Alex Testoff

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About Alex Testoff

1) Contaminated site assessment and remediation consulting in the United States, primarily practicing in the CERCLA (Superfund) and RCRA regulatory areas.(2) Application of net environmental benefit assessment based comparative assessment (NEBA-CA) in decision making associated with competing decommissioning strategies for international offshore oil/gas developments. Habitat and resource equivalency analysis.(3) As part of the NEBA-CA process for evaluating decommissioning alternatives for offshore oil & gas facilities, developed a novel method for evaluating the potential for adverse ecological effects resulting from long-term degradation of plastic-containing infrastructure. Member of the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council microplastics group, focusing on the ecological effects and environmental fate and transport characteristics of microplastics.(4) Risk assessment (ecological, human health, and vapor intrusion).(5) Large-scale project review and environmental reserves portfolio evaluation.(6) Terrestrial and aquatic ecological studies, e.g, small mammal demography studies, benthic community assessment, tissue residue studies.(7) Chemical forensics.(8) Exploratory statistical methods (univariate and multivariate).(9) Modeling groundwater geochemistry.(10) Incident (emergency) response environmental assessments.(11) Geospatial analysis (2D and 3D).