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
- Agrochemical Fate & Exposure Modeling
- Agricultural Stewardship
- Edge-of-Field and Conservation Practice Monitoring
- Study Design & Directorship
- Agricultural Conservation Practice Design
- Agrochemical Fate & Exposure
- Risk Assessment
- Prospective Groundwater Studies
- Hydrology and Water Quality Modeling
- Water Quality & Flow Monitoring
- Ecological Monitoring Studies
- Field Studies
- Drift Reduction Technology Assessments
- Water Quality
- Surface Water Monitoring
- Field Volatility Studies
- Quality Assurance
- Simulated Rainfall Runoff
- Retrospective Groundwater Studies