Hydrology Expert Witnesses in Wisconsin

This expert has over 30 years of experience in groundwater resource investigations. He received his BS in geology, his MS in geological sciences with an emphasis in geophysics and his PhD in geological sciences with an emphasis in hydrogeology, all at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He is a licensed professional geologist in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Wyoming, as well as a licensed geophysicist in California. He holds three patents relating to well rehabilitation, horizontal drilling, and in-situ radium treatment, has over ten peer reviewed publications and has presented widely on topics in his field. He is also an active member of a number of professional organizations, including the National Ground Water Association and Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He has held a number of positions, including as the vice president and principal geoscientist at Ted Zorich and Associates, Inc, the chief geoscientist at Layne GeoSciences, Inc, and a senior geoscientist and principal at Aquifer Science and Technology. He has also served as the senior managing hydrogeologist and then principal at Cardno Entrix and a senior associate at Leggette, Brashears & Graham, Inc. Currently, he is a senior geophysicist and hydrogeologist at a consulting company in Wisconsin. In this role he specializes in groundwater management, high capacity well siting and design, surface and borehole geophysics, groundwater modeling, managed aquifer recharge, agricultural impacts to groundwater, mine hydrogeology, and water permitting for energy projects.

This expert has thirty plus years of environmental and water resource engineering experience throughout the Americas. Exceptional skills in several water resource and environmental specialties including surface-water and groundwater hydrology, hydrogeologic characterization, surface-water/groundwater interaction, contaminant fate and transport in the subsurface and aquatic environment (special emphasis on PCBs, petroleum compounds, industrial chemicals, and mining-related contamination), limnology, water quality, aquatic ecology, aquatic organism passage. Served as an expert witness for varied cases since 1989. Proficiently team with legal professionals to achieve goals.

This highly qualified expert has 30 years of experience in environmental and geotechnical engineering. He received his BS in civil engineering from Lehigh University before earning both his MS and PhD in civil engineering, geotechnical/geoenvironmental from the University of Texas. He is currently a certified environmental engineer and a licensed professional engineer. This expert is active in his field as a member of numerous associations, including the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and the International Geosynthetics Society. He is highly involved in his field, having authored hundreds of research publications throughout his career. For his work, he has received numerous awards. He has formerly served as the chair of civil and environmental engineering at both the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin, the director of the Wisconsin geotechnics laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, and a professor of geological, civil, and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Currently, this expert is the dean of the school of engineering and applied science at a well-known university in Virginia.