Roger Dockter
GRI President Roger Dockter is a native Californian. He has worked 35+ years in the environmental biz. Geology and the Environment are in his blood. At a young age he became interested in collecting rocks and by age sixteen he had won best in show and the Masters Division Blue Ribbon at the California Expo in Sacramento—which led him to an interest in Geology as a profession).
He graduated from San Jose State with both a B.S. and M.S. in Geology. In 1971, he went to work for the USGS where he spent 12 years.
The first five years were in field studies relating to the formation of mineral deposits, managing the mineral separation laboratory processing rocks for age dating studies, and completed a number of quadrangle mapping projects, and wilderness studies. The last seven years were spent managing the onshore oil and gas and coal lease programs on federal lands in the Western US. He received many commendations and published numerous scientific papers.
After working for the government, Roger began his entrepreneurial phase, founding and co-founding several companies over the next twenty years. All of them were a transition from finding crude oil in the ground (USGS days) to finding refined oil in the ground (environmental fuel release cases).
With GRI he has developed some of the best custom-designed and highly reliable remediation systems used in California. Currently he specializes in remediation of both fuel release and solvent release sites and the closure of facilities that have used hazardous materials (semiconductor manufacturing to plating shops).
Roger has spent enough years in the industry to become well-known. But it isn’t the number of years that makes him well-respected. He earned it by being an honest hardworking professional and keeping on top of the game. That’s what you get when you do business with Roger.
Bill Duong
GRI Project Manager Bill Duong is also a native Californian with 20+ years in the environmental business. Bill graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.S. in Earth Sciences. He started with Tetra Tech for 5 years before meeting Roger and joining GRI. Roger’s business ethos resonated with Bill, and he strives to continue those principles.
During his early years at Tetra Tech, Bill conducted and managed numerous specialized Phase I reports on Formerly Used Defense Sites. Phase II site assessments were completed at some of these sites, where underground storage tanks with remaining fuel were forgotten for 50+ years, spent bullets were found on the surface of former rifle ranges, and hidden communications bunkers were found with aboveground storage tanks full of fuel. Bill gained an appreciation for how the history was shaped by the former Department of Defense activities in each area.
After joining GRI, Bill continued to gain experience in all aspects of site investigations, long-term groundwater monitoring, and remediation using soil vapor extraction and dual-phase extraction. He also researched numerous remedial technologies and kept up to date on emerging contaminants and advances in sampling, including active and passive soil gas sampling.
Over the years with various clients, from large corporations to small, family-owned businesses and federal to local agencies, Bill understands the challenges each customer faces. He is especially accommodating to small businesses, like GRI itself, and the additional struggles they endure.