WRScompass

Paul Lear, Ph.D
Senior Vice President

Dr. Lear is the Senior Vice President of the Technology Applications Group for WRScompass. Dr. Lear has over 20 years of experience in hazardous waste treatment, laboratory management, and chemical process development. Dr. Lear has been involved with hundreds of projects involving the treatment of hazardous waste. He has experience in selecting and evaluating treatment alternatives, providing data for preliminary design activities and project equipment specifications; assisting project design teams, and implementing the final design. He has experience in the application of biological, chemical, dewatering, and thermal treatment technologies.  

Dr. Lear has hands-on experience with full-scale remediation activities and specializes in process troubleshooting. He has provided technical operational support to bioremediation, dewatering stabilization, thermal, and wastewater treatment activities at toxic, hazardous, and radioactive waste remedial sites. He has also managed several pilot- and field-scale in-situ and ex-situ stabilization projects. Dr. Lear has provided technical input and hands-on support to numerous emergency response projects, dealing primarily with the on-site treatment of hazardous and reactive chemicals to protect human health and the environment.  

Dr. Lear provides technical leadership in support of bioremediation, chemical treatment, dewatering, soil vapor extraction, soil washing, stabilization/ solidification and thermal treatment technologies as applied to soil, sludges, and wastewater. Prior to that, he managed the Technology Applications Group for Shaw Environmental, where his 30+ employees conducted all treatability testing and research and development within Shaw Environmental, International Technology Corporation and OHM Remediation Services (predecessor companies to Shaw E&I). In that role, Dr. Lear was responsible for assisting and advising Project Managers and project personnel on all matters related to the on-site treatment of toxic, hazardous, or radioactive waste. During 1997 and 1998, he also provided technical and managerial oversight to a full-service environmental analytical testing laboratory that employed 34 full-time chemists and other technical personnel and had yearly revenues of over $12 million.