Principal Civil and Environmental Engineer

Dr. Hinchee is IST's Principal Civil and Environmental Engineer. He is a key team member in IST’s Litigation Support Group. With extensive experience developing and applying technology to assess and remediate contaminated sites, Dr. Hinchee provides both IST and our clients with technical leadership in remediation, bioremediation and in situ remediation.

Dr. Hinchee is an internationally recognized expert in remediation technology. Over his 20-year environmental career, he has developed and applied new technologies, including in situ bioremediation, bioslurping, soil gas surveying, soil venting, and TCE cometabolic bioremediation at more than 1,000 sites throughout Europe and the United States. He has also designed and/or evaluated hundreds of water, sediment, and soil treatment systems. As well, he was responsible for the design and implementation of field demonstration in situ processes such as forced-air soil venting, landfarming, enhanced bioreclamation, biopiles, and in-place stabilization systems. Dr. Hinchee organized and chaired the International Symposia on In Situ and On-Site Bioreclamation, held in San Diego (1991, 1993, and 1995), and is the founding editor of Bioremediation Journal. In addition to technical work, Dr. Hinchee has testified to the U.S. Congress and served as an expert witness in a variety of cases, including before the United Nations.