Environmental Restoration

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Solving the most challenging environmental remediation problems to ensure a better, cleaner, safer world for future generations

Noblis is a leader in the strategic evaluation and development of robust solutions for complex environmental restoration issues that threaten the health and safety of humans and the environment. Our team of interdisciplinary experts integrate state-of-the-science technology and advanced analytics to provide innovative solutions for site characterization and remediation for legacy and emerging contaminants (such as PFAS and 1,4-dioxane) for our federal customers’ most challenging sites. Noblis is differentiated by our collective expertise, our commitment to integrity and our record of delivering unsurpassed value and excellence.

Our Capabilities

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Site Restoration Solutions and Surveillance

Federal agencies face the challenge of finding creative and cost-effective strategies to protect human health and the environment at complex contaminated sites. Our scientists and engineers study and evaluate the environmental conditions and regulations affecting restoration programs to deliver tailored solutions. We develop conceptual site models, support remedial investigations and feasibility studies, design remedial actions and combine innovative mapping, modeling and statistical techniques with an advanced understanding of site conditions for optimized monitoring, remediation and surveillance operations.

Programmatic Review and Evaluation

Environmental programs need to continuously adapt to dynamic scientific and regulatory conditions to remain cost-effective and compliant. Noblis has decades of experience driving restoration programs with independent, third-party, expert-level technical evaluations, investigations, remedial actions, risk assessments and contaminant fate and transport models. Our high-level capabilities and analytical tools ensure programmatic success by identifying project risks and building technically rigorous solutions. We synthesize complex information and concepts into simplified messages to empower our customers’ full engagement with stakeholders and communities.

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Environmental Policy, Regulations and Advisory

In an ever-changing regulatory landscape, federal agencies need holistic policies to assess and manage environmental liabilities and risks. Noblis’ wide-ranging expertise in environmental and sustainability laws and regulations guides our strategic and forward-thinking approach to customer missions. We develop cost-effective risk management and mitigation options to streamline the decision-making process and ensure an informed, timely and consistent approach. Moreover, our tailored, comprehensive implementation plans and performance metrics put our customers’ short- and long-term goals within reach.

Publications

Network Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Conditions Facilitating Microbial Biotransformation of 6:2 and 8:2 Fluorotelomer Alcohols to Perfluoroalkyl Carboxylates

In the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Members of the Noblis Environmental Restoration and their co-author present the results of their meta-analysis on the complex factors that affect PFAS precursor transformation in synthetic and environmental media.

Leveraging Hydrogeologic-Based Data—Reduce, Repurpose, Reimagine

In the Journal of Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation

Noblis environmental scientist Matt Spurlin and his co-authors present a way to re-imagine environmental data analysis using advanced tools such as AI, machine learning and other automated processes to drive efficiency and innovation, wider stakeholder access and broader interpretation of datasets.

Leveraging Sequence Stratigraphy to Accelerate Site Remediation: Pliocene Citronelle Formation, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA

In the Journal of Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation.

Dr. Mark Stapleton, a Senior Environmental Remediation Engineer at Noblis, shows how the benefits of a greater understanding of a site’s geologic environment can significantly accelerate groundwater remediation without increasing costs, suggesting that similar approaches could work at other sites facing PFAS and chlorinated solvent contamination challenges.

Why Noblis?

Noblis stands at the forefront of environmental restoration and policy making for the federal government. We combine proven science, technology and business processes with robust domain expertise and tools to ensure crosscutting, holistic solutions. Our experts design and conduct rigorous technical assessments and evaluations in a comprehensive policy, regulatory, and technical framework. Our programs are strategically planned, evaluated, and implemented using lessons learned to ensure sustainable solutions.
Through our Centers of Excellence (COEs), we are connecting our staff so that they may better serve our clients. The COEs reach across domain areas and the entire organization to ensure the right capabilities, people, tools, and expertise are applied to our work. This enables us to offer every client the best solutions to fit their needs and challenges.