PROFESSIONAL
PROFILE
Frederick
E. Kirschner, Jr.,
Ph.D.
Chief
Executive Officer
Summary
Dr.
Kirschner has extensive experience in managing nuclear, hazardous, mine, and
municipal solid wastes; conducting baseline surveys and site characterizations,
investigating and subsequently predicting contaminant migration at disposal
sites; designing landfills and impoundments; and evaluating engineering
performance standards.
Dr. Kirschner’s areas of expertise include:
- Program and Project Management
- Reclamation
- Hydrogeology
- Geochemistry
- Numerical Modeling
Education and
Affiliations
- Ph.D., Geology and Geological Engineering
(Hydrogeology), University of Idaho, Moscow, May 1991.
- M.S., Hydrology, University of Idaho, Moscow, May,
1989.
- B.S., Geology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June
1985.
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Geological
Engineering, University of Idaho.
- Member of the International Mine Water Association
(IMWA).
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences Program for
Young Investigators.
Representative
Experience
Dr.
Kirschner has been involved in more than 30 major projects in environmental
impacts, site characterization, site remediation, and waste-management design
for industry and state and federal governments. His project experience
includes:
- Managed the Bolivian Initiative Program for the U. S.
Bureau of Mines (USBM). Dr. Jaime Villalobos, Secretary of Mining and
Mineralogy, Bolivia requested the assistance of the USBM in the following
areas: (1) drafting regulations and subsequent means of enforcing those
regulations for the Bolivian mining/milling industry; (2) evaluating the
technical merits of environmental audits conducted on several mine-sites
by Swedish contractors; (3) conducting environmental audits of all
Bolivian mine/mill sites; (4) drafting proposals to obtain grants from the
World Bank for clean-technology equipment required to bring mines/mills
identified during the aforementioned audits into compliance; (5)
consolidating three enviro-mining related
bureaucracies; (6) re-educating/training Bolivian scientists in U.S.
standard sampling/analyses protocols; and (7) developing an abandoned mine
lands program for Bolivia.
- Managed interdisciplinary teams that developed
innovative and practical solutions to complex environmental engineering
design and permitting problems.
- Managed research teams composed of hydrologists, hydrogeologists, geochemists, structural geologists,
landscape architects, civil and mining engineers, and botanists.
- Conducted evaluations and provided advice in areas of
long-term environmental and structural stability, hydrogeology,
geochemistry and contaminant transport predictions, environmental impact,
and regulatory compliance.
- Interacted with U.S. federal, state, and local
government and several South American countries in developing permitting,
licensing, and enforcement requirements.
Publications
Dr.
Kirschner has taught several short-courses and published more than 30 technical
papers on various aspects of waste management, hydrogeology, and site
characterization.