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PFAS Background Studies for Site Management
📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026
⏰ 12:00–2:00 PM ET
💻 Free to attend
🎓 2 PDHs for EnviroClass Members
About the Webinar
As PFAS science continues to evolve and regulatory thresholds become increasingly stringent, environmental professionals face growing challenges in distinguishing site-related impacts from widespread ambient and non-site-related sources.
In this practical webinar, Maggie Radford and Dr. Stephen Richardson will explore how established background study principles can be adapted to PFAS. Using a real-world case study, they will walk through study planning, sampling design, data evaluation, and interpretation strategies that support technically sound and defensible site management, remediation, and liability decisions.
What You’ll Learn
✅ Why PFAS background studies are increasingly important
✅ How PFAS differs from traditional background studies
✅ When regional or site-specific studies are needed
✅ How to design a defensible PFAS background study
✅ PFAS-specific sampling and field considerations
✅ Statistical and multiple-lines-of-evidence approaches
✅ How to distinguish background from site-related PFAS
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This webinar is free for all to attend, but PDH certificates are available only to active EnviroClass members who attend live and complete the webinar requirements.
We won’t be hosting this same webinar again, so don’t miss this in-depth educational experience. Register today!
Meet Your Instructors
Maggie Radford, P.E.
Senior Environmental Engineer
Jacobs
Maggie Radford, P.E., is a Senior Environmental Engineer, PFAS subject matter expert, and Navy PFAS Program Manager at Jacobs. She has 17 years of experience supporting federal environmental programs, including more than a decade focused on PFAS investigations and response actions.
Maggie leads PFAS technical efforts across more than 85 DoD installations and 450 sites nationwide, including preliminary assessments, site inspections, remedial investigations, background studies, drinking-water evaluations, removal actions, and pilot studies. She oversaw the Navy’s first installation-specific PFAS background study, securing state and federal regulatory concurrence, and currently leads a team conducting nine background studies, including two large regional studies.
Her expertise includes developing defensible sampling strategies and conceptual site models, evaluating ambient and local PFAS sources, and integrating groundwater conditions, upgradient impacts, and site-specific release patterns into regulatory and remediation decisions.
Contact: [email protected]
Stephen Richardson, PhD, PE, PEng
Vice President & Principal Engineer
GSI Environmental Inc.
Dr. Stephen Richardson is a Vice President and Principal Engineer with GSI Environmental Inc. and has more than 20 years of academic and consulting experience in PFAS research, treatment, and litigation support, as well as soil and groundwater remediation, environmental site investigation, and engineering design.
He specializes in innovative treatment strategies for PFAS and other emerging and conventional contaminants in groundwater, surface water, drinking water, and wastewater systems. He has led complex hydrogeologic investigations, long-term monitoring optimization programs, and stormwater and wastewater assessments, and has provided expert testimony on PFAS occurrence, treatment, fate and transport, drinking-water impacts, wastewater management, and environmental liability allocation.
Dr. Richardson has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, including numerous studies on PFAS treatment and attenuation, innovative water and wastewater technologies, bioremediation, membrane processes, and oil and gas water management.
Contact: [email protected]
Meet Your Host
Travis Bowman
President
EnviroWorkshops & EnviroClass
Travis Bowman is President of EnviroWorkshops and EnviroClass, providing continuing education and professional development opportunities for environmental professionals across the United States and internationally.
Travis founded EnviroWorkshops in 2013 to provide high-quality, in-person environmental training. Since then, EnviroWorkshops has hosted more than 600 workshops, with more than 30,000 registrations from environmental professionals in 22 countries across six continents. He also leads EnviroClass, the online learning platform that expands access to live webinars and on-demand professional development for the environmental industry.
Through EnviroWorkshops and EnviroClass, Travis works closely with environmental consultants, technology providers, regulators, and industry experts to develop educational programs covering emerging technologies, remediation strategies, PFAS, groundwater, site characterization, and other environmental topics.
Contact: [email protected]
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