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J. DAVID WONDER
Former Ames Lab Hydrogeologist

Expedited Site Characterization

B.S., Geology, Iowa State University, 1983

M.S., Geology, Iowa State University, 1987 (minor in Mineral Resources)

James M. Montgomery, Consulting Engineers, Inc. (now Montgomery Watson, Inc.)

Field Geologist (1987 to 1988)

Drilling supervision, soil and groundwater sampling, conductivity testing, data analysis and management, report writing, and regulatory correspondence for subsurface environmental investigations of petroleum storage and handling facilities, manufacturing plants, and former manufactured gas plants (MGP) throughout Iowa.

Site work and subcontractor supervision and coordination for the installation and operation of groundwater remediation systems.

Environmental and geological research for site characterizations and property audits.

Project Manager/Group Manager (1988 to 1990)

Management of underground storage tank and other petroleum remediation and compliance projects.

Management of five-person technical service group consisting of geologists and geological engineers, which constituted 25+% of technical staff and revenues in Iowa office of JMM.

Technical support and QA/QC review on a variety of projects, including landfill hydrogeologic investigations, industrial waste recovery, aquifer pump tests, remedial action plan development, and MGP waste remedial investigations.

Regulatory compliance for variety of clients, including NPDES discharge permitting, air quality/pollutant discharge permitting, hazardous and special waste management, remedial construction and design, well permitting, and stormwater pollution prevention plan.

Project Manager/Utilities Unit Manager (1990 to 1991)

Marketing coordination and project management for JMM's utility company clients, including landfill investigations, environmental property audits, UST closures, and manufactured gas plant site remedial investigation projects.

Development of computer spreadsheet and database applications for management of project data, marketing statistics, and budget development and tracking.

Groundwater Technology, Inc. (GTI)

Project Manager (1991 to 1993)

Project management primarily of petroleum-related environmental remediation and compliance projects.

Supervisory responsibilities over technical and professional project staff in Iowa and Minnesota branch offices.

Management and technical support on contaminated soil remediation projects, including enhanced biodegradation and soil roasting of petroleum impacted soil and soil pre-processing for incineration of MGP-waste contaminated soil.

Development of computer spreadsheet applications to assist GTI Project Managers, specifically budget estimating and tracking, project data reduction/evaluation, project schedules and personnel resource leveling.

State regulatory program experience in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota.

Contaminant Hydrogeologist (1993 to present)

Planning and supervision of geophysical, geotechnical and hydrogeologic aspects of Expedited Site Characterization (ESC) methodology demonstration projects, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management/Technology Development.

Selection, application and evaluation of innovative and state-of-the-practice geophysical and analytical technologies, as applied in the context of the ESC methodology.

Site Manager during the execution of field demonstrations at a manufactured gas plant waste (DNAPL) site and a radioactive waste site. Technologies applied at the DNAPL included immunoassay analysis, passive and active soil vapor analysis, chemiluminescence analysis, cone penetrometer testing with ultraviolet laser-induced fluorescence probe, ground penetrating radar, seismic refraction and reflection surveys, vertical electromagnetic (EM) induction profiling, EM and nuclear borehole logging, Geoprobe electrical conductivity profiling, and mobile laboratory with multiple extraction modules for analysis of organics in soil. Technologies applied at the radioactive site included frequency-domain EM surveys, time-domain EM soundings, microgravity surveys, drive-point groundwater sampling and age dating using tritium-He and CFCs, gamma ray spectrometry for soil sample analysis, in-situ surface analysis with beta scintillator and gamma spectrometer.

Technical evaluation and interpretation of site characterization data collected during ESC demonstration projects.

Management:
• J.M. Montgomery Consulting Engineers Project Management Training - 1988
• Groundwater Technology Project Management Training - 1991

  Health and Safety:

• OSHA 40-hour Health and Safety Training (HAZWOPER) - 1987.
• OSHA 8-hour Health & Safety Refreshers - annually 1988 through 1994.
• OSHA 8-hour Health & Safety Supervisor Training - 1989, 1994.
• First Aid and CPR Training - 1987, 1990, 1993.

  Technical:

• National Water Well Association Technical Symposium, "Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Groundwater," 1988.
• U.S. EPA Technical Seminar, "Site Characterization for Subsurface Remediations," 1990.
• University of Waterloo (Ontario), Centres for Groundwater Research, "Migration and Remediation of Dissolved Organics in Groundwater," 1993.
• U.S. Department of Energy, "Fifth Technology Information Exchange (TIE) Conference," 1993.
• Environmental Education Enterprises, "Pitfalls of Site Characterization," 1993.
• Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society, "Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP)," 1994.
• National Ground Water Association, "Eighth National Outdoor Action Conference," 1994.

National Ground Water Association

Iowa Geological Society

Environmental Professionals of Iowa

Iowa Groundwater Association

South Dakota Certified Petroleum Release Remediator (#R062)

Iowa Registered Groundwater Professional (#1077)

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Last Modified: 1 December 2001 by dave eckels
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