Mr. Fort has more than 20 years of experience in field and laboratory testing, data analysis, modeling and instrumentation for the geosciences. He has worked extensively in the area of site characterization and performance assessment of potential nuclear waste repositories in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom performing and interpreting hydraulic tests, doing performance assessment modeling and developing information management systems. Mr. Fort has been responsible designing tests, developing specialized hardware and instrumentation, and analyzing the data. In the area of environmental restoration Mr. Fort has designed and built data acquisition and control systems for tracer tests and surfactant enhanced recovery of dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) contamination as well as developing systems for constant rate pumping test, conventional slug tests, pneumatic slug tests and foam injection tests. In the area of seismology Mr. Fort was responsible for all aspects of managing a large pool of National Science Foundation owned seismological equipment for use around the world