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• ' It SA • DANIEL T. SICULAR, Ph.D. Senior Managing Associate Dan Sicular has 20 years of experience as an environmental consultant. His interests and projects have ranged from habitat restoration for threatened and endangered species, to planning and implementing recycling, waste prevention, and composting programs, to addressing global climate change. He has managed several large and complex Environmental Impact Reports required by CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, in which he has used the EIR process to explore alternatives and measures to reduce project impacts and increase environmental benefits. In recent years he has increasingly turned his attention to the urgent issue of global climate change. Largely through the CEQA process, he has conducted complex greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and developed innovative carbon emission reduction strategies. Dr. Sicular is versed in the analysis and resolution of complex problems involving human impacts on natural systems, and in the application of scientific findings in the formulation of policies and programs affecting land use and natural resources management. He has worked extensively with stakeholder groups, individuals, and government agencies to elicit areas of mutual interest and to develop workable strategies to solve seemingly intractable environmental problems. He works closely with ESA's biologists, atmospheric scientists, geologists, hydrologists, and planners and has a broad understanding of these disciplines, enabling him to serve as both a synthesizer of information from diverse fields, and as a translator of technical and scientific concepts to policy and program formulations. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at U.C. Berkeley and San Francisco State University in physical and human geography, natural resources and population, and environmental management. Relevant Experience Education Ph.D., Geography, University City of Martinez Climate Action Plan, Martinez, CA. Project Manager. Dan of California, Berkeley is managed the preparation of a comprehensive Climate Action Plan for the City of M.A., Ge o rraphy, University of Martinez. The Plan included a complete inventory of city-wide greenhouse gas emissions, goals for reducing emissions, and a selection of strategies to meet B.A., Southeast Asian these goals. In addition, the plan identified steps that the City can take to adapt Studies, University of g P P t5' t P California, Berkeley to a changing climate, including land use planning for rising sea level, diminished water supply, and increased threat of wildfire. Redwood Landfill Expansion EIR, County of Marin, CA. Project Manager. As part of ESA's preparation of the Final EIR for the proposed expansion of Redwood Landfill, which receives most of the solid waste from Marin and Sonoma Counties, Dan conducted a lifecycle analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the facility, from its opening in 1958 through the year 2098. The analysis examines fugitive emissions of methane, a GHG with a global warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide; state, national, and global inventories recognize landfill gas as a significant contributor to warming. The EIR finds that future emissions of methane will exceed 1990 levels, the baseline year set by Marin County's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan, and concludes that this increase constitutes a significant impact. Mitigation measures specified in the EIR include maximizing capture of landfill gas and its use for power production; increased recycling, as well as composting of organic wastes (which contribute to landfill gas generation); extending the post - closure maintenance period as