 appreciate one another. I think it’s wonderful that to have a day that is dedicated to showering your significant other with love, surprises and a little bit of pampering and I know that many couples look forward to this day and get into the spirit which is very cool. Maybe it’s because my love of Christmas is so over the top that I don’t have enough time to recover to celebrate Valentine’s Day :D
With that said though, I do want to announce to the world that I am so lucky to have a husband that I completely adore, a guy who makes me laugh non-stop, supports me whole heartedly in my journey of photography, who cares for our kitty babies as if he was their biological dad, hugs me even when I’m a crab apple, cares for my family and friends just as much as I do and is an all around wonderful human being. Thank you, Oscar for being my husband and for loving me the way you do, I am so lucky for that.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!! No matter how you celebrate it (or if you don’t at all), I hope you have a great day and I wish you tons of love! If you didn’t get a Valentine’s card today, choose one from the pictures below to be the one from me to you – sorry for the TV humor in a lot of these, but they were too hard to resist xxoo
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be the first to commentExpert has more than thirty-eight years of experience as a geologist. He is a certified hydrogeologist, professional geologist, licensed well driller and general engineering contractor. His most recent work includes forensic analysis related to subsurface events, including pipe breaks, contaminant spills, oil and gas resource valuation estimates, and groundwater contamination. He has worked on a variety of producing and redeveloped oil field properties, EPA Superfund sites, military bases, agricultural and industrial properties. Since 1990, he has been a co-owner of an environmental-engineering consulting and contracting company, where he has performed more than 1,000 projects.
As a publicly elected community services district board member since 2002, he has evaluated numerous environmental challenges, solved sustainability problems, and worked with others as a team leader and member to develop agency policies. He has been involved with the public process of goal setting, data acquisition, development of workplans, and implementation of field projects. He has promoted and supported sustainable environmental practices within the agency, a certified green business which now offers residents recycling of electronic waste, fluorescent bulbs, medicines, batteries, paper and cardboard. In an effort to minimize local groundwater degradation, in 2009, 1 million less lbs of waste were processed by the agency than in 2006. In 2013, the agency won the Marin County Green Business of the Year award due to the successful recycling efforts and reduction in wastes shipped to the local landfills. For mentoring students, he is the AIPG Sponsor of the UC Davis Geology Student Section (since 2010) and Sonoma State University Geology Student Section (since 2016).
•	Co-founded and maintained a consulting and contracting company with for 30 years, providing employment to dozens of staff. Trained and mentored technical staff (geologists, engineers, and environmental scientists).
•	As professional in charge of the work, supervised all technical work, and prepared or reviewed all technical and health and safety documents.
•	Provided technical and safety training to staff and others in-house, at professional meetings and universities.
•	Environmental, Engineering, and Contracting Dispute Resolution: Expert Witness and Litigation Support.
Years: 1989 to 1990 Employer: Harding Lawson and Associates Title: Project Geologist Department: Environmental Responsibilities: Directed field projects as diverse as tank removals to installing groundwater monitoring wells, to performing asbestos surveys and Phase I Environmental Assessments. Prepared workplans, permits, and reports. Description of Role/ Responsibilities: As a Project Geologist, developed workplans, safety plans, supervised tank removals, groundwater well installations, prepared geologic cross-sections, developed site conceptual models, performed asbestos sampling and performed Phase I Environmental Assessments.
•	Designed the aquifer mapping study using thousands of groundwater monitoring wells, soil boring, and driller’s reports to define underground channel systems based on lithologic description.
•	The information was used to facilitate installation of remedial measures, saving millions of dollars over the annual groundwater monitoring and lack of remedial progress.
•	In conjunction with the Preferred Pathways Study, a Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) study was designed and performed in the area to allow other PRPs to be identified. After evaluating over 400 businesses, a ranking system was developed for prioritization.
•	The results from the project allowed the client to try to recover millions of dollars for some of the costs of remediation in areas where other industrial facilities had contributed significant volumes of TCE, PCE into the shallow aquifer zones. Other volatile organic compound (VOC) breakdown products were also identified.
