The heart of our organization is our people. Their initiative and curiosity motivate them every day to tackle our clients' problems and to provide what our clients need for informed decisions based on sound science. The descriptions below offer just a brief look at the talented people who help LimnoTech provide its clients with exceptional service every day.
Staff are located in the Ann Arbor office, unless otherwise noted.
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Peter Adriaens, Ph.D. is a long-term, part-time staff member at LimnoTech and a faculty member at the University of Michigan. His research and educational programs focus on the areas of remediation design, microbial sensing, and sustainable industrial practice. His interests include reactivity, fate pathways, cycling, and forensics of contaminants in environmental systems; development of innovative technology platforms for cleanup of industrial process streams and natural systems; and microbial and chemical sensing and control for environmental, industrial and biodefense applications. More recently, Dr. Adriaens has been involved in contaminant exposure assessment at the regional (watershed) level, and in the integration of market-based emissions strategies for control of energy emissions. After a sabbatical at LimnoTech in 2006, Peter chose to become a long-term, part-time staff member with us, helping us explore and develop new applications of water science and engineering.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Noemi Barabas, Ph.D., has been an environmental and water resources engineer with LimnoTech since June of 2003. Her principal areas of expertise are geostatistical modeling and multivariate analysis (fingerprinting, polytopic vector analysis) with applications in sampling design, site investigation, site characterization, contaminant fate monitoring, and environmental forensic investigations. She has extensive experience with investigations of contaminated sediments in rivers, floodplains and estuaries, with contaminants such as dioxins, PCBs, pesticides and metals. She also has experience designing and coordinating field investigations and managing small projects. Noemi also has excellent communication and client management skills. She speaks English, Hungarian (native), German, Romanian, French, and Japanese.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Christopher Behnke is an environmental geologist at LimnoTech. He has experience in soil and water sampling in rivers, lakes, landfills, and petroleum refineries. He has also conducted flow rate monitoring, dissolved oxygen surveys and reaeration surveys. Chris serves as the LimnoTech Field Operations Area Manager at the Ann Arbor office. This involves managing company resources and equipment, and responsibility for ensuring that high-quality field procedures are used for each project.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Scott Bell, P.E., BCEE, Vice President, manages LimnoTech's practice area for watersheds and waterways. Scott has extensive experience in water resources engineering analysis and has been with LimnoTech since 1992. In addition to managing staff, projects, and clients, Scott has technical expertise in hydrologic and hydraulic engineering, wastewater discharge impact analysis and mitigation, stormwater management, and environmental restoration. Scott has planned and executed water resource projects on water bodies across the country including the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and several dozen inland waterways and water bodies. In addition to his work with LimnoTech, he has been an adjunct lecturer in environmental engineering design at the University of Michigan, has delivered numerous papers and presentations and has served on professional boards and committees. He is a licensed professional engineer and is a Board-Certified Environmental Engineer by the
American Academy of Environmental Engineers.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Robert Betz is a project scientist at LimnoTech and has provided technical and supervisory expertise as an environmental scientist at LimnoTech since 1989. He has contributed to successful outcomes on a wide variety of projects that involved hazardous substances investigation, risk assessment and remediation. Current project work includes CERCLA remedial investigations and feasibility studies, RCRA facility investigations, UST investigations and remedial actions, environmental due diligence assessments, technical assistance for Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) programs, stormwater runoff, and surface water quality investigations. His technical expertise focuses on public health risk assessments; design and implementation of programs for field sampling and quality assurance/quality control; database management; and reporting. Bob also serves as a coordinator of health and safety programs for LimnoTech.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Victor J. Bierman Jr., Ph.D., BCEEM,, is a Senior Scientist at LimnoTech with extensive experience in the development and application of water quality models for eutrophication and the transport and fate of toxic chemicals, leading to his publication of over 100 technical papers and reports. He is a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Expert in Environmental Exposure Assessment, and a former Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Bierman is a leading expert in the assessment and solution of problems related to nutrients, dissolved oxygen, nuisance algal blooms, nitrogen fixation, exotic species, and ecosystem processes. He is also a leading expert in toxic chemical transport, fate, partitioning, and bioaccumulation. Dr. Bierman has conducted studies in lakes, rivers, estuaries, coastal marine systems, the Great Lakes, and at U.S. EPA Superfund sites.
