Christopher Horruitiner Email & Phone Number

Miami, FL

Environmental Monitoring & Restoration Division

Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

• Review of environmental reports including Notice of Required Testing Reports, Site Assessment Reports, Source Removal Reports, Monitoring Only Plans, Groundwater Monitoring Reports, Quarterly Status Reports.
• Response to inquiries from the public, clients, environmental consultants, and supervisors regarding rehabilitation of agricultural, petroleum, solid waste sites, golf courses, affordable housing, standard residential.
• Application and understanding of Florida Administrative Code (FAC) Chapter 62-780 (Contaminated Site Cleanup Criteria) and Miami-Dade County Code of Ordinances (Chapter 24) pertaining to contaminated site rehabilitation
• Participate in county-wide training sessions and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) webinars

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Conducted dozens of soil and groundwater assessments compliant to FDEP Standard Operating Procedures
• Reviewed Tank Closure Assessment Reports pursuant to Chapter 62, Florida Administrative Code
• Conducted 60+ FDEP Petroleum Cleanup Site Inspections

Monte Vista, CO

• Identified vegetation to genera and species and classified soils for 90+ sites spanning the ecoregions of the intermountain San Luis Valley, CO.
• Employed Best Management Practices to aid resource specialists in assessing sage-grouse habitat & ensuring the efficacy of long-term management efforts in adhering to National Environmental Policy Act & Ecological.

Durham, NH

• Created and disseminated course content to 250+ Intro to Oceanography students over 2 years
• Awarded Summer TA Fellowship
• Mean Evaluation Score: 4.76/5.0

• Developed novel, low-budget submerged quadrat methodology to investigate the link between aquatic vegetation and methane dynamics in a permafrost peatland
• Worked in tandem with international scientists and carried out around-the-clock field and lab work in a remote field station in Abisko, Sweden
• Quantified in-situ elemental and isotopic proportions of greenhouse gases in lake sediments and correlated with benthic aquatic vegetation species and abundance

Vald

• Participated in a 10-day research expedition aboard the Research Vessel Weatherbird II using Conductivity, Temperature, and Pressure carousel
• Developed statistical filters for automated phytoplankton recognition using imaging cytometry
• Taxonomically identified diatom and radiolarian tests to species using Scanning Electronic Microscopy (SEM)
• Presented results at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center

Master’S Degree, Geochemistry, 3.67/4.00

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Science, 3.70/4.00