NewFields offers a full range of technical and strategic services in the fields of human health and ecological risk assessment. These two disciplines occupy a primary role in the process of environmental management and in remedial decision-making. NewFields meets the multi-disciplinary demands of of risk assessment with its team of biologists, ecologists, toxicologists, geoscientists, statisticians, engineers and public health and medical personnel. NewFields employs risk assessment methodologies with a practical, problem-solving orientation -- not just to meet regulatory requirements of clients but also to provide the foundation for the development of reasonable, cost-effective remediation programs. The result of this approach is a substantial reduction in the required extent and nature of remediation and post-closure care with a corresponding reduction in costs. NewFields can provide to its clients experienced, senior specialists in the following critical areas of expertise for human health risk assessment:
- strategic planning of risk-based site investigation;
- statistical evaluation of exposure point concentrations;
- exposure pathway analysis;
- toxicological evaluations;
- quantitative risk characterization;
- technical oversight and project coordination;
- contaminant fate and transport modeling; and
- regulatory negotiations.
- conceptual site model development;
- exposure pathway/trophic level determinations;
- Tier I, Tier II and Tier III quantitaitve risk characterization;
- habitat quality/species diversity evaluation;
- food chain modeling for persistent bioaccumulative toxins (PBTs);
- threatened/endangered species negotiations;
- biota sampling and analysis;
- wetlands delineation/Section 404 CWA permitting negotiations; and
- Natural Resource Damage Assessment.
