Air Pollution Control

PM10,Noise and Pollution visualization monitoring(2011)

Location: Tianjing City, China

Period: 2011

Project Description:

The project consisted of providing consulting services specialized in air and noise monitoring.

1. performed PM10,noise and pollutant flow visualization assessments for work bench areas according to customized standards.

Assessment of Children Exposure to Particulate Matter Pollutants

Location: Texas and California, USA

Period: 2007-2010

Project Description

The project consisted of providing consulting services specialized in air and noise monitoring.

1. Performed PM2.5,Black Carbon,CO2,and Ultrafine Particles monitoring and measurement.

2. Measured air quality inside school bused and classrooms under different ventilation scenarios.

3. Investigation on pollutants transport between ambient environment and enclosure environment.

Timothy R. McAuley, PhD, Board Chairman and Chief Executive Manager

Dr. McAuley has over 12 years of experience conducting consulting and research in the area of air quality and human health risk assessments. Dr. McAuley's research interests include understanding traffic dynamics through interpretation of near roadside and downwind pollution gradients of various mobile source air toxins, ultrafine particles, and gases produced from combustion. Dr. McAuley has been elected membership to several National Academy of Science Boards and Subcommittees in the areas of aviation, transportation, air quality, indoor air quality, exposure assessment, and human health.  He is also currently an elected member of the Indoor Environmental Standards Organization (IESO) Research Committee, Vice Chair of Air & Waste Management Technical Advisory Committee, Air & Waste Management AB-1 Particulate Matter Committee, and Treasurer of the International Society for Exposure Science (ISES).

Dr. McAuley received his PhD. in Environmental Science and Engineering and MS in Chemistry and Molecular Chemistry from Clarkson University and his BS in Biochemistry from The College of Saint Rose. His certifications include the Agency of Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and Risk Assessment Phase I and II Remediation.

Philip K. Hopke, PhD, Board Member and Managing Partner

Dr. Hopke is the Bayard D. Clarkson Distinguished Professor at Clarkson University, the Director of the CARES, and the Director of the ISE. He is the past Chair of USEPA’s CASAC, and has served on the USEPA SAB. He is a Past President of the AAAR, and was a member of the more than a dozen National Research Council committees. He was recently appointed to the NRC’s Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology. He is a fellow of the International Aerosol Research Assembly, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association for Aerosol Research. He is an elected member of the International Statistics Institute and the recipient of the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Chemometrics. He is also a recipient of the David Sinclair Award of the AAAR. He served as a Jefferson Science Fellow at the US Department of State during the 2008-09 academic year.

Dr. Hopke received his BS in Chemistry from Trinity College (Hartford) and his MA and PhD degrees in chemistry from Princeton University. After a post-doctoral appointment at M.I.T. and four years as an assistant professor at the State University College at Fredonia, New York. He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, rising to the rank of professor of environmental chemistry, and subsequently came to Clarkson in 1989 as the first Robert A. Plane Professor with a principal appointment in the Department of Chemistry. He moved his principal appointment to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2000. Since 2002, he has been the Clarkson Professor and Director of CARES. As of July 1, 2010, he has taken on the directorship of the ISE that houses Clarkson’s undergraduate and graduate environmental science degree programs as well as managing Clarkson’s sustainability initiatives.

Mary Bielaska, JD, Board Member and Corporate Lead Counsel

Mary Bielaska has over 20 years of experience in global project management services emphasizing corporate transformation through maximization of fiscal efficiencies, effective regulatory compliance, risk management, social responsibility and change management. Ms. Bielaska has advised clients considering global expansion, optimization of overseas structure and assessment of potential financial, legal and environmental risks.

Ms. Bielaska has extensive experience in the capital markets arena and has represented acquirers, target companies, investment banking syndicates and independent board committees in both domestic and cross-border acquisition transactions. She has also represented developers and equity investors involved with leasing transactions and the development, financing, construction and operation of a variety of highly specialized, capital intensive assets such as aircraft, independent power facilities, co-generation facilities, utility plants and solar and wind power facilities.

