ELS' Personnel are members of a number of Professional Associations including:

• European Geophysical Society (EGS)
• International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)
• International Association for Environmental Hydrology (IAEH)
• Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM)
• Approved Technical Advisor to the Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE)
• Comite Europeen des Assurances - Insurers of Europe (CEA)
• Environmental Experts Working Group (EEWG)
• Insurance Institute of Ireland
• Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA Steering Group membership)
• Irish Environmental Law Association (IELA)

We use our knowledge and understanding of the environment to further the aims of sustainable development. This includes analysis and evaluation of problems from an environmental perspective, the development of practical solutions, and leadership in sustainable management of the environment. We have demonstrated a personal commitment to professional standards, recognising our obligations to society, our profession and the environment.

Our sustainable approach is supported and put into practice by up-to-date information obtained from membership of recognised professional environmental and academic institutions.

We adopt a collegiate cross-disciplined approach, for example, in the delivery of environmental goals based upon the combined expertise of our personnel and associates.

We foster best practice in all aspects of our professional conduct.

In addition to assisting our clients with regulatory compliance and sustainable practices, we also contribute to environmental policy development and legislation transposition through membership of environmental organisations.

We collaborate with third level institutions through research, teaching and support to environmental science and engineering students. Further, we collaborate with a number of accredited expert specialist consultants & contractors to supplement core expertise when required.

Dawn holds a B.A. (Mod) Environmental Science (Hons), from Trinity College Dublin, 1994 and an MSc. Environmental Engineering (Distinction), from Queens University Belfast (QUB), 2002.

Dawn has over fourteen years experience as an environmental engineer in Ireland, Europe and the United States.

During her years working in Ireland, her responsibilities have included contaminated land investigation, commercial and residential oil spill investigation and remediation, landfill assessment/closure, brownfield site clean-up, Integrated Pollution Prevention Control (IPPC) and Waste Licence procurement, environmental risk assessment, environmental management planning and control, waste management, waste and compliance audits, due diligence investigation, training and liaison with regulatory authorities.

While working in the United States (1994-1998), and during her time as Assistant Vice President at International Environmental Services (IES) a Chicago based firm, she managed the investigation of policyholder environmental claims associated with Superfund and State controlled sites. These investigations included contaminant migration studies, financial exposure control for site investigation & remediation, and multi-site environmental appraisals of Fortune 500 firms.

Dawn also worked as a field scientist on the Acetochlor-Registration Partnership (ARP), an intensive groundwater investigation located throughout the US mid-west region.

Ulrich holds a PhD in Hydrogeology (Dr.sci.nat), from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), 2001, and a Diploma in Geology (Dipl.Geol.), from the University of Kiel & Ghent, 1997

Ulrich joined ELS in December 2005 as Contract Senior Hydrogeologist. He currently also holds a permanent lectureship and research position in the School of Planning, Architecture, & Civil Engineering at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB). He is the Course Director of the MSC. Environmental Engineering Programme at QUB.

A qualified Hydrogeologist, his main areas of expertise include contaminant hydrogeology, quantitative risk assessment, remedial design and supervision, hydraulic testing and numerical modelling. He has particular interest in environmental liability legislation and his experience also includes GIS, geophysical investigations and site investigation of a range of organic and inorganic contamination at a variety of industrial sites.

Previously, Ulrich worked in Ireland as a Senior Hydrogeologist, on a series of medium to large scale environmental projects for an international client base.

During his research at ETH, Switzerland and at Queen's University, Ulrich has carried out comprehensive work on groundwater hydraulics in fractured rock, numerical modelling, and contaminated land remedial technologies.

John's academic qualifications include:

• MBA - with special emphasis on Human Resource Management and Marketing from Warwick University, Coventry, UK, 1991;
• M.Sc. in Industrial Management from Birmingham University, UK, 1989;
• and Degree in Plastics Engineering from North London University, UK, 1987.

John joined ELS in 2008 as a Contract Engineer and he is responsible for our Energy Division Services. John holds a Building Energy Rating (BER) Assessor Certificate from the Department of Physics, University of Limerick.

John has over fifteen years work experience in Ireland, UK and the US. His experience includes working as a process engineer to senior management level at Ford Motor Company & its subsidiary Visteon, Michigan, US (1994-1999), Pcubed (1999-2002) as Project Management Consultant, Boston Scientific, Galway, Ireland (2003-2004) as Process Engineer and Molex, Shannon, Ireland as Process Improvement Manager.

Carol holds a BSc in EarthScience (Hons), from University of Cork, 1995 and a PhD in Physics. Centre of Nuclear and Radiation Physics, University of Surrey, UK, 2005.

Carol has held former remediation/project management positions at VHE Construction, UK (Remediation Engineer), Celtic Technology UK, (Remediation Manager), Con Form UK, (Technical Manager & Estimator) and RSK Group plc. (Senior Consultant).

Whilst working in this sector, she had undertaken remediation design & management of brownfield redevelopments for a wide range of client sectors (including manufacturing, power utilities and petrochemicals). Her responsibilities have included business development, estimating & tendering (Ireland & Great Britain); contaminated land investigation/remediation/risk assessment; regulatory/client liaison; mobile treatment licensing/deployment in the integrated risk management & remediation of contaminated land contracts.

Carol has also worked as a research scientist on the colloidal characterisation of groundwater (Triassic Sandstone Major Aquifer, UK) as a tracer study of contaminant characterisation/transport (University of Birmingham, 1995; under EPRSC Funded); R&D technology trials into surfactant enhanced bioreactor treatments and mineralization testing of hydrocarbon degradation (NERI, Roskilde, 1999 under T3Net, TCD Funding).