Profile
Thomas J. Rappolt (Air Quality Consultant) Mr. Rappolt has over 40 years of program management and technical experience in air quality compliance and pollutant dispersion and air measurement programs. He is considered an expert in atmospheric dispersion and transport of airborne pollutants, particularly in the area of complex terrain, including overwater/coastal meteorological regimes, as well as inter and intra building processes. During Mr. Rappolt’s career, he has designed and implemented over 80 atmospheric monitoring networks and comprehensive field measurement programs involving toxic chemicals and molds, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, metals, odorous compounds, criteria pollutants, and other targeted compounds. Many of these measurement studies required support monitoring of local meteorological parameters, including upper atmospheric data using an array of direct probe and remote sensing devices. Mr. Rappolt has served as an expert witness in the area of meteorology, atmospheric dispersion, and odor impacts on numerous legal cases, hearing boards, and programs which have regulatory significance. He has served as an expert witness for 18 law firms and has been approved as an expert witness in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nebraska, Indiana, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Texas, Puerto Rico, and Federal Court. Mr. Rappolt is a past Vice President and Business Unit Director of SCS Engineers and has served a two year term on the Board of Directors of SCS (2011 to 2013) and has served as a member of the company’s Management Advisory Committee (MAC) (2011 to 2020). He is also past president of Tracer ES&T, a company that merged with SCS in 2009. Sessions