Richard Marty, Ph.D.

Senior Geochemist

Rich Marty is a geologist, low-temperature geochemist, and biologist with over twenty-nine years of broad experience in characterizing, selecting remedies for, and remediating environmental problems. He has experience sampling contaminated soil, buildings, groundwater, surface water, biota, and air. Clients have included the US Department of Energy (DOE), the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), Canadian and provincial governments, the Japanese government, and private clients.  

Examples of Rich’s recent experience include preparing documents to support drilling at the Hanford Reservation, development and implementation of a plan for Decontamination and Decommissioning a warehouse used to store uranium ore (for Fission Energy), development of a plan to characterize soils and surface water down gradient of a proposed uranium mine in the Grants Uranium District of New Mexico, development of plans to characterize and remediate radioactive soil contamination at the Nevada Test Site, and revision, correction, and refinement of the risk/dose assessment prepared for nuclear weapons testing on Amchitka Island, Alaska.

Rich’s earlier s work included projects at the U.S. Department of Energy sites at Idaho National Laboratory (INL); at Rocky Flats, Colorado; and Pantex, Texas as well as work in Japan, Canada, Alaska and elsewhere.  He has managed staffs of various sizes and prepared written and oral proposals/presentations.

 

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