Greensboro, North Carolina location
Tel: 336-643-4538
Heather Bourne is a Project Scientist with expertise in the areas of stormwater quality issues, watershed management, and aquatic ecology. Heather has played an integral part in the management and development of numerous studies of point and nonpoint source issues. She is currently the Work Assignment Manager for several municipal stormwater clients and provides support with permit negotiations and stormwater program development and implementation. Heather was also the Environmental Program Manager for Oklahoma City’s Stormwater Quality Management Section, where she managed and coordinated environmental monitoring projects and developed programs to comply with the City’s NPDES Phase I stormwater permit. Heather is located in LimnoTech’s Washington, D.C. office.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
Tel: 202-833-9140
Doug Bradley has extensive experience as a biologist and as an aquatic resource specialist. His particular area of expertise is in fish and aquatic habitat relationships, response and analysis. Doug's experience also entails Endangered Species Act analysis and consultation on a range of aquatic and terrestrial species. His experience includes wetland delineation and mitigation planning and implementation, as well as the design, implementation, and supervision of stream and riparian restoration projects. Doug continues to add to his portfolio with his involvement in TMDL development and his applications of water quality models. He also provides supervision and training of field teams on stream survey techniques and data analysis.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Pat Bradley is a Senior Scientist with more than 20 years’ experience in the field of water quality and NPDES permitting. Pat’s work focuses on solutions to NPDES permitting and water quality-related issues. Pat has extensive regulatory experience including regulation development at EPA headquarters, regulation implementation at EPA Region 6, and as a permittee working for Department of the Navy. Before joining LimnoTech, Pat was the Assistant Chief of the State & Regional Branch in the Water Permits Division at EPA Headquarters, and prior to that served as Acting Chief of the Municipal Branch, Acting Chief of the Industrial Permits Branch, the National Pretreatment Program Coordinator, program manager for the Department of the Navy, permit writer and enforcement inspector for EPA, and as an environmental consultant. Pat has written and contributed to numerous articles dealing with NPDES and water quality issues, and is frequently invited to speak at national and local conferences.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
202-833-9140
Virginia Breidenbach, P.E., is a senior consultant to LimnoTech and resides in Duluth, Minnesota. She has worked with LimnoTech for over 12 years, including 7 years at the company’s headquarters in Ann Arbor. Virginia is experienced in a wide range of water resources issues, including watershed planning and assessment; stormwater management; site level planning; hydrologic, watershed, and water quality modeling; TMDL development; and mixing zone assessments. She is also experienced with development and management of relational databases for environmental data. Virginia is a licensed professional engineer and holds a professional certificate in watershed planning.
Duluth, MN
Tel: 734-478-8466
Stacey Burgtorf is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan with Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Civil Engineering. Her areas of expertise include hydraulics and hydrology, hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling, and environmental turbulence. Stacey has a variety of project experience including research to support projects involving sediment transport modeling, water use impacts, mixing zone analyses, CSO impacts, and green infrastructure implementation. She also has expertise in data collection and management, and has field experience in construction inspection and quality control activities. She is also proficient in EFDC, CORMIX, ArcGIS, Fortran, C++, Matlab, VMODFLOW, EPAnet, Minitab, and Maple.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Brian Busiek, P.E., is a multi-disciplinary environmental engineer with extensive professional experience advising government, non-profit, and private sector clients in various aspects of watershed characterization and modeling, stormwater management, and hazardous waste site assessment and remediation. As a senior project engineer in Washington, DC, Brian lends his experience and strong attention to detail to a number of projects, including watershed analyses, hydrologic and hydraulic analyses of stormwater quality and quantity, and modeling and assessment of green infrastructure practices. Brian has considerable field work experience including stream water quality monitoring, aquatic habitat assessment, and groundwater monitoring. He is also proficient in database and geographic information systems (GIS) analysis and design.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
Tel: 202-833-9140
Chris Cieciek is a project scientist with several years of technical and project management experience, principally in the assessment of nonpoint pollution sources and their impacts on surface waters. His technical skills include water quality monitoring and assessment; watershed characterization; sediment sampling; implementation of innovative stormwater management programs, particularly at large airports; aquatic biological assessments; and quality assurance/quality control programs for field and laboratory data collection. Chris also specializes in the coordination of subcontractor field sampling efforts and the management of large-scale databases.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Tim Dekker, Ph.D., P.E., is a Senior Manager with LimnoTech. Tim is an environmental and water resources engineer with expertise in the characterization and modeling of surface water, sediments, and groundwater systems; analysis of contaminant fate and transport; and wastewater systems modeling and monitoring. He has served as a project manager and senior engineer on a wide variety of projects throughout North America, and also has served as an adjunct professor of environmental engineering at The University of Michigan. Tim has led numerous field, modeling and data-based investigations to describe all aspects of contaminated sediment sites. He has also developed and directed large-scale environmental monitoring efforts, wastewater system metering and modeling projects, and river restoration studies. Tim participates in numerous sediment, wastewater and water quality technical committees and work groups.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Joseph V. DePinto, Ph.D., Dr. DePinto is a Senior Scientist at LimnoTech. He has extensive experience (including 27 years as a Professor of Environmental Engineering) conducting aquatic system research, education and management programs, with an emphasis on activities in the Great Lakes region. Through his work on topics such as nutrient cycling-eutrophication, toxic chemical exposure and bioaccumulation, contaminated sediment assessment and remediation, aquatic ecosystem structure and functioning, and watershed, river, estuary, and lake modeling, Dr. DePinto has become internationally recognized as a leader in the development and application of surface water models to address aquatic ecosystem issues. Dr. DePinto's studies have led to over 150 publications, and he has also worked on numerous councils, task forces, and advisory groups on water quality research and management.
