Richard J. Baldwin

Biography

 Richard J. Baldwin has nearly 30 years of environmental experience, with particular expertise in storm recovery and remedial actions, resiliency, flood-event evaluation, environmental investigations, waterway studies, building material surveys and indoor air quality (IAQ) investigation at industrial, private, federal and publicly-owned facilities. He has led Hurricane Sandy recovery operations and post-Sandy resiliency projects, most notably the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Rebuild by Design (RBD) competition. Throughout his career, Rich has focused on lake, river, coastline, bay and estuarine environmental processes, and is well versed in collecting and analysing soil, soil vapor, groundwater, bottom sediment and water column samples. He has designed and implemented remedial investigations (RIs), remediation work plans, evasive species identification and eradication, bathymetric surveys, geotechnical evaluations, regulatory permit evaluation/acquisition, contractor evaluation/oversight, and public awareness and education. Rich has experience in evaluating potential environmental impacts of projects, including golf courses, housing developments, senior housing, schools and retail shopping centers. For the last several years, his work has focused primarily on sites and facilities located in the Long Island (i.e., Nassau and Suffolk Counties), New York City, New Jersey and Upstate New York areas. Rich also has extensive knowledge of - and experience with - Long Island’s federally designated sole-source drinking water aquifer system. He earned a BA in geology from San Francisco State University, and is a licensed Professional Geologist in Pennsylvania and an American Institute of Professional Geologists Certified Professional Geologist.

Research Interest

 Geology.