April 6, 2011

Landau Associates

Landau Associates promoted nine employees and hired three people, all but one in the Edmonds office. It promoted Joseph Kalmar to principal engineer, Chip Halbert to associate engineer, Chad McMullen to senior project engineer, Dylan Frazer to senior staff geologist, Martin Valeri to senior staff engineer, Christophe Venot to senior staff scientist, Kathryn Hartley to senior project scientist, and M. Birkan Bayrak and Colette Griffith to project engineer. The new hires are Jacob Stokes, Jeremy Davis and James Raspen. Kalmar, at Landau since 1996, has 18 years of experience in site remediation, stormwater treatment, groundwater treatment system design, stormwater permit compliance and environmental regulatory compliance. Halbert has 13-plus years of experience in environmental investigation and remediation, health risk assessment, air quality, engineering design and environmental statistics. McMullen has seven years in geotechnical analysis and design, construction observation and field investigation. Frazer has background in groundwater/surface water monitoring, subsurface exploration, and bioremediation and construction monitoring. Valeri has experience in stormwater and regulatory compliance. Venot has experience in ecology, microbiology and environmental engineering. Hartley has nine years of environmental consulting experience. Bayrak has experience in geotechnical analysis and design, earthquake engineering, construction monitoring and field investigation. Griffith has worked on environmental remediation, including a bio-injection remediation project. Stokes has experience in site investigation and remediation. Davis has site characterization and remediation skills. Raspen has experience in stormwater and environmental permitting, and will work in the Portland office. Landau is a geotechnical and environmental engineering and natural resource consulting firm with offices also in Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and West Richland.