Speakers
Jeremy Birnstingl - Regenesis
Dr. Birnstingl is the Managing Director of Regenesis Ltd. and is responsible for the growth and development of Regenesis across Europe. Since joining Regenesis in 2002, Dr. Birnstingl has overseen the introduction and commercial use of five new technical products within the UK and other European countries for in situ aquifer restoration under varied national regulatory and permitting regimes. Before joining Regenesis, Dr Birnstingl was a Principal Environmental Scientist in a leading international environmental consulting firm where he specialised in the design and management of remediation programmes and in the management and direction of long term groundwater remediation projects for large international clients.
Alistair Kean - IKM Consulting Ltd
Alistair has 23 years experience in consultancy and contracting as an environmental geologist. After two years at Shropshire County Council, Alistair moved to Ove Arup and Partners in Scotland in 1989. Following site management of the remediation of the 27ha Pumpherston oil works in West Lothian, he became a Principal Engineer with Weeks Glasgow office in 1995, before moving to Bio-Logic Remediation in 1996. As Technical Director there he was responsible for several of the largest bioremediation projects carried out in the UK and was heavily involved in lobbying for the Mobile Plant Licence system with the EIC. At IKM Consulting Alistair is responsible for directing the Environmental Team. He is also currently Chair of the Environmental Industries Commission’s Contaminated Land Working Group and Scottish Working Group.
Judith Nathanail - Land Quality Management
Judith Nathanail BA BSc MSc FRGS FGS is Company Secretary and a Principal Environmental Consultant with Land Quality Management Ltd. She has over 15 years experience of contaminated land and has carried out and project managed numerous phase 1 and phase 2 risk assessments. She has extensive field experience in logging soils to BS5930 and most aspects of site investigations. She has advised on risk management selection and been involved in a range of remediation projects including excavation and disposal, soil vapour extraction, air sparging and one of the first bioremediation schemes for the UK. She has recently worked with Keynetix Ltd to develop conceptual site modelling software – KeyCSM which enhances the creation and ongoing refinement of conceptual models.
John Howell - Shadow Minister and Member of Local Government Team
John Howell is a member of the Shadow Communities and Local Government Team. He has been closely involved in developing policy on planning and regeneration and is the architect of the Conservative Green Paper on Planning. He is also a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee. John entered Parliament as MP for Henley in June 2008 and is a former Oxfordshire County Councillor. As a partner with Ernst and Young, he worked as a specialist in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism and advised UK governments on overseas trade and aid. He was also a business presenter on BBC World Service Television.
Martin Keighley - Arvia Technology
Martin is an experienced International Managing Director focussed on delivering results. He has been Managing Director of the Brunner Mond European Chemicals Business and a key member of the Tata Chemicals executive team following the acquisition of Brunner Mond in 2005. Originally graduating as a chemical engineer, Martin gathered extensive operations experience before taking up commercial leadership roles covering sales, marketing & supply chain across global markets. Business renewal through innovation in product and process development has been a key part of Martin's leadership success.
Mike Rivett - University of Birmingham
Dr Michael Rivett is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Prior to that he was a Hydrogeologist for the Environment Agency and National Rivers Authority and a post doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He teaches on various BSc programmes in the School and the MSc Hydrogeology, the UK’s longest standing MSc course in that field.
Mike Quint - Environmental Health Sciences
Mike has over 20 years experience of assessing hazardous chemicals in the environment, with a particular emphasis on the quantitative risk assessment of soil, water and air pollutants. Graduating from Oxford University in 1987, he spent five years working in environmental consultancy in the USA, before returning to the UK in 1992. Since then, he has undertaken numerous projects for public and private sector clients and has helped to develop government guidance in the UK and Italy. Mike has extensive experience of assessing environmental contaminants and his technical skills range from toxicological assessment to environmental audit. A registered expert witness, he has provided evidence to Public Inquiries, a Civil Court, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and a Parliamentary Select Committee.
Mark Stevenson - URS
Mr Mark Stevenson is the Process Remediation Service Line leader for URS’s operations in the UK. A chartered mechanical engineer by training, Mark has worked on a wide range of environmental and engineering projects within the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Asia. These currently include some of the largest process-based remediation projects in Europe. A technical specialist in multi phase extraction, sparging and product removal systems at petroleum and petrochemical-based facilities, Mark is the process-engineering leader for URS’s remedial operations.
Phil Morgan - Sirius Group
Phil is an Associate Director at The Sirius Group. He is a highly experienced technical specialist with a broad understanding of contaminated land risk assessment and remediation, industrial effluent and waste treatment technologies, gained over 25 years in the oil and chemical industry and in consultancy. His contaminated land project experience covers site investigation, risk assessment and remediation projects across a wide range of sites and contaminant profiles in the UK and worldwide. He has particular skills in the evaluation of contaminant fate, environmental impact, risk assessments and remediation, particularly bioremediation, permeable reactive barriers and monitored natural attenuation. He has also undertaken numerous industrial effluent and sludge treatment projects.
Eric Cooper - Hydrock
Eric Cooper is a SiLC-accredited Land Quality specialist with over 35 years professional experience dealing with contaminated land and groundwater both in the UK and in many overseas countries. As Technical Director of Hydrock he is responsible for senior level technical management of a series of major projects involving land regeneration and remediation throughout the UK. At Helpston he is responsible for all hydrogeological aspects of the project, especially works to create the hydraulic barriers, studies of the fate of the plume east of the barrier, and source removal issues.
Steve Lucas - GKL Solutions Ltd
After more than 20 years of a career in Management within a major PLC company Steve started his own company, GKL Solutions Ltd in 2008 as a Management Consultancy. As a result of several Environmental projects in 2008 Steve focus changed direction into Oil / Fuel cleanup products. Late in 2008 GKL Solutions Ltd made an agreement with Sarva Bio Remed LLC (US company) to become their import agent for their proven Bioremediation products that supports the cleanup of contaminated ground / water.
Scott B. Wilson - Regenesis
Mr. Wilson is President of REGENESIS, a recognized leader in the development of advanced technologies for groundwater restoration. He is a widely published expert with 25 years’ experience in the application of groundwater remediation technologies. In the 1990s, as Vice President of Remediation Technology with Groundwater Technology, Inc., he headed a team of scientists and engineers that developed industry-leading in situ remediation processes, and oversaw the design and implementation of more than 100 full-scale in situ remediation projects. He was appointed to provide technical oversight for the USEPA Bioaction Committee and served for eight years on the faculty of the National Water Well Association (now the NGWA).
Cecilia McLeod - Arcadis
As a Technical Director at Arcadis, Dr. Macleod is responsible for a number of projects for clients concerned with contaminated land and impacts on ground and surface waters, sediments and biota. She is the UK manager for a large multinational client and is responsible for the delivery of a full range of environmental consultancy products for this client. She heads up the Arcadis Technical Group in the UK and is involved in the development of innovative solutions for clients which span alternative site investigation techniques to remedial design and implementation. She is currently involved in the development of remedial technologies for recalcitrant and emerging contaminants. This work involves the use multiple remediation techniques including chemical oxidation as either a standalone treatment or within a treatment train.
