Ruth has years of experience in human health risk assessment, but she continues to approach each project as a new problem-solving exercise so that she can respond to the precise needs of the client and the site. She finds it immensely rewarding to contribute to the restoration of land for future use. Also, she gets great satisfaction from seeing a client’s challenge through its entire life cycle, from initial assessment to remediation and closure.
Ruth has performed multichemical, multipathway human health risk assessment projects for various types of sites, including former military installations, solvent release areas, and manufactured gas plants, among others. Ruth’s projects often require evaluating vapor intrusion pathways or creating community air-monitoring plans for the protection of surrounding communities during remediation activities. These specialty areas are informed by her graduate work in environmental health, during which she contributed to research on health impacts of exposure to air pollution.
“Even when a challenge seems familiar, I take time to get to know the site’s unique features and the client’s unique concerns.”
