client feedback

The Brake Pad Partnership was a collaboration of brake pad manufacturers, regulators, environmentalists, and stormwater permittees who worked together to pass California legislation that limits the copper content of brake pads. Ms. Rosselot first contracted with the Partnership to develop estimates of copper releases in the San Francisco Bay watershed. During that time, she provided guidance and support for the air deposition modeling portion of the Partnership's technical studies. Her source estimates were the foundation of the Partnership's modeling effort, and she presented them in a way that facilitated communication with the Partnership's stakeholders. In addition, her engagement in dialogue with the Steering Committee, Scientific Advisors, and other contractors was extremely helpful in deepening the understanding of the Partnership's effort and how all the pieces fit together.

Some time after her work on the source estimates was concluded, we engaged Ms. Rosselot as the Partnership's technical studies project manager. She skillfully managed separate teams of watershed modeling and bay modeling engineers, overseeing the preparation and technical review of results from a series of interlinked environmental models. The technical studies made rapid progress under her management, and the results clearly communicated the relative contribution of copper from brake pads in the San Francisco Bay watershed. Kirsten played an important role in the successful culmination of the Partnership's efforts.

-Ashley Boren, Executive Director, Sustainable Conservation

It has been my pleasure to work with Kirsten on a diverse set of chemical engineering projects over the last twenty years. She has a broad understanding of environmental issues and she has exceptional engineering skills. She finds creative solutions to technical problems, and has a talent for effectively communicating her work. Beyond her technical skills, she works very well as a member of a team, even when communications between team members are almost exclusively electronic. She learns quickly and has been extremely productive in generating work products.

-David T. Allen, Professor, University of Texas at Austin

I had the pleasure of working with Kirsten when she served as a post-accept editor for the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Her role was to transform accepted but challenging manuscripts into polished, well-communicated research articles. This was no small task -- some papers needed significant refinement in framing, clarity, and results presentation, often requiring delicate interactions with authors who were not always receptive to suggested changes.

Kirsten excelled in this role, consistently improving the readability and impact of papers across a wide range of topics, from construction debris management to life cycle assessments of heating systems, chemical risk analysis, and the environmental impacts of copper production. There was no topic she didn't have some knowledge of, and she was adept at spotting improper use of statistical tools. Several authors were so appreciative of her contributions that they offered to acknowledge her in their papers.

I highly recommend Kirsten for any role requiring exceptional analytical and communication skills. She brings not only broad expertise but also a thoughtful, diplomatic approach that ensures the best possible outcome for complex technical content.

-Reid Lifset, Research Scholar at Yale University School of the Environment

Ms. Rosselot served as the project's chemical engineering consultant whose main role was to evaluate the extent of pollution prevention activities at the plant and the potential for further progress... Her production process assessment skills and knowledge of pollution prevention opportunities was invaluable to the success of the project, particularly when it came to clearly conveying important technical issues in lay terms for the local community.

Both INFORM and EPA were delighted with her work and the overall outcome of the project. I am confident that Ms. Rosselot would be a valuable asset to any pollution prevention project.

-Mark Dorfman, former Senior Research Scientist at INFORM, Inc. 

...Kirsten Rosselot... is well connected in the pollution prevention community and is abreast of current environmental concerns. She demonstrated exceptional resourcefulness in both research and problem-solving, finding meaningful statistical solutions for representing project research and findings when less-than-ideal data was available. Furthermore, she has a knack for assessing the reasonableness of information and identifying data gaps and errors, an asset one can only acquire from years of experience as a practiced statistician and researcher in the pollution prevention area.

Besides these valuable technical skills, Kirsten Rosselot is a fine communicator... She was always able to balance our need for layman's language in describing the meaning of data generated and the methods of statistical analysis that brought it to light... In short, we would hire her again... She is an extremely capable and valuable research partner.

...You would be fortunate to have her as a project manager or on a team that calls for the range of research and analysis tools she possesses.

-Joseph H. Chadbourne and Mary M. Chadbourne, Project Managers of the CAMP Organochlorine Project