Bart Faris is a hydrogeologist with the New Mexico Environment Department’s (NMED) Ground Water Quality Bureau. He is the team leader of the assessment and abatement team that oversees state ground water clean up projects. Additionally, he is project manager for multiple contamination sites throughout New Mexico dealing with numerous contaminants. He serves as NMED’s water representative for border issues with Mexico. Bart has served as the interstate technology regulatory council team leader for the in situ bioremediation team and the enhanced in situ biodenitrification team. Bart received his B.S in Soil and Water Science from the University of Arizona in 1983, and has published papers on in situ biodenitrification, monitored natural attenuation of carbon tetrachloride and nitroaromatics, perchlorate, DNAPLs, stable isotopes in ground water, among others. Bart has spent over 15 years in Latin America working with community’s water resources and agricultural production.