Employee Resume

JUDITH WRIGHT

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Geology (1985) University of Oregon, Eugene. Rare Earth Element Distributions in Recent and Fossil Apatite: Implications for Paleoceanography and Stratigraphy. (Education minor)

M.S. Geology (1982) University of Oregon. The Geochemistry of Conodont Apatite: Secular Variations Inferred by Comparison With the Ce-Fe System in the Modern Ocean.

B.S. Geology (1979) California State University, Northridge. Geochemistry of the Rosarito Volcanics, Baja, Calif. (Philosophy minor)

RESEARCH AND PROGRAM INTERESTS

Contaminant transport/geochemical processes in the vadose zone
Environmental geochemistry
Hazardous, nuclear, and toxic waste disposal and remediation
Stable isotope, trace, and rare earth element geochemistry
Global cycles: atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere
Paleochemical oceanography, paleoecological/paleochemical indicators of ancient ocean environments
Chemostratigraphy/secular variations in seawater chemistry

EXPERIENCE

PIMS NW, Inc., Richland, WA, President and Owner, Sedimentary Geochemist, December, 2000 to present. PIMS NW develops, tests, markets and sells Apatite II for pollution prevention and remediation of metals and radionuclides in soils, groundwater and other metal-contaminated media. Other consulting services include feasibility and treatability studies, remedial and pollution prevention design and implementation and oversight of implementation operations.

UFA Ventures, Inc., Richland, WA, President and Owner, Environmental Geologist, April 1999 to present, General Director, 1994 to 1999. UFA Ventures is a full-service geology and soil-testing laboratory, providing innovative hydrogeology technology, soil and rock testing services, environmental remediation, feasibility/treatability studies, consulting, and sales of UFA instruments. UFA Ventures also provides education and training on a variety of scientific topics through lectures, seminars, classes, field trips and the production of films, videos, websites, textbooks, workbooks and slide presentations.

Washington State University, Adjunct Associate Professor, 1990 to present, Geology Program and Environmental Science Program. Developed and taught upper division and graduate lecture, laboratory and field courses for the Environmental Science Program, the Physics Program and the Geology Program. Served on student thesis and dissertation committees/acted as student advisor.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Environmental Management Operations, Staff Scientist and Senior Project Manager, 1987 to 1994. Provide program management support for the U.S. Air Training Command (ATC) Installation Restoration Program (IRP) at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, MS ($15,000K). Program Manager, SERDP Phosphate Stabilization of Materials - Phase I, ($750K). Program Manager, CRADA with Beckman Instruments, Inc., ($2,000K). Project Manager, Integrated Demo Program, Arid Site Demo at Hanford. Project management and technical support for applied R&D ($1,500K).

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Associate Director, Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1986 to 1987. Associate Director and Program Coordinator for the Honors Program. Expanded Honors Program in natural sciences by coordinating seven science and mathematics departments to develop and write a required two-semester course in the sciences. Directed and administered Fulbright-Hays, Marshall, Truman, Rhodes, and other fellowship and scholarship programs. Conducted scientific research on: 1) crystal structure of biogenic apatite and geochemical mapping of trace elements in biogenic apatite; 2) field and laboratory studies of chemical weathering and origin of etch pits in rock surfaces of southwestern deserts; 3) research on stable isotopic and trace element compositions of fluid inclusions in salt deposits to determine viability of salt deposits as sites for high-level nuclear waste disposal and the theoretical study of fluid inclusions as possible remnants of ancient seawater.

MEMBERSHIPS

American Chemical Society; American Geophysical Union; Geological Society of America; Geochemical Society

