| | Cherri Adair, US EPA
919 Kerr Research Drive
Ada, OK 74820
Tel: 580-436-8969
Email: adair.cherri@epa.gov
Cherri Adair is an Environmental Scientist in the US EPA Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Laboratory, Ground Water and Ecosystem Restoration Division (GWERD), in Ada, OK. Her research areas are monitored natural attenuation, fuel oxygenates, and biofuels. She has conducted field and microcosm studies to determine the biological fate of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX compounds), methyl tertiary butyl ethylene, tertiary butyl alcohol, ethanol, other fuel oxygenates, and chlorinated solvents in contaminated aquifers. Currently, she is conducting microcosm studies to determine the biological fate of biodiesel and other proposed renewable fuel sources in groundwater.
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| | Khan Adams, Great American Specialty E&S/Kansas 3rd Party Plan
301 E. 4th St., Suite 25-S
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Tel: 513-763-7134
Email: kladams@gaic.com
Speaker
Khan Adams manages underground storage tank claims for Great American Specialty E&S Insurance, a national insurance carrier providing coverage for USTs since 1989. Great American is the designated carrier for the Kansas 3rd Party Insurance Plan and serves as the TPA for Tank Owner Members Insurance Company. He has 20 years of experience in the insurance industry having worked in all facets of delivering insurance to petroleum marketers including claims, underwriting and loss prevention. He graduated with a BS degree in Business Management from Brigham Young University. He has an Associate in Claims (AIC) designation and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation from The Institutes. |
| | Suzan Arfman, NMED/PSTB
5500 San Antonio Road NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109
Tel: 505-222-9527
Email: suzan.arfman@state.nm.us
Speaker
After 20 years with American Airlines, Suzan Arfman decided it was past time to do something new. She went back to school earning a degree in Geographic Information Systems from Central New Mexico Community College. After a brief 6 week retirement the New Mexico Environment Department called and she answered. From an intern, to a permanent temp, to a full-time employee, and now a Geographic Information Systems Analyst working almost exclusively for the New Mexico Environment Department/Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau (PSTB) since 2005.
While with the PSTB an EPA Region 6 project has been her main focus. GISST, the Geographic Information Systems Screening Tool, is an environmental assessment identification and prioritization tool developed to provide a systematic approach to determine cumulative impacts in making environmentally sound decisions. GISST has been modified to evaluate petroleum facilities in New Mexico on their potential to leak and the jeopardy such a leak could cause the public and the environment. She has worked closely with the Petroleum Inspectors and Program Managers to ensure an accurate analysis is achieved.
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| | William Benni, Improved Analysis through Modeling
20 Woodridge Dr.
Christiansburg, VA 24073
Tel: 540-394-3236
Email: wbenni@iatm-llc.com
Speaker
William Benni is the founder of Improved Analysis through Modeling, located in Christiansburg Virginia. He was graduated with highest honors from Rutgers University with a degree in chemical engineering and has completed his fourth year in the PhD. Program at Virginia Tech. He has developed the Benni Source Modeling Approach over the past 19 years and applied it to numerous LNAPL and DNAPL sources at both small retail gas stations and large Superfund sites. The Approach has been verified with over $1,000,000 in field investigations.
Several environmental protection agencies have requested presentations of the tools discussed today. Currently, his work focuses on applying the Approach to monitoring the progress of thermal remediation projects, finding underlying causes at UST problem sites and providing expert testimony.
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| | Dan Blake, MobileWright Solutions, Inc.