Tel: 734-332-1200
David Dilks, Ph.D., is a Vice President at LimnoTech responsible for the assessment of water quality issues, primarily through the development and application of mathematical models. Dave has directed more than 250 studies on water bodies and watersheds nationwide. This work has included watershed simulation models, hydrodynamic models, and water quality models for conventional and toxic pollutants. Dave has been involved in the TMDL program since its outset, having conducted or served as a technical reviewer for over 200 TMDLs. He has co-authored three national technical guidance manuals on watershed and water quality modeling and assessment and served as a technical reviewer for EPA guidance documents, professional journals, and research proposals.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Joyce Dunkin, CPG, is a Senior Hydrogeologist/Geologist with technical and project management experience in site investigations and assessments of numerous CERCLA- and RCRA-related projects. Joyce has extensive experience in geologic investigations/interpretation, including experience in hydrogeologic investigations and
surface/borehole geophysical interpretation. Since joining LimnoTech in 1991, Joyce's technical skill areas and responsibilities have included project management for remedial investigations and feasibility studies; work plan and report preparation and review; field investigation methods development; soils and groundwater remedial design; field supervision; groundwater modeling; groundwater supply studies; and geologic and hydrogeologic data collection, synthesis, interpretation and analysis. She has developed computerized geologic/hydrogeologic data display and interpretation tools, which have been used to develop input and calibration parameters for
surface water and groundwater models.
Tel: 734-332-1200
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Brandon Ellefson joined LimnoTech as an environmental engineer in 2010 after graduating from Michigan Technological University with master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Engineering. Brandon’s areas of expertise include surface water quality modeling, sediment flux analysis, environmental turbulence, and data management and evaluation. His graduate and post-graduate studies included work examining the effects of induced turbulence on sediment oxygen and sediment nitrate demand in a lake environment. He has presented the results of this work at major conferences and seminars.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Amanda Flynn is an environmental scientist with expertise in nutrient cycling, fate, and transport in rivers, lakes and estuaries; watershed modeling and assessment; and surface water quality monitoring, modeling, and assessment. Ms. Flynn joined LimnoTech in 2005, shortly after receiving her Master’s degree in Oceanography from Rutgers University. Her project experience has included the development and application of several watershed (HSPF), water quality-eutrophication (WASP5), and hydrodynamic (FEQ, EFDC) models in support of TMDLs, CSO LTCPs, and watershed and surface water quality management programs. Her experience has also entailed co-authoring several literature reviews on various nutrient and ecosystem topics. Ms. Flynn’s current responsibilities include technical modeling work, surface water quality assessments, data analysis and validation, database management, and report writing.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Paul Freedman, P.E., BCEE, is co-founder and President of LimnoTech. Paul's 35-year career has encompassed the full history of progress under the Clean Water Act, constantly emphasizing quality, innovation, and service. He has particular technical expertise in the use of models to assess and solve surface water, watershed, and groundwater challenges, as well as creating innovative policy and program approaches. He has been a leading innovator in user interactive models, as well as watershed management, sustainability, wet weather control programs and adaptive management. Paul has taught, presented, and lectured throughout the U.S., with over 200 conferences, workshops, presentations and papers to his credit. Paul has contributed to the advancement of water science and engineering through participation and leadership in numerous professional groups. He is currently President of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization of more than 35,000 water
