Ralph is a marketer, project manager, producer, director, actor, writer, and business/team leader. He specializes in video production, online/e-learning/CBT production, and media/social network marketing. His background is in video and television production, and he has produced and directed material that has been broadcast on MTV, FOX, The Travel Channel, The Learning Channel, and The Discovery Channel.

Ralph leads NWETC's content development and creation, producing all video productions and e-learning modules as well as overseeing social media presence and outreach.

Stefan Freelan is a GIS Specialist and Instructor at Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University. In addition to teaching GIS, Cartography and GPS he assists with academic research projects and is Co-Director of the Institute for Spatial Information and Analysis. He has a MS in Geography and a BA in Environmental Ethics. Prior to joining to WWU he was a GIS Analyst as a private consultant and with local Planning Departments.

Mr. Gouguet is an ecological risk assessor and restoration expert with more than 29 years’ experience in natural resource damage assessment (NRDA). As a multi-disciplinary expert, Mr. Gouguet has led integrated remediation and restoration planning efforts within the EPA’s Superfund program and for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and state-lead sites in Texas, Louisiana, Delaware, and Oregon. During his career, he has been involved in cleanup and restoration efforts at approximately 85 hazardous waste sites and responded to more than 10 chemical or oil spills.

Mr. Haddad is a vice president for Haley and Aldrich where he is involved in vapor intrusion investigations, remediation and modeling, risk assessments, planning and strategy, development and implementation of RI/FS programs, engineering designs, hydrogeological activities, computer modeling, and operation and maintenance programs. He led an unprecedented, and perhaps largest, indoor air investigation at a Superfund site. His work established a benchmark for other EPA sites. Mr.

Dr. Harclerode is an environmental scientist with 11.5 years of experience in investigation and characterization of hazardous waste sites.  As a Project Manager, she is experienced in designing and managing remedial investigations with multi-disciplined teams.  In addition, she specializes in the development and application of integrated assessment approaches to comprehensively define sustainability objectives and evaluate environmental, social, and economic impacts of remediation and wastewater activities.

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Nate Holloway will be leading Day 2 of the CESCL class, both in the classroom and the field trip. Nate has over 8 years of experience in the allied fields of environmental science, construction, and engineering; particularly as they relate to water treatment, environmental remediation, and project management. He has provided Certified Erosion and Sediment Control consulting, training, and oversight on a number of high profile projects throughout Washington State and other areas of the country. Nate has a B.S.

Dr. Johns is an aquatic scientist who specializes in aquatic ecological risk assessments (ERAs), particularly those associated with contaminated sediment. The focus of his 30 years of professional experience has been on the effects of toxic pollutants on aquatic organisms. Dr. Johns is responsible for the management of large, multi-task, multi-disciplinary environmental investigations, including remedial investigation/feasibility studies (RI/FSs) and natural resource damage assessments (NRDAs).

Dr. Anna Sophia Knox is a Principal Scientist at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) in Aiken, SC where she conducts research on the remediation of contaminated sediments and soils and development of new materials for the stabilization of contaminants. She has a Ph.D. (1993) in Agronomy and Soil Science and has been a certified Professional Soil Scientist by the Soil Science Society of America since 12/20/99. Dr.

Joe Maroney is the Director of Fishery and Water Resources for Kalispel Tribe of Indians and has 20 years experience as a fisheries biologist. He has a working knowledge of Columbia Basin resource management issues with regard to Federal Columbia River Power System and FERC projects and its impact on anadromous and resident fish resources. He also has extensive experience with resident fish issues throughout the Columbia Basin. His background also includes electrofishing and applying rotenone to streams to remove non-native brook trout, as well as removing northern pike.

Dr. Merz is a registered scientist with the American Fisheries Society. He has over 20 years of experience working with aquatic resources and has been the principal scientist on several salmonid habitat restoration programs in the California Central Valley. He has taught environmental science, salmon biology and restoration courses for the past fourteen years.

Robert Mutch has more than forty years of experience in hydrogeology, groundwater and contaminant fate and transport modeling, environmental forensics, and remediation engineering. His areas of specialization include numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport, fate, and reaction during in situ treatment and monitored natural attenuation, aquifer testing, DNAPL behavior, fractured rock hydrogeology, aerial photographic interpretation, and groundwater-related natural resource damages.  Mr.

Mr. O’Brien (MS, Indiana Univ., Mathematics) is a member of the adjunct faculty at Washington State University Tri-Cities teaching courses in mathematics and statistics and performing consulting for selective clients.  He has over 30 years of experience in applied statistics and research in environmental statistics and engineering. He has been a senior level scientist at Shaw Environmental, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the US EPA, the US Census Bureau,  and performing  outside consulting work.

Ioana Petrisor, Ph.D, has over 18 years of experience as a biochemist, specializing in environmental forensics. She has up-to-date knowledge and has applied a variety of forensics methods to track the source and age-date contaminants in soil and water. She identified and applied cutting-edge investigative techniques such as dendroecology, which uses tree rings to detect age-date contamination and its release into soil and water, even after site mitigation. Dr. Petrisor is the Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Forensics Journal, providing a scientific lead of the Journal.