30 Wing Road
Lynnfield, MA 01940
Tel: 781-968-5245
Email: dblake@mobilewright.com
Speaker
Dan Blake is a software engineer who has focused on mobile applications for the past 10 years. He is currently the president and founder of MobileWright Solutions. Over the past several years, MobileWright has developed the UST Inspector software program which is helping to streamline and improve the inspection process at several UST programs (NH DES, CT DEP, ID DEQ, NC DENR, VI DPNR, EPA UST Section in Region 2, and Titan Management Group). He is continuing to working with state inspection programs to improve the UST Inspector application. He received a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University in 1991. |
| | Ryan Breaux, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
5425 Polk Ave, Suite H
Houston, TX 77023
Tel: 713-767-3716
Email: ryan.breaux@tceq.texas.gov
Speaker
Ryan Breaux is a Petroleum Storage Tank (PST) and Stage II Vapor Recovery (ST II) Investigator in the Houston Region Office for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). He received a Bachelors of Science Degree in Wildlife Ecology and Management from Texas A&M University in 2004, and is completing a Masters of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Houston – Clear Lake. He has experience working in the oil and gas industry in South Texas prior to accepting employment with the TCEQ in 2009. He serves on several programmatic committees and workgroups and participated in database development to plan and track investigations of 4000 PST facilities in the Houston Region and over 16,000 statewide. |
| | Samuel Broussard, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
111 New Center Drive
Lafayette, LA 70508
Tel: 337-262-5744
Email: samuel.broussard@la.gov
Speaker
Samuel Broussard works for Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality as a Senior Scientist for the UST and Remediation Division. He develops UST regulations and program guidance, trains UST staff, contractors, owners and operators on UST compliance issues, and is the LDEQ contact for all Energy Policy Act requirements. He is also serving as one of the Louisiana State On-Scene Coordinators for the BP Oil Spill, and worked all major Louisiana hurricanes leading field operations in hazardous materials orphan container recovery. He has a BS degree in Geology from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and worked in the oil and gas industry prior to joining the LDEQ in 1992. He has 10 years of RCRA hazardous waste experience and 12 years of UST experience. |
| | Richard Brown, Missouri Department of Natural Resources
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Tel: 573-526-2738
Email: richard.brown@dnr.mo.gov
Speaker
Richard Brown has worked in the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Hazardous Waste Program for over 10 years; 2 years in the Brownfields Voluntary Cleanup Program as a Planner and over 8 years in the Tanks Section. Since 2007, he has worked as an Environmental Specialist in the Tanks Section’s Closure & Technology Unit where he has reviewed over 225 UST closure reports and has performed over 150 UST closure inspections. In 2010, he contributed to the implementation of the Department’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) by providing cleanup oversight to 6 abandoned Missouri UST sites. In June 2006, he was named Hazardous Waste Program’s Employee of the Month.
Previous to working for the State of Missouri, he served as a Director on the Miller County Public Water Supply Board; and as an alderman and police commissioner on the City Council of Lake Ozark, MO. From 1980 to 2001, he managed several businesses in the Lake of the Ozarks area, including 2 years’ operating a grocery store with retail gas operation.
He graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management, a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance/General Business, and is a life-long resident of the State of Missouri.
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| | Leslie Carr, KY DEP
200 Fair Oaks Lane
Frankfort, KY 40601
Tel: 502-564-5981
Email: leslie.carr@ky.gov
Speaker
Leslie Carr is a 1999 graduate of the University of Kentucky with a B.S. in Natural Resource Conservation Management. Her career with Kentucky state government began with the Kentucky National Guard where she was the environmental contact in charge of water, waste, and spills. For the past 10 years, she has worked for the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection in the program areas of water and waste. Since 2008, she has been the Energy Act Coordinator with the Kentucky Underground Storage Tank Branch. She also assists with writing regulations, develops their online training program, assists with program development in the UST Compliance Section, helps train UST field inspectors, and writes/updates handbooks and SOPs. She also represents Kentucky on the ASTSWMO UST Task Force and is the Vice Chair of the ASTSWMO Core Report Workgroup. |
| | Ricky Cathey, TN Division of Underground Storage Tanks
4th FL, L & C Tower
401 Church Street
Nashville, TN 37243-1541
Tel: 615-532-0950
Email: ricky.cathey@tn.gov
Speaker
TN UST Reimbursement Database Programmer;
8 years TN-UST, Remediation;
