Short Biography, Michael J. Wade Ph.D. University of Rhode Island - 1979 B.A. Grinnell College - 1968 Dr. Michael J. Wade is Principal Scientist of Wade Research, Inc., a small business that provides geochemical consulting services to a variety of government agencies, industrial clients, and law firms. Wade Research, Inc. has been in business since 1992. Dr. Wade is an organic geochemist with 33 years of strong technical and project management experience in a variety of research programs with special emphasis on study of petroleum pollution in the environment. His general areas of forensic geochemical expertise are: evaluation of the detailed hydrocarbon composition of petroleum products, assessment of the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in the environment, innovative hydrocarbon fingerprinting techniques, chlorinated dibenzodioxin and dibenzofuran fingerprinting techniques, development of bioremediation approaches for chlorinated and aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated and phosphorus pesticides in contaminated soils and sediments, impacts of waste disposal outfalls in the coastal ocean for both industrial and municipal wastes, natural resource damage assessments for major oil spills in U.S. coastal waters, and analytical method development for a wide variety of organic chemical pollutants. As part of the current assignment mix, Dr. Wade is engaged in the conduct of numerous projects dealing with the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in underground soils, development of quantitative hydrocarbon fingerprinting techniques that identify sources of subsurface petroleum contamination, and quantitative assessment of fluxes of petroleum hydrocarbons to the coastal marine environment. Over the past fifteen years working through Wade Research, Inc., he has refined quantitative field and laboratory investigation approaches that are designed to establish time frames for the release of gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel and heavier fuel oils in subsurface petroleum contamination cases. These approaches currently measure geochemical differences in petroleum contamination originating from sudden releases of petroleum products in the environment and compares the result to releases occurring over a number of years. The overall approach includes the calculation of time horizons for the release of a variety of petroleum products to the environment. Annually, Dr. Wade conducts over 20 to 30 such programs for clients throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Wade has conducted numerous geochemical programs that have documented the impacts of chemical pollution in the marine environment, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Monitoring Program for Tributyltins in the Marine Environment; the U. S. Navy's Biomonitoring Program at NWS Earle, New Jersey; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contaminated sediment remediation program in New Bedford, Massachusetts; the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's Massachusetts Bay Ocean Outfall Siting Study; the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's Massachusetts Bay Ocean Outfall Monitoring Study; the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Bioremediation project at Boston Naval Shipyard; the South Atlantic Bight Benchmark Program; the joint oil and gas industry-U.S. EPA 10 Platform Study in the Gulf of Mexico and numerous other programs. Prior to starting his own geochemical consulting company in November 1992, he was Director of the Environmental, Health and Safety Practice at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Wade has also served as Associate Section Manager for Battelle Memorial Institute in Duxbury, Massachusetts and as Vice President of ETC Corporation in Dallas, Texas. Earlier in his career he served as environmental scientist with Gibbs and Hill, Inc., and Texas Instruments, Incorporated in Dallas, Texas. Wade Research, Inc. belongs to the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, and to several national professional societies, including the American Chemical Society, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences, and the International Society of Environmental Forensics. Dr. Wade participates in the conduct of these professional societies during their annual meetings by presentation of various types of technical papers, as well as serving in volunteer positions and completing various professional workshops.