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Scott Beckman, PhD

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Dr. Scott Beckman specializes in litigation support as both a testifying and consulting expert. He has extensive experience preparing expert reports, rebuttals, and settlement memorandums for mediation, allocation, regulatory oversight, and litigation involving Superfund mega-sites, Department of Defense and Department of Energy programs, insurance claims, and international disputes.

Dr. Beckman provides subject matter expertise on complex CERCLA, USDOD, and USDOE sites, offering scientific advice and testimony on allocation, regulatory compliance, cleanup technologies, cost analysis, natural resource damages, and ecological and human health risk. He is highly knowledgeable in CERCLA, RCRA, the Clean Water Act, and National Contingency Plan compliance, including hazardous ranking for National Priorities List sites.

Dr. Beckman has testified in remedial technology and construction cases and served as the primary allocation expert for a PRP at the Berry’s Creek Superfund Site in New Jersey. His work also includes expert data analysis for large sediment sites with PCBs, mercury, and methylmercury, as well as projects involving historical industrial operations, wetlands, and standards of care.

Key Expertise

  • Expert Reports & Rebuttals
  • Quantitative Allocations
  • Department of Defense Sites
  • CERCLA Administration
  • National Contingency Plan
  • Ecological Risk Assessments
  • Remedial Investigations & Designs
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Wetlands and Marshlands

Professional Affiliations/Memberships/Licenses/Training

  • SAIC Environmental Excellence Award, 1999
  • Former Vice-Chairman, Waste Remediation Division of the Air & Waste Management Association
  • City College of New York, Visiting Full Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

J.S. Held is recognized as an ENR Top 200 Environmental Consulting Firm and industry leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant for Sustainability & ESG Consulting.