Our Network of Experts
At Wenning Environmental, we have access to a network of skilled and experienced environmental professionals with decades of experience and specialized technical expertise who complement our work and provide clients with additional insights and solutions.
Pieter Booth is a biodiversity expert and specializes in environmental risk assessment and the application of the US NRDA process to measure environmental injuries and estimate restoration costs. His consulting career began with the first U.S. environmental damages case filed at the Anaconda mine complex in Butte, Montana, in the early 1980s. Since then, he has led and participated in many of the country’s most extensive natural resource damage assessments. He has testified in court about environmental damages in several Latin American countries. His work in biodiversity and social due diligence auditing has helped clients in the transportation and energy sectors improve their environmental and social management systems (ESMS) across Central and South America.
Dr. Charles Menzie specializes in applying risk assessment and causal analysis to evaluate environmental impacts and identify the causes of ecological injuries and damages. His technical expertise includes assessing the environmental fate and effects of physical, biological, and chemical stressors on land and water systems. Dr. Menzie has a broad view of the ecotoxicological and risk assessment challenges facing ecosystems worldwide. He has worked across the United States and Canada, as well as in South America, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, and Australia. Dr. Menzie served as the Global Executive Director of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) until retiring in 2023.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-menzie-23a9153/
charles.menzie@gmail.com O/M: +1-571-214-3648
Timothy Havranek specializes in quantitative decision analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis, and probabilistic financial modeling. He advises clients on executing and managing complex environmental projects using project auditing and cost control tools. His experience with quantitative modeling covers a broad range of applications, including evaluating strategies to bring a new product to market, managing waters from hydraulic fracturing operations, estimating lifecycle environmental liabilities, evaluating mine closure strategies, optimizing manufacturing operations, and assessing environmental remediation strategies. He is the author of Modern Project Management Techniques for the Environmental Remediation Industry (1999, CRC Press) and Multicriteria Decision Making: Systems Modeling, Risk Assessment, and Financial Analysis for Technical Projects (2023, DeGruyter).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyhavranek/
timothy.havranek@opta-corp.com M: +1-412-216-3500
Joseph Nicolette is highly respected in the international offshore oil and gas industry for his contributions to developing quantitative net environmental benefit analysis (NEBA) and comparative environmental risk-benefit and cost-benefit analyses for platform and subsea infrastructure permitting and end-of-life decommissioning. He has worked with clients in 18 countries and major energy fields worldwide. His expertise as a technical and expert witness in litigation includes freshwater and marine fisheries management, resource injury assessment, restoration planning, environmental assessment, and emergency response to crude oil and petroleum product spills and chemical releases. He has performed natural resource damage assessments under US NRDA regulations and the European Union Environmental Liabilities Directive (ELD).