Windward Environmental LLC
An environmental science and engineering consulting firm
Windward specializes in managing environmental liabilities associated with freshwater and marine sites for a growing list of clients in the regulated community. The Windward team has developed and applied innovative tools and techniques to solve problems and meet our clients' environmental needs through the use of state-of-the-art analysis tools, site-specific field studies or laboratory analyses (where appropriate), engineering site investigations, agency negotiation support, and if necessary, litigation.
Windward was founded on the premise that environmental consultants can best serve clients’ interests by providing high-quality, defensible data and analyses for use in decision making. Because our technical approach is based on sound scientific principles, we can identify, investigate, and solve environmental problems transparently and without bias, even in the most controversial settings. As a consequence, our work is given serious consideration by all parties in contested situations.
Recent public appearances by Windward staff
Advanced Sediment Conference
June 5, 2008 - Windward Partners Lisa Saba and John Toll spoke at this one-day conference in Portland, OR.
- Ms. Saban's presentation was Key Technical Issues at Contaminated Sediment Projects: Case Studies of Large Complex Sediment Sites.
- Dr. Toll's presentation was Getting to your Remediation Goals using a Food Web Model: Protecting Human Health and Ecological Receptors.
Mitigation and Conservation Banking workshop
On May 2, 2008 Windward Partner Lisa Saban co-hosted an advanced one-day workshop on Mitigation and Conservation Banking, presented by Law Seminars International (PDF brochure for workshop). Windward Senior Estuarine Ecologist Ron Gouguet spoke on the topic Nuts and Bolts of Implementing Mitigation Banks at this workshop.
Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Windward scientists presented two posters at the 2008 meeting of PNW SETAC:
- Practical considerations in deriving dose-response-based TRVs from the toxicological literature, presented by Matt Luxon et al.
- Assessment of the bioavailability of sediment-associated metals and toxicity to benthic organisms, presented by Helle Andersen et al.
Compensatory Wetland Mitigation in Washington State
Windward scientists Maryann Welsch, Fiona McNair, and Jenny Buening gave this presentation at Wetland Regulation: What you don't know can hurt you, a seminar held in Tacoma in March 2008.
Development of Initial Preliminary Remediation Goals Using a Food Web Model
Windward partner John Toll, PhD gave this presentation at the SETAC-North America annual meeting in Milwaukee in December 2007. The same presentation was given by Windward senior scientist Nancy Judd to the Society for Risk Analysis in San Antonio, also in December 2007.