Rick Cramer

Burns & McDonnell is expanding its Environmental Services team with the hiring of Rick Cramer. Cramer, who will serve as environmental technologies manager, has more than 30 years of experience providing strategic planning and technical direction for multidisciplinary environmental projects. 

In his role, Cramer will focus on developing geology-based groundwater Conceptual Site Models (CSMs) for complex sites to successfully design and implement remediation strategies. The biggest challenge to groundwater projects is uncertainty associated with the subsurface caused by complex geology. Geology provides subsurface “plumbing” that is the primary control on groundwater movement and contaminant migration. Cramer pioneered the application of sequence stratigraphy to groundwater remediation projects in the early 1990s and developed the practice of Environmental Sequence Stratigraphy. This  geology-based groundwater remediation method is now the standard for the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) base-wide CSM program and is considered an emerging best practice by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Cramer is a registered professional geologist in California and holds two degrees — a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of the Pacific and master’s degree in geology from the University of California-Davis.