Environmental Forensics Expert Witnesses

Dadeville, Alabama

Environmental Engineering - water and wastewater treatment, site assessment and remediation, soil and groundwater contamination, human-health risk assessment, metals and radionuclides, contaminant bioavailability, environmental forensics, environmental chemistry, radioactive and hazardous waste management, nuclear environmental engineering

Mark Barnett is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Auburn University, where he has been on the faculty for twenty-six years. Dr. Barnett has over thirty-five years of national and international environmental engineering and science experience in industry, government, and academia ranging from water supply and sanitation in rural communities to nuclear waste disposal. He has been a principal or co-principal investigator on twenty grants totaling well over $20 million, and he has published over fifty peer-reviewed journal articles, several book chapters, and a book that collectively have received well over three-thousand citations (h-index=30). He is a licensed professional engineer and a board certified member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. Dr. Barnett has served as an environmental expert witness-expert consultant on cases in administrative, federal, and state courts ranging from p...

Center , Pennsylvania

Geology, Environmental - Groundwater, Hydrogeology, Geology, Geo-Hazards, Mining, Stormwater, Oil & Gas, Bedrock Aquifer, Groundwater Contamination, Environmental Forensics, Environmental Evaluation, Environment, Water Resources, Water Supply, Karst, Karst Geology, Karst Hydrogeology, Sinkholes

Expertise in hydrogeology, geology and environmental forensics with a specialization in groundwater flow and contaminant transport in fractured bedrock aquifers. Mr. Gillespie's technical expertise is complemented by an industry insider’s savvy of corporate needs and operations and the regulatory acumen of a former agency reviewer and bureau official. He is a published researcher in hydrostructural geology and karst hydrogeology, an adjunct university professor of geology and a frequent provider of continuing professional education courses. Mr. Gillespie is routinely invited to speak on matters of earth, environment and energy to government committees, national business organizations and educational institutions. He developed and leads a geoResource Risk Reduction practice, specializing in strategic representation in regulatory and legal venues. Mr. Gillespie has provided litigation support, testifying expert services, expert regulatory negotiation support and public representa...