Ian Longley, PhD

Dr. Longley is an experienced air quality scientist who works across a wide range of research and consultancy projects. As Senior Scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Auckland, he plays a central role in air quality science in New Zealand leading numerous projects including regular collaborations with the leading geographers, public health scientists, toxicologists, transport engineers, and social scientists in the country. Areas of expertise include air pollution exposure assessment, observational study design, data interpretation, impacts of road transport emissions and ultrafine particles. Areas of interest include interactions between urban form and planning and air pollution exposure, innovative approaches to monitoring and monitoring network design, development of environmental health indicators, and urban environmental surveillance and information systems. His team includes expertise in instrument development, and meteorological and air quality observations and modeling. Major projects have included development of guidelines for air quality in road tunnels and several high-profile road project assessments as well as a New Zealand standard for road project.

Bin Xu, PhD

Dr. Xu is an expert in air pollution modeling, monitoring, and assessment. His research focuses on developing quantitative models to characterize pollutant transport in the on- and near-roadway atmosphere. His previous projects were funded by federal, international, and local agencies and organizations focusing on environmental health and global health. His interests also include the characterization and calculation of the air pollutant emission from engine, and characterizing air pollutants (CO, CO2, Black Carbon, particular matters) with traditional and alternative fuel types (e.g. gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, hybrid).

Brent Stephens, PhD

Dr. Stephens has several years of experience in measuring and modeling energy and air quality in buildings. He holds a Master's degree in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He focuses primarily on developing and applying novel test methods to characterize energy consumption and indoor pollutants in buildings. He has published several articles on research ranging from measurements of the infiltration of outdoor pollutants (e.g., ultrafine particulate matter and ozone) into buildings to measurements and assessments of the impacts of central heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems and their filters on indoor concentrations of pollutants, building energy consumption, and peak electricity demand. He was a fellow of an interdisciplinary National Science Foundation IGERT program in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering for most of his time at University of Texas at Austin, where he also worked on projects modeling the integration of renewable energy sources into the existing electric grid, modeling energy production and consumption in net-zero-energy homes, and investigating the potential impacts of weatherization retrofits on energy consumption and indoor pollutants in homes.

Tee Guidotti, PhD

Dr. Guidotti is a consultant in occupational and environmental health and medicine, and Vice-President for Health/Safety, Environment, and Sustainability at Medical Advisory Services (a division of the NMAS Group), of Rockville, Maryland. He is best known for his expertise on the occupational health problems of fire fighters and oil and gas workers. He is currently working on issues related to the build environment (including green buildings) and wellness. He is a former professor and department chair at two universities (George Washington University and the University of Alberta) and is based in Washington DC. He is a physician with training and specialist qualifications in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, and in toxicology. His interests include occupational and environmental lung diseases and inhalation toxicology, health issues in the built environment, management of HSE departments and occupational health services, and risk management. His environmental interests include sustainability, air quality, risk science, ecosystem and human health, and child health and the environment. He has written extensively on the evaluation of scientific evidence in litigation, adjudication, and policy. He is the author of over 250 papers and book chapters and has produced six books.

John Zamurs, PhD

Dr. Zamurs has over 32 years experience in the transportation air quality, energy, and climate change arena serving in increasing areas of responsibility for the New York State Department of Transportation until his recent retirement. He began his career as an assistant to the Upstate New York Carbon Monoxide Hot Spot Study. He capped his career as the Head of the Air Quality Energy and Climate Section in the Office of Environment, and finally as head of the Sustainability and Climate Change Section in the Policy and Planning Division at NYSDOT. During his tenure at NYSDOT, he was the department’s expert on air quality matters and, as climate change and energy issues became increasingly important, he was regarded as NYSDOT’s expert on these issues. He was the principal author for the transportation chapters in the 2002 and 2009 New York State Energy Plans. For the past 11 years, he chaired the AASHTO SCOE Air Quality, Energy and Climate Change Subcommittee. He was also a member of the NASTO Air Quality, Energy and Climate Change Committee.

