Northeast PFAS Panel: The Path Forward

Date: Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Time: 11am pacific / 2pm eastern

In this special webinar event we are pleased to host a panel of leading PFAS experts. Anthony Bollasina, PG of New York DEC, Elizabeth Denly of TRC, Grant Carey, PhD of Porewater Solutions, and Maureen Dooley of REGENESIS will join special guest moderator Sabrina Shankman, Reporter for The Boston Globe, to discuss the path forward for PFAS.

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About the Moderator:

Sabrina Shankman
Reporter, The Boston Globe
Sabrina Shankman covers the climate crisis for the Boston Globe as part of the Into the Red team. She joined the newspaper in 2021 after reporting for eight years at Inside Climate News, where she covered the arctic. Prior to that, she helped produce shows for PBS/Frontline and reported for ProPublica. She has reported on polar bear attacks from a helicopter, stayed in man-camps on Alaska’s North Slope and tracked the path of a terrorist through India and Denmark. At the Globe, her work helps readers understand climate change-fueled extreme weather events, the emerging science and policy of climate change, and the work being done at the state and regional level to address the crisis. Her work has won national recognition, including from the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Headliner Awards, and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She got her start as a crime reporter at the Taunton Daily Gazette, and has a masters in journalism from U.C. Berkeley.

About the Panelists:

Anthony Bollasina, PG
Section Chief, Emerging Contaminants Unit, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC)
Anthony Bollasina, P.G. is a geologist with over a decade of experience in environmental remediation and sustainability, specializing in emerging contaminants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and 1,4-dioxane. As Section Chief of the Emerging Contaminants Unit at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Anthony oversees environmental investigations of PFAS and 1,4-dioxane sites, ensuring public health and environmental safety. Prior to this, he worked at Terracon as an Environmental Staff Geologist, managing fieldwork and environmental projects, including Phase II Site Assessments, remedial design, and third party construction oversight.

Elizabeth Denly
Vice President, PFAS Initiative Leader & Chemistry Director, TRC
Ms. Denly serves as TRC’s PFAS Initiative Leader & Chemistry Director. Ms. Denly is currently serving on the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) PFAS team, is a co-leader on the PFAS History & Use Naming Conventions sub-team, serves as a trainer for this team, and won the 2017 and 2022 ITRC Industry Affiliates Award for her contributions to this team. She was also elected to serve on the ITRC board. She works on many different types of PFAS investigations with a specific focus on risk liability assessment/management plans, chemistry, sampling procedures, data interpretation, forensics, QA/QC, and analytical methodologies. Her major areas of expertise include emerging contaminants, data evaluation, quality assurance project plans, data usability assessments, field and laboratory audits, and consulting for regulatory agencies.

Grant Carey, PhD
President, Porewater Solutions
Dr. Grant Carey is President of Porewater Solutions, and he has more than 30 years of experience focusing on the characterization and remediation of hundreds of impacted sites. Dr. Carey currently specializes in PFAS fate and remediation, environmental forensics, groundwater modeling, and research and development. Dr. Carey has developed the In-Situ Remediation Model (ISR Model) which is a three-dimensional reactive transport model for simulating the performance of in-situ sorption barriers for PFAS and chlorinated solvent plumes. Dr. Carey is collaborating with various university partners to advance PFAS research including a number of SERDP-ESTCP projects for the U.S. Department of Defense. Dr. Carey is also an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Carey has published more than 100 short courses, seminars, and papers, and he has developed and delivered professional education based on interactive classroom, e-learning, and web seminars. Dr. Carey has participated on numerous ITRC projects involving the development of industry guidance manuals including for PFAS. Dr. Carey is also participating in the development of a National Ground Water Association White Paper on PFAS Forensics.

Maureen Dooley
Vice President – Industrial Sector, REGENESIS
Maureen Dooley has over twenty-five years of experience in many aspects of the remediation industry, including project management, research and development, senior technical oversight, remedial design and laboratory management. Her prior experience includes the completion of numerous treatability studies designed to evaluate the biodegradation of a wide range of chemical constituents including chlorinated solvents, petroleum hydrocarbons, explosives, aromatic hydrocarbons, and pesticides. In her current role at REGENESIS, she provides technical leadership for complex soil and groundwater remediation projects, including PFAS groundwater contamination treatment, throughout North America, as well as remediation design, strategy, and business development in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.