Instructors

Basic Mold Awareness, Testing, and Abatement
Mr. Gary R. Barnes, is the President of Western Site Technologies Inc. (WSTI) - Consulting Service, which provides clients with Loss Control Management services, concentrates on Environmental Loss control, and management of potential liabilities arising out of Environmental Issues. At a personal level, Mr. Barnes is involved in developing several projects including, a risk management based environmental technician training model and a “free management” concept to develop intellectual capital based thinking into environmental services provision. WSTI also provides complete microbiological services including the identification of molds, fungus, bacteria, and general air quality. He has been directly responsible for the development of the North American training program for Mold Inspectors for the Environmental Services Association. Largest Project - Developed a complete waste management plan for the country of Malta to assist in their EU application.

An Introduction to Using Groundwater Models in Contaminated Site Assessment and Remediation Design
Mr. Trevor Butterfield is a hydrogeologist with 9 years of experience in environmental consulting at WorleyParsons. He obtained a B.Sc. with specialization in Environmental Physical Sciences and a M.Sc. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences with a specialization in hydrogeology, both at the University of Alberta. Trevor has experience in groundwater quality assessments, groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling, aquifer testing, and groundwater project management. He has completed hydrogeologic site assessments at several upstream petroleum, oil sands, and agricultural facilities in Alberta. He has developed three-dimensional groundwater flow and solute transport models at local to regional scales for groundwater contamination, environmental impact assessment, and mine pit dewatering problems.

Sustainability Reporting and Internal Auditor’s Course on Environment Management Systems as per ISO 14001: 2004
Dr. Yogendra Chaudhry has over 17 years of international experience in sustainability, environment, health and safety (EHS/ESG/CSR) and risk management, and has executed projects in various countries like Canada, Egypt, India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand and worked throughout Asia. For last 08 years he has done extensive work in the field of Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability Assessments, Sustainability Reporting and Rating of sustainability performance of the organizations. He has over 800 audit days to his credit and has conducted over 300 trainings in various international standards like ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 9001, Sustainability Reporting, CSR Assurance etc in different countries. He has extensive experience in management consultancy, management and direction of multi-jurisdictional and multi facility projects addressing corporate governance, environment, business, and compliance risks from an EHS and social perspective. His project proponents included many Fortune 500 companies in a wide range of industries from townships, utilities, oil and gas, real estate, infrastructure, finance and investment, manufacturing, chemical, mining and extractive, and food and beverage. He has proven leadership, management, organizational, interpersonal and human relations skills; sound ability to develop and deliver tactical and strategic business and technical proposals and expert knowledge of Sustainability, OHS, ESG, CSR issues, management, compliance and practical implementation.

Air Quality Management
Mr. Mervyn Davies is the Western Regional Leader of Air Quality with Stantec Consulting in Calgary, Alberta. Mervyn has conducted air quality assessments for the oil and gas, oil sands, power production, petrochemical, mining, manufacturing, and residential development sectors in western Canada for more than 35 years. His involvement in these assessments include the preparation of source and emission inventories; the design and development of ambient air quality networks; the supervision of specialized field studies; the review and interpretation of ambient air quality data; and the development, evaluation and application of dispersion models. Mr. Davies has worked with industry, regulatory, and third-party stakeholder clients; and has provided air quality training programs to industry. He received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of British Columbia and a M.Sc. in Physics (Meteorology) from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA), the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), and the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Environmental Chemistry for Site Reclamation and Remediation Made Easy
Mr. George Ivey is the President and Senior Remediation Specialist with Ivey International Inc. and has over 23 years environmental assessment and remediation experience working on more than 1,300 remediation projects worldwide. His educational background includes: Organic Chemistry, Geological Engineering, and a Master's Certification in Project Management. He is a Professional Chemist in Alberta, and also holds National Environmental Certifications in Canadian and the USA. His multi-disciplinary background has provided him with a unique perspective for assessing and solving complex site remediation problems. He is very active in remediation technology development, and is involved in several applied-research projects in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

Soil Chemistry for Remediation of Salt-Affected Soils
Ms. Sheila Luther has over 18 years of experience working on environmental assessment and research projects with a focus on soil reclamation, assessment of contamination, and remediation. She currently works as a senior soil scientist with Matrix Solutions Inc. Her work experience includes assessment and remediation of contaminated soils, pre construction and post-reclamation assessments for oil and gas industry sites, environmental monitoring, literature reviews, technology transfer, and research on soil-water-contaminant interactions. Her current responsibilities include staff supervision, project coordination, client liaison, report review, design and management of remediation programs.

