Citadel expands Environmental Geology Group and opens San Diego office

Citadel Environmental Services, Inc. is a member of the Institute's Corporate Partners Program.

Citadel has officially annouced the acquisition of the San Diego-based staff of Barajas and Associates, a strategic acquisition that will expand Citadel's well-established Environmental Geology capabilities, as well as provide a local office in the San Diego, California market.

The newest employees have extensive environmental assessment, design, and remediation experience as part of an on-going $20 million IDIQ Environmental Services contract with the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest Division (Navy) in San Diego for the past eight years, plus a wealth of private industry experience. While current clients have been able to rely on staff to complete complex projects, the public sector skill set and educational qualifications that the new staff members bring to Citadel take their abilities to an even higher level. There are few projects in complexity and size that Citadel can't handle from transactional projects to Superfund site clean-ups.

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Published: Thursday, October 06, 2011

Testimonials

“When, as a business owner you are given an opportunity to associate yourself or to partner with such an organization like the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, you don’t think twice—it’s an honor to have our names mentioned together. My staff and I learn through their lecture series and corporate boot camp and we hope to contribute to the diversity by sharing our real world experiences.”

Loren Witkin, Principal, Citadel Environmental Services, Inc.

New working relationships like this, between business and the University, are essential to creating an economy that reduces carbon emissions and increases jobs.”

Mary Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board

“Our attorneys constantly strive to stay on the cutting-edge of environmental issues impacting our clients, so the firm’s new partnership with UCLA was a natural fit as we continue to provide clients with sophisticated legal and business counsel on a range of environmental matters. We are honored to be joining such an