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Neptune and Company (N&C) is able to provide a multitude of consulting services in environmental decision analysis, covering diverse disciplines such as environmental modeling, cost-benefit (economic) analysis, options analysis, statistics, probability, elicitation, earth sciences, and human health and ecological risk assessment.

Our staff at N&C has a wide variety of specialized training, years of experience, and extensive knowledge in the technical disciplines of theoretical and applied statistics. Moreover, an especially exciting aspect of our company is the ability of each of its members to communicate the crux of technical concepts to non-technical audiences. As a consequence, N&C has worked in collaboration with scientists from a number of fields including ecology, geology, mathematics, chemistry, and biology. N&C not only brings expert knowledge in statistical design, analysis and interpretation, but also expertise in many fields within the environmental sciences.

Currently N&C is involved in a variety of projects for clients across the U.S. Projects range from developing open-source web-based tools to performing classical exploratory data analysis on soil chemistry results. Specific examples of our capabilities are provided below.

• N&C continues to provide support to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their efforts to streamline redevelopment of industrially contaminated lands or “brownfields.”
• N&C is developing open-source web-based software tools for various clients, including the EPA and the Washington Demilitarization Company.
• N&C was a member of the Core Sediment Work Group with Battelle and the U.S. Navy. For naval sites in San Francisco Bay, N&C was charged with designing a systematic and defensible approach for all facilities to address problems associated with ecological and human health risk assessment and cleanup of contaminated sediments.
• N&C was involved in a collaborative project with statisticians and physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The goal of the project entitled “Monte Carlo for the 21st Century” was to develop new simulation algorithms and estimation techniques for obtaining thermodynamic properties of various physical systems
• N&C provided statistical analyses in support of a human health risk assessment at the Cerrillos Hills Historical Mining Site for the New Mexico Environment Department.
• N&C continues to conduct research into probabilistic decision analysis for solving complex environmental problems (e.g., long-term monitoring, stockpile stewardship, redevelopment of contaminated lands)
• N&C performed statistical analysis of environmental data to support site decision-making, including calculation of contaminant exposure concentrations for human health and ecological risk assessments for the LANL Environmental Restoration Project.
• N&C continues to build fate and transport models and risk assessment models at a systems level using the probabilistic framework program GoldSim for various government and private clients.

If you are interested in learning more about Neptune and Company, please feel free to contact our main office in Los Alamos for more information.