Battelle is pleased to announce Mr. Philip Beall has joined Battelle’s Coastal Resource and Environmental Management Product Line as a Senior Project Manager in the Oil and Gas sector. Based out of Battelle’s Houston, Texas office, Mr. Beall is assisting in the direction and expansion of Battelle’s oil and gas consulting services. Mr. Beall brings over 11 years’ domestic and international experience in environmental management, including environmental impact assessment (EIA) preparation, permitting, and site assessments of pipeline facilities, chemical and petrochemical complexes, remediation and environmental process design. Prior to joining Battelle, Mr. Beall prepared and finalized 12 EIAs for offshore seismic data acquisition and exploratory well activities offshore Trinidad and Brazil, prepared EIAs for two process plants (gas plant and gas to liquid plant) in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, and assisted in the preparation of a Sanitary Protection Zone Development Plan for an international oil company in Kazakhstan. Mr. Beall received a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. He can be contacted at (713) 228-8955, beallp-c@battelle.org.

Battelle is pleased to welcome Mr. John Hardin to Battelle’s Carlsbad, Calif., office. Mr. Hardin joins Battelle’s Coastal Resource and Environmental Management Product Line as a Principal Research Scientist. In this role, Mr. Hardin is leading multi-disciplinary marine assessments and programs, as well as managing field sampling programs. He brings over 20 years of experience in marine ecological research, including sediment quality testing, physical oceanography, marine and freshwater bioassays, coral reef and kelp forest ecology, and fish collection and identification. Prior to joining Battelle, Mr. Hardin managed several major programs that included sediment quality investigations, dredge material permit certifications, NPDES discharge compliance, storm water monitoring, and emergency response to accidental discharges. He has extensive program management experience in directing environmental baseline surveys nationally and internationally for oil and gas companies in remote locations. Mr. Hardin received a bachelor’s in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He can be reached at (760) 476-1415 (ext 106), hardinj@battelle.org.

Battelle welcomes Mr. Charles (Skip) Newton as Senior Research Scientist for Battelle’s Coastal Resource and Environmental Management operations in Carlsbad, California. In this role, Mr. Newton is responsible for the office’s overall program, database management, and biological analysis for local, national, and international marine investigations. Mr. Newton brings over 23 years’ experience and expertise in the field of marine biology, including advanced training in aquatic toxicology and intertidal and benthic ecology. Mr. Newton has served as program manager, lead scientist, and database manager for several international oil and gas exploration programs, including oceanographic and meteorological field surveys for Shell and Chevron International. Locally, Mr. Newton serves as Program Manager for several U.S. Navy SPAWAR programs including the Sinkex deep ocean ecological risk assessment. In addition to his leadership and program experience, Mr. Newton has developed and constructed over 20 different devices for field and laboratory optimization and recording. He received a master’s in biology/zoology/marine ecology from San Diego State University, and a bachelor’s in biology/zoology from California State University, Los Angeles. Mr. Newton can be contacted at (760) 476-1415, newtonf@battelle.org.

The Environmental Technology Commercialization Center (ETC²) is pleased to announce the addition of Charolette Harris to the ETC² team as technical market analyst. In this capacity, Ms. Harris is responsible for assessing the market potential of promising U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-developed technologies and developing market opportunity analyses that provide valuable information for both researchers and prospective industry partners.

Ms. Harris comes to ETC² after eight years with the Polaroid Corporation, most recently as marketing development manager for the Cleveland, Ohio, Commercial Sales Division. She also worked for NCR Corporation’s Systemedia Division in Dayton, Ohio, and Sterling Drug Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Harris holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Cincinnati and is currently a candidate for a master’s of business administration at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

In the ETC² Cincinnati office, Heidi Tessitore has been promoted to the position of business information coordinator. Ms. Tessitore is responsible for building and sustaining systems that track the progress of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) and licensing agreements between EPA researchers and industry partners. She is also responsible for developing information on EPA technologies available for commercialization.

Ms. Tessitore brings a strong background in accounting and information technology to the job and has proven herself a valuable asset to ETC² operations. She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the University of Cincinnati.

ETC² provides technology transfer services for the EPA. For more information, please visit www.etc2.org.

Gary E. Johnson, Fisheries Biologist, returns to Battelle as a Senior Research Scientist with expertise in endangered salmonids, hydroacoustics, and juvenile salmon migration. Mr. Johnson has over 18 years’ experience in using hydroacoustics to study fish passage at dams and has performed hydroacoustic evaluations at power plants across the nation. He served as a fisheries biologist for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) before being hired at Battelle in 1994, where his work focused on the prototype surface flow bypass at Lower Granite Dam.

Mr. Johnson will report to the Battelle Marine Sciences Laboratory (MSL) in Sequim, Washington, but for the first year, will be working at the Battle Ground, Washington, office in close collaboration with Battelle staff in Portland, Oregon, and Richland, Washington. Mr. Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree in marine biology and in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in biological oceanography from Oregon State University. Mr. Johnson can be reached at (509) 373-9020, Gary.Johnson@pnl.gov.