David F. Goldsmith, PhD

Dr. Goldsmith is an occupational and environmental epidemiologist in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at George Washington University. He has over 30 years experience in environmental and public health. He received his MSPH and PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977 and 1983, respectively. His current research interests include silica dust health effects including cancer, silicosis, tuberculosis, autoimmune disease, and kidney ailments, the interaction between smoking and inhaled hazards, urban pesticide exposures, repatriated Indian cultural artifacts, breast and ovarian cancers and other chronic health effects linked with workplace and environmental exposures, lead in drinking water, birth defects from drug use during pregnancy, applying epidemiology principles to the legal system, and risk assessment and risk communication. He has consulted for USEPA, NIOSH/CDC, IARC, NCI, U.S. Surgeon General’s Office on Smoking and Health, California EPA and Air Resources Board, CPSC, USAID, Washington DC Departments of Health and Environment, and OSHA. He is an Associate Editor for the Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health.

Katherine von Stackelberg, PhD

Dr. von Stackelberg specializes in developing risk-based tools and methods to support sustainable approaches to environmental decision-making. Dr. von Stackelberg holds a non-teaching research affiliation at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, part of the Harvard School of Public Health where she is Leader of the Superfund Research Translation Core. Much of her work has focused on incorporating quantitative uncertainty analysis (e.g., analytical, probabilistic, and fuzzy methods) into the environmental management process. She is an experienced modeler and served as technical lead for the development of several aquatic food web models used to support risk-based decision making for the Corps and USEPA. She serves as Chair of the USEPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors. She also Chairs the Global Science Committee for the SETAC, and is the outgoing Chair of the North America Science Committee. She received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard College, and a Sc.M. and Sc.D. from the Harvard School of Public Health in Environmental Science and Risk Management.

Kevin Miller, PhD

Dr. Miller has over 30 years experience as a laboratory scientist. He has extensive experience with gas chromatography, gas chromatography - mass spectrometry, HPLC, flame photometry, enzyme immunoassay, and wet chemistry. He was appointed by the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Health to the CT ELAC. This committee makes recommendations to the Connecticut Governor and Commissioner of DOH regarding QA/QC concerning laboratories and public health. He is also a member of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection QA/QC committee. He is a recipient of the State of Connecticut DEP Green Circle Award. He has extensive experience in laboratory medicine and clinical toxicology. He is certified by the American College of Clinical Pathologists and the National Registry in Clinical Chemistry. He is an approved laboratory director by the State of Connecticut Department of Health Services in microbiology and chemistry. He has acted as a consultant to many public and private organizations in areas concerning forensic toxicology and human health and ecological risk assessment. He has conducted numerous risk assessments for polychlorinated biphenyls under both federal (TSCA, RCRA) regulations and state.

Ivan Cooper, PE, BCEE

Mr. Cooper oversees environmental consulting activities in municipal and industrial water and wastewater, power, regulatory compliance issues, and testified in a number of pollution related actions. He has detailed experience in wastewater permitting, treatability, preliminary and detailed studies and design, construction observation, operation and maintenance manuals, start-up, and operational assistance for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities. He has detailed biological and physical chemical treatment experience, including both aerobic and anaerobic digestion of residuals. He has prepared several technical manuals for USEPA Technology Transfer program in Alternative Collection and Wastewater Treatment, and delivered over 50 seminars for USEPA on wastewater treatment issues. With over 41 years of technical and management experience, he has evaluated sites, designed water and wastewater treatment plants, performed and reviewed historical and cost evaluations for over 100 landfills and NPL Superfund sites and has conducted the preliminary and detailed design of over 100 industrial and municipal waste treatment systems and sewage systems. He is certified to serve on a value engineering team. He is a registered Professional Engineer in 13 states, and is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers with a specialty designation in Wastewater Treatment.

