Rebecca Countway joined McDaniel Lambert in February 2004 as an environmental scientist. She is an environmental chemist and risk assessor with over ten years of experience assisting governments, businesses and communities in identifying, evaluating, and reducing environmental and public health risks. At McDaniel Lambert, Ms. Countway’s risk assessment responsibilities include determining contaminants’ nature and extent, sources, and fate and transport, and evaluating their potential impact to human and ecological receptors.
Ms. Countway has managed and supported risk assessment projects involving petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, PAHs, PCBs, pesticides, and metals. She has used forensic geochemistry techniques to evaluate sources and ages of hydrocarbons in the environment, and managed a project analyzing the impact of regulations restricting snowmobile and personal watercraft access in National Parks. She has authored published articles on contaminants in aquatic systems.
Rebecca Countway earned her MS in Marine Science from The College of William and Mary’s School of Marine Science (Virginia Institute of Marine Science) and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Chemistry from Kenyon College (Ohio).