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	Staff Steve Alverson, senior vice president and director of ESA's Airports Group, has provided expert noise consulting services to commercial and general aviation airports throughout the United States. Steve has more than 25 years of experience in providing solutions to complex noise problems at airports in San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle-Tacoma, Las Vegas, Anchorage, Sacramento, Denver, and Salt Lake City. His expertise includes FAR Part 150 Studies, FAR Part 161 Studies, Noise Elements of Airport Master Plans, EAs/EISs, Noise and Operations Monitoring System Design, Expert Testimony, and Facilitation of Public Meetings. Mike Arnold, LEED AP, vice president, Southeast regional director and deputy practice leader, oversees the Tampa office. He heads up aviation planning and has assisted more than 80 airports such as Ronald Reagan Washington National, Chicago O'Hare, Nassau International and Southwest Florida International Airports with development, planning, environmental, and noise efforts. Mike joined ESA in 2002 and has more than 16 years of experience in aviation planning for air carrier and general aviation airport clients. Mike was the Airport Consultant Council’s Planning Committee 2006 Chair. Brian Kim, Ph.D., aviation air quality services manager, has more than a decade of experience in aviation and highway environmental services with a focus on air quality and climate change projects. He is a primary author of the recently published Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program’s Report 11: Guidebook on Preparing Airport Greenhouse Gas Emissions. He is also an expert on the EPA’s air quality models, and has supported the FAA in the development of their Emissions and Dispersion Modeling System (EDMS) as well as the on-going efforts to develop the Aviation Environment Design Tool (AEDT). He was the original developer of the common aircraft emissions module used in EDMS/AEDT and has performed various airport and highway air quality studies for clients throughout the US. Mike Alberts, senior noise specialist and project manager, has over 13 years of aviation noise and land use planning experience at air carrier and general aviation airports throughout the United States. He has been responsible for a wide array of aviation noise mitigation studies that involved aircraft noise modeling; operational noise abatement flight procedures; airspace utilization; aircraft performance characteristics; and off-airport land use compatibility initiatives. Mike is experienced in the use of the FAA's Integrated Noise Model and Federal Highway Administration’s Traffic Noise Model. Sarah Jamieson Brammell, environmental services manager, has over nine years of experience with environmental permitting, natural resource management, hazardous wildlife, and noise program management. She is a qualified FAA wildlife biologist (FAA Advisory Circular 150/5200-36). Sarah offers airport clients and their stakeholders the necessary expertise to guide them through complicated permitting and environmental compliance processes. Before joining ESA in 2006, Sarah was senior manager for Lee County (Florida) Port Authority where she oversaw planning and environmental compliance for Southwest Florida International and Page Field General Aviation airports. Ron Seymour, project manager, manages noise-related projects for clients such as Los Angeles World Airports, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and Portland International Airport. Before joining ESA in 2003, Ron managed the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport FAR Part 150 noise study and their community outreach program- one the nation’s largest. Ron has over 15 years of experience in FAR Part 150 Studies, noise mitigation, Noise and Operations Monitoring System (NOMS) development, airport master planning, and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) planning. Win Lindeman, senior project manager, is a highway transportation noise expert. He helps clients analyze highway traffic noise, construction/maintenance and erosion, and sediment and stormwater management related to highway design and construction. He joined ESA in 2002 after more than 31 years with the Florida DOT, where he developed and managed their traffic noise program. He serves on several national committees, including National Research Council's Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration (ADC40).