I have joined the BSTI team as a Principal Geologist, assisting in serving clients, mentoring technical staff, and enhancing BSTI’s service offerings.

Mr. Claycomb has 36 years of experience as a geologist for engineering and environmental consulting firms providing quality oversight services (several in response to historic environmental disasters) and multi-media sampling coordination and oversight.Mr. Claycomb served in the role of Sample Management Team Lead for two years for sampling activities associated with the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Claycomb was the point of contact for scheduling sampling activities and coordinating sampling activities with US Coast Guard, SCAT, field sampling, and laboratory personnel.Mr. Claycomb has also managed, field supervised, and field audited multiple sediment contaminant assessment programs in the Niagara, St. Lawrence, Hudson, Upper Columbia, Emory, Clinch, and Tennessee Rivers. Mr. Claycomb has been a lead field auditor for over 25 years and has conducted over 150 field audits of environmental field programs of multi-media sampling events, remedial excavation activities, remedial system installation activities, and emergency response activities.Mr. Claycomb has managed risked-based investigations, prepared environmental sampling plans, and designed and installed soil, groundwater, and air/vapor remediation systems for petroleum-contaminated and chlorinated hydrocarbon-contaminated sites. He has also participated in multi-million dollar environmental litigation cases, and has been involved in contaminant fate and transport modeling.