Angela M. LaVert

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST IN RISK ASSESSMENT
ERM-Southwest, Inc.
Metairie, Louisiana
Telephone: (504) 831-6700
e-mail: aml@neosoft.com

EDUCATION
M.S. - Environmental Chemistry, The University of North Carolina
B.S. - Chemistry, Spring Hill College

Fields of Practice
Environmental Risk Assessment/Risk Management
Environmental Health Sciences/Environmental Chemistry
Risk Communication

AFFILIATIONS
American Chemical Society
Water Environment Federation
Society for Risk Analysis
Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

AWARDS / HONORS
Summa Cum Laude graduate from Spring Hill College.
Spring Hill College Presidential Award for Outstanding Chemistry Student.

University of North Carolina Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Achievement Award for Outstanding Academic and Professional Potential.

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

Six years in the environmental health science field providing environmental risk assessment and management.

Authored over 30 comprehensive quantitative and qualitative risk assessments or risk-based closure demonstrations under CERCLA, RCRA, ASTM, state RBCA programs, and other regulations. Projects have included petrochemical facilities, refineries, chemical manufacturers, pesticide formulating plants, fuel storage and transfer facilities, transportation facilities, industrial impoundments, landfills and landfarms, wood preservative sites, steel mills, mining sites, metal smelters, industrial disposal sites, metal galvanizing facilities, oil recycling processors, chemical storage areas, municipal utility companies, and retail gasoline service stations.

Performed multi-media cleanup level development for over 20 sites under various regulatory programs. Constituents addressed include organic volatiles and semivolatiles, pesticides, metals, PCBs, dioxins/difurans, and radionuclides.

Modeled constituent transport through various media, both indoors and outdoors, to estimate exposure point concentrations.

Design of investigation and data collection activities to support multi-media, multi-contaminant risk assessment.

Development of toxicological profiles, data management and interpretation.

Characterization and communication of environmental risks associated with human and ecological impacts.

Negotiated with state and federal agencies to obtain approval of risk assessment approaches, risk-based cleanup goals, and reasonable remediation plans with risk-based goals.

PUBLICATIONS

Miller, Pedit, Levert, and Rabideau, 1992, "Investigation of Multicomponent Sorption and Desorption Rates in Saturated Ground-Water Systems," Report No. 263 of the Water Resources Research Institute (March).

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