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Instructors and Course Topics
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One |
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Overview of Contaminated Site Management |
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Canadian
Environmental Law Applicable to Contaminated Sites |
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Health
and Safety at Contaminated Sites |
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Environmental
Data Management |
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Two |
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Environmental Chemistry Made Easy for Site Investigation |
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Principles
of Contaminant Hydrogeology |
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Three |
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Soil Chemistry of Hazardous Materials |
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Soil
and Groundwater Characterization Tools and Techniques |
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Four |
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Sediment Characterization Tools and Techniques |
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Overview
of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment |
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Gareth
Owen is the President of GOwen Environmental
Limited and has spent the last 28 years training other
environmental professionals in the discipline of contaminated
and hazardous waste site management. Mr. Owen has managed
over 600 contaminated sites including site and risk assessments,
remedial plan development and expedited site closures for
sites contaminated with hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents,
heavy metals, and radioactive waste. He has worked on and
provided technical and/or managerial support to clients on
over 3,700 sites worldwide. He has managed and provided program
and project support on contaminated site investigations and
remediation for soil, water, and sediment in every jurisdiction
and at every level of government in the provinces and territories
of Canada, and advised private and public sector clients on
similar issues worldwide. He has worked with and instructed
most regulatory agencies in Canada responsible for contaminated
and hazardous waste site management.
His
decision to no longer participate in the investigation or
the remediation of contaminated sites as a consultant or contractor,
ensures the provision of sound and unbiased technical and
managerial support to all his clients. It also ensures no
conflict of interest with any environmental consulting or
contracting firm providing contaminated site management services.
Mr. Owen's principal responsibilities have included providing
support to government agencies and multinational corporations
in managing large and complex environmental programs and projects.
His principal experience relates to contaminated site project
management and closure as well as environmental program management.
Mr. Owen will provide a detailed overview of Contaminated
Site Management.
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Jacquelyn
Stevens, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.S.E.L., LL.B., is
a partner in Wilms & Shier and is a certified specialist
in environmental law with significant expertise representing
a wide range of clients in civil and regulatory litigation.
She is called to the bars of Ontario and Alberta. Jacquelyn
prosecutes and defends environmental lawsuits. She advises
on cross-boundary migration of contamination and remediation
options during civil litigation. Jacquelyn also has significant
expertise litigating contamination issues at dry cleaning
operations and gas stations.
Alessia
Petricone-Westwood,
J.D., M.A. B.A., is a Senior Associate at Willms & Shier
Environmental Lawyers LLP. Alessia practices in the areas
of environmental law and environmental litigation. Alessia
has extensive experience with all aspects of civil litigation
including the defence of professional negligence claims. Prior
to joining our firm, Alessia litigated a wide range of civil
litigation matters at a leading law firm in Ottawa. Alessia
has appeared before administrative tribunals and the Ontario
Superior Court of Justice. Alessia is called to the Bar of
Ontario.
Ms. Stevens and Ms. Petricone-Westwood will lecture on Canadian
Environmental law as well as basic legal principles related
to contaminated property and environmental investigations.
After attending this lecture, the attendee will have increased
knowledge of Canadian Environmental Law applicable to contaminated
and hazardous waste site management and private sector liability
for clean-up of contaminated sites.
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| Logan
Barrett is the president of Antler Group, a Canadian
based organization specializing in Chemical Response, Disaster
Management, & Risk Reduction. Working across the Americas,
Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Logan has led countless
successful deployments mitigating Chemical, Biological, and
Explosive risks. He specializes in developing emergency response
teams, de-escalating crisis, and transferring knowledge. Logan
also sits on the ICRC Weapon Contamination Team as their “Hazardous
Materials” specialist, and volunteers with other organizations
promoting a culture of safety and philanthropy. Pulling from
his speciality training involving high hazard chemicals, clandestine
laboratories, train derailments, and chemical firefighting.
Mr. Barrett will be discussing and demonstrating Health &
Safety Techniques on Contaminated Sites. |
| George
(Bud) Ivey is the President and Senior Remediation
Specialist with Ivey International Inc. with global headquarters
in Vancouver, Canada. He has over twenty-five years of environmental
site assessment and remediation experience. He has worked on
more than 2500 major environmental projects, taking him to over
50 countries globally. His multi-disciplinary education includes:
Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Geological Engineering, and a Master’s
Certification in Project Management. Mr. Ivey will be discussing
environmental chemistry in contaminated waste sites. |
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Dr.