Zeynep Pınar Öztürk, MS

Zeynep Pınar Öztürk is an environmental engineer from Istanbul Turkey specializing in the areas of air pollution, climate change mitigation and carbon emission trading.  Ms. Öztürk is fluent in both Turkish and English.  Ms. Öztürk worked as a carbon specialist and project developer for J.P.Morgan Climate Care, South Pole Carbon and Enerjisa Verbund J.V. from January 2008 to April 2012.  From April 2012 to present, she has led the development of carbon assets for wind, solar and geothermal power projects as well as smaller scale hydropower projects in Turkey.  In these projects, Ms. Öztürk provided expert-level consulting services related to GHG accounting and abatement, voluntary emission reduction projects and carbon emission trading.  As a highly regarded expert and one of the top authorities in the Middle East on the subject of carbon markets, she has delivered carbon markets training seminars to private and public sector institutions, including the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority.  Prior to engaging in the emissions trading sector, Ms. Öztürk worked as an environmental engineer for approximately 10 years in the Turkish public sector in local and central governmental bodies.  In these roles, she specialized in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing projects involving the collection and analysis of data related to environmental problems.  Ms. Öztürk’s expertise, reputation and contributions resulted in her promotion to manage the development of geographical databases for Eskisehir Metropolitan Municipality and the Ministry of Public Works and Settlement.  Ms. Öztürk studied Environmental Engineering while attending Middle East Technical University and currently holds two Masters Degrees in environmental fields.  She earned her first Masters of Science degree in Environmental Science in 2001 from Anadolu University where she studied mapping carbon monoxide, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and hydrocarbon emissions resulting from residential heating in Eskisehir City.  As a recipient of the EU’s Jean Monnet Scholarship, Ms. Öztürk earned her second Masters of Science Degree from Lancaster University in the UK where she studied Environmental Informatics and wrote her thesis on the subject of applying 3-dimensional pollution modeling to aid a contaminated site investigation of AMEC NNC.

John Martin, CIH, CHMM

Mr. Martin is an industrial hygienist and chemist with 15 years of experience that includes analytical chemistry, hazardous waste characterization, transport and disposal, and environmental health and safety consulting. He has experience in data review and validation, indoor air quality investigations, vapor intrusion investigation, mold and moisture investigation and assessment, environmental exposure assessments, welding fume assessment, asbestos inspection, OSHA compliance assessment and response, noise and vibration assessment and mitigation design, accident investigation, job hazard analysis, and comprehensive health and safety planning and implementation. He is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and is certified in the management of hazardous materials by the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management. He holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Hygiene from University of Massachusetts Lowell, a Master of Public Health degree in Environmental Health from Boston University, and Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Biology from Roger Williams College.

Mary Ruhter, MS

Ms. Ruhter is an Environmental Scientist/Associate Toxicologist with over 10 years of professional experience comprising technical and managerial roles on numerous projects supporting USEPA at CERCLA/Superfund and RCRA sites throughout the US on Regional Oversight Contracts, REPA contracts, ESAT contracts, START contracts, and state contracts (e.g., Utah, Kansas, Maine). She has reviewed and developed risk-based cleanup levels for various contaminants at numerous cleanup sites across the country, authored or co-authored various risk assessment work plans, human health risk assessments, ecological risk assessments, vapor intrusion technical action plans, and other reports. She has a MS from Indiana University in Environmental Science with a concentration in Environmental Chemistry, Toxicology, and Risk Assessment and a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Florida.