quality professionals.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Jeremy Grush is an environmental engineer at LimnoTech with expertise in surface water hydrodynamics and water quality. His project work has included development and application of a variety of hydrodynamic models of widely varying complexity that have been used for various purposes such as developing conceptual site models of hydrodynamics and sediment transport, estimating the footprint of a suspended solids release into a large waterbody, aiding in the design of a new floodway in Toronto, assessing receiving water quality, and supporting remedial investigations in riverine and estuarine systems. Jeremy's current responsibilities include model design and application, surface water quality assessments, data analysis and interpretation, and report writing.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Maureen Habarth is a graduate of Michigan Technological University with Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Engineering. Her areas of focus included surface water quality, hydrology, and sustainability. Her graduate studies emphasized hydrologic watershed modeling and streamflow behavior and statistics. Since joining LimnoTech in 2008, Maureen’s project experience has included the development and application of several watershed (SWMM, HEC-HMS), water quality (WASP), and hydrodynamic (EFDC, FEQ, HEC-RAS) models in support of CSO LTCPs and watershed and surface water quality management programs, validation of wet weather receiving water monitoring data, and green infrastructure feasibility and modeling. She is also trilingual and has been able to employ her translation skills for projects in Spanish-speaking countries.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Joseph Helfand is a senior project engineer whose expertise is in environmental engineering and project management of modeling and computer simulation of streams, lakes, estuaries, sediments, groundwater and collection systems for toxic and conventional pollutants. He has contributed to a wide variety of projects that have advanced the state of the art in model development and application, and in the analysis and display of water quality data. He has been a principal contributor in the development of computer programs for various types of water quality modeling, including several developed for the EPA. Joseph also has extensive experience in the statistical analysis of water quality data, often involving support of legal cases.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Daniel Herrema, P.E., is a senior project engineer and project manager with extensive environmental engineering and consulting experience. His responsibilities focus on project management and coordination of remedial and watershed projects. He has designed and managed remedial efforts for numerous sites with contaminated soil and groundwater. This work has been performed under various regulatory frameworks including state leaking underground storage tank (LUST) programs, state hazardous waste programs, RCRA facility closures and corrective actions, CERCLA (Superfund) sites, and voluntary actions. Dan has provided regulatory compliance services to industrial and commercial clients involved in a variety of business sectors. He provides stormwater management services and has prepared dozens of stormwater pollution prevention plans. Dan has demonstrated experience in watershed restoration and implementation of stormwater best management practices (BMPs).
He has also worked on the design of streambank stabilization measures and stormwater detention
retrofit projects.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Scott Hinz is a senior environmental scientist at LimnoTech with extensive experience in developing and applying water quality, hydrologic, and hydrodynamic models to systems throughout the United States. His particular expertise and training are in the areas of water quality and hydrologic assessments of natural systems. Scott is conversant in a wide range of programming languages and computer software. As a Senior Environmental Engineer with LimnoTech, Scott has developed and applied models to evaluate toxic organic chemicals, metals, eutrophication, and dissolved oxygen problems. His major role at LimnoTech is providing advice, support, and technical review of complex water quality modeling applications.
Austin, Texas location
Tel: 512-231-1575
Hans Holmberg, P.E., BCEE, is a senior environmental engineer at LimnoTech with several years of experience serving clients facing complex technical and regulatory challenges related to environmental issues. Hans' experience includes more than 50 projects covering a range of environmental issues. Hans has managed state- and national-level projects, addressing development of appropriate water quality standards, Total Maximum Daily Load implementation, nutrient loadings, wet weather impacts on water quality, and Use Attainability Analyses. Hans has also supported the federal and state agencies in developing policy and technical guidance, and implementing requirements of the Clean Water Act and state regulations.