Years: 1986 to 1989 Employer: Petrofina Delaware, Inc. Title: Senior Geologist Department: California Exploration Responsibilities: Description of Role/ Responsibilities: As the California geologist, I reviewed dozens of oil and gas farm-in opportunities in California for the company, preparing economic analysis and presentations for management.
Years: 1981 to 1985 Employer: Sohio Petroleum Title: Exploration Geologist Department: Alaska Exploration Operations Responsibilities: Description of Role/ Responsibilities: Perform well site duties, train new geologists, describe lithologies and oil potential of rock cores, preserve cores, document drilling conditions, report daily to head office of drilling progress.
•	Present data and prospect economics in prospect reports to managers.
Years: 2002 to Present Agency: Tamalpais Community Services District Role: President, Vice President, Director Description: Publicly elected official as director of $8 million per year community services agency with sewer collection, rubbish and recycling, and park and recreation functions.
Years: 2002 to Present Agency: Sewerage Agency of Southern Marin Role: President, Vice President, Commissioner Description: Elected by TCSD Board to be a commissioner of the joint venture agency, which runs the local publicly owned treatment works (POTW).
Years: 1976 to 1978 Agency: U.S. Bureau of Mines, Methane Control Group Role: Geology Technician Description: Performed geology mapping in strip coal mines, underground mines and outcrops of the Sewickley Coalbed in southwest Pennsylvania.
Registered Environmental Assessor I: California; REA II (program discontinued).
Expert serves in a peer review capacity for several organizations.
•	Fulbright Program - He served from 2006 to 2011 on the Fulbright Peer Review Committee, screening candidates in the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program in geology and environmental science.
•	AIPG - From 2005 to 2010, he served on the National Screening Committee for the American Institute of Professional Geologists for candidates applying for the Certified Professional Geologist designation.
•	AEHS - Since 2005, he has been on the Science Advisory Board for the Association for the Environment, Health and Sciences. The duties include the review of abstracts submitted for presentations for the annual San Diego, California Soils, Sediments, and Water conference and reviewing student presentations.
•	UC/CalEPA - In October 2011, Expert performed a peer review for the University of California Regents under contract to CalEPA of the 2007 PG&E Hinkley, California (subject of Erin Brockovich movie) Background Study Report.
Publications - Technical Books: Books co-authored: He has developed, edited and co-authored five technical books related to the unintended consequences of large-scale industrial processes, most notably, MTBE: Effects on Soil and Groundwater Resources (CRC Press, 2001), Chromium [Cr(VI)] Handbook (CRC Press, 2004), Oil Spills and Gas Leaks: Environmental Response, Prevention, and Cost Recovery (McGraw-Hill, 2014), Acid Mine Drainage (Wiley, 2014) and Environmental Considerations Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing Operations: Adjusting to the Shale Revolution in a Green World (Wiley, in press). He has written over 100 articles and given over 50 technical presentations.
SRTMU: Risk-Based Subsurface Environmental Management and Sustainable Remediation; School of Earth Sciences, Department of Environmental Science, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, India. Lecture hours: 42; participants: 45 students; Year: 2012; Co-teachers: Chin Man Mok and Stephen Baker; Projects.
GIS:Analysis and Sustainable Remediation of Environmental Resources; Government Institute of Science, Department of Geology, Government Institute of Science, Aurangabad, India. Lecture hours: 16; participants: 30 students; Year: 2012; Co-teachers: Stephen Baker; Lectures.
TUM: Risk-Based Subsurface Environmental Management, Engineering Department, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Lecture hours: 30; participants: 18 students; Year: December, 2011; Co-teachers: Chin Man Mok, and Ravi Arulanantham; Exams and Projects.
UCBE: X-451: University of California, Berkeley Extension, Berkeley Campus, California: 7 session graduate class: Sustainable Remediation of Soil and Groundwater. Lecture hrs: 32; 8 students; Year: Fall 2011; Exams and Projects.
UCBE: X-451: University of California, Berkeley Extension, San Francisco Campus, California: 7 session graduate class titled Sustainable Remediation of