There is just one week left to register for ITRC's first workshop with the Australian Land & Groundwater Association (ALGA), ITRC and ALGA - Working Together on PFAS on November 14th from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EST! The free workshop will be via Zoom for U.S. participants and in-person/hybrid in Australia.

The speakers will be asked questions relating to the regulatory environment in their country, treatment technologies, and fluorine free aqueous film foaming foams followed by a question and answer session. For more information on the speakers, see below!

Bill DiGuiseppi

Principal Hydrogeologist

Jacobs

Bill DiGuiseppi is an expert in the history, occurrence, and remediation of 1,4-dioxane and PFAS, having assessed these emerging contaminants at 100’s of sites and over 30 years of experience. Bill frequently conducts 1,4-dioxane and PFAS training for a variety of groups, including the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC), US EPA, US DOD, US DOE, and the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME). Bill has been actively engaged with the ITRC PFAS Team, as the treatment technologies writing subgroup co-lead, content trainer, and roundtable panelist. His enthusiastic support of ITRC earned him the 2018 Industry Member of the Year award. Bill is also an adjunct faculty member in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines.

Kristi Herzer

Environmental Analyst and Techincal Program Lead

Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation

Kristi Herzer is an Environmental Analyst and Technical Program Lead for the State of Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation. Kristi is a project manager in the Brownfields Program and the Sites Management Section and promotes the Vermont Brownfields Reuse and Environmental Liability Limitation Act (BRELLA) program. Kristi is the Division representative on VTDEC’s Environmental Justice Team, an active member in a cross-agency PFAS workgroup, and co-author of multiple internal and external guidance documents for the regulated community. Since 2017, Kristi has served as a member and subgroup leader for the Sampling and Analysis section of ITRC’s PFAS team, and most recently also serves as a subgroup leader of the PFAS Training team.

Dr. John Hunt

Senior Techincal Adviser

GHD

Dr. Hunt has 30 years of experience in contaminated land assessment and remediation. Over that time Dr. Hunt has worked for a wide range of clients including federal, state, and local government, and multinational and local companies on a variety of contaminated land projects, including hydrocarbon sites, gasworks, chemical manufacturing sites, munitions manufacturing sites, radiological sites, PFAS sites, boatyards, landfills, infrastructure sites, and brownfield and greenfield areas. Dr. Hunt’s special contribution to the field of remediation has been in the area of problem definition where site assessment meets remediation design. He has worked on the development of remediation designs at the interface between science and engineering, for several large and complex remediation projects in Australia and internationally. He also has an interest and expertise in remediation sustainability.

Nigel Holmes

Principal Advisor Incident Management

Queensland Department of Environment and Science

Nigel Holmes has over 30 years of multi-disciplinary experience in consulting and government roles across environmental, geotechnical, and contamination assessment, regulation and policy development for land, marine, freshwater, and groundwater pollution assessment, industry licensing, remediation, aquaculture, and geotechnical assessment. Since 2012, Nigel has been the project coordinator for the review, development, and drafting of the Queensland Environmental Management of Firefighting Foam Operational Policy (2016 and amended 2021) supported by extensive advice and input from a very wide range of Australian and international subjects experts on PFAS and firefighting. More recently this has included input to the Stockholm Convention restrictions on the use of PFAS and the Basel Convention General Technical Guidelines for POPs Wastes methods of PFAS destruction. The Queensland foam Policy has been widely referenced as a model for the transition from PFAS to non-persistent firefighting foams.

Andrew Mitchell

NSW Environmental Manager

ADE Consulting

Andrew is an environmental engineer with a master’s in public policy and over 25 years of experience in contaminated land including with the 2000 Olympics, the EPA, and the Defence PFAS program. His diverse experience has helped him to understand the different perspectives and drivers of regulators, land managers, industry, and consultants. He currently leads the NSW environment business in ADE Consulting Group.

Shalene Thomas

Vice President and Global Emerging Contaminant Program Manager

WSP

Shalene Thomas has more than 20 years of experience in environmental consulting, which includes 14 years of experience supporting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) evaluations. She has supported State, Federal, and industrial clients with PFAS evaluations, risk management, and mitigation strategies. She serves as WSP’s PFAS Work Group Lead and has supported PFAS projects in 32 different states in 9 of the 10 USEPA regions as well as in Europe, Australia, and Canada. She currently serves as an AFFF leader for the ITRC PFAS Team as well as a Planning Board member for the NFPA AFFF Fire Road Map project. She has provided PFAS and AFFF training across North America and has presented on the topic of PFAS and AFFF across the US, Canada, and Australia.