatment permitting and compliance reporting. Maria recently completed her Master’s in Environmental Engineer at N.C. State with a focus in physical-chemical and biological treatment processes.

Mr. Verheul is a Senior Chemist and the Business Development Manager of Enthalpy Analytical’s South Richmond, Virginia, Laboratory location. He has more than 17 years of analytical experience within the environmental industry, and has led various laboratory teams in the wet chemistries and metals analysis departments. Mr. Verheul has also served as lead Project Manager for various complex projects across a range of disciplines; this includes the energy sector, solid waste industry, industrial and municipal wastewater treatment, drinking water treatment, biogas reclamation, and others. Mr. Verheul received his B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary.