Anja Verce
Project Engineer II

With more than 15 years of experience and two master’s degrees – one in Environmental Engineering and Science and another in Industrial Engineering and Environmental Planning – Anja Verce has focused her extensive expertise on providing both technical and regulatory compliance support for groundwater and environmental projects. Her extensive experience includes site investigation and characterization, risk management, and remediation for complex sites subject to California state and local agency oversight, as well as federal oversight under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act (CERCLA). In particular, she has developed expertise in microbial processes and redox chemistry as applied to in-situ remediation and she regularly presents at industry conferences on these topics, as she is considered an expert in this area.

Ms. Verce’s experience also includes characterizing and remediating soil and groundwater contaminated with a wide range of challenging contaminants that include volatile organic compounds (VOCs), perchlorate, nitrate, hexavalent chromium, radionuclides, high explosives, and depleted uranium. Remediation for such contaminants involves developing a conceptual and final design for subsurface investigation, and may also involve feasibility studies, monitored natural attenuation, treatability and tracer studies, and interpretation of geochemical data to assess fate and transport of contaminants in soil and groundwater. Ms. Verce’s in-depth experience with standard protocols for these practices, together with her expertise in such advanced techniques as applying in-situ microcosm techniques and molecular diagnostics to assess subsurface conditions, provides the basis for designing effective remedial solutions. When such techniques are applicable, the collected information can be used to identify appropriate aquifer amendments that will biologically or chemically degrade or transform groundwater contaminants.

Ms. Verce has also investigated the vapor intrusion potential of VOCs and in-situ bioremediation by-products such as biogenic methane, which could create explosion risks. Guidance for biogenic methane is not yet well established, and her work in this area is being used to better understand subsurface conditions and to demonstrate the low threat that biogenic methane presents.

Areas of Expertise

• In-situ bioremediation, including bioaugmentation
• Site investigations and litigation support
• Vapor intrusion assessments, including biogenic methane

• In-situ chemical reduction, pneumatic fracturing, and tracer test studies

Education

• Master of Science in Environmental Engineering and Science, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
• Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Environmental Planning, University of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany
• Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies (emphasis on Biology and Chemistry), Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina