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Vincent W. Uhl – Professional Hydrogeologist

Mr. Uhl has over 40 years experience in the exploration, development, management, protection and remediation of groundwater and surface water for public, industrial and agricultural uses. He consults to industry, municipalities, local governments, international governments, NGOs, USAID contractors, consulting firms and legal clients on projects with water resource components.  He has worked extensively in the United States, southern and eastern Africa, Afghanistan, the Philippines, and India, and in 15 other countries on short-term assignments.

For his many municipal utility, township, and private clients in the United States, he has managed test and production well drilling programs, aquifer pumping tests, well rehabilitation programs, wellhead protection program development, land use impact evaluations and provided technical support for water allocation permitting.  He has investigated and characterized hundreds of industrial sites, large municipal landfills, interstate petroleum and gas pipelines, and formulated remedial strategies with regulatory authorities.         

Internationally, Mr. Uhl initiated and directed for 5 years a water supply development for an NGO in Central India which evolved into an organization with over 50 employees that installed over 3,000 wells, and provided a full-service approach to water supply development.  He was the Team Leader of a two-year groundwater exploration project performed for the government in northwest Botswana by a multi-disciplinary team including academics, consultants and practitioners in many specialized technical fields, that resulted in identifying and quantifying regional water resources in the Kalahari Desert at the distal end of the Okavango Delta and the installation of well fields.  Short-term expert assignments have ranged from a country-wide evaluation of groundwater resources and conditions in Afghanistan to the costing of potable water systems in Ecuador.

Mr. Uhl has taught graduate level courses in hydrogeology at the University of Maryland, and the University of Akola in India.  He was an adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey where he taught a course in Applied Hydrogeology from 1986 to 1990.  He has mentored students at the University of Pennsylvania in connection with an Engineers Without Borders project in Cameroon and Guatemala.  

Certified Professional Geologist - AIPG No. 6519

Certified Professional Hydrogeologist - AIH No. 389

M.S. Hydrogeology, University of Arizona, 1976

M.S. Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 1970

B.S.  Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1966

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Kidist H. Tadesse – Hydrogeologist

Kidist Tadesse is an experienced hydrogeologist with a strong background in hydrogeological investigations, including groundwater monitoring, well design, drilling oversight, pumping tests, water quality monitoring, and environmental impact assessment. She is skilled at supporting multidisciplinary teams in planning and executing field sampling programs, managing environmental data, and conducting geological and water resource evaluations, groundwater-surface water interaction, and managed aquifer recharge.

Kidist is experienced in technical documentation, data management, stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, project delivery, and is skilled in analyzing and interpreting data using a variety of technical software.

Ph.D. Geological Engineering (Hydrogeology), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

M.Sc. Hydrogeology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopa

B.Sc. Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

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Jaclyn A. Baron – Chemical and Water Resources Engineer

Ms. Baron has 30 years experience in industry and consulting on water resource and environmental projects. Her clients include private corporations, commercial entities, legal firms, municipal entities, and insurers. She has been the administrative manager and technical report writer for a variety of extended projects involving groundwater components. She has been the principal peer reviewer of her firm’s environmental and hydrogeologic reports, and has lent her judgment and expertise to many technical documents prepared for litigation and cost negotiation purposes.

In her expansive site assessment, investigation and cleanup practice, she has addressed many different sites with typical and unique contaminant transport characteristics including natural gas pipeline compressor stations, electronics plants, an aluminum refinery, dry cleaners, hazardous waste landfills and treatment facilities, solid waste landfills, residential and commercial fuel oil tanks, bus company facilities, gasoline stations, and historical farmsteads.  In addition to contributing her knowledge regarding the water quality aspects of these projects, she has directed their technical and administrative implementation under federal and state superfund programs, specific state rules for site assessments, property transfer circumstances, and voluntary cleanups.  She has also participated in a range of watershed studies and water supply projects.       

Internationally, Ms. Baron was the principal technical editor of the Final Report for a two-year groundwater exploration project performed for the government in northwest Botswana with sections prepared by the various members of a multi-disciplinary team including academics, consultants and practitioners in specialized technical fields including remote sensing, test well drilling, structural geology, surface water hydrology and well field modeling.  She subsequently prepared the water quality monitoring parts of a Management Plan for several of the well fields planned as a result of this project. 

M.S. Water Resources Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 1982

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, New York, 1975

Bronx High School of Science

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