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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Environmental Science experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Environmental Science landscape.
Expert Witness #256820
This expert earned a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Health and has many years of experience in environmental engineering, industrial hygiene and building materials exposure assessment. This expert directed several multimillion dollar environmental remediation projects, superfund and environmental site and public health investigations including some with high public profiles. This expert has been retained as an expert witness in class action toxic tort litigation support for industrial clients and has testified at trial in defense of an oil refinery for a matter related to air quality impact from a large oil spill. This expert has a wealth of expert witness experience, including matters involving alleged chemical and biological exposure-related personal injury claims. This expert has provided deposition and testimony at trial.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #256793
This expert earned a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Health and has many years of experience in environmental engineering, industrial hygiene and building materials exposure assessment, most recently as a Principal Scientist of Health Services. This expert directed several multi-million dollar environmental remediation projects, superfund and environmental site and public health investigations including some with high public profiles. This expert has been retained as an expert witness in class action toxic tort litigation support for industrial clients and has testified at a trial in defense of an oil refinery for a matter related to air quality impact from a large oil spill. This expert has a wealth of expert witness experience, including matters involving alleged chemical and biological exposure-related personal injury claims. This expert has provided deposition and testimony at trial.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #256817
This expert has many years of experience in environmental impact assessment and is currently Principal of an environmental consultancy focused on environmental science, engineering and forensic investigations. This expert has extensive experience with lawsuits in which alternative explanations, alternative sources, and confounder sources were critical to the outcome of the case. Such experience extends to litigations related to property damage, toxic tort, and medical monitoring. This expert has supported approximately 20 class action lawsuits (supporting both plaintiffs and defendants), which involved a range of contaminants: metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, PCBs, Dioxins, carbon black, pesticides, particulate matter, and others. This expert has experience with the class certification process, weighing variables such as distance, exposure routes, concentrations, duration of residency of any claimant, specific health claims of any claimant, etc. This expert has also had much experience constructing Daubert challenges in an attempt to thwart plaintiff claims. This expert has deposition and testimony experience. This expert has also published about 60 professional publications and lectures.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #219504
This expert is a Professor of Geography and a director at a spatial information research center. This expert holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Environmental Remote Sensing. Specializing in agent-based models, spatial-temporal models, digital image analysis, emergency response and urban geographic systems, this expert conducts research in both remote sensing and geographic information systems and has published in range of journals including: the IEEE Journal of Geo-science and Remotes Sensing, the International Journal of Remote Sensing, and Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. This expert played a major role in managing the design, development and implementation of the digital geographic base-map for a major U.S. city; the mapping was instrumental in enabling the city to respond to national crises.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #220904
This contamination expert holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Chemistry from a well-regarded university and is a national expert in environmental toxicology and ecological research involving the transport, fate, and effect of pollutants, as well as quality assurance in government and industry. Experience includes managing pollution control and hazardous waste projects, along with assignments in engineering, analytical science, and toxicology science for regulatory compliance, product registration, risk assessment, and technology development.
This expert has over 50 years of experience with No. 2 fuel oil and its chemistry, including studying the behavior, fate, and effects of No. 2 fuel oil spills into seawater in Arctic conditions. Work has included developing oil-analysis fingerprinting guidance, analytical procedures for government agencies, remediation of diesel and home-heating-oil spills in state and federal programs, source determination in spills and responsible-party claims, and toxic tort matters involving exposure to No. 2 fuel oil. Forensic evaluations have generally involved contamination in final blending, transportation, storage, mislabeling, or transportation and storage containers.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #259013
This environmental and occupational health expert is an accomplished industrial hygienist, safety engineer, and environmental health scientist with extensive experience spanning multiple disciplines in occupational and environmental health. This expert holds both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Health Science, Environmental and Occupational Health from a public university, is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE), and completed Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) training in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.120. Throughout this expert's career, expertise has included occupational hygiene, industrial safety, chemical hazard assessment, microbial growth and exposure evaluation, noise exposure control, indoor air quality, and emergency response coordination. This expert is skilled in the development and implementation of injury and illness prevention programs and provides comprehensive health and safety training.