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wright, Judith and James L. Conca, 2004. "PIMS With Apatite II^TM for the Remediation of Uranium and Plutonium." Abstracts Annual Mtg ACS, Anaheim, CA.
Wright, Judith, Ken R. Rice, Brian Murphy, and James Conca, 2004. "PIMS Using Apatite II^TM: How It Works To Remediate Soil and Water." In Sustainable Range Management, Eds., R.E. Hinchee and B. Alleman, Battelle Press, Columbus, OH.
Wright, Judith, Ken R. Rice, Brian Murphy and James Conca, 2004. "PIMS-Remediation of Pb-Contaminated Soil at Camp Stanley, Texas." In Sustainable Range Management, Eds., R.E. Hinchee and B. Alleman, Battelle Press, Columbus, OH.
Wright, Judith and James L. Conca, 2004. "PIMS^TM: Remediation of Soil and Groundwater Contaminated With Metals." Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) Cost and Performance Report, (CU-0020), http://www.estcp.org./, 53 pp.
Wright, Judith and James L. Conca, 2003. "PIMS With Apatite II^TM for the Remediation of Uranium and Plutonium." Abstracts of the Radiochemistry Conference, July 14-17, 2003, Carlsbad, NM.
Wright, Judith, Bryony Hanson, and James L. Conca, 2003. "PIMS: an Apatite II permeable reactive barrier to remediate groundwater containing Zn, Pb and Cd." Environ. Geosci. (in press).
Wright, Judith, and James Conca. 2002. "Remediation of Groundwater and Soil Contaminated with Metals and Radionuclides using Apatite II, a Biogenic Apatite Mineral." In Extended Abstracts of the 2002 American Chemical Society Meeting, August 18-22, Amer. Chem. Soc., Columbus, OH.
Conca, J., Strietelmeier, E., Lu, N., Ware, S. D., Taylor, T. P., Kaszuba, J., and Wright, J. V. (2002) "Treatability Study of Reactive Materials to Remediate Groundwater Contaminated with Radionuclides, Metals and Nitrates in a Four-Component Permeable Reactive Barrier," Chapter 8, in Groundwater Remediation of Metals, Radionuclides, and Nutrients, with Permeable Reactive Barriers (eds. Naftz, Morrison, Davis, and Fuller), Elsevier Science, USA, p. 221-252.
Wright, J., A. Leeson, and B. Murphy. (2002) "Phosphate-Induced Metal Stabilization Used for Lead-Contaminated Soil," Tech Trends, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Issue No. 44, March, p. 2-3.
Conca, James L. and Judith Wright. 2001. Biogenic Apatite: From In Vivo to In Vitro Incorporation of Metals and Radionuclides Into Apatite Mineral Phases. In Proceedings of the Second Hydroxyapatite Congress, Eds. Schwind and Subramanian, Bio-Rad Labs, Berkeley, CA.
Lu, N., H. Xu, J. Wright, and J. Conca. 2001. "PIMS - Remediation of Metal-Contaminated Groundwater and Soil Using a Special Reactive Form of the Mineral Apatite," In Applied Mineralogy in Research, Economy, Technology, Ecology and Culture, Eds., Rammlmair, J. Mederer, Th. Oberthür, R.B. Heimann, and H. Pentinghaus , A.A.Balkema, Rotterdam (Publ.), ISBN 90 5809 163 5, V. 2, p. 603-606.
Conca, J. L. and J. V. Wright. 2001. ASTM Standard Test Method D6527 "Determining Unsaturated and Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity in Porous Media by Steady-State Centrifugation," Annual Book of ASTM Standards: Soil and Rock (II), Section 4, Volume 04.09, p. 868-877, American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA.
Conca, James L. and Judith Wright. 2001. Biogenic Apatite: From In Vivo to In Vitro Incorporation of Metals and Radionuclides Into Apatite Mineral Phases. In Proceedings of the Second Hydroxyapatite Congress, eds. Schwind and Subramanian, Bio-Rad Labs, Berkeley, CA.
Wright, J. V. and J. L. Conca. 2000. United States Patent #6217775 STABILIZATION AND REMEDIATION OF SOIL, WATER AND WASTES CONTAMINATED WITH METALS USING FISH BONES AND HARD PARTS, (issued 2000) U.S. Patent Office, WA, D.C.
Wright, J. V. and J. L. Conca. 2000. STABILIZATION AND REMEDIATION OF METAL-CONTAMINATED SOILS USING FISH BONES (filed 2000) U.S. Patent Office, WA, D.C.
Conca, J. L., N. Lu, G. Parker, B. Moore, A. Adams, J. V. Wright and P. Heller. 2000. "PIMS - Remediation of Metal Contaminated Waters and Soils", in Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, (Wickramanayake, Gavaskar, Gibbs and Means, eds.) BMI, Columbus, OH, 7:319-326.
Conca, J. L. and J. Wright. 2000. "The UFA Method for Characterization of Vadose Zone Behavior," Chapter 3 In The Vadose Zone, eds. Looney and Falta, Battelle Press, BMI, Columbus OH, p. 1459.
Conca, J. L. and J. Wright. 2000. "Aqueous Diffusion in the Vadose Zone," Chapter 5, In The Vadose Zone, eds. Looney and Falta, Battelle Press, Batt. Mem. Inst., Columb., OH, p.796-797.
Conca, James and Judith Wright. 1999. "PIMS: A Simple Technology for Clean-Up of Heavy Metals and Radionuclides Throughout the World," In Environmental Challenges of Nuclear Disarmament, The Proc. of the NATO Adv. Research Workshop, Krakow, ed. T.E. Baca, Poland, Nov 8-13,1998, p. 1-13.
Conca, J. L. and J. V. Wright. 1998. "The UFA Method for Rapid, Direct Measurements of Unsaturated Soil Transport Properties", Australian J. of Soil Research, 36:v 291-315.
