Geosyntec Oakland, California Office
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Address: 1111 Broadway Street, 6th Floor, Oakland, CA, 94607, USA
Telephone: 510-836-3034
Principal Consultants
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Rula Deeb, Ph.D., BCEEM, PMP
Rula Deeb is a Senior Principal Civil and Environmental Engineer based in California with more than 25 years of experience focused on private practice and academia addressing the cross-media fate and transport of contaminants, and the remediation of complex soil and groundwater sites impacted by non-aqueous phase liquids. She earned her doctorate in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research focused on substrate interactions of ga ... -
Michael Kavanaugh, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE
Mike Kavanaugh is a Senior Principal Environmental Engineer based in California with more than 35 years of consulting experience focused on the areas of water quality, water treatment, and groundwater remediation. He has served a highly diverse group of private and public sector clients directly, through industry associations, and through attorneys. More than 20 years ago, Mike's professional practice started in the areas of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, water quality ... -
Nancy Bice, P.G., CEG
Nancy Bice is a Senior Principal Engineering Geologist based in California with more than 20 years of experience focused on the characterization and remediation of sites impacted by volatile organic compounds. She specializes in innovative site characterization techniques, and the design and implementation of groundwater remediation systems. Nancy has developed site-specific soil and groundwater remediation applications for some of the most complex sites in California regulated under Californ ... -
Lisa Austin, P.E.
Lisa Austin is a Principal Engineer based in California with more than 25 years of experience focused on water quality and stormwater management. Lisa's practice focuses on National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting; municipal stormwater program planning and implementation; development project water resource master planning and environmental impact analysis, stormwater best management practice (BMP) selection, design, and maintenance; and Total Maximum Daily Lo ... -
Christopher Hunt, Ph.D., P.E., G.E.
Christopher Hunt is a Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer based in California with more than 20 years of experience focused on managing and supporting a wide variety of geotechnical and geoenvironmental projects. As a consultant, Chris's project portfolio includes foundation investigations and designs for pile-supported structures and shallow foundations. He has analyzed and developed mitigation measures for landslides in bedrock, colluvium, and man-made fill, including probabi ... -
Michael McGuire, P.E.
Michael McGuire is a Senior Principal Environmental and Civil Engineer based in California with more than 30 years of experience focused on characterizing and remediating sites affected by past industrial and chemical storage operations. His considerable technical skills, experience, and knowledge of engineering management allow him to effectively lead multidisciplinary project teams for restoration programs at single sites and portfolios of sites throughout the Western United States ... -
Bruce Marvin, P.E.
Bruce Marvin is a Senior Principal Environmental Engineer based in California with more than 15 years of consulting experience focused on remediation strategy development, technology selection, engineering process design, and quality assurance procedures. His clients include private and governmental entities in the United States, Japan, Canada, and Australia. Internationally recognized for his in situ remediation expertise, Bruce has established industry best practices for in situ che ... -
John Gallinatti, CHG
John Gallinatti is a Senior Principal Hydrogeologist based in California with more than 25 years of experience focused on quantitative hydrogeology, including groundwater modeling, environmental fate of dissolved organic compounds, well-field design, aquifer testing and analysis, hydrogeologic field investigations, development of conceptual hydrogeologic models, and the design of advanced groundwater remediation systems. In his role as a technical lead on modeling studies or expert co ... -
Michael J. Minch, P.E., G.E.
Michael Minch is a Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer based in California with more than 25 years of experience focused on the design, permitting, and construction phases of waste containment facilities and maintenance of their long-term integrity throughout the western United States. Effective management of municipal solid waste has proven to be a challenge in every part of the globe. The Kekaha Sanitary Landfill is the only operating municipal solid waste landfill on the isl ... -
Lelio Mejia, Ph.D., P.E., G.E.
Lelio Mejia is a Senior Principal based in Oakland, California with more than 35 years of experience in geotechnical and earthquake engineering. For many years, he has focused on the challenges of dam and levee engineering and is a leading international authority in this field, with emphasis on the seismic design and performance of dam structures. Lelio leads Geosyntec’s Western U.S. dams and levees practice and is a registered civil and geotechnical engineer. Lelio has directed the ... -
Syed Rehan, P.E.
Syed Rehan is a Principal Environmental Engineer based in California with more than 18 years of experience focused on developing engineering solutions and regulatory compliance strategies for environmentally impaired sites impacted by the presence of chlorinated solvents, heavy metals, and hydrocarbons and petroleum products in soil, groundwater, and indoor air. As a consultant, Rehan works with clients and their advocates to develop effective solutions to complex environmental restor ...
Related Geosyntec News
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Rula Deeb to Present on PFASs to the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Thursday, 03 May 2018
Rula Deeb, Ph.D. (California) has been invited to give a presentation on PFASs (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) at the Water Science and Technology Board Meeting of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 2018. Rula will kick off a full day of invited presentatio ... -
Bruce Marvin to Present Webinar on Manganese Activated Persulfate (MnAP) for the Treatment of Recalcitrant Organics
Wednesday, 02 May 2018
Bruce Marvin, P.E. (California) will present "Manganese Activated Persulfate (MnAP) for the Treatment Recalcitrant Organics: Development and Commercialization" as part of Carus Chemical Corporation's "Combined Remedies Webinar Series," on May 3, 2018, 11-11:30 am CDT. Background - Geosyntec Consultants, ... -
Geosyntec Staff Featured at the 2018 United States Society on Dams Conference
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Leading Geosyntec dam practitioners will present at the 2018 United States Society on Dams (USSD) Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, Florida on April 30 – May 4, 2018. Geosyntec staff contributions supported planning and organizing the conference and will be delivering six presentations. Glenn Rix, Ph.D. (Georg ... -
Geosyntec Staff Featured at the 2018 Battelle Chlorinated Conference
Wednesday, 04 April 2018
Geosyntec will make a substantial technical contribution at Battelle's Eleventh International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California on April 8-12, 2018. Geosyntec-led contributions include five session chairs, 18 platform pres ... -
Mike Kavanaugh and Doug Larson to Teach Princeton Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology Course in California
Tuesday, 06 March 2018
Mike Kavanaugh (California) and Doug Larson (Massachusetts) will be teaching the Princeton Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology Course in San Francisco, California on March 12-16, 2018. Mike and Doug will be teaching along with Robert W. Cleary, Princeton Groundwater, Inc.; John A. Cherry, University of Guelph Bernard H. ... -
Geosyntec Staff to Present at Emerging Contaminants Summit in Colorado
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Geosyntec staff will make a significant technical contribution to the Emerging Contaminants Summit at the Westin Westminster in Westminster, Colorado on March 6-7, 2018. This year, Geosyntec is proud to have developed the summit's technical program and to support the summit as a Platinum Sponsor. We are also pleased to s ... -
Mike Kavanaugh and Doug Larson to Teach Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology Course in Florida
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Mike Kavanaugh (California) and Doug Larson (Massachusetts) will be teaching The Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology Course in Tampa, Florida on February 26-March 2, 2018. Mike and Doug will be teaching along with Robert W. Cleary, Princeton Groundwater, Inc.; John A. Cherry, University of Guelph Bernard H. Kueper, Depar ... -
Lelio Mejia to Speak on Large Dam Design and Construction at the University of California, San Diego
Monday, 19 February 2018
Lelio Mejia (California) will deliver a presentation entitled "Design and Construction of Borinquen Dam 1E for the Panama Canal Expansion" at the Structural and Material Engineering Building at the University of California, San Diego for the Geo-Institute Student Chapter and California Geotechnical Engineering Association (UC Sa ...
