Dr. Richardson is an Environmental Engineer at GSI with fifteen years of consulting/research experience in soil and groundwater remediation and environmental site investigation. Dr. Richardson is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and Alberta, Canada. He holds a doctoral degree in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.S. degree from Louisiana State University, and a B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He served as the technical lead for a recently completed DOE-funded research project examining the environmental effects of shale gas operations, specifically air emissions, dissolved gases in groundwater, and flowback/produced water characterization. Currently, he serves as a technical advisor on two DOE NETL research projects focused on measurement methods and technologies to quantify methane emissions from i) natural gas compressors in the gathering segment and ii) natural gas storage wells and fields.