Bio
Erin is a professional environmental engineer and professional geoscientist with over seventeen years’ experience specializing in human health and ecological risk assessments. Erin has undertaken and provided review for human and ecological health risk assessment studies under provincial, territorial, and federal regulatory regimes. She has been involved in numerous contaminated site and risk assessments in northern Canada, including assessments of mine sites (e.g., oil sands, heavy metals, and asbestos) in different lifecycle stages (planning/development, abandonment, reclamation, and closure). Erin also reviewed and/or reported for many Phase II/III Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) on numerous sites throughout Atlantic Canada.
Erin has experience in developing risk-based management guidelines, overseeing receptor screening, exposure pathway analyses, chemical fate and transport analysis, toxicity assessment, and risk characterization for human health and ecological risk assessments. She has also been the lead fate and transport and human health risk modeller on a number of human health risk assessments and has developed spreadsheet modelling tools for company and client use. Erin is trained in health risk communication and has participated in open houses and public meetings, bringing together key stakeholders from differing backgrounds. She is a corresponding member of the Atlantic Partners in Risk Based Corrective Action [RBCA] Implementation (PIRI) committee (Technical Working Group).