Qualifications and Experience
Ray Kablanow, Ph.D.
Geology, Geochemistry
EDUCATION
Dissertation: "Influence of the thermal history and depositional environment on diagenesis and hydrocarbon maturation in the Monterey Formation - Huasna, Pismo, and Salinas Basins, California."
M.S. Geology 1983 University of Wyoming - Laramie, Wyoming
Thesis: "Diagenesis and hydrocarbon generation in the Monterey Formation, Huasna Basin, California."
M.A. Biology 1976 Pacific Union College - Angwin, California
Thesis: "A study of a fish mass mortality in the Laney Member of the Green River Formation of Southwestern Wyoming."
B.S. Biology 1975 Loma Linda University - Riverside, California
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS
Certified Hydrogeologist in California (License No. 442)
Registered Geologist in California (License No. 5234)
Registered Environmental Assessor in California (License No. 901)
Registered Geologist in Idaho (License No. 705)
Registered Geologist in Oregon (License No. G1248)
Registered Geologist in Wyoming (License No. PG-1447)
Certified Environmental Manager in Nevada (License No. 374)
PROFESSIONAL experience
Vice President
Responsibilities have included: Project coordination and supervision as registered geologist and registered environmental assessor; performance of site characterization (Remedial Investigation) and Remedial Action programs on various types of soil and groundwater contaminating chemicals in a variety of geologic settings in California; Environmental Assessments for Property Transactions; groundwater availability studies; waste discharge requirement compliance monitoring and reporting; technical marketing; technical development and quality control management for GTI.
Geological technics inc. - Modesto, California 1987 to Present
Senior Geologist
Senior geologist for an environmental services company. Responsibilities included: Supervision of both soil and groundwater investigations and soil and groundwater remediation projects in the Central Valley of California.
CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL - Modesto, California 1986 to 1987
Consultant (selected projects)
• Literature search of basins containing coarse clastic sediments along active margins.
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, Dept. of Geology/Geophysics Summer 1986
• Mineralogic studies on zeolites, talc, and clay bearing sedimentary rocks for various mineral companies.
PHELPS DODGE, OCCIDENTAL MINERAL, & IN-SITU CORP. 1980 to 1985
• Reservoir rock analysis (including diagenesis and organic maturation of the Monterey Formation).
MONTEREY RESERVOIR GROUP Spring 1985
SELECTED CONTINUING EDUCATION
April 1998 Environmental Compliance Auditing
Hazmacon ‘98
September 1997 Natural Attenuation for Remediation of Contaminated Sites
MGWA
September 1996 RBCA: ASTM - EESI and Rice University
September 1996 Probability Statistics and Geostatistics for Environmental Professional
MGWA
August 1996 IBM - PC Application in Risk Assessment, Remediation and Modeling
MGWA
June 1996 Risk and Decision Making at Petroleum Impacted Sites
UC Extension
May 1995 SESOIL Fate & Transportation Modeling for Evaluating Environmental Risk - NGWA
October 1993 Designing Subsurface Gas Extraction & Control Systems
University of Wisconsin - Extension
June 1993 The Science & Art of Expert Testimony
University of California, Davis - Extension
May 1993 Proving the Technical Case: Soil & Groundwater Contamination Litigation
University of Wisconsin - Extension
January 1993 Risk Assessment for the Environmental Professional
National Ground Water Association
July 1992 Certified Environmental Manager - Workshop
Nevada Division of Environmental Protection
March 1992 Effective Project Management
Battelle
February 1992 Vadose Zone Monitoring
National Ground Water Association
November 1991 Municipal Landfills and Groundwater Quality
University of California, Davis - Extension
Summer 1991 Certificate Course in Environmental Auditing
University of California, Davis - Extension
Spring 1991 Dale Carnegie Management Seminar
Dale Carnegie and Associates, Inc.
November 1990 Comprehensive Approach to the Development and Protection of Groundwater Supplies National Ground Water Association
April 1989 Applied Bioremedial Technology
Hazmacon 1989
March 1989 Liability Hazardous Waste and Real Estate
University of California, Davis - Extension
September 1988 Underground Storage Tank Monitoring
EPA Short Course - San Francisco, California
Fall 1987 Ground Water Hydrology
University of California, Berkeley - Extension
CONFERENCE PAPERS
August 1995 Overview of California Hydrogeology - GRA & Reg. Rev
December 1991 Water Quality and Management - Environmental Conference for California Food Processors, Management's Responsibilities of the 90's
University of California, Davis - Extension
May 1992 Hydropunch Sampling Techniques for Multi-level sampling of an unconfined Alluvial Aquifer-Central Valley, California: A case study
NGWA 6th Annual Outdoor Action Conference, Las Vegas Nevada
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, division of National Ground Water Association
• American Society of Testing Materials [ASTM; member of committee for establishing standard
practice on Rock and Water (D-18.21) and on Environmental Assessment (E-50.02)
• American Water Resources Association
• Geological Society of America
PUBLICATIONS
• Kablanow II, R.I., Surdam, R.C. and Heasler, H.P., Silica Diagenesis in the Monterey Formation: controls and applications: in preparation.
• Kennedy, E., R. Kablanow, and A. V. Chadwick. Evidence for the deep water deposition of the Tapeats Sandstone, Grand Canyon, Arizona. in van Riper, C. III and E. T. Deschler, editors. 1997. Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. National Park Service Transactions and Proceedings Series NPS/NRNAU/NRTP-97/12, 1997. .
• Kablanow II, R.I., Surdam, R.C. and Heasler, H.P., Influence of thermal and depositional histories on inorganic diagenesis and hydrocarbon generation in the Monterey Formation: in preparation.
• Surdam, R.C., Prezbindowski, D., and Kablanow II, R.I., 1984, Solution porosity in the dolomites in the calcareous-phosphatic facies of the Monterey Formation, Pismo Basin, California: in Pacific Section, SEPM, Dolomites of the Monterey Formation and Other Organic-Rich Sediments.