Minneapolis/St. Paul regional location
Tel: 715-386-4062
Justin Ibershoff, P.E., is a project engineer with expertise in environmental database development, environmental monitoring and modeling, and statistical analysis. He has studied water and sediment quality, hydraulics, and hydrologic issues throughout the United States using modeling tools (HSPF, CORMIX, HEC-RAS, EPANET), spatial/drafting tools (ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Microstation), and programming languages such as VBA and SQL.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Volker Janssen is a civil engineer at LimnoTech in our Washington, D.C. office with specialized experience in hydrology, hydraulics, hydrogeology and GIS. He graduated at the technical university of Braunschweig, Germany. Mr. Janssen has spent significant time with hydrologic and one- and two-dimensional hydraulic modeling. The projects he has worked on include watershed-models and floodplain estimations as well as flood-protection-concepts and sewer studies. He has acted both as a project engineer and project manager.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
Tel: 202-833-9140
Peter Klaver, P.E., is a senior project engineer at LimnoTech's Ann Arbor office, with many years of experience in pollution control issues. He is well-versed in the design, construction and operation of wastewater treatment systems. His experience in the NPDES permitting process includes the application of a variety of regulator-approved models for waste load allocations and other impacts, the preparation of permit applications, and an extensive background in the negotiation of permit limits. His river and stream modeling experience includes one-, two- and three-dimensional hydrodynamic models as well as water quality, sediment transport and particle tracking. Peter's involvement in wet weather issues includes program development support to regulators in CSOs, SSOs, and blending.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Wendy Larson is a senior project scientist with extensive technical and project management experience through a wide variety of project work. Her responsibilities at LimnoTech are currently focused on water sustainability consulting for a range of clients, addressing corporate water stewardship and water footprinting assessments. Over the past 18 years she has also directed several basin-scale studies related to Great Lakes water quality and quantity issues; conducted research directed at improvements to the TMDL process; and managed a range of projects involving ecosystem, conventional, and toxic chemical modeling and analyses. Wendy's varied project experience also includes assessment of contaminated sediment sites, and impacts of aquatic nuisance species on freshwater systems. She brings her strong synthesis and communication skills to every project.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Christian Lastoskie, Ph.D., is a consultant at LimnoTech and a faculty member in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. His research and teaching activities focus on the nexus between energy, water, and the environment. Christian’s interests include novel adsorbents for carbon capture and storage; climate change impacts on sustainable water supplies for power generation and other industries; analysis of the environmental fate of emerging contaminants; and life cycle modeling of energy technologies, including advanced battery systems for transportation and grid support. Christian has expertise in computer simulation ranging from atomistic-scale Monte Carlo methods to field-scale modeling of contaminant transport in aquatic ecosystems. He is presently at LimnoTech while on sabbatical leave from the University of Michigan.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Dan Lautenbach, P.E., is a civil and environmental engineer. Dan has employed his expertise in hydrodynamic modeling, water quality modeling, sediment transport, and stormwater management on a variety of projects. Dan has developed two-dimensional hydrodynamic models on river and estuary systems; namely, developing model domains, calibrating the models, and developing simulations that relate system hydrodynamics to sediments deposited throughout the modeled systems. Dan has developed and applied an innovative stormwater/sewage model that predicts how large storage tunnels will fill during storm events, and how surge waves and transients will propagate through these systems as they fill, to aid in identifying locations where high hydraulic grade lines and air pockets could affect infrastructure. Dan has also developed one-dimensional, unsteady-state flow models of river systems that simulate
river flow for a range of
conditions, and include the operation of controls
such as dams, weirs,
bridges and other structures.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Brian Lord is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist, with several years of experience. His primary area of expertise is using GIS to characterize sediment distribution and modeling remediation scenarios. He also has extensive experience using CAD for generating accurate, readable and information-rich, project-related maps, drawings, and figures. With broad field experience, Brian also has extensive expertise in air, groundwater and soil sampling techniques for environmental site investigations, remediation investigation/feasibility studies, remediation pilot studies, and monitoring programs for permit compliance and remediation system performance.
Tel: 734-332-1200
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John Marr, P.E., is our Executive Vice President for corporate operations and a principal involved in municipal and industrial surface water assessments for NPDES permitting, waste load allocations, TMDLs, CSO, and stormwater issues. John’s experience features over 30 years with LimnoTech working on hundreds of projects and water systems in over two dozen states. His primary engineering expertise is assessment and modeling of water quality, and hydraulic and hydrologic processes of receiving waters, sewers, tunnel hydraulics, and agricultural and urban watersheds. John pioneered the development and use of complex runoff, sewer conveyance, tunnel surge, and water quality models, advancing the confidence in forecasting the costs, benefits and risks of control programs over the full range of environmental conditions and variability.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Richard McCulloch, CPA, is an environmental engineer with LimnoTech. His broad engineering experience includes mathematical modeling, field investigations, and laboratory bioremediation studies. Before his work as an engineer, Ric worked six years as a CPA. At LimnoTech, he uses his accounting and financial experience for economic analyses related to engineering and regulatory projects, including economic benefit of noncompliance evaluations. Ric has experience with a variety of models including hydrologic, hydrodynamic, sediment transport, and water quality. He has applied these models to combined sewer overflow, watershed, contaminated sediment, and groundwater projects.