B.A., Environmental Studies, Minor in Geology, University of Vermont, 1991.
Ph.D., Geology, University of Colorado, 1998.

President & Principal Hydrogeologist, Waite Environmental Management, LLC.
March 2003 - Present
Primary tasks are the initiation and management of projects involving environmental site assessments, wastewater, water supply, and land development (Act 250) permitting, and hazardous site investigation and remediation.  Conduct and oversee all aspects of projects, including fieldwork, data collection/analysis, reporting, CAD design work, and client/regulator interaction.  Additional technical capabilities include the use of GIS for data evaluation and presentation, hazardous risk assessment, groundwater modeling, air quality sampling, and stormwater assessment.  Conduct all aspects of company management, including preparation of cost estimates and proposals, preparation of reports and technical memorandums, data evaluation, marketing, and resource management.

Senior Hydrogeologist, Griffin International, Inc., Williston, Vermont.
June 2001 - March 2003
Managed and conducted projects involving hydrogeologic investigations, groundwater supply development projects, environmental site assessments, Brownfield redevelopment, site remediation, and hazardous waste site management.  Specific tasks included monitoring well installation, soil and groundwater sampling, fracture trace analysis, design and supervision of production well drilling, implementation/analysis of pumping tests, water supply permitting, landfill monitoring, indoor air quality monitoring, contaminated soil excavation and treatment, and design and operation of soil/groundwater remediation systems. 

Senior Hydrogeologist, Heindel and Noyes, Burlington, Vermont.
September 1998 - June 2001.
Managed a variety of projects with a focus on site investigation and remediation.  Responsible for conducting and overseeing field investigations of hazardous waste sites, hydrogeologic investigations, design and operation of remediation systems, Phase I & II Environmental Site Assessments, and underground storage tank closure inspections. Water supply development projects for municipal sites involved fracture trace analysis, magnetic and VLF surveys, and implementation of pumping tests.  Involved with Act 250 permitting and site redevelopment issues. 

Graduate Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
September 1993 - September 1998.
Completed Ph.D. in Geological Sciences.  Concentration of research was on computer modeling of water flow in fractured rocks.  Employed by the University as a Research Assistant and as a Teaching Assistant.

Hydrogeologist/Geochemist, Shepherd Miller, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado. 
February 1994 - September 1994.
Analyzed groundwater and surface water quality data on several large-scale mining projects in Colorado.  Specialized on surface water geochemistry and groundwater-surface water interaction.

Staff Geologist, McCulley, Frick & Gilman, San Francisco, California.
October 1991 - June 1993.
Conducted field investigations of hazardous waste sites, groundwater sampling, remediation system operation and maintenance, data analysis, and report preparation.

Heatspring Learning Institute, Planning and Designing Geothermal Systems, Boston, February 2009.

US EPA, Triad Investigations, New Approaches and Innovative Strategies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2008.

National Ground Water Association, Science and Myths of Indoor Inhalation Pathway, Portland, Maine, September 2007.

American Council of Engineering Companies, Field Description of Soil Properties and Estimating Seasonal High Water Table refresher course, May 2007.

Lorman Education Services, Stormwater Regulation in Vermont, South Burlington, Vermont, November 2006.

Vermont Environmental Consortium, Vermont Brownfield Redevelopment Conference, Montpelier, Vermont, April 2005.

Lorman Education Services, Navigating the Regulatory Rapids in a Changing Environment, South Burlington, Vermont, October 2004.

National Ground Water Association, U.S. EPA/NGWA Fractured Rock Conference: State of the Science and Measuring Success in Remediation, Portland, Maine, September 2004, 2007.

Northeast Rural Water Association, Small Systems Certification Course (Class 2 Water System Operation), April 2004.

Lorman Education Services, Issues Affecting Brownfields Development Projects in Vermont, South Burlington, Vermont, December 2002.

National Ground Water Association, Northeast FOCUS Conference, Burlington, Vermont, October 2002.

National Ground Water Association, Screening Modeling for Natural Attenuation, Hartford, Connecticut, October 2000.

Waite, Miles E. and Deborah Gaynor, Anticipating Data Needs for a Brownfields Site Assessment, New England’s Environment, vol. 10, no. 2, March/April 2004 .

Waite, Miles. E, S. Ge., and H. Spetzler.  A New Conceptual Model for Fluid Flow in Discrete Fractures: An Experimental and Numerical Study, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 104, no. B6, pp.13049-13059, June 1999.

Waite, Miles E., Fluid Flow in Discrete Fractures: An Experimental and Lattice Gas Automata Modeling Study, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Colorado, July 1998.

Waite, Miles E., S. Ge., H. Spetlzer, and D. Bahr, The Effect of Surface Geometry on Fracture Flow: A Case Study Using a Sinusoidal Fracture, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 813-816, 1998.

Waite, Miles E. and S. Ge, Fluid Flow in a Sinusoidal Fracture: A Numerical and Experimental Investigation Into the Control of Geometry on Fracture Permeability, EOS  Trans. AGU, 78(46), Fall Meeting Supplement F453, 1997.

Waite, Miles E. and S. Ge, Comparison of Experimental Results and an Analytical Solution for Fluid Flow in a Sinusoidal Fracture, Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs, 28(7), 1996.