Prior to joining GSI, Mr. Stanley was the Global Discipline Leader for Soil and Groundwater as part of his 37-year tenure at Shell. Curt became Shell’s (and the petroleum industry’s) first hydrogeologist in 1982. He has conducted and directed site assessments and remediation projects at hundreds of facilities in the U.S. and across the world ranging from upstream assets to retail sites; including pipelines, refineries, terminals, chemical plants, aviation facilities, Ag Chem. facilities, waste sites (Superfund), service stations, oil sands mines, pumping stations, well sites, military facilities, and a nuclear facility. He also provided leadership and support in risk assessment, regulatory advocacy, litigation/arbitration matters, due diligence, water resources, training, R&D, emergency response, and development of various corporate environmental programs. During this time, Mr. Stanley was also the technical focal point for various litigation matters pertaining to soil and groundwater litigation in Shell and served as both a fact witness or expert witness for various cases. In this role, Mr. Stanley supported the legal organization in understanding the technical issues, expert selection, response to interrogatories, development of expert reports, review of Plaintiff’s reports, depositions, and trial testimony.
Mr. Stanley was a member of the American Petroleum Institute Soil/Groundwater Technical Group from 1979 – 2016 and served as the chairman from 1997-2016. During this time, the S/GTG conducted over 250 R&D projects with 100s of related publications, including many training programs and conferences. In 1999, Mr. Stanley received API’s Certificate of Appreciation (API’s highest award) for his efforts in leading industry training programs as well as his industry leadership in development of Risk-Based Corrective Action (RBCA). Mr. Stanley was the chairman of the API/NGWA Petroleum Hydrocarbon Conferences from 1997 through 2005. Mr. Stanley is a member of the ASTM E50 and D18 Committees and was a principal author of the ASTM Risk-Based Corrective Action (RBCA) standards (as well as other standards) and helped develop and lead the ASTM/U.S.EPA/Industry Partnership in RBCA Implementation (PIRI) program. Currently, Mr. Stanley is helping to lead a large ASTM effort for developing a standard that is applicable to moving stalled sites towards closure. Mr. Stanley was also a board member for the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF). He has authored numerous technical publications and presentations at many conferences on a wide range of topics including, site assessment, petroleum/chemical fate and transport, risk-based corrective action, sustainable remediation, emerging chemicals of concern, remediation technologies, water resources, brownfields, and environmental management, and has also been an invited speaker at many international conferences in Europe, Africa, Australia, South America, and Asia. Finally, he developed the Animated Information System for Groundwater Assessment and Remediation which is used for training across the world by industry, regulatory agencies, academia, and consulting firms to help train staff on basic principles of hydrogeology, petroleum fate and transport, site assessment and remediation.