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Penelope Moskus is an environmental scientist and project manager providing watershed management and TMDL expertise to a wide range of clients. She has directed or conducted watershed assessment and planning studies in over 80 watersheds nationwide, including TMDL implementation plans and the nation’s first watershed-based plans to address sewer overflows. She is experienced in all phases of watershed assessment, including modeling, and has written several protocols and guidance documents for watershed assessment and TMDLs. Penelope’s work is currently focused on assessing trends in water resources and assisting clients with water footprinting assessments and water sustainability.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Amy Motzny has a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Applications from Michigan State University. Her principle areas of study were in Geographic Information Sciences, where she gained experience in the fields of spatial information processing, remote sensing technologies, and thematic cartography. Amy is proficient in a number of GIS software programs, including ArcGIS 9.x, ArcInfo, ERDAS Imagine Image Processing Software, and ER Mapper Image Processing. Amy spent a summer in Costa Rica where she conducted research on rural community planning in the developing world. Her research utilized GIS and sustainable planning techniques to provide potential solutions for communities in this region of the world.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Adrienne Nemura, P.E., is a Vice President and manages LimnoTech's services for providing creative solutions for permits and water quality regulations. She has over 25 years of experience evaluating impacts of pollutant sources on watersheds and waterways, is active in several national organizations, and is a frequent speaker at national conferences on water quality issues. Adrienne's work includes NPDES permits, Consent Decrees and Agreed Orders, wet weather discharges, water quality standards, TMDL reviews, and receiving water and collection system monitoring and modeling. Her expertise also includes expert witness services and negotiating agreements over surface water quality issues between local, state and federal entities.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Ryan O'Banion is an environmental scientist with LimnoTech who makes maximum use of the capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS) and research to help clients make informed decisions about water resources. Ryan has worked extensively to show how green infrastructure and best management practices can offset controls on sewer overflows. He also has experience with advanced geospatial analysis in support of watershed modeling. Ryan’s wide-ranging field work has included sampling water and sediment. He has also served in field oversight roles for drilling, sampling, and construction projects. Ryan is a graduate of Duke University with a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and a certificate in Geospatial Analysis.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
Tel: 202-833-9140
Cullen O'Brien, P.E., is a project engineer with LimnoTech. He has extensive experience in the collection of environmental media samples including groundwater, surface water, soil, and sediments. Cullen also conducts surface water monitoring activities which involve the installation and maintenance of remote monitoring instruments. He performs oversight during construction activities and conducts the operation and maintenance of remediation systems. He assists with the production of reports and databases. He uses a computer-aided drafting program and GIS to construct various maps, geologic cross-sections, boring logs, and design drawings.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Gregory Peterson is a Vice President and responsible for emerging environmental issues. Greg has extensive environmental engineering experience at more than 200 sites nationwide. He has managed projects for industrial, legal, and government clients in a variety of technical areas including contaminated sediment management; hazardous waste site assessments; remedial investigations and feasibility studies; RCRA facility investigations and corrective actions; remedial action planning, design, and implementation; hydrogeologic investigations; underground storage tank remediation; site assessments for property transfers; regulatory compliance; permit development and review; contaminant fate and transport modeling; exposure and risk assessment; and nonpoint source assessment.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Todd Redder, P.E., is a senior environmental and water resources engineer whose principal expertise is the development and application of mathematical models for the evaluation of hydrodynamics, water quality, sediment transport, contaminant fate and transport, and ecosystem response in watersheds, rivers, lakes, and estuarine systems. He has served as the technical lead on numerous projects, including a wide range of complex, multi-dimensional modeling applications. Todd has also applied his computer programming and database skills to develop an extensive collection of modeling and data analysis tools and database/GIS applications for both internal use and client use, and he serves as a company-wide resource for modeling and computer programming needs.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Daniel Rucinski is an environmental engineer with LimnoTech with expertise in the development and application of water quality models. Dan has experience developing models for the evaluation of eutrophication processes, hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and ecosystem responses in river, lake, and estuarine systems. As a visiting engineer at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand, he recently applied his expertise in modeling by developing hydrodynamic models for several applications in diverse situations.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Danielle Rutt has supported a variety of environmental projects since joining LimnoTech in 2001. Her expertise is in researching water quality standards and permit requirements, providing logistical support for meetings, and organizing and tracking comments for EPA regulations. Danielle’s most recent experience includes assisting with NPDES permit development for U.S. EPA Region 10, as well as assisting with physical habitat stream assessments and wet weather sampling. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the University of Tulsa and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from George Mason University.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
Tel: 202-833-9140
Jason Rutyna, P.E., is an environmental engineer with LimnoTech. Jason has a Master's of Science in Civil Engineering at Wayne State University with a focus in water resources and environmental engineering. Jason has experience with providing clients with scientific and engineering analyses in a variety of projects that involve hydrodynamic/hydraulic models, hydraulic transient/pneumatic models, water quality models, TMDL modeling and analysis, mixing zone modeling, water quality data analysis, and three-dimensional geostatistical interpolations. Jason also has the ability to post-process field data from the ADCP to produce summary statistics and graphics of flows and velocities. Jason is also skilled in developing client-deliverable databases and compiling water quality, biological, habitat, continuous monitoring, meteorological, and point source data.
