EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

 Rebecca Buchanan

 SWEP Board Officer - Chair 

Co-Chair Membership and Website/PR/Social Media Committees

 AECOM 

Contact by Email |610-234-5402

Rebecca Buchanan is an Environmental Manager with AECOM in their Conshohocken, Pennsylvania office and is a Certified AECOM Project Manager and Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC). Rebecca has over fifteen years of experience in project management, environmental and natural resource permitting and impacts assessment, and electric utilities siting experience, and has worked on projects in a variety of fields including electrical utilities, oil and gas, and land development.  Rebecca is also is a member of the Women's Energy Network (WEN), Pennsylvania Environmental Professionals (PAEP), the United Women's Hockey League, and Delaware Valley Women's Fly Fishing Association.

Victoria Bisbing SWEP Board Officer - Treasurer BrightFields, Inc. Contact by Email | 302-656-9600x118

Victoria Bisbing is a project manager at BrightFields, Inc., a woman owned business located in Wilmington, Delaware.  Victoria earned her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from Ursinus College and her Master’s degree in Applied Geoscience from the University of Pennsylvania.  She has over 10 years of experience performing and managing site investigations and remedial actions for industrial, commercial, and government clients.  She is experienced in: project planning; proposal preparation; managing project technical tasks, budgets, and schedules; organizing and directing project teams; preparing work plans, sampling and analysis plans, and health and safety plans; collecting multi-media samples; evaluating analytical data; and preparing risk assessments and technical reports for Phase II, Brownfield, and Remedial Investigations.  In addition, Victoria has managed remedial action projects, including: preparing Feasibility Studies; developing cost estimates and written Remedial Action Plans; performing oversight of remedial actions; and preparing Completion Reports.  On all of her projects, Victoria manages and tracks budgets and schedules, ensures technical quality, and communicates with the client and regulators.

	Jessica Stearns SWEP Board Officer - Secretary,                    GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. Contact by Email | 267-464-3625

Jessica Stearns is a geologist/project manager at GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc., in Philadelphia, PA where she specializes in environmental site investigation and remediation. She currently manages several investigation and remediation projects in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but also has project experience in Delaware, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, and West Virginia. Ms. Stearns holds a BS/BA in Geology and Applied Anthropology from Appalachian State University and a MS in Environmental Policy from the University of Denver. Prior to joining GZA in 2015, Ms. Stearns was a geologist at an engineering consulting firm located in Raleigh, NC. She has been a member of SWEP since 2015.

Vacant Positions:

• Executive Co-Chair

Board of Directors 

  Ammie Martin

  SWEP Board Member, Technical Programs Committee Chair, & 
    Website/PR/Social Media Committee Co-Chair 

  Environmental Standards, Inc.

  Contact by Email |610-935-5577 x429

Ammie Martin is a Senior Technical Chemist and the Corporate Quality Assurance and Training Specialist at Environmental Standards, Inc. out of their Valley Forge, PA office. Ms. Martin earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Georgia Southern University. She has over 15 years of diverse environmental laboratory and quality assurance experience. As a Senior Technical Chemist, she manages several data validation projects; is responsible for the validation of organic, inorganic, and radiological analytical data; and audits laboratory facilities. As the Corporate Quality Assurance and Training Specialist, Ms. Martin oversees the company’s Learning Management System (LMS), prepares data validation standard operating procedures (SOPs), and develops internal training programs to train quality assurance chemists.

Andrea Decola
Membership Committee Chair  

Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories, LLC
 Contact by Email |717-656-2300

Andrea DeCola currently hold a position as Senior Account Manager with Eurofins Environment Testing America. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Kutztown University in Environmental Science/Biology and has over 25 years of experience in the industry.  Andrea’s experience in the environmental industry includes bench analytical, project management and business development for the environmental laboratory industry as well as business development  for the environmental services/contracting industry.  Andrea has served on the social committee as well as the fundraising committee for Touchstone Awards for SWEP.

Laurel Klein
Scholarship & Grants Committee Chair

 SLR Consulting

Contact by Emaillklein@slrconsulting.com |856-264 5821

Laurel Klein is a Project Scientist at SLR Consulting where she specializes in Due Diligence Phase I & II ESAs including ground water sampling, soil sampling, and soil vapor intrusion assessments.  She holds a BS in Environmental Science from Stockton University, with a minor in chemistry.  Ms. Klein began her career following her graduation from Stockton in 2019.  She has been a member of SWEP since 2019. 

 Katie Eberhart

 SWEP Board of Director
  

Orsted

 Contact by Email |215-630-0824

Katie Eberhart is a Senior Environmental and Permitting Specialist at Orsted where she supports offshore wind project development. She brings to that role more than 21 years of experience primarily focused on managing natural resource related issues regulated by the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, FERC 7(c), RCRA/CERCLA, NEPA, and other federal and state regulatory programs.  More specifically she has worked in the areas of wetland investigations and restoration monitoring; wildlife/threatened and endangered species studies; vegetation surveys; environmental permitting; habitat assessments; invasive species management; ecological risk assessment for CERCLA, RCRA, and state programs; and a variety of other environmental compliance programs. 

Katie earned a B.S. degree in Biology from Muhlenberg College and an M.S. degree in Ecology from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where she studied lizard foraging ecology and got her start as an avid birdwatcher.  She is on SWEP's Grants and Scholarships committee and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and the Wyncote Audubon Society.

   Marjorie Robinson, EIT

   SWEP Board of Director and Social Committee Co-Chair
                                          

Marjorie Robinson is an engineer and graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Systems Engineering and a minor in German. She has four years of experience in environmental permitting, collecting multi-media samples, preparing technical reports, and organizing field tasks. Marjorie is currently an Engineer in Training (EIT) and is on track to acquire her professional engineering license (PE). Marjorie has worked for Philadelphia area environmental consulting firms over the last few years. Marjorie has been a member of SWEP since 2019; she is co-chair of the Social Committee and is also on the Touchstones Committee.

 

Vacant Positions:

• Touchstone Committee Chair/Co-Chair