Barney P. Popkin Consulting

Barney is an Environmental Protection Specialist who has worked for the US Agency for International Development Bureau for Asia and the Near East  for the last four years and is now offering counsulting services.  Prior to that he worked a year of water assignments in India for FOA and in Mexico for the Desert Development Foundation, and in Iraq as Northern Iraq Environmental Manager for USACE Restore Iraqi Oil program. A former USGS Hydrologist, he is a California Registered Environmental Assessor and Geologist, and a former President of the Northern California Chapter, Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers. Barney has worked on water, wastewater, solid and hazardous waste, and environmental projects throughout the U.S., and in South East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, including USAID projects in Egypt, Gaza/West Bank, Jordan, and Syria. He has expertise in environmental regulations, best management practices, management, planning, auditing, monitoring, mitigation, and assessment and evaluation. He has over 80 publications and professional presentations. Barney completed PhD course work in Soil and Water Science (University of Arizona), and an MS in Hydrology (University of Arizona), BA in Geology (New York University), and certificates (honors) in Solid Waste, Hazardous Waste, and Business Management (University of California, Berkeley).