Chen, Xiaobing, Judith. Wright, James L. Conca, and Loni M. Peurrung. 1997. "Effects of pH on Heavy Metal Sorption on Mineral Apatite", Env. Science and Technology, 31:624-631.
Chen, Xiaobing, J. V. Wright, J. L. Conca, and L. M. Peurrung. 1997. "Evaluation of Heavy Metal Remediation Using Mineral Apatite", Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 98:57-78.
Chen, Xiaobing, Loni M. Peurrung, Judith Wright, and James L. Conca. 1996. "In Situ Immobilization of Lead from Aqueous Solutions and Contaminated Soils by Phosphate Rocks", Proc. of the Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management Spectrum '96 Meeting, American Nuclear Society, 2:1286-1293.
Wright, Judith, Loni M. Peurrung, Timothy E. Moody, James L. Conca, Xiaobing Chen, Paul P. Didzerekis and Eric Wyse . 1995. In Situ Immobilization of Heavy metals in Apatite Mineral Formulations, Technical Report to the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Department of Defense, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA, 154 p.
Moody, Timothy E. and Judith Wright. 1995. Adsorption Isotherms: North Carolina Apatite Induced Precipitation of Lead, Zinc, Manganese and Cadmium from the Bunker Hill 4000 Soil, Technical Report BHI-00197, Bechtel Hanford, Inc., Richland, WA, 21 p.
Conca, J. L. and J. V. Wright. 1995. "Find Transport Data Faster: A New Technology for Determining Transport Properties in Soil and Other Porous Media", Soil and Groundwater Cleanup, p. 14-26.
Wright, Judith, James L. Conca, and Xiaobing Chen. 1994. Hydrostratigraphy and Recharge Distributions from Direct Measurements of Hydraulic Conductivity Using the UFA* Method, Technical Report PNL-9424, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA, 150 p.
Wright, Judith and James L. Conca. 1994. "Direct Measurements of Transport Properties are Essential for Site Characterization", In Proc. of the Spectrum '94 International Topical Meeting on Nuclear and Waste Management, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL, 1:438-446.
Conca, James L., and Judith Wright. 1991. "Diffusion and Flow in Gravel, Soil and Whole Rock under Unsaturated Conditions," Applied Hydrogeology, 1:1:5-24.
Wright, Judith. 1990. "Conodont Apatite: Structure and Geochemistry." In Biomineralization: Patterns, Processes and Evolutionary Trends, ed. J. Carter. Van Nost. Reinh, NY, p. 445-459.
Wright, Judith. 1990. "Conodont Geochemistry, a Key to the Paleozoic." In 1st International Senckenberg Conference and 5th European Conodont Symposium, ed. Willi Ziegler. Contr. III, Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany.
Wright, Judith, James L. Conca, John Repetski, and James Clark. 1990. "Microgeochemistry of some Lower Ordovician Cordylodans from Jilin, China." In 1st International Senckenberg Conference and 5th European Conodont Symposium , ed. Willi Ziegler. Contributions III, Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany.
Conca, James L., and Judith Wright. 1990. "Diffusion Coefficients in Gravel Under Unsaturated Conditions." In Water Resources Research, 26:1055-1066.
Conca, James L., and Judith Wright. 1990. "Effect of Meteoric Infiltration on the Aqueous Chemistry of Paintbrush Tuff During Exposure at the Surface." In Rad Wst Mgmt and the Nuc Fuel Cycle, 15:27-41.
Wright, Judith, Hans Schrader, and W. T. Holser. 1987. "Paleoredox Variations in Ancient Oceans Recorded by REE in Fossil Apatite." Geoch. Cosmoch. Acta, 51:631-644.
Wright, Judith, James F. Miller, and W. T. Holser. 1987. "Chemostratigraphy of Conodonts Across the Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary: Western U.S. and SE China." In Conodonts: Investigative Tech. and Appl., ed. R. L. Austin. Ellis Horwood, Ltd., London, pp. 259-286.
Holser, W. T., Mordeckai Magaritz, and Judith Wright. 1986. "Chemical and Isotopic Variations in the World Ocean During Phanerozoic Time." In Global Biological Events in Earth History, ed. Otto Walliser. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 63-74.
Wright, Judith. 1985. "Chemical Events Near the Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary." In Plenary Meeting of the Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary Working Group, Calgary, Alberta.
Wright, Judith, Richard S. Seymour, and Henry F. Shaw. 1984. "REE and Nd Isotopes in Conodont Apatite: Variations with Geological Age and Depositional Environment." In Conodont Biofacies and Provincialism, ed. David L. Clark. Geol. Soc. of Amer., Sp. Pap. 196, Boulder, pp. 325-340.
Miller, Richard H., Frederick A. Sundberg, Roberta Harma, and Judith Wright. 1981. "Upper Cambrian Stratigraphy and Conodonts of Southern Nevada." In Alcheringa, 5:183-196.

More than 50 work plans, characterization plans, remedial action plans and final reports prepared for and approved by the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for CERCLA and RCRA activities at USAF Bases.