Bill Williams

About Bill Williams

PhD biophysics University of California Berkeley University of Illinois Urbana. Dr. Williams is a Senior Scientist with over 35 years of consulting experience. He provides Human Health and Ecological risk expertise to the Firm and oversight to the Biological and Ecological groups situated in the Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, WA, offices and provides a link to those disciplines throughout the firm. He supports the Environmental and Natural Resource Damage Assessment projects and risk mitigation strategies. Dr. Williams’ technical background focuses on environmental risk, including ecological and human health risk assessment, natural resource damage assessments, and project management. He has also worked extensively on numerous CERCLA and NPL sites projects, including restoration based natural resource damage assessments. He has managed projects in population-based effects of metals, pesticides, inorganics, and petroleum product wastes in terrestrial and aquatic systems. Dr. Williams has managed numerous large projects addressing concerns associated with pulp and paper mill effluents, chemical manufacturing, municipal waste treatment facilities, petroleum refinery effluents, and agricultural run-off (insecticides, herbicides). Dr. Williams has worked on numerous risk assessments across the USA with a focus on providing defensible and realistic evaluation of environmental injury and natural resource damage assessment claims (OPA and CERCLA).

Experience

1. Senior Consultant

   Infinity Solutions

   Jan 2014 — Present

   Senior Consultant specializing in environmental risk assessment, mitigation and remediation strategies, and NRDA.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  B.A., Physiology & Biophysics

  1959 — 1963

• University of California, Berkeley

  BA Biophysics, Biophysics

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Ph.D., Physiology & Biophysics

  1965 — 1968

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  M.S., Physiology & Biophysics

  1963 — 1965

Skills

• Groundwater Remediation
• Ecology
• Water Resources
• Environmental Compliance
• Soil
• Cercla
• Natural Resource Management
• Environmental Issues
• Environmental
• Aquatic Ecology
• Environmental Engineering
• Climate Change
• Sustainability
• Environmental Management Systems
• Environmental Auditing
• Sampling
• Remediation
• Environmental Consulting
• Mitigation
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Water
• Groundwater
• Environmental Remediation
• Environmental Science
• Environmental Awareness
• Hydrogeology
• Environmental Planning
• Risk Assessment
• Water Quality
• Hazardous Waste Management
• Natural Resources
• Environmental Permitting
• Environmental Policy