About Us

International Involvement

Waterborne has a diversified group of environmental professionals and engineers with international experience. Our staff have been involved with a wide array of environmental projects such as:

• The design, management, and execution of large-scale spatial studies at 12 locations within 7 different EU Member States Extensive experience with data research, acquisition and processing of European spatial data. These data have been used for numerous Member State and EU-wide examinations related to pesticide risk assessment.
• Participation in the European FOCUS Landscape and Mitigation workgroup examining the use of higher tier approaches in aquatic ecological risk assessment, and provided sub-group leadership for the Landscape Analysis & GIS subgroup.
• Development of standard modeling tools in Europe, including the PRZM in FOCUS ground-water risk assessment tool and PRZM in FOCUS surface-water risk assessment tool.
• Numerous exposure assessments in Europe utilizing PRZM, TOXWA, PEARL, PELMO, and MACRO models, including incorporation of recent kinetic procedures.
• Application of the Pesticide Root Zone Model (PRZM) and equilibrium speciation model for metals (MINTEQA2) to predict the environmental fate and transport of nickel and nickel compounds associated with the use of sewage sludge and biodegradable waste as soil enrichment under European conditions.
• Invited lecturer at International Conferences, including: the 6th Fresenius ECOTOX Conference on Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecotoxicology and Risk Management (2006); the British Crop Protection Council, International Conference and Exhibition on Probabilistic Risk Assessment (2006), and the 3rd Pan Pacific Conference on Pesticide Science (2003).
• Development of Step 3 exposure scenarios for evaluating pesticide exposure from rice agriculture in Italy, Spain, Greece, France, and Portugal.
• Participation in the European workshop on Probabilistic Risk Assessment (EUPRA), EUFRAM (Probabilistic Approaches for Assessing Environmental Risks of Pesticides).
• Invited teacher at the “Training Course in Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies” in 2004 and 2005; Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, Italy. Taught RIVWQ model and RICEWQ model advisor.
• Investigation of pesticide risk to shrimp ponds in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces in China through fate and transport modeling of an insecticide used on rice.
• Aquatic exposure assessment associated with pesticide use in rice production areas of Japan. Calibrated of PCPF model to four field study sites in Japan (Hokkaido, Furukawa, Ushiku, Fukuoka). Then calibrated the RIVWQ model linked to PCPF to a field study in Japan. Evaluated effects of farming practices on exposure levels.
• Participation on the Banana Company/Agricultural Chemical Company Task Force dealing with water quality, worker exposure, and other stewardship issues in Costa Rica (BC/AC Task Force). Developed modeling tools and scenarios for exposure characterization of agricultural pesticides associated with their use in banana production in tropical environments.
• Investigation of herbicide impacts from agricultural and right-of-way uses to mangroves, sea grasses, and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Combined ArcGIS, ArcHydro with the PRZM and RIVWQ models to assess water quality impacts.
• Expert testimony on environmental issues related to cocaine irradiation programs in Colombia.
• Global biodiversity management (a World Bank Project).
• Investigation of point source discharges in the Seine River, France.
• Environmental risk assessment associated with the use of biocides in antifoulant paint for marine vessels in European waters.
• Development of standard modeling scenarios for pesticide risk assessment in Latin America for Crop Life International.