Ravi Arulanantham Principal AMEC Geomatrix

Ravi Arulanantham is a principal with the Oakland office of AMEC Geomatrix, Inc. His practice areas are the application of risk assessment to environmental decision making at contaminant release sites, as well as case closure and litigation support. Dr. Arulanantham has over 15 years of experience in integrating land use and water quality issues and is known for his ability to create cost-effective and expeditious solutions to diverse environmental problems.

Dr. Arulanantham was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in physiology and biochemistry. As the first staff toxicologist with the California Environmental Protection Agency's San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, he was widely recognized as a pioneer in promoting risk-based decision making at soil and groundwater impacted sites. He is among the few American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) certified national trainers for both the Risk-Based Corrective Action (RBCA) and Remediation by Natural Attenuation (RNA) standards, and he has trained over 1,000 regulators, consultants, and responsible parties. In addition, he has given numerous invited lectures on risk-based decision making to a range of audiences and has been nationally acknowledged as an expert on this subject. He is presently the technical director to the newly formed National Brownfields Association (NBA), Northern California Chapter.

Since joining Geomatrix in 2002, Dr. Arulanantham has helped the company (now AMEC Geomatrix) develop total business solutions to the environmental issues of the chemical industry, manufacturing, redevelopment, and other clients. He has served as an expert witness (as both regulator and consultant) for litigation matters ranging from chlorinated solvent releases and indoor air impacts, MTBE toxicity and exposure, and adequacy of site investigation conducted to protect human health, to obtaining No Further Action letters from regulatory agencies.