This expert is an industrial hygienist with over 40 years of experience, including work on over 50 talc cases. This expert has been deposed in over 10 talc cases, appeared as an expert in a number of trials, prepared reports in many talc matters, and developed cumulative dose calculations addressing whether worst-case exposure scenarios increase cancer risk. This expert is familiar with mineralogy issues involving talc sources from domestic and international mines and with recurring positions raised by opposing experts in talc litigation.
This expert is a highly experienced and qualified expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #265369
This drainage/water storage and agricultural soil expert holds PhD and MS degrees in Horticulture, along with a BS in Plant Science/Pomology, and has been extensively published.
This expert specializes in plant science, agriculture, irrigation, plant stress physiology, weed science, herbicide modes of action, plant nutrition, and agricultural statistics.
This expert has a background that includes work with soil, mulches, vegetable crop production, and bioplastics, including research involving biodegradable plastic developed from corn.
This expert has held senior leadership roles in environmental science consulting and has served as an invited speaker, expert witness, and litigation consultant.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #282084
This agricultural soil expert holds a BS and MS in Agriculture (Soil Water Science) and Agronomy (Soil Fertility) and has worked as an environmental consultant focused mainly on soil and agronomy science across the United States. This expert has performed over 15 expert consulting and witness projects and owns a consulting firm that primarily provides soil science and agronomy consulting for large-scale disturbances.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #282783
This poultry expert holds a B.S. in General Agriculture and MS and PhD degrees in Poultry Science, and serves as an academic professor and poultry extension specialist with responsibilities spanning extension, research, and teaching.
This expert provides extension program support aimed at delivering educational information in poultry production, environmental management, waste management, nutrition, and biosecurity to small flock and commercial poultry producers.
This expert has helped coordinate regional and national poultry education programs, including poultry feeding and nutrition conferences, educational programming at a major poultry convention, and a national youth poultry and egg conference.
This expert has served on committees for a poultry science association, is on the editorial board of poultry science journals, and has academic and professional experience in poultry science, production, nutrition, environmental management, waste management, and biosecurity.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #285125
This hazardous materials disposal expert holds an M.Sc. in Natural Resources and a state-level hazardous materials investigations and program management credential, with over 20 years of experience in hazardous and acutely hazardous materials safety, regulatory compliance, environmental science, engineering, and regulatory affairs.
This expert has provided services to numerous clients in the semiconductor, printed circuit board, metal finishing, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries, as well as to municipal, state, and federal government entities, including defense-related agencies. This expert's experience includes industrial process and wastewater treatment engineering, system monitoring and control design, risk assessment and management, and environmental and safety regulatory compliance.
This expert specializes in federal, state, and local regulatory requirements for industries handling large quantities of acutely hazardous materials and aqueous wastes.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #285640
This government enforcement/EPA civil penalty policy expert holds a B.S.F.S. in International Economics from a prestigious university and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from a well-regarded university, and is an academic professor and fellow at a public policy research institution.
This expert previously served as a staff economist at federal agencies focused on environmental protection, trade regulation, and sentencing policy. This expert has extensive experience analyzing government enforcement policies as both an academic and government economist, with particular emphasis on environmental and criminal justice issues.
This expert has published over 125 articles and books on topics including the effect of Community Right to Know laws on firm behavior, why firms reduce toxic chemical emissions, and cost-benefit analysis of environmental regulation and enforcement.
As a staff economist for the U.S. EPA, this expert conducted analyses of the cost of environmental regulation to firms and assisted in developing EPA's civil penalty policy. This expert has served on a U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board ad hoc committee on the economic benefits of illegal behavior, a federal advisory committee on disclosure of environmental information in SEC filings, and a professional statistical association committee focused on law and justice.
As a consulting and testifying expert, this expert has assisted companies in negotiation and litigation involving EPA penalty policy, including independent analysis of likely or appropriate monetary penalties under EPA policies and court precedent. This expert has also worked with environmental engineers and accountants to evaluate economic benefits from noncompliance or delay, cost structures, overhead, and related factors that are often determinants of an EPA penalty calculation.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #296243
This toxicology and industrial hygiene expert holds a PhD in Environmental & Occupational Health, a Master of Science in Public Health (Toxicology), and a B.S. in Biological Sciences, and is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, Licensed Mold Assessor, and FAIHA with over 25 years of experience applying expertise in toxicology, industrial hygiene, environmental and occupational health, and indoor air quality to investigate exposures to microbes and chemicals in multiple types of buildings.
