John Buck
Soil Scientist / Project Manager at Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
- Role
- Project Manager at Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About John Buck
31 years consulting experience applying biology and soil science to restore disturbed land at substantially reduced cost and with minimal exploitation of natural resources. Expertise includes reclamation and revegetation of drastically disturbed land; ecological restoration; evaluation and treatment of contaminated soils; phytoremediation of contaminated soils and groundwater; in-situ bioremediation; studies of the relationship of soil chemistry to plant growth and to plant uptake of nutrients and trace/toxic elements; wetland treatment system design and performance evaluation. Experience in design and management of automated monitoring systems to track the performance of green roofs and rain garden green infrastructure for stormwater reduction and monitoring hydrology of streams and adjacent floodplains. Chatham University (Pittsburgh, PA) adjunct faculty Lecturer.Specialties: Soil science applied to revegetation of drastically disturbed land, phytoremediation, green infrastructure design and monitoring, natural system hydrologic monitoring, and ecological restoration.
Experience
Project Manager
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Sep 1992 — Present
Conceptualizes, executes, and manages projects that apply scientific principles to the remediation and revegetation of drastically disturbed land, design and evaluation of performance of a range of green infrastructure practices, and land based management of stormwater and treated wastewater.
Education
Governor Livingston Regional High School
HS, College Prep
1971 — 1975
Penn State University
MS, Agronomy
1980 — 1984
Lehigh University
BS, Biology
1975 — 1980
Chatham University
(adjunct faculty), Adjunct Faculty (Soil Science)
1998 — 2015
Skills
- Water Quality
- Environmental Compliance
- Remediation
- Natural Resources
- Water Resource Management
- Environmental Awareness
- Environmental Permitting
- Stormwater Management
- Waste
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Environmental Engineering
- Groundwater
- Phytoremediation
- Water Resources
- Ecology
- Green Infrastructure
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Water
- Teaching
- Leed
- Environmental Science
- Soil Science
- Environmental Consulting
- Project Management
- Soil
- Ecological Restoration
- Wetlands
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