Alicia Dorsey, MSE, CHEM

Ms. Dorsey has over 20 years of experience in industry, healthcare, air quality, asbestos abatement, and ergonomics. She is a former OSHA employee and was a member of the Ergonomics Task Force performing ergonomic inspections of many different employers. She was also selected to act as a liaison between employers and the North Carolina Ergonomic Resource Center. She has extensive experience in managing health and safety programs as well as various environmental compliance issues. She has developed several health and safety programs including but not limited to Hazard Communication, Ergonomics, Asbestos Management, Indoor Air Quality, Hazard Surveillance, and JCAHO Environment of Care Management Plans as well as conducting countless air monitoring studies. She currently holds a position as faculty at North Carolina A & T University teaching industrial hygiene and health and safety.

Michelle Przedwiecki, MPH

Michelle Przedwiecki created the New Visions: Scientific Research and World Health program located at the University at Albany East Campus, where she developed the interdisciplinary, integrated curriculum for the program. As program-coordinator, Ms. Przedwiecki worked with researchers in many companies and University departments to design laboratory and field experiences for students to gain hands-on experience with a variety of techniques. By completing the program students develop a deeper understanding of the principles being applied in the laboratory and then use this knowledge and research data for community outreach projects. Ms. Przedwiecki has research experience in environmental sampling, laboratory testing and data analysis with the New York State Department of Health and at the Wadsworth Centers for Laboratories and Research. Her research projects include the Lyme Disease Vector Ecology Study, Assessment of Hantavirus in the Adirondacks and Dead Bird Surveillance as an Early Warning System for West Nile Virus. At the Center for Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Ms. Przedwiecki analyzed Childhood Asthma, Lung Function and Environmental Exposures.  Ms. Przedwiecki holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University at Albany School of Public Health and a New York State Permanent Teacher’s Certification in Secondary Science Education. Ms. Przedwiecki also earned the National Association of Realtors GREEN designation and is a Renovation Specialist. She volunteers for multiple service organizations and is passionate about protecting the environment and vulnerable populations.

Maya Camou

Ms. Camou has over 15 years of experience in the NYC design and building industry. She is a LEED AP BD+C with a Masters in Design Management. Her strong background in design and management helps her bring expertise in finding creative solutions to business and project management. She leads M3D's management team with a vast knowledge of the design/building industry including expertise in project management and business management. She has been advocating Sustainability and Management practices in all sectors. Some of her achievements have been made while working closely with NGO’s and public schools to help bring positive changes to our urban environment. She is a continuing education faculty member at NYIT where she teaches core concepts of Interior Design and Green Building Design & Construction. Further, she has also held webinars and has written for several publications on the subject.

Cathy P. Dare

Ms. Dare is an environmental engineer with diverse experience in the environmental and engineering consulting field focused on ensuring sustainable practices are employed to protect natural resources from the legacy of environmental impact from industrial releases, manufacturing, and testing-related releases from conventional and nuclear weapons. She has reviewed hundreds of RCRA and CERCLA documents in support of every aspect of the regulatory corrective action process for USEPA offices nationwide. She is proficient at negotiating work scopes under federal and state contracts as well as private sector compliance challenges and specializes in negotiating differences to allow for pragmatic decision-making to ensure forward progress to achieve real reductions in exposures. Her primary expertise is assessment of designs for landfills and caps (e.g., presumptive, corrective action management units, radiological, toxic substance control act, and mixed wastes) and soil, RCRA compliant and chemical isolation caps. She is skilled in remediation of hazardous (listed and characteristic), TSCA; mixed and radiological wastes, and asbestos. She has performed evaluations of RCRA and CERCLA documents on groundwater, soil, sediment and air releases, compliance evaluation inspections in EPA Regions 3 and 6, and reviewed hundreds of RCRA permits and permit renewals for authorized state agencies and USEPA.

