Trium Environmental Solutions Inc. (TRIUM) is an environmental consulting firm founded on the employee's unique and diverse experiences and education as well as our ability to integrate our knowledge to provide our clients with the solution. Our expertise include environmental forensics, environmental toxicology, environmental risk assessment, analytical chemistry, data quality assurance, litigation support, hydrogeological investigation and monitoring, environmental site assessment, environmental risk management, and remediation engineering.

Services include:

• Litigation Support
• Pretrial Investigations
• Expert Witness Testimony and Depositions
• Consulting Expert Services
• Data Visualization (GIS) and Modeling
• Laboratory Assessment
• Data Quality Assessment
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Chemical Pattern Recognition and Fingerprinting
• Biomonitoring
• Health Effects and Mechanistic Toxicology
• Human Contaminant Levels and Chemical Exposure Assessment
• Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment
• Legal Sampling Services
  
  

Experience with the following chemicals:

• Polychlorinated dioxins and furans (PCDD/PCDFs)
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
• Chlorinated benzenes
• Chlorinated phenols (including PCP)
• Organochlorine pesticides
• Pharmaceutical and personal care products
• Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs)
• Polybrominated dioxins and furans (PCDD/PCDFs)
• Polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
• Fluorinated surfactants
• Petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs)
• Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
• Perchlorate
• Metals and organometallics
• Dry cleaning solvents (i.e. PERC)

Selected Members of Our team consist of the following Professionals:
Court Sandau, Ph.D., P.Chem
B.J. Min, M.Eng, P.Eng
Erik Martin, Ph.D.

 

We are specialized in the following areas of expertise:

• Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Forensics & Toxicology
• Contaminated Site Risk Management
• Environmental Site Assessment and Remediation

Selected Team Members

Court Sandau, Ph.D., P.Chem.
Senior Partner

Dr. Sandau is co-founder and senior partner of Trium Environmental Solutions Inc. (TRIUM). Dr. Sandau directs the venture sciences and technology division where he researches and implements new technology and science to develop state of the art solutions for TRIUM’s clients. Dr. Sandau’s technical expertise includes analytical and environmental forensic chemistry, toxicology and risk assessment. Dr. Sandau has developed and validated numerous analytical methodologies and written standard operating procedures to meet the stringent criteria of laboratory governing bodies (e.g. CLIA). His expertise is in the implementation of new technologies and instrumentation for rapid method output and automation. Dr. Sandau specializes in evaluating and establishing strict quality assurance and quality control for investigations involving analytical data. He applies the proper scientific process to reduce analytical errors associated with measurements.

Dr. Sandau’s experience includes working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At CDC, Dr. Sandau managed a laboratory responsible for the analytical toxicology and exposure assessment of humans to environmental contaminants. He has been involved in numerous epidemiological studies examining the impact of chemical contaminants on brain development, endocrine function, and other measures of health impacts. Previously, Dr. Sandau worked at the National Wildlife Research Center measuring contaminants in wildlife and examining the biomagnification, biotransformation and biological effects of persistent organic pollutants in the arctic and Great Lakes food webs.

Dr. Sandau’s knowledge and expertise have also been retained for litigation support and expert witness testimony. Dr. Sandau’s expertise encompasses the fields of environmental forensics, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, toxicology, and risk assessment. Dr. Sandau is well known internationally for his work. He has authored over 60 publications and has delivered numerous scientific presentations to his colleagues.

B.J. Min, M.Eng, P.Eng
Senior Partner

Mr. Min is co-founder, senior partner and manager of engineering practice and business management. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from the Ajou University in South Korea and his Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. Mr. Min is a registered Professional Engineer in the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Over 12 years as an environmental engineering expert, Mr. Min has carried out projects in the field of environmental engineering and consulting throughout North America and elsewhere in the world. The areas of his experience include Phase I, II and III environmental site assessments, environmental risk assessments and risk management plans, environmental forensic studies, in-situ and ex-situ contaminated site remediation, groundwater monitoring programs, contaminant hydrogeological investigation, environmental liability assessment, air pollution, waste water treatment and industrial and hazardous waste management for projects related to various manufacturing industries, commercial and residential areas. He possesses both academic and technical experience in high-end environmental engineering techniques including contamination age dating techniques, fate and transport modeling, legal/forensic sampling & investigation, contaminant characterization & conceptualization, remediation feasibility review & design, remedial cost estimates and scientific cost allocation. In addition to his engineering consulting practice, he has given numerous technical presentations at recognized international technical conferences.

Erik Martin, Ph.D.
Toxicologist

Dr. Martin is a Toxicologist at TRIUM, where he is primarily responsible for project management, risk assessment, litigation support, and independent scientific investigation. Dr. Martin’s technical expertise includes environmental and mechanistic toxicology, and risk assessment. He has worked on numerous toxicology and risk assessment projects ranging from the evaluation of human health impacts associated with heavy-oil production and storage facilities to human health and ecological risk assessments as part of large environmental impact assessments. Dr. Martin’s knowledge and expertise covers a range of chemical substances including chlorinated organic solvents, perchlorate, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and petroleum hydrocarbons.

Dr. Martin’s experience includes working at Jacques Whitford Limited (JWL) as the risk assessment team leader. At JWL, he managed numerous human health and ecological risk assessments in addition to providing toxicological expertise for a variety of projects. Dr. Martin also conducted research and development studies to assess the effectiveness of selected predictive toxicology programs at predicting the toxic endpoints (e.g., carcinogenesis) of alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Previously, Dr. Martin worked at the Existing Substances Division of Health Canada where he was involved in assessing the human health risks associated with exposures to various toxic substances and environmental contaminants. Additionally, he was responsible for evaluating and validating the computational toxicology programs that are used throughout Health Canada.

Dr. Martin received a Ph.D. in Toxicology from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His doctoral thesis examined the biotransformation and biological effects of various chlorinated organic compounds, including trichloroethylene (TCE) and dichloroethylene (DCE). Dr. Martin has authored several publications and has delivered numerous scientific presentations to his colleagues.