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Petura, P.E., LSRP*, DEE, QEP &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Principal/President</span> <br /> <span class="profileJustify">Mr. Petura is Founder and President of Applied Environmental Management, Inc. (AEM, 1988). He has practiced environmental engineering and management for more than 35 years for small business, as well as international corporate clients covering a wide spectrum of industry. He has served as project director, senior oversight consultant, and technical strategist on complex multi-multimedia programs for conventional and recalcitrant contaminants such as dioxins/furans, PCBs, pesticides, VOCs, SVOCs, petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals, cyanide, and chlorinated solvents in soils, sludge, sediment, and groundwater. He assists clients in the selection of project-specific teams of hand-picked professionals with expertise in hydrogeology, environmental chemistry, risk management, soil science, ecology and marine biology, and other disciplines to cost-effectively address site-specific conditions. His leadership, mentoring, communication, and technical writing skills are highly valued by clients and peers, as are his breadth of perspective on practical and regulatory-acceptable application options. He has led numerous programs through laboratory bench-scale research and field pilot treatability evaluation to determine performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness before coordinating remedy engineering design and construction at commercial scale. </p> <p class="profileJustify">He has a BS in Chemical Engineering (Bucknell University) and a MS in Environmental Engineering (Drexel University), is a Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) in New Jersey, a registered Professional Engineer in several states, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers® and a Qualified Environmental Professional® of the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice (IPEP). He is a Past-President and Director of the Council of Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards (CESB) <a href="http://www.cesb.org">www.cesb.org</a>, and a Past-President and Trustee [Secretary] of IPEP <a href="http://www.ipep.org">www.ipep.org</a>. Prior to founding AEM, Mr. Petura was engaged as a chemical and environmental engineer at an East Coast petroleum refinery and served as a project manager/director for a national environmental consulting firm based in SE Pennsylvania.</p> <p class="profileJustify">He has contributed many peer-reviewed published papers and peer-reviewed many manuscripts related to such topics as the treatment of VOC- and SVOC-contaminated groundwater, contingency planning and emergency response at hazardous waste management facilities, remediation of leaking underground storage tanks, characterization and remediation of hexavalent chromium contaminated soils and groundwater for such publications as Environ. Science & Technology, Journal of Environ. Quality, International Journal of Soil Contamination, and the Water Environment Federation Journal. </p> <p class="profileJustify">He authored or co-authored book chapters on Cr(VI) in soils and the development of design parameters for activated carbon adsorption systems, and has presented papers at national environmental conferences pertaining to site characterization and remediation.</p> <p class="profileJustify">He has occasionally served as an expert witness for specific legal challenges involving hazardous waste management, site characterization, and remediation technology application. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="hideTextDirections"> <p class="rightText"><script type="text/javascript"> /*<![CDATA[*/ /*********************************************** * Encrypt Email script- Please keep notice intact * Tool URL: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/emailriddler/ * **********************************************/ <!-- Encrypted version of: jpetura [at] *******.*** //--> var emailriddlerarray=[106,112,101,116,117,114,97,64,97,101,109,45,105,110,99,46,99,111,109] var encryptedemail_id98='' //variable to contain encrypted email for (var i=0; i<emailriddlerarray.length; i++) encryptedemail_id98+=String.fromCharCode(emailriddlerarray[i]) document.write('<a href="mailto:'+encryptedemail_id98+'?subject=Web Inquiry">E-mail John Petura</a>') /*]]>*/ </script></p></div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="bodyBoldCtr">Additional Profiles </p> <p class="centerText"><a href="profiles_Hammaker.html" target="_self">Mark K. 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