Dick Karkkainen:  

Life Richard D. Karkkainen - Chief Technical Officer Richard Karkkainen is an environmental/chemical engineer specializing in environmental investigations, selection of cost effective remediation technology, development and evaluation of environmentally related processes and management of projects. Karkkainen completed both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering at the University of Michigan. He currently is the founder of Scenic Bluffs which specializes in the development of technology to recover metals utilizing hydrometallurgical processes from waste piles, and ore. He spent 14 years with URS Corporation, Woodward-Clyde Consultants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He held various administrative assignments including Project Manager, Office Manager and Vice President responsible for profit and loss for work performed by 150 personnel, and corporate chairman of the Environmental Remediation Technology Committee. His participation and involvement has included writing permit applications and closure plans, managing push probe sampling and conventional drilling and sampling, performing risk assessments and plume modeling, and performing studies involving consideration of natural attenuation monitoring, phytoremediation, soil washing, excavation and dredging. He also designed or evaluated thermal desorption, recovery wells, recovery trenches, composting, landfarming, landfill construction, and stabiliz...Expand for more