Leadership
Les Carver Foundation Team Leader, Senior Hydrogeologist
At Stone, Les integrates field and scientific knowledge to develop solutions to assess environmental exposure from crop protection chemicals. He has over 25 years of experience conducting water-quality investigations and environmental fate studies ranging from field plot scale to national scale monitoring. Les’ expertise includes programs to develop data from surface water, groundwater, soil, air, and biological matrices. He has served as Principal Investigator and/or Study Director for numerous field programs under the USEPA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Standards.
Years of Experience 29
Years at Stone 3
Education
Master of Science, Geology, West Virginia University
Bachelor of Science, Geology, Radford University
Markets
Expertise
- Agricultural Stewardship
- Edge-of-Field and Conservation Practice Monitoring
- Study Design & Directorship
- Agrochemical Fate & Exposure Modeling
- Agricultural Conservation Practice Design
- Agrochemical Fate & Exposure
- Risk Assessment
- Prospective Groundwater Studies
- Water Quality & Flow Monitoring
- Ecological Monitoring Studies
- Hydrology and Water Quality Modeling
- Field Studies
- Drift Reduction Technology Assessments
- Surface Water Monitoring
- Water Quality
- Field Volatility Studies
- Quality Assurance
- Simulated Rainfall Runoff
- Retrospective Groundwater Studies