QUEST
ENVIRONMENTAL
Services
offers Consulting, Monitoring, Sampling, and Evaluation in fresh water, salt
water, beach, and shore environments. With
experience in surface, water column, bottom sediment, and species sampling, and
more than half a century invested in the Gulf and Eastern Seaboard, Quest
Environmental brings regulatory and academic expertise together with
professional mariners to produce a company with unique ability to service the
growing environmental sector.
Core
Staff
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Captain
Jack L Gaines USPHS (ret) As a marine
biologist, Jack l Gaines spent more than thirty two years with state and
national agencies doing bacteriological and other water and sea food quality
studies. During more than 25,000
hours in the field Jack worked with NOAA, EPA, Harbor Branch, University of
Connecticut and many more state and private agencies.
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Jack
L. Gaines II Capt USMM As
a Merchant Marine Officer Jack L Gaines II has spent over twenty five years
commercial fishing, working in the oil fields, working disaster recovery, and
managing logistics. “Jackie” has
worked both coasts of the US, Central America, The Caribbean,
and the Northern coast of South America.
In addition to commercial work Jack has done numerous water qualities and
sediment surveys for NOAA and the EPA and specializes in species retrieval.
Consultants
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John
D Rakovan Phd. Associate Professor, Department of Geology
Miami University, Oxford, OH, Research
involves the integration of low temperature geochemistry and mineralogy in the
study of crystal surfaces and water-rock interactions found in natural systems.
In particular, environmentally significant processes such as crystal growth,
metal sorption, trace element partitioning and other surface mediated reactions.
Current research projects include: The role of crystal surface structure on
trace element incorporation during growth; crystal chemistry of the lanthanides
and actinides in apatite; crystal growth and trace element incorporation in
fluorite and apatite; understanding fundamental interactions between aqueous
metal species and soil minerals; structural transformations in clay minerals.
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Monica Rakovan Watershed Coordinator University of Miami Ohio,
17 years of environmental experience in the private sector, federal and
state governments and university systems. Currently, the watershed coordinator
for the Twin Creek watershed in southwest Ohio and serve as the Project Manager
for the Center for Sustainable Systems at the Institute of Environmental
Sciences at Miami University. Monica
is currently pursuing a doctorate in hydrology at Miami University. Areas of
specialty include hydrology, hydrologic modeling, water quality, grant writing,
environmental education and outreach.
