Battelle’s Coastal Resources, Environmental Management and Safety (CREMS) Division is pleased to announce the addition of nine recognized experts to its Seattle Office. The new group focuses on water resources services adding significant capabilities in water resources modeling, water and natural resources management, and NEPA. The group brings strong expertise in the management and evaluation of river, watershed and coastal system processes through the application of hydrologic, hydrodynamic, and hydraulic models. The business areas they serve include dam and river system management, hydroelectric project relicensing, watershed and coastal zone management, stormwater management, water quality and sediment transport evaluations. Several members of the group also have in-depth experience in natural resources management services ranging from large-scale landscape assessments for forest health initiatives to wetland mitigation banking. Other members have significant experience in the energy sector, with services ranging from NPDES permitting support for refineries and power plants to aesthetic evaluations of new transmission line and pipeline developments.

We are pleased to announce the following individuals who have joined the CREMS Seattle office at 4500 Sand Point Way, Seattle, WA 98011:

David Hanson
Mr. Hanson has over 25 years’ experience in the development and management of water and natural resource programs as well as marketing and project management. Mr. Hanson has a wide range of project management experience for commercial and government clients in the technical, regulatory, and policy aspects of water resource management and natural resource management throughout the United States. Mr. Hanson can be reached at (206) 528-3050, hansond@battelle.org.

Lon Hachmeister
Mr. Hachmeister, a physical oceanographer, has devoted almost three decades to the fields of water and natural resources studying marine, estuarine, and riverine processes and the interaction between biological systems and their surrounding physical environments. His current areas of practice include water basin planning, management and restoration; coastal and estuarine process studies; and sustainable natural resources management. Mr. Hachmeister can be reached at (206) 528-3051, hachmeisterl@battelle.org.

Tarang Khangaonkar
Dr. Khangaonkar is a recognized expert in numerical modeling studies related to water quality, hydrodynamics, sediment transport, and fate and transport analysis. He has 16 years’ experience with various types of models capable of circulation, toxics fate and transport, and water quality kinetics. He leads and provides support to mixing zone and dilution ratio studies providing modeling of near-field and far-field mixing processes for a variety of industries and government entities. Dr. Khangaonkar can be reached at (206) 528-3053, khangaonkart@battelle.org.

Tom Martin
Mr. Martin is a registered civil engineer with 21 years’ experience in water resources assessments within a watershed and ecosystem management context. His areas of expertise are in the fields of hydrology, hydraulics and water quality, and in the practical applications of computer modeling and environmental information systems. He is highly experienced in ground and surface water interactions and conjunctive use issues. Mr. Martin can be reached at (206) 528-3055, martint@battelle.org.

Kirby Gilbert
Mr. Gilbert provides NEPA leadership and support, project management, interdisciplinary team coordination and strategic project services for a variety of water, energy, and natural resource projects. Through 19 years’ experience, Mr. Gilbert has become well versed in coordinating interdisciplinary teams in preparing environmental impact statements (EIS), integrated natural resource plans, feasibility studies, shoreline and coastal zone management plans, and pipeline and hydroelectric licensing studies. Mr. Gilbert can be reached at (206) 528-3054, gilbertk@battelle.org.

Zhaoqing Yang
Dr. Yang has 17 years’ experience in numerical modeling of surface water hydrodynamics and transport processes, as well as coastal physical oceanography and data assimilation techniques. He also has extensive experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling, groundwater modeling, river flood and management analysis, and ocean engineering, such as nonlinear wave dynamics and analysis of wave forcing on offshore structures. Dr. Yang can be reached at (206) 528-3057, yangz@battelle.org.

Stephen Breithaupt
Dr. Breithaupt has 20 years’ experience with 12 years’ in modeling hydrodynamic, sediment, benthic, and water column interactions. His overall experience includes the modeling of estuarine wetlands, sediment contaminants, reservoir forebays, sediment transport, the fate and transport of conventional and toxic pollutants in the water column, as well as eutrophication constituents and flood events. He also has extensive experience in conducting water quality evaluation studies. Dr. Breithaupt can be reached at (206) 528-3058, breithaupts@battelle.org.

Felix Kristanovich
Dr. Kristanovich is a senior hydrologist and registered civil engineer specializing in watershed analysis, water quality monitoring, developing master storm-drain plans, and design and implementation of river restoration projects. Over his 16 years of experience, he has overseen and conducted a variety of projects in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling. Dr. Kristanovich has designed and implemented several streamflow stabilization projects, using biotechnical erosion protection measures. Dr. Kristanovich can be reached at (206) 528-3061, kristanovichf@battelle.org.

Elizabeth Roy
Ms. Roy, a registered environmental engineer, has over 7 years’ experience in environmental engineering and water resources engineering. She specializes in physical and numerical modeling of hydraulic and hydrologic systems, including rivers, reservoirs, pump stations, wastewater treatment plants, and water supply systems. Her environmental engineering experience includes chemical fate and transport modeling, landfill design, stormwater management, flood protection, fish habitat improvement, and water quality. Ms. Roy can be reached at (206) 528-3059, roye@battelle.org.