Business and Project Risk Management of Contaminated Sites
Mr. Ken Lyon received a B.A. in geosciences from Princeton University and an M.Sc. in geosciences from Queen's University at Kingston, and has over 30 years of experience with contaminated sites and other environmental projects. This experience ranges from over 100 Phase 1 environmental site assessments to major remediation programs at upstream and downstream hydrocarbon sites and manufacturing facilities. In recent years, Ken's work has included development of liability exit strategies under asset purchase agreements, peer reviews of high risk remediation programs, monte-carlo simulations of liabilities in support of setting financial reserves, and facilitation of expert panel workshops to identify and analyse project risk.

An Introduction to Environmental and Regulatory Law
Mr. Sean Parker is an associate in the McLennan Ross Edmonton office focusing on energy, environment, and regulatory issues, and commercial litigation. During law school Sean worked as an Environmental Regulatory Analyst, conducting legal research and providing legal information on a variety of environmental management and engineering projects. Sean also has experience working for environmental consulting firms and an environmental services company.

Environmental Project Managment Planning Essentials
Mr. Greg Philliban has an extensive background in crossfunctional / multijurisdictional project and stakeholder management in the real property and environmental sectors. Currently Greg delivers project and stakeholder management training for Environmental Project Management and Sustainability Solutions- Ottawa, Canadian Management Centre (CMC) -Toronto and Algonquin College Ottawa. He also provides project management facilitation, coaching and consulting services. Greg is currently engaged on a multi-year environmental project to protect source water in Ontario. He recently co-authored a report for Conservation Ontario on the Ontario Governments Clean Water Act (CWA) legislation regarding stakeholder communications and consultation terms of reference and information management requirements . Credentials include a Certificate in Project Management (CPM) from Algonquin College of Applied Arts & Technology and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from PMI.

Introduction to the Federal Fisheries and Navigable Waters Protection Acts
Mr. Ward Prystay

Waste Classification and Disposal in Alberta
Ms. Rhonda Rudnitski is the Director of Environment, Health, and Safety at Newalta Corporation. She has worked in the environmental industry for over 16 years. Her work experience includes: environmental regulatory issues, waste classification, assessing waste management options, permitting waste facilities, and operating landfills. She was worked in both the hazardous and non hazardous waste sectors. Rhonda obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and completed several graduate level courses in Environmental Engineering. She has participated on several government stakeholder committees in Western Canada including the Alberta Environment Hazardous Waste Strategy Technical Group. She is registered as a professional engineer in Alberta and currently sits on Alberta Environment Landfill Operator Certification Committee.

An Introduction to Environmental and Regulatory Law
Ms. Lisa Semenchuk is a senior associate with McLennan Ross LLP, focusing on regulatory matters as well as environmental and commercial litigation within Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Prior to law, Lisa obtained her BSc (with distinction) in Environmental and Conservation Science at the University of Alberta.

An Introduction to Using Groundwater Models in Contaminated Site Assessment and Remediation Design
Ms. Tannis Sharp is a hydrogeologist with 11 years experience at WorleyParsons in groundwater resources and contaminated site assessment. She completed a B.Sc. in Geological Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan and a M.Sc. in hydrogeology at the University of Alberta. She has conducted groundwater modelling for various environmental and groundwater resources projects around Alberta and in California from local to regional scales. Her modelling project experience includes groundwater supply, groundwater contamination, environmental impact assessment, and mine pit dewatering problems.