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Pieter N. Booth

Principal Scientist

EcoSciences

Professional Profile


Mr. Booth has 28 years of experience as an environmental scientist and program manager specializing in ecotoxicology and risk assessment, natural resource damage assessment (NRDA), and restoration of natural systems. Mr. Booth is nationally recognized for his NRDA work, particularly his role in technical negotiations on behalf of industry for favorable restoration-based settlement at several of the largest NRDA cases in the country, including Saginaw River and Bay and Lake Hartwell/Twelvemile Creek NRDAs. He has been the project manager or consulting expert on NRDAs for industrial clients in several other high-profile natural resource damage cases. In these roles, he has provided technical support to legal teams in the development of case strategy and in the supervision and preparation of materials for litigation support under CERCLA, RCRA, the Clean Water Act, and the regulatory programs of various states.

He has directed many complex multidisciplinary projects to assess ecological risks and impacts from releases of hazardous substances, including oil. Mr. Booth has a particularly strong background in managing and directing evaluations of the potential impacts of PCBs and metals on fish, birds, and mammals; ecological risks posed by sediment contamination; and options for sediment management. Mr. Booth has developed and managed a corporate program for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, to implement risk assessment guidance for program managers in the remediation group and provide site-specific ecological risk assessments at numerous sites nationwide.

For other industrial clients, Mr. Booth has assisted in developing overall strategies for environmental issues, designing site-specific assessments, and negotiating risk-based response actions with state and federal agencies. In addition, he has supervised the study design, collection, and analysis of environmental data and the development of PC- and web-based data management, analysis, and visualization tools. Mr. Booth has led numerous projects directed at the characterization and remediation of contaminated sediments in the United States and South America, and he has helped to create guidance and policy for regional sediment management programs in Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay.

  • M.M.A., Marine Affairs, University of Washington, 1984
  • B.A., Biology, University of the Pacific, 1977

    • Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response 40 hour training program; Hazardous Waste Operations Management and Supervisor 8-hour training program