Dr. Graham E. Dr. Graham E.C. Bell, P.E. , President and Principal Engineer, has more than 20 years of experience in the designing and testing of corrosion control facilities and in the forensic evaluating of corrosion damage on buried and submerged structures, and his commitment to excellence was reflected in the NACE International Western Region Engineer of the Year. Dr. Bell spent more than seven years in basic corrosion research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Bell has managed multi-million-dollar research programs as well as tests for hundreds of structures and pipelines. Dr. Bell is a registered corrosion engineer in the State of California and a registered mechanical engineer in the States of Tennessee, Nevada, and Arizona. He is a NACE International Certified Corrosion Specialist P and Cathodic Protection Specialist.

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Dr. Dan W. Townley , is a Senior Staff Corrosion Scientist with our staff. Dr. Townley has extensive experience in cathodic protection of oil and gas production facilities such as wells, pipelines, tanks, vessels, and offshore structures. His experience includes field surveys and system design, modeling, specifications, and anode quality assurance. He is also experienced in field and laboratory corrosion monitoring using advanced electrochemical techniques, including electrochemical noise and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Dr. Townley also has experience in the effects of flow (single phase, water/gas, and oil/water/gas) on corrosion in pipelines, and the prediction of corrosion rates in these systems. Dr. Townley has authored and co-authored approximately twenty-five papers, organized and presented several schools and seminars, and given many professional presentations. Dr. Townley's areas of expertise include electrochemistry, corrosion prediction, cathodic protection, and flow modeling.

Mr. Brendan G. Sheehan, P.E. , has 22 years of "hands on" experience in designing, evaluating, inspecting, and adjusting impressed current and galvanic cathodic protection (CP) systems for various pipelines, underground fuel storage tanks, water reservoirs, pre-tensioned concrete steel cylinder water pipelines, sheet piles, wharves, piers, and offshore oil platforms. Typical projects have included CP system designs, CP system inspection services, and corrosion related failure investigations. He is registered in the state of California as a corrosion engineer and is certified by NACE International as a Cathodic Protection Specialist.

Mr. Steven R. Fox, P.E. , is Manager of Engineering Services and based in our San Diego office. Mr. Fox's experience of more than ten years in the field of corrosion engineering has been in soil corrosivity evaluations, corrosion protection design, cathodic protection surveys, cathodic protection troubleshooting, and internal inspections of large diameter pipe. Mr. Fox is registered in the state of California as a corrosion engineer and is a certified NACE International Cathodic Protection Specialist.

Mr. Ronald Z. Hodgman, P.E. , is a staff corrosion engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the field of corrosion engineering. His experience has been widely diversified including corrosion control for water transmission and distribution systems, offshore platforms and pipes, fuel and water storage reservoirs and systems, soil corrosivity evaluations, corrosion protection design, cathodic protection surveys and troubleshooting, and corrosion control of large diameter pipe.

Mr. Eric Frechette, P.E. , is General Manager with our staff. Mr. Frechette is registered in the state of California as a civil engineer, and is registered in Canada as a professional engineer. Mr. Frechette has more than 13 years of experience in the field of cathodic protection and corrosion control. He has extensive experience on water transmission and distribution piping, bridges, heat exchangers, storage tanks, wastewater piping systems and digesters. He has worked with private industry, public, and governmental agency in North America and the Middle East, performing various corrosion engineering tasks including field surveys, analysis, reports for corrosion studies, and construction inspection. Mr. Frechette is a certified NACE International Cathodic Protection Specialist.

Mr. Cliff Moore, P.E. , is Manager of Corrosion Monitoring and Instrumentation Services. He is registered in the state of California as an electrical engineer and has been awarded six U.S. patents for instrumentation and sensors. Mr. Moore has forty-five years of management, engineering, and design experience in the process instrumentation and control systems industries. His extensive experience covers project engineering, product design and technical support responsibilities for instrumentation and sensors used in monitoring chemical, electrochemical and process parameters in chemical and petrochemical plant refineries and pipelines.

Dr. Julie Bell, P.H.D. , Dr. Julie Bell is the laboratory Service Manager of Schiff Associates. Dr. Bell has experience with a wide range of experimental and analytical apparatus and techniques including: gas, liquid, and ion exchange chromatography. IR and UV/Vis Spectroscopy; atomic emission and absorption spectroscopy; BET; and x-ray diffractometry. She was responsible for the start-up, financial management, administration, and business development of the Schiff Associates laboratory service operation setup in 1993 and has recently returned to Schiff Associates to manage the laboratory (specialized in corrosion, geochemistry, aquecus chemistry, and chemical analyzes of soil and water).

Mr. Brien Clark, P.E. , is a Corrosion Engineer for Schiff Associates, Inc. Mr. Clark has experience with laboratory soil testing and many on-site testing techniques. Mr. Clark has performed pipeline surveys and implemented quality control procedures for Schiff Associates’ analytical chemistry laboratory.

Mr. Ernest Klechka is a professional engineer for Schiff Associates with 30 years of experience in metallurgical engineering, corrosion control design and implementation, and project engineering management. He is an expert in pipeline integrity management, risk management, materials selection, coating specification and application, cathodic protection design and testing, pipeline internal and external corrosion control, and welding and non-destructive inspection. Also, he has extensive experience in failure investigation and root cause analysis. He has investigated failures in coatings, materials, weld cracking, turbine blade creep and oxidation, and corrosion under insulation (CUI). In addition, Mr. Klechka is a registered professional engineer in Texas, Ohio, and Alaska.

Mr. Joe Pikas is a senior corrosion engineer for Schiff Associates with more than 40 years of experience in cathodic protection, corrosion control design and implementation, and project engineering management. He is an expert in pipeline integrity management, risk management, materials selection, cathodic protection design and testing, and pipeline internal and external corrosion control. In 2009, he was awarded the NACE Distinguished Service Award, and received an industry award in 2002 from AGA, GTI, INGAA, NACE, OPS, and PRCI International. Also, he has contributed many papers for NACE and SSPC publications and conferences.