Kolm, Kenneth

Dr. Kenneth Kolm has more than 35 years of professional experience, of which 25 years are in academic teaching and research and more than 10 years are in formal private consulting, including government work and litigation support. Dr. Kolm specializes in the fields of hydrogeology and hydrologic and environmental systems analysis, with an emphasis on groundwater and surface water science and engineering, wetlands environments, expedited environmental site characterization and remediation, and watershed and ecosystem characterization, management, and restoration. He developed the integrated Hydrologic and Environmental Systems Analysis (HESA) and has applied it to mine and resource development and mined-land restoration, municipal management of groundwater system supply and pollution, watershed and site-scale pollution prevention and Superfund cleanup, and water rights and water quality expert witness and litigation support. Dr. Kolm undertakes a geo-based, systems-oriented, multidisciplinary, multi-temporal and multi-scale approach to solving environmental and engineering problems, incorporating the use of both field and laboratory methods and computer and mathematical modeling tools, such as GIS and MODFLOW.