Gary Yoder

Mr. Yoder is an air quality meteorologist with 22 years of experience providing professional air quality compliance services to industrial and institutional clients. His pre-construction services include regulatory applicability consultation, air pollution control evaluation, air dispersion modeling, emission calculations, and air permit application development. His post-construction compliance services include compliance audits, emission inventories, regulatory applicability review, source testing coordination, Method 9 visible emission testing, as well as monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting system implementation. He has worked with the regulated community through complicated air quality regulations such as MACT/GACT (Part 63), New Source Performance Standards (Part 60), NSR/PSD (Part 52), and state air toxics rules. He has experience determining ambient air concentrations using the USEPA AERMOD and CALPUFF air dispersion modeling systems and accidental release models; including meteorological and terrain data pre-processing. He also has completed mobile source projects involving emission and air dispersion modeling and noise impact analyses using the Traffic Noise Model.

Deborah Dutcher Wilson

Ms. Wilson is an air quality meteorologist with 20 years of experience in air quality to determine and ensure compliance for both stationary and mobile sources. Her experience includes hands-on technical involvement with emissions inventories for criteria, hazardous (toxic) air pollutants and greenhouse gases, emission reduction quantification, atmospheric dispersion modeling, permit applications, environmental impact assessments, mitigation of emission sources and coordination with clients and regulators. She is well versed in General and Transportation Conformity determinations and demonstrating compliance using numerous air quality models, including AERMOD, MOBILE6/MOVES, EDMS, and AEDT. Other projects have entailed modeling existing air pollution problems and providing project-specific meteorological support using PCRAMMET, MPRM and AERMET data processing programs. She has Master’s degrees in meteorology from North Carolina State University and has her Project Management Professional® certification. She is a DBE/WBE in several states, including Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.

Stephen J. Myers

Mr. Myers specializes in management consulting to assist Global 1000 companies in developing the strategy, tactics and organizational capabilities to manage environmental, social and sustainability risks throughout the business value chain. He has been in the engineering and environmental management business for over 30 years having held key executive positions in environmental consulting, manufacturing, and risk management. He spent five years in the insurance industry as a senior advisor to clients in the development of environmental risk and insurance solutions. He is a New York State licensed property and casualty insurance broker assisting clients in the placement of environmental insurance in support of acquisitions, divestitures, remediation, and Brownfields redevelopment. He is a Certified Environmental Professional in environmental operations, a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor, and founding partner of Brownfields USA, LLC, a specialized national real estate company that is engaged in the packaging of necessary services for the successful end-use redevelopment of environmentally impaired properties. He serves on various boards of professional organizations, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Carl W. Strickler

Mr. Strickler has more than 26 year of experience in conceptualizing, planning, developing, financing, building, and operating large scale, complex projects in the electric generation and bioenergy industries with a particular focus on the use of renewable and sustainable resources. He provides strategic, advisory, project development, financial, technical, and operational expertise to companies seeking to startup, develop, acquire, and operate energy and environmental projects or businesses incorporating new innovative technologies. He is experienced with the siting, permitting, design, construction, and operations of a range of energy from waste technologies. He has expertise with the material handling of MSW, poultry and dairy manure, and coal and waste coal and is knowledgeable with large field erected solid fuel boilers, steam turbines, reciprocating gas engines, and various types of air pollution control technologies including fabric filters, SNCR, and scrubbers. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware and is a registered professional engineer.

Gayle Souter Brown

Ms. Souter-Brown is the Founder and Design Director of Greenstone Design Ltd, an international sustainable garden design consultancy. Her public and private designs focus on development for education, health, and wellbeing. She has been commissioned to design a wide variety of landscape projects in New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, France, Portugal, Scotland, and England. Projects include a large scale eco resort in Borneo, Europe’s first disabled children’s hotel in Portugal, hospital rehabilitation gardens, historic gardens in England, monastic gardens, ecological restoration projects in conjunction with the University of Greenwich, Islamic gardens, urban and rural residential interior and garden designs, sensory gardens for schools, private residences, hospitals, and care homes. Sensory gardens for the disabled, and those disconnected from the natural world is her specialty.