Stone Announces Expansion to European Union

Strategic Expansion Elevates Client Engagement and Collaboration

Stone Environmental, a 100-percent employee-owned consulting firm based in Montpelier, VT, USA, has expanded its services to the European Union (EU) with the addition of an Austrian branch in 2021. Stone’s new branch office serves a broad range of clients with regulatory and environmental policy decision-making support, providing high-level consulting expertise integrating geospatial analysis methods with field to watershed scale hydrologic and water quality modeling.

"Stone has worked in the area of environmental exposure modeling in Europe for many years and we have considered establishing a local office for some time," says Stone Vice President and Environmental Systems Modeling Service Leader Michael Winchell. "Now was the right time to move forward with opening a branch office within the EU, which allows us to further elevate engagement and collaboration with our EU colleagues and clients. Our new location also helps attract additional talent to join our growing team of scientists and engineers."

The branch office has currently two employees: Hendrik Rathjens, Ph.D. and Jens Kiesel, Ph.D., who are in Bartolomäberg, Austria, and Fulda, Germany, respectively. Rathjens and Kiesel are part of Stone's Environmental Systems Modeling team, which has over 20 years of experience in pesticide fate modeling, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, custom software and interface development, and spatial analysis. Currently, Dr. Rathjens and Dr. Kiesel are working on a variety of international modeling projects in Europe (Belgium, France, Germany) and Africa (Somaliland).