16 years Analytical Chemist, TN State Env. Lab
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| | Randy Chapman, VA DEQ
13901 Crown Court
Woodbridge, VA 22193
Tel: 703-583-3816
Email: randy.chapman@deq.virginia.gov
Speaker
Mr. Chapman received his Bachelor of Science degree from Clemson University in 1988 and attended graduate school at the University of South Carolina. In 1990, he was hired by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) UST Program. In 1993, he was hired by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) as a UST remediation geologist. He is currently a Remediation Program Leader in the DEQ Northern Regional Office. Over the years he has directly managed hundreds of UST and AST petroleum release investigations, assessments, and corrective actions, ranging from simple home heating oil releases to large bulk storage terminal closures. He has also presented numerous case studies at EPA Region 3 and National LUST Conferences. |
| | Aaron Clare, MODNR
1730 E. Elm Street
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Tel: 573-526-6659
Email: aaron.clare@dnr.mo.gov
Speaker
Aaron Clare has been an Environmental Specialist with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources since September 2008. He is a Remediation Project Manager in the Tanks Section, overseeing petroleum tank cleanup projects. Prior to working for the Department, he was a Landscaping Foreman and licensed Arborist in Lincoln, NE. He received his Bachelors of Science degree in Horticulture Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in May 2007. |
| | George Devaull, Shell Oil
3333 Highway Six South
Houston, Texas 77082
Tel: 281-544-7430
Email: george.devaull@shell.com
Speaker
George E. DeVaull, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant at Shell Global Solutions, with experience in applied methods of measuring, estimating, and modeling chemical fate and transport in the environment. He has developed several methods for modeling and parameterizing soil vapor emissions, including vapor intrusion to indoor air, and has also developed and applied varied risk assessment methods in site remediation decisions. |
| | Chris Doll, SC DHEC
2600 Bull Street
Columbia, SC 29201
Tel: 803-896-6585
Email: dollcs@dhec.sc.gov
Speaker
Chris Doll is a Program Manager for the SCDHEC Underground Storage Tank Management Division. He manages the Assessment Section and is responsible for oversight of investigations at 1,029 LUST sites across the State of South Carolina. He was responsible for drafting procurement procedures and bidding documents for competitive bidding of pay for performance LUST assessments and cleanups. More recently, he has completed drafting and implementation of South Carolina’s Quality Assurance Program Plan for LUST investigations and cleanups. He has been with SCDHEC since February 1988 and has been a practicing professional geologist for 27 years. |
| | Ray Faliskie, EPA Region 8
1595 Wynkoop Street
MC: 8P-R
Denver, Colorado 80202
Tel: 303-312-6124
Email: faliskie.raymond@epa.gov
Speaker
Ray Faliskie is an Environmental Scientist with EPA’s Underground Storage Tank (UST) Program in Region 8. He has over 23 years of experience conducting site assessment and remedial activities at petroleum releases of which the past 8 have been with the EPA UST Program. He holds a Master’s degree in Geology from Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas and a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona |
| | Ron Falta, Clemson University
Brackett Hall
Room 340C
Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0919
Tel: 864-656-0125
Email: faltar@clemson.edu
Ron Falta is a Professor of Geology and Environmental Engineering at Clemson University. He received his BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from Auburn University, and his PhD degree in Mineral Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. He teaches and performs research in the area of contaminant transport and remediation, focusing on problems involving LNAPLs and DNAPLs. He was an author of the DOE T2VOC computer model for simulating thermal remediation of sites contaminated with NAPLs, and he has worked extensively with the leaded gasoline additives EDB and 1,2-DCA. He is also a developer of the EPA REMChlor and REMFuel models for simulating groundwater source and plume remediation for sites contaminated with chlorinated solvents and hydrocarbon fuels.
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| | Allison Forrest, CT Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection
79 Elm Street
Hartford, CT 06106-5127
Tel: 860-424-3411
Email: allison.forrest@ct.gov
Poster Presenter
Allison Forrest has been an Environmental Analyst with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s (DEEP) Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Coordination Program since 2008. Her responsibilities include maintaining the DEEP's Public Record LUST Database and evaluating the performance of LUST assessments and cleanups. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Geology and Geological Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI and a Master’s degree in Oceanography from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett, RI. |
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