This expert is nationally recognized in occupational and environmental risk assessments, workplace exposures, workplace fatality investigations, health care facilities, flame retardants, irritant chemical exposures, indoor air quality, and mold.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #296555
This oil and gas industry and environmental science expert team includes experts with M.S., Ph.D., and P.E. credentials and experience in pipeline safety, mechanical integrity, environmental consulting, and air permitting in the energy sector.
This expert is a principal engineer at a pipeline safety and mechanical integrity consultancy and has over 15 years of specialized experience in the oil and gas energy industry, with extensive experience in transportation, integrity management, safety, processing and refining, and Process Safety Management. This expert has practical, hands-on expertise in failure analysis of varied systems, integrating process and operational data, repair records, and relevant technical documentation. This expert has directly operated, designed, and maintained oil and gas assets, allowing analyses to be informed by real-world application rather than solely theoretical knowledge.
This expert has in-depth knowledge of U.S. and international safety regulations and industry standards, including PHMSA, OSHA, ASME, and API requirements. This expert has played a significant role in engineering, program, and project management activities aimed at ensuring safe operations, particularly in response to regulatory actions. This expert consistently uses the Department of Energy's Root Cause Analysis methodology, a rigorous framework used in engineering assessments and legal proceedings. This expert has experience testifying and drafting expert opinion and rebuttal reports.
This environmental science expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. credential and serves in a director-level role at an environmental consulting firm specializing in the energy sector. With over 25 years of environmental consulting and air permitting experience focused on the energy industry, this expert has managed the preparation of hundreds of New Source Review and Title V air permits for upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities in the United States and Mexico.
This environmental science expert holds an M.S. and serves in a leadership role at an environmental consulting firm specializing in the energy sector. With over 20 years of environmental consulting and air permitting experience focused on the energy industry, this expert helps oil and gas companies develop and operate assets in accordance with environmental regulations. This expert has managed the preparation of hundreds of New Source Review and Title V air permits for upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities across the United States.
The team has experience as expert witnesses and litigation consultants.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #305177
This materials science expert holds a doctorate and is an academic professor specializing in polymer science and engineering.
This expert has experience with UHMWPE and has conducted research on Spectra fiber.
This expert has also conducted research on other high-performance fibers used in soft body armor applications and has provided expert testimony in cases involving Zylon fiber failure caused by environmental degradation leading to noncompliant mechanical performance.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #2302114
This mold origination expert is a senior environmental consulting professional with extensive experience providing indoor environmental consulting services and expertise in mold inspections, indoor air quality assessments, mold testing, building science consulting, mold remediation planning, mold remediation services, thermal imaging surveys, environmental tobacco smoke assessments, and former marijuana grow-op assessments. This expert has worked on over 3000 projects involving indoor environmental assessment or remediation services.
This expert is a Certified Commercial Building Mold Inspector and Certified Commercial Building Mold Remediator through a U.S.-based certifying body, and also holds Certified Mold Assessor and Certified Mold Inspector credentials through an environmental association. This expert has provided expert witness consulting services related to mold litigation and testified in court and in tribunals as an expert witness for mold-related hearings.
Start Environmental Science Expert SearchExpert Witness #2372765
This electroplating expert is a PE and holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. While working for a major automotive manufacturer, this expert wrote zinc plating specifications for airbag sensor plating, ensured plating complied with design and environmental standards, and spent many months at a plating supplier addressing implementation issues. This expert also served as the environmental and safety officer for a military laboratory and ensured compliance with environmental standards.
Early in this expert's career, this expert authored an engineering paper using gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy and presented it at a professional venue. This expert has extensive expert testimony experience, including reports, depositions, and trials.
This expert notes that a closed-loop system should have been used, particularly given the dangers of hexavalent chromium as a pollutant, carcinogen, and contaminant. This also raises significant CERCLA issues involving environmental regulators. Polyfluoroalkyl substances also cannot be released into the environment or atmosphere and require special treatment and filtration systems.
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