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Manager of Landfill Services
Senior Geologist
Hydrex Environmental
Nacogdoches, Texas
Email: MTransier@hydrex-inc.com
Education
B.S. Geology, 2010
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas
Professional Licenses
Summary of Geoscience Work Experience
Michelle K. Transier, P.G., C.P.G., PMP, serves as a Geologist for Hydrex Environmental located in Nacogdoches, Texas. She has over a decade of experience as a geologist in the environmental industry specializing in groundwater compliance, geochemical evaluation, and regulatory support for municipal solid waste facilities. Ms. Transier provides expertise in municipal solid waste facility groundwater and landfill gas monitoring, statistical evaluation of groundwater geochemical data, laboratory analytical data review, coal combustion residual landfill monitoring, stormwater pollution prevention, sewage sludge land application, environmental site assessments, oil and gas floodplain and development permitting, and high-volume air sample collection. She has extensive experience supporting complex environmental projects and regulatory compliance initiatives.
Detailed Description of Geoscience Work Experience
Ms. Transier oversees a department of over 40 municipal solid waste facilities located across Texas and Louisiana. She leads project management efforts including coordination, project planning, budgeting, proposal development, and the design and implementation of sampling and reporting programs. She provides technical oversight of groundwater monitoring systems, including data interpretation, statistical evaluation, piezometric surface contour mapping, isoconcentration mapping, and site-specific environmental evaluations. She has led the development of numerous low-flow and no-purge sampling demonstrations and has prepared a wide range of permit modifications for existing facilities. Ms. Transier supports compliance strategy and serves as the primary point of contact between clients and regulatory agencies, ensuring adherence to all applicable environmental laws and regulations.
Ms. Transier provides technical leadership in hydrogeological and geochemical evaluations to support routine monitoring and regulatory compliance. She evaluates relationships between naturally occurring geochemical conditions and variable groundwater constituent concentrations to develop defensible interpretations and demonstrations. Her work requires a strong understanding of site geology, groundwater flow dynamics, and geochemical processes, as well as the ability to clearly communicate complex technical findings. She has extensive experience working across diverse geologic settings, including the interfingering sands, clays, and lignites of the Wilcox and Claiborne Groups; fluvial-deltaic to shallow marine environments of the Gulf Coast aquifer systems; and chalk and marl formations of deeper marine environments. She routinely applies geological and hydrogeological tools such as boring logs, geophysical logs, cross sections, stratigraphic analysis, and groundwater flow evaluations to support technical conclusions. She is recognized for her expertise in evaluating natural variability in groundwater chemistry and developing defensible technical demonstrations in support of regulatory compliance.
Throughout her career, Ms. Transier has led and contributed to a wide range of short-term and long-term environmental projects. She has contributed to and reviewed stormwater pollution prevention plans for industrial and construction sites and has led site compliance evaluation inspections, reporting, and sampling in accordance with Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) permit requirements. She has coordinated and prepared registrations for land application of water treatment plant sludge in accordance with 30 Texas Administrative Code (TAC) Chapter 312. She contributes technical expertise to hydrogeological investigations, including characterization of groundwater quality and availability using a range of geological and geophysical methods.
Ms. Transier has led multidisciplinary teams on Phase II water and soil investigations for residential and commercial properties in accordance with American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards and the Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP), and has supported environmental review and assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Her experience includes evaluation and reporting of QA/QC data in accordance with RG-366/TRRP-13 requirements. She has overseen the design and installation of numerous monitoring wells associated with site assessments and remediation projects and has directed groundwater, soil, and surface water sampling programs, as well as the preparation of technical reports for site assessment and remediation activities.
Through her leadership of these geoscience-related projects, Ms. Transier has developed advanced proficiency in a wide range of multidisciplinary, technology-based tools and programs. These include photoionization detectors (PID), gas analyzers, groundwater instrumentation (water level indicators, pH, dissolved oxygen, specific conductivity, oxidation-reduction potential, turbidity, and temperature), purge stabilization flow cells, pressure transducers, AutoSketch, Sanitas, LogPlot, Win-Situ, and DesignCAD.