Tel: 734-332-1200
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Tim Schmitt has experience in multiple areas of wet weather, wastewater, and water studies, including NPDES permitting, combined sewer overflow and stormwater management, monitoring and Best Management Practices, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act compliance, and water and wastewater security. He also has specialized experience in experimental design, data analysis and data management. Tim has expertise in technology transfer, and has authored more than a dozen fact sheets on wastewater, CSO, and stormwater technologies and management techniques for EPA. Mr. Schmitt has also supported large data collection and interpretation projects for EPA, including efforts for the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey, the national CSO program, and the Clean Water Act Indian Set-Aside Program. Tim has also supported data collection, interpretation, and writing for several Reports to Congress.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
Tel: 202-833-9140
Pranesh Selvendiran, Ph.D., has been an Environmental Engineer with LimnoTech since 2008. Pranesh’s engineering experience includes watershed modeling and assessment, evaluation of mercury dynamics, contaminant fate and transport assessments, water footprinting and hydrodynamics. Pranesh has been responsible for development and application of watershed and hydrodynamic models for various environmental investigations. Pranesh also has extensive experience in data analysis and interpretation, database management and developing technical reports. Pranesh has been involved in mercury research with a focus on wetland and lake ecosystems. His research findings have been published in various peer-reviewed scientific journals. Pranesh received his doctorate in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Steve Skripnik, P.E., has a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan. Steve’s experience includes data analysis, model development, and stakeholder coordination for projects in watershed planning, stormwater quality and conveyance, and water supply planning. Steve has experience using water modeling tools such as SWMM, InfoWorks, H2OMAP, and WARMF. Steve also has extensive experience in spatial data management and analysis, including using GIS to analyze and develop land use, water quality, and hydrologic data, in addition to creating project visualization tools.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Tad Slawecki is a senior engineer with background in computer engineering and environmental health sciences, both contributing to his expertise in the use of appropriate information technology in environmental resource management. Tad's project experience focuses on the application of database tools, GIS, models, and visualization to move from data analysis and evaluation to decision-making in a rigorous and defensible manner. Current work includes the development and application of a watershed-focused water quality risk model for optimization of wet weather management strategies, and design and implementation of a GIS-based viewer of detailed habitat and fisheries data to support use attainability analyses. Tad chairs the Water Environment Federation's Watershed Management Committee.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Michael Sullivan is a Vice President and Manager of LimnoTech's Office in Washington, D.C. Mike is the liaison with federal agencies and other LimnoTech clients in the Mid-Atlantic region. He has over 30 years of experience in a wide variety of urban hydrology, water quality, and related environmental and water resource management areas. His principal area of expertise is evaluation and management of point and nonpoint sources of pollution and their impact on receiving waters. He has directed and participated in numerous water quality investigations of rivers, lakes and estuaries. Mike has managed watershed, CSO, SSO, stormwater, WWTP, and source water assessments studies, including specialized studies to support NPDES requirements for permittees.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
Tel: 202-833-9140
Kathy Sweet, QEP, has been an Environmental Scientist with LimnoTech since 1991. Her work focuses primarily on waste load allocations, effluent permitting for point sources, and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) evaluations. Kathy performs water quality-based effluent limit evaluations for both regulatory agencies and regulated communities, with emphasis on NPDES permit evaluations and negotiations for regulated discharges. She has conducted more than 80 NPDES permit reviews, focusing primarily on evaluating effluent limits for toxics; assessing water quality criteria and bioavailability issues; developing dissolved metal translators; and advocating less stringent yet scientifically sound limitations. Kathy has also evaluated the effects of stormwater and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) on water quality and has conducted more than a dozen TMDL evaluations.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Hua Tao, Ph.D., graduated from Tufts University with a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. Before receiving his degree, he acquired valuable relevant experience working on various environmental engineering projects in China. Dr. Tao’s areas of specialization include surface water quality modeling, model calibration, sensitivity and uncertainty analyses, and proficiency in GIS software applications. He also co-authored the EPA-sponsored river and stream water quality model QUAL2K. Dr. Tao is proficient in a number of types of software, including FORTRAN 90/95, Visual Basic 6, VBA, C++, and Matlab. He has also completed EPA BASIN/TMDL specialized training.