Battelle Appoints Dean Slocum
as Oil and Gas Manager

Battelle is pleased to announce Mr. Dean Slocum as the new market manager of its Oil and Gas Market segment. In this capacity, Mr. Slocum will lead the efforts in bringing all of Battelle’s capabilities to its current and future oil and gas clients.

Mr. Slocum joined Battelle in 2002 and is a leading international consultant in the areas of environmental health and safety (EHS), sustainable development, and technology management for the energy industry. He has worked closely with senior managers and operating groups of global energy industries over the last 20 years to help them develop and implement innovative solutions to their most complex environmental, social, reputation, and strategic challenges. His accomplishments include helping BP strengthen its license to operate in Colombia amidst environmental and social challenges; leading the development and implementation of a new EHS organization and strategy at Petrobras after a high-profile oil spill; facilitating an industry-wide evaluation and guidance document for API that establishes a platform for oil and gas companies to improve sustainability reporting practices; and directing initial studies, planning and conceptual design of a world-class technology institute for Mexico’s national petroleum institute.

Mr. Slocum received his MPA in public administration/public health from the University of Hartford and his BA in sociology from Bates College. To contact Mr. Dean Slocum, phone (781) 869-1410, or e-mail slocumd@battelle.org.

On June 1, Battelle relocated its Waltham, Massachusetts, office to Lexington, Massachusetts, in order to meet increased staffing and project needs. The new office is located at One Cranberry Hill, 750 Marrett Road, Suite 202, Lexington, Massachusetts, 02421.

The new expanded office space houses Battelle experts with backgrounds in international environmental strategy and management, due diligence, liability management, environmental forensics, transportation, and environmental management information systems.

Battelle’s environmental consulting group in Lexington provides a range of critical services to commercial clients. For oil and gas industry clients, consultants are advising multinational companies on:

• analyzing, tracking, and reporting green house gas emissions
• low environmental-impact technology for exploration and production activities
• assessing environmental impacts of new projects
• remediating site damage from past practices
• building strategy, realigning organizational structure, and strengthening work processes and behaviors to improve business performance.

For the steel industry, Battelle/Lexington experts are providing compliance auditing, environmental litigation, and environmental management system support. Battelle/Lexington staff members have also been retained by major corporations in the aerospace, railroad, steel, and retail industries to conduct insurance cost recovery analyses of their respective portfolios of sites. The goals of these projects are to determine whether these firms can recover on old insurance policies for operations that took place in the past.

For additional information, contact Dr. Bernhard Metzger at (781) 869-1409, metzgerb@battelle.org.

A research team led by Battelle’s Measurement and Data Analysis Sciences product line was recently awarded a $29.5M, five-year Human and Ecological Exposure Monitoring Research (HEEMR) Contract with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL). This is a renewal of a recently completed task-order contract in this area, and continues Battelle’s long relationship with NERL.

The emphasis of the new HEEMR contract will be on providing high-quality technical support to the exposure research field studies conducted by NERL’s Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD). The work will include development of statistical surveys and study designs for small-scale pilot and large-scale exposure studies; development of exposure methods, protocols, and survey methods and instruments; recruitment of participants and locations into field monitoring studies; collection of survey questionnaire and time activity pattern data; collection and analysis of multimedia and human biological samples for specific environmental pollutants and metabolites; implementation of appropriate quality assurance (QA) associated with field and laboratory studies; and analysis and reporting of the field study results.

Battelle will lead a diverse group of researchers from RTI International, Harvard University School of Public Health, Great Lakes Environmental Center, along with a small disadvantaged business and two expert consultants, in developing and applying a wide array of assessment tools to problems in human exposure.

For more information, please contact Dr. Sydney Gordon at (614) 424-5278, gordon@battelle.org.

In May 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded Battelle a $10M, five-year contract to continue providing broad risk assessment support to EPA’s National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA). This contract renewal continues Battelle’s relationship with NCEA and underscores the importance that NCEA places on Battelle’s broad base of technical staff, facilities, and equipment to support their risk assessment and regulatory needs. Through this new contract, Battelle will continue to provide support to all three of NCEA’s offices and their various programs. Past key programs of emphasis have included the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), the Dioxin Exposure Initiative, the Exposure Factors handbook, chemical mixtures, and microbial risk.

For more information regarding Battelle’s contracts with NCEA, please contact Dr. Bruce Buxton at (614) 424-4547, buxtonb@battelleorg.