Ken S.

Experience

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  Desert Research Institute

  Aug 1980 - May 1982

  Graduate Research Fellow

  Assisted professors, staff, and fellow graduate students with field services supporting ongoing research. Coordinated elements of a periodic water quality monitoring program along the Truckee River from its origin at Lake Tahoe to its terminus at Pyramid Lake. Evaluated stream flow and water quality effects of thermal water discharges to surface water.

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  CH2M HILL

  Sept 1983 - Nov 2016

  Provided contaminated site management, remediation, and revitalization consulting services to clients in North America, Europe, South America, and Polynesia/Micronesia. Evaluated water resource availability for both mainland and island aquifers. Served as Global Site Characterization Technology Lead and Western United States Site Management Practice Lead. Specialized experience with merger & acquisition support; site closure negotiations; state cleanup programs; CERCLA; and both permitting and corrective action under RCRA. Services also included evaluating the effects of geothermal resource development on shallower, non-thermal aquifers, brownfield site redevelopment, groundwater resource development for municipalities and industry, and strategic environmental consulting services to industrial clients and legal counsel. Reduced site management costs to industrial clients between 1996 and 2014 by over $28 million while negotiating approval for environmentally protective, affordable, solutions.Key expertise includes RCRA permitting and corrective action, basalt hydrology, dense, non-aqueous phase liquids, landfill hydrology/closure, and primary aluminum reduction plant characterization and remediation. Show less

  • Principal Hydrogeologist

    Feb 2014 - Nov 2016

  • Senior and Principal Hydrogeologist

    Jun 1992 - Feb 2014

  • Senior Hydrogeologist

    Dec 1989 - Jun 1992

  • Hydrogeologist

    Mar 1986 - Dec 1989

  • Hydrogeologist

    Sept 1983 - Mar 1986
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  Environmental Consultant

  Nov 2016 - Aug 2017

  Consulting Hydrogeologist

  Registered professional geologist focusing on water resources management, CERCLA (Superfund) site investigation, and U.S. state environmental cleanup program negotiation.

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  Haute Géologie LLC

  Sept 2017 - now

  Manager and Hydrogeologist

  Evaluates and resolves environmental liabilities for public and private sector clients and environmental attorneys in a manner consistent with overall business or organizational goals. Registered professional geologist experienced at working with legal counsel and assisting clients with a broad range of challenges, including evaluating water resource availability, surface water and groundwater hydrology, dense and light non-aqueous phase liquids, soil, groundwater, and subaqueous sediment contamination, fractured rock hydrology, unusual environmental contaminants, island and basalt hydrology, aquifer hydraulics, water resource management, and regulatory negotiations. Show less