Dr. Paul Boehm
Vice President
Dr. Boehm has 25 years’ experience in consulting on environmental issues related to petroleum exploration and production.
—Areas of expertise include: environmental impact assessment (EIA), environmental baseline studies (EBS), environmental and petroleum chemistry, ecological risk assessment. Dr. Boehm can be reached at (781) 895-4862, boehmp@battelle.org

Dr. Jerry Neff
Senior Research Leader
Dr. Neff is an internationally recognized authority on the fate and effects of petroleum hydrocarbons, oil well drilling fluids, and produced waters in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments.
—Areas of expertise include: environmental impact assessment (EIA), risk assessment and natural resource damage assessment (NRDA). Dr. Neff can be reached at (781) 952-5229, neffjm@battelle.org.

Mr. Philip Beall
Senior Project Manager
Mr. Beall has over 15 years of national and international consulting for the oil and gas industry.
—Areas of expertise include: environmental management, permitting, and site assessments of pipeline facilities and chemical and petrochemical complexes. Mr. Beall can be contacted at (713) 228-8955, beallp-c@battelle.org.

Dr. Charles Brandt
Ecology Technical Group Manager
Dr. Brandt is highly experienced in ecological resource compliance, ecological risk assessment, and ecological characterization.
—Areas of expertise include: developing and evaluating habitat-based assessment and restoration methods, developing and applying risk assessment tools, and preparing studies of contaminant uptake and transport in biota. Dr. Brandt can be contacted at (509) 376-5345, charles.brandt@pnl.gov.

Mr. Gregory S. Durell
Senior Research Scientist
Mr. Durell has more than 15 years’ experience in environmental chemistry.
—Areas of expertise include: site contamination assessment, national and regional monitoring programs, off-shore oil exploration monitoring, oil spill monitoring, oil weathering studies, ocean dumping, at-sea incineration, and distribution of organotins in aquatic environments. Mr. Durell can be reached at (781) 952-5233, durell@battelle.org.

Dr. Brian Leis
Research Leader
Dr. Leis has 25 years’ experience in pipeline damage mechanics, including fatigue and fracture analysis, and related degradation due to environmental and thermal effects, in metallic and nonmetallic materials.
—Highly experienced in linear and nonlinear stress and fracture analysis methods and related experimental methods to characterize degradation and fracture in practical settings. Dr. Leis can be reached at (614) 424-4421, leis@battelle.org.

Mr. Tom Thomas
Program Manager
Mr. Thomas’s experience covers pipeline design, field operations, project management and government advocacy on legislative and regulatory initiatives.
—Has in-depth experience in pipeline operations and maintenance. Mr. Thomas can be reached at (614) 424-5632, thomast@battelle.org.

Dr. Tom Bubenik
Program Manager
Dr. Bubenik has 22 years’ experience in project management, inspection of pipelines and offshore structures, and solid mechanics.
—Experienced in experimental, numerical, and analytical projects involving nondestructive evaluations, failure analyses, and pipelines. Dr. Bubenik can be reached at (614) 424-5331, bubenikt@battelle.org.

Dr. Rob Hinchee
Senior Research Leader
Dr. Hinchee has over 15 years’ experience developing and applying technology to assess and remediate contaminated sites.
—Has developed and applied new technologies, including soil gas surveying, soil venting, in situ bioremediation, bioslurping, and TCE cometabolic bioremediation at more than 400 sites throughout Europe and the United States. Dr. Hinchee can be reached at (801) 447-3389, hincheer@battelle.org.

Dr. Augusto Porta
Vice President Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Porta has 33 years’ experience in chemical engineering and physical chemistry.
—Research focuses on the following areas: environmental impact assessment, contaminated soil remediation, bioremediation, industrial emissions abatement, and the organization of environmental monitoring and research laboratories. Dr. Porta can be reached at 41-22-8272727, portaa@battelle.org.

Mr. Donald Gunster
Senior Research Scientist
Mr. Gunster has 11 years’ experience in managing all aspects of large and small environmental assessments, focusing on ecological and human health risk assessments, and designing and implementing multi-disciplinary field investigations.
—Designs and manages multidisciplinary projects combining biological, soil, sediment, and surface water quality assessments to support risk evaluations and risk-based remedial decisions. Mr. Gunster can be reached at (781) 952-5378, gunster@battelle.org.

Dr. Scott Stout
Geochemistry Research Leader
Dr. Stout has 13 years’ experience as an organic geochemist and possesses extensive experience in the characterization and monitoring of petroleum-derived contamination in both marine and terrestrial environments.
—Has worked on over 120 projects investigating the chemical characterization of crude oils and fuels spilled or released from vessels, marine terminals and other storage facilities, and drilling rigs/platforms. Dr. Stout can be reached at (781) 952-5234, stouts@battelle.org.

Dr. Allen Uhler
Senior Environmental Chemist
Dr. Uhler has 15 years’ experience in environmental chemistry.
—Areas of expertise: analysis of petroleum hydrocarbons and other trace organic compounds in waters, soils, and sediments; differentiation of petroleum products in multiple input scenarios; evaluating weathering characteristics of petroleum; and tracking petroleum product transport in complex, contaminated environments. Dr. Uhler can be reached at (781) 952-5225, uhler@battelle.org.

Dr. Walter H. Pearson
Staff Scientist
Dr. Pearson’s primary area of expertise is the study of the effects of pollution and human activities on marine and estuarine environments.
—Research focus: aquatic disposal of dredged materials, the role of chemoreception in the behavior and ecology of marine organisms, and economic impacts to fisheries resulting from disposal activities and oil spills. Dr. Pearson can be reached at (360) 683-4151, pearson@battelle.org.

Dr. Gregory Douglas
Senior Research Scientist
Dr. Douglas is an internationally recognized expert in hydrocarbon fingerprinting and has over 20 years of experience in the field of environmental and forensic chemistry.
—Designs and implements hydrocarbon site assessment and fingerprinting projects concerning complex petroleum and combustion/carbonization product contamination/allocation issues. Dr. Douglas can be reached at (781) 952-5393, douglasg@battelle.org.

Mr. John Brown
Senior Project/Program Manager
Mr. Brown has over 19 years’ of experience as an environmental chemist, focusing on petroleum hydrocarbons in marine and estuarine systems.
—Areas of expertise: design, implementation, and management of complex multidisciplinary studies to monitor and assess the potential impacts of oil and gas exploration, production and development in the marine environment; and analysis and evaluation of petroleum hydrocarbon residues. Mr. Brown can be reached at (781) 895-4847, brownjs@battelle.org.