Ms. Patience Whitten
Practice Leader in the EIS/EIA/Planning group
Ms. Whitten has 14 years’ experience in developing, managing, and directing environmental assessment and impact programs.
—Directed environmental appraisals with industrial, energy, roadway transportation, port development, airport, tourism, and aquaculture clients. Ms. Whitten can be contacted at (781) 895-4863, whittenp@battelle.org.

Mr. Philip Beall
Senior Project Manager
Mr. Beall has over 15 years’ national and international consulting for the oil and gas industry.
—Eleven 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. Mr. Beall can be contacted at (713) 228-8955, beallp@battelle.org.

Dr. Paul Boehm
Vice President
Dr. Boehm is a respected authority in petroleum chemistry, produced waters, and drilling mud chemistry and related environmental fates issues and has directed EIAs and baseline studies including:
—Designing four-nation EIA programs for the West African Gas Pipeline for Chevron-led consortium, including extensive technology transfer effort. Dr. Boehm can be contacted at (781) 895-4862, boehmp@battelle.org

Dr. Jerry Neff
Senior Research Leader
Dr. Neff is a world expert in the environmental impacts and impact predictions related to offshore oil and gas developments.
—Advised the international operators and Petrobras in development of oil and gas impact studies in the Campos Basin, Brazil. Dr. Neff can be contacted at (781) 952-5229, neffjm@battelle.org.

Ms. Cynda Maxon
Principal Research Scientist

Ms. Maxon has over 15 years of experience in program management, environmental chemistry, data interpretation, and scientific study design.
—Program Manager for ExxonMobil five-year, multi-disciplinary environmental baseline study in the South Caspian Sea. Ms. Maxon can be contacted at (760) 476-1415, maxonc-c@battelle.org.

Mr. John Hardin
Principal Research Scientist
Mr. Hardin has 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.
— Extensive program management experience for environmental baseline surveys for major oil and gas companies. Mr. Hardin can be contacted at (760) 476-1415, hardinj@battelle.org.

• United States Army Corps of Engineers, Boston, Massachusetts: Provided NEPA expertise, technical coordination, for one of the largest dredging projects in New England with significant issues surrounding the appropriate disposal of contaminated dredged material.
• Chevron, Escravos region, Niger Delta, Nigeria and Cabinda, Angola: Conducted two environmental baseline surveys—wet and dry seasons—to characterize nearshore environment to assist in impact predictions
• Conducted EIAs for seismic and exploration activities in offshore Trinidad and Brazil.
• Oil industry and the U.S. Federal Government: Performed extensive research on the aquatic environmental fate and effects of heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons from offshore drilling and production operations, clean ballast water discharges from tankers, and from major oil spills.
• ExxonMobil, South Caspian Sea: Managed a large five-year multi-disciplinary study. Data was used to document a comprehensive environmental baseline for the region, where pre- and post-drilling effects were quantified.