Brewster Conant Jr.,
P.Geo.(Ontario) is an Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo
and has over 26 years of experience in hydrogeology and environmental
consulting. He received a B.Sc. in Geology-Physics/Mathematics
from Brown University in 1984, and received a M.Sc. and Ph.D.
in Earth Sciences at the University of Waterloo in 1991 and
2001, respectively. He has designed, managed, and conducted
hydrogeological investigations for: contaminated site assessments;
water supply protection; landfill assessments; evaluating
agricultural best management practices; remediation; litigation;
regulatory negotiation; and modeling studies. General areas
of research interest are in physical and contaminant hydrogeology
and in field methods and instrumentation. His main area of
expertise and interest is in interactions at the groundwater/surface
water interface and the examination of flow, transport, and
fate of contaminants passing through it. He has developed
innovative field methods, instrumentation, and numerical techniques
for assessing groundwater/surface-water interactions including
the use of temperature as a tracer techniques, infrared thermography,
direct-push methods, and diffusion samplers. He has been an
invited speaker at international scientific meetings and co-taught
several training courses for USEPA. Dr. Conant will lecture
on Principles of Contaminant Hydrogeology as well as Subsurface
Characterization Tools and Techniques with a focus on Soil
and Groundwater Sampling.
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| Dr.
Derek Peak is a professor of Environmental Soil
Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, where he uses a
wide range of laboratory and molecular-scale techniques to probe
soil chemical processes. Dr. Peak has been a synchrotron user
for 20 years and has served as a member and chair of the Canadian
Light Source Users Advisory Committee. His overall research
program focuses on using synchrotron-based chemical speciation
techniques to determine nutrient and contaminant fate in soils
and sediments. Major research themes include understanding the
fate and transport processes that control phosphate availability
in soils, developing sustainable agricultural development in
West Africa, and effectively managing metal and metalloid affected
soils produced as a result of natural resource extraction.
He
will lecture on Soil Chemistry of Hazardous Materials. |
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Dr.
Paul Sibley is
a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the
University of Guelph who specialises in the assessment of
potentially contaminated environmental media (water, soils,
and sediments). His current fields of research include sediment
toxicology and risk assessment, invertebrate toxicology focusing
on benthic invertebrate community assessments in streams and
lakes, disturbance ecology and impacts of land use practices
on aquatic-terrestrial interactions. In the field of sediment
characterization, his relevant research experience includes:
collecting and processing site-specific water, sediment and
soil samples for physical, chemical, and biological characterisation;
analysis and interpretation of water, sediment, and soil quality
data from field surveys and risk assessments; and development
of provincial and federal water and soil quality guidelines
and objectives. He has worked with metals, petroleum hydrocarbons,
pesticides, polyfluorinated compounds, pharmaceuticals and
personal care products, and other priority substances. Dr.
Sibley has extensive knowledge of the fate and effects of
contaminants in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
Dr. Sibley will present the Practical Considerations for
Collection of Sediment Samples for Chemical and Biological
Assessment. Participants in this lecture will gain an understanding
of the practical and conceptual issues associated with and
factors that might influence the collection, handling, storage,
and transportation of potentially contaminated sediments.
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| Elliot
Sigal, B.Sc., QPRA, is the Vice President President
and Senior Toxicologist for Intrinsik Corp. Mr. Sigal graduated
with an Honours B.Sc. in Toxicology from the University of Toronto
in 1988 and has over 25 years of experience in toxicology, human
health and ecological risk assessment, and risk communication.
Mr. Sigal has been responsible for leading risk assessment teams
in determination of potential for exposure of and risk to receptors
associated with complex contaminated sites, mining/smelting
facilities, military base closures, underground storage tanks,
incinerator/WTE emissions, landfill sites, consumer products
and industrial processes. He has overseen and contributed to
hundreds of risk assessments, including many successfully completed
in compliance with federal and provincial regulations in Canada.
Mr. Sigal's lecture will provide an introduction to the underlying
concepts and general approaches for Human Health and Ecological
Risk Assessment (HERA). Participants of this lecture will gain
an understanding of the role of HERA in contaminated site assessment
and remediation, basic components of HERA, complexity of planning
a HERA, identifying HERA objectives, basic approaches to toxicity
and exposure assessments, receptor and risk characterization,
and dealing with uncertainty in HERA. |
| Alek
Hage is the Vice President of EarthSoft
Canada Inc. EarthSoft's EQuIS software is the most widely used
environmental data management software in the world. EarthSoft's
large clients include SGS, Shell Oil, Dow Chemical, TransCanada,
Teck, Barrick, CDM Smith, ERM, Arcadis, Golder Associates, 5
US EPA Regions, several US States, and thousands of other governments,
industrials, and consultants/labs. Alek will be presenting
on the topic of Environmental Data Management. |
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