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Timothy Towey, P.E., is an environmental engineer with experience in numerous aspects of environmental engineering. Tim's engineering experience includes the development and application of water-quality models, contaminated sediment management, multivariate statistical analysis, and environmental data management. In addition to his technical skills, he is also experienced in curricula development, workshop supervision, advisory committee coordination, and project management related to a variety of environmental topics.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Carrie Turner, P.E., is a senior project engineer specializing in developing affordable and sustainable solutions for wet weather pollution-related issues. She has many years of experience evaluating impacts of pollutant sources on watersheds and in waterways using innovative data and modeling analyses that build on her extensive work in environmental chemistry before joining LimnoTech. Carrie’s technical expertise includes developing and applying models to support combined sewer overflow evaluations, total maximum daily load assessments, contaminated sediments, waste load allocations, and watershed characterizations. She also has extensive experience with data management and analyses, using her chemistry background to design and implement sampling programs, conduct laboratory audits, validate data, write Quality Assurance Project Plans, and develop customized databases and data management frameworks that integrate spatial, physical and chemical data by
linking them with GIS systems for analysis and visualization.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Brad Udvardy, P.E., is a project engineer with LimnoTech. He is an experienced user of DHI's MIKE URBAN package of hydrologic and hydraulic models, including its Real-Time Control module for modeling dynamic controls. He has experience with the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM), and has been involved with several SWMM-based modeling efforts. His participation in various aspects of modeling efforts include rainfall analysis, model calibration and validation, flooding studies, peak flow analysis, and capacity assurance studies. Brad has supported integration of modeling efforts with GIS technology. He has also managed NPDES permit databases, and has provided regular reports on the status of various permit data sets.
Mid-Atlantic regional office
Tel: 202-833-9140
Edward Verhamme is a Project Engineer with LimnoTech and has been involved on a variety of water quality projects including hydrodynamic modeling (EFDC, HEC-RAS, and FEQ) and application of existing water quality models (RCA, LOTOX2, Bathtub, and WASP) since joining the firm in June 2005. He has had a significant role in numerous LimnoTech projects involving literature reviews, data analysis, data collection, development of various models, database development, and a variety of field engineering tasks.
Tel: 734-332-1200
R. Scott Wade is a planner and the geographic information systems (GIS) manager at LimnoTech. He has over 30 years of experience as a geographer, planner, and cartographer, including extensive experience applying GIS for environmental, transportation, and research projects. Scott inventories and analyzes watershed features, including stream networks, pollutant sources, topography, and land use, to help clients gain an understanding of watershed-wide impacts on water bodies. He helps clients apply water quality models to the land and water management process, as they work to create and implement plans to reach surface water quality goals. He uses the power of GIS to support LimnoTech’s nationally recognized modeling of watersheds, surface waters, and sediments.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Laura Weintraub, P.E., is a senior project engineer with over 10 years of experience in hydrologic analysis, water quality modeling and watershed management. Her work includes managing and executing water resources and water quality analyses, as well as the development of decision support systems for public, private, and research clients. Her project experience has involved TMDL development, watershed planning, source water protection, loading analyses, and stormwater management. She is experienced in responding to the needs of stakeholders by using data, modeling tools, and sound science to identify water quality issues, develop potential management alternatives, and evaluate the feasibility and benefit of various options.
Tel: 734-332-1200
Cathy Whiting is a senior project engineer and project manager with more than 20 years of environmental engineering and consulting experience. Her recent area of focus is the design and implementation of field sampling plans. Cathy experience includes the management of numerous large surface water investigations. These projects have involved oversight and coordination of project activities including data review and display, model selection, data evaluation and analysis, sampling plan preparation and implementation. She also has experience in environmental remediation, including site investigation, feasibility analysis, remedial technology selection, system design, and site management.
Tel: 734-332-1200
John R. Wolfe, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, is a Vice President at LimnoTech, managing corporate efforts to expand scientific and technical capacity through innovation and training. He has managed projects involving fate and transport of contaminants, site investigation, discharge to surface waters under NPDES and industrial pretreatment permits, effects of CSOs on water quality, energy-water issues, and environmental economics. He has extensive expertise in surface water quality modeling, including contaminated sediments, wastewater treatment, and permitting; and groundwater protection, and is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer in the specialty area of Hazardous Waste Management. Prior to his career in engineering, John worked for 13 years as an economist, including 11 years as a university professor. He served as a member of the Committee on Sediment Dredging at Superfund Megasites of the National Research Council of the National Academies.
Tel: 734-332-1200
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