Ken Scott

Project Environmental Scientist

Direct Phone Line:  (425) 295-0834

kscott@farallonconsulting.com

  • BS Forestry and Wildland Conservation
  • 15 years experience

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Mr. Scott has 15 years of professional experience in environmental projects and support services involving biology, chemistry, geology, hydrogeology, statistics, soil science, stream analysis, water quality monitoring and analysis, wetlands delineation, vegetation and habitat assessment, erosion control, natural attenuation, and research.  Project work has included aquifer and surface water quality monitoring and analysis, and sampling and data collection for hydrocarbons, metals, pesticides, solvents, and bacteria.  His experience also encompasses Phase I and Phase II site investigation, AST and UST removal, confined space and tank integrity testing, subsurface investigation, soil analysis, excavation, and pollution source identification and delineation.  As a Project Scientist with Farallon, Mr. Scott provides construction oversight, conducts monitoring well and remediation system installation and system operation and maintenance, and supports chemical injection initiatives for cleanup action projects.  He also is involved in wetlands delineation; water, vegetation, and habitat assessment; data analysis; report preparation; and other site activities throughout the western United States.  Mr. Scott’s project work has been conducted for major petroleum and gasoline companies; large manufacturing firms; mining companies; railroads; and state, county, and local governments and regulatory agencies.  

Mr. Scott’s background and interests are varied.  While employed as a backpacking consultant for JanSport for 14 years, he took 100-mile hikes across Washington State.  During his studies at the University of Washington, he worked as a model and an actor for a talent agency, and starred as Bigfoot in the local Blockbuster movie “Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch” released in 2005.

While pursuing a degree in Environmental Technology at Shoreline Community College, Mr. Scott worked in the College’s Environmental Interpretive Center, where his involvement included creating a metal salmon sculpture and painting a mural of the Boeing Creek Watershed.  He served as a volunteer at the Carkeek Park Piper Creek Watershed, educating the public and youth groups about wetlands, streams, and salmon restoration.  Mr. Scott also conducted biology tours at the Washington Arboretum for University of Washington students while studying Forestry and Biology at the University.  Currently Mr. Scott is a member of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Project, whose goal is to buy, protect, and restore land adjacent to I-90 to provide a greenbelt for wildlife from the Cascade Mountains to Puget Sound.  He earlier conducted bio-solid testing for King County at the Weyerhaeuser Tokul tree farm within the Mountains to Sound Greenway buffer.  Mr. Scott is an avid martial artist, artist, hiker, and telemark skier.