Professional Staff

Emily is a Geologist and Geotechnical Project Engineer that has been with Kleinschmidt for 4+ years working in our Falmouth, Maine office. Emily specializes in dam safety inspections and geotechnical assessments of earthen embankments. Emily performs various tasks related to geotechnical investigations of earthen embankments and dams, including developing investigation plans, drilling/excavation oversight, boring/test pit logging, rock and soil collection and analysis, and instrument installation and monitoring. She also performs dam safety and condition inspections of concrete, timber crib, and embankment water-retaining structures. Emily performs seepage and slope stability analyses for earthen embankments. She completes several types of calculations for embankments and other water retaining structures including filter compatibility, bearing capacity, concrete-bedrock interface friction, riprap sizing, settlement, rock anchors, and weighted creep. She drafts and assists in the preparation of several reports and letters for submittal to the FERC, including Drilling Program Plans (DPP), Dam Safety Surveillance Monitoring Plans and Reports (DSSMP/R), Part 12D Inspection Reports, Supporting Technical Information Documents (STID), Potential Failure Modes Analysis (PFMA) reports, and Geotechnical Data reports.

Emily currently holds her P.E. licensure in Civil – Geotechnical Engineering and her P.G. licensure for Geology. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Geo-Engineering with minors in Geology and Chemistry from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is an active member of the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (Dams and Levees Technical Working Group), the Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society, and the Geological Society of Maine.