Professional Qualifications
Dr. David Rowlands has a PhD in structural geology and is a Registered Professional Geologist with more than 35 years of experience in engineering geology, environmental geology, petroleum geology, and teaching at the university level. He has performed geological, geotechnical, and environmental consulting services throughout the United States and overseas. Throughout his career he has been responsible for a wide range of technical and business activities.
Dr. Rowlands has extensive technical and management experience with environmental remediation at sites ranging from gasoline stations, to chemical plants and refineries, to superfund sites. He has been involved in the design and oversight of groundwater recovery and treatment systems, chemical oxidation of groundwater plumes, soil vapor extraction systems, in situ bioremediation for groundwater and soil, phytoremediation, soil removal, and landfill cap design and construction.
Dr. Rowlands business experience includes; business development, client relations, contract and subcontract negotiations, general management, technical and operational staffing, training, and oversight of project managers and program management. His profit and loss experience includes project and program management and general management of an engineering office. He has experience with contract negotiation, subcontracting, regulatory negotiations, and litigation support and expert witness testimony.
From 1973 until 1982 worked as a geologist/seismologist performing siting studies and site investigations for nuclear power plants, dams, and other critical facilities. Projects are located throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East and Far East. These investigations included regional analysis of earthquakes, establishment of seismic design criteria, performing earthquake relocation studies for local events, operating a small microseismic network correlating natural fracturing and radon emissions with microearthquake activity, and performing investigations of recent faulting. He is currently involved with the technical review of documents to support the licensing of 5 nuclear projects in southeastern United States and provided expert services regarding faulting at nuclear sites in Korea and China.
Dr. Rowlands was an assistant professor at the University of South Alabama (1983 until 1989) where he taught physical geology, structural geology, introductory geophysics, and a semi-annual special topics course in earthquake seismology. He conducted research in structural geology and geophysics, was awarded research grants totaling $200,000, and published articles and presented papers at regional professional meetings.
Dr. Rowlands has been in the environmental consulting industry since 1988 during which he has provided project management and technical consulting for a wide range of soil and groundwater investigations and remediation projects under federal and state regulations including CERCLA, RCRA, TCEQ, TRRC, and TOSCA regulations. CERCLA projects have included remedial investigations, feasibility studies, remedial design, and remedial action oversight. RCRA-related projects have included RCRA permitting, RCRA facility investigations, corrective measures studies, corrective actions, preparation of RCRA permit applications, and design and operation of a RCRA hazardous waste storage facility. Dr. Rowlands has extensive management experience with CERCLA and RCRA projects involving groundwater flow, groundwater modeling, groundwater remediation, soil vapor extraction, and landfill cap design and construction. He has supervised complex groundwater modeling projects that include 3-D visualization and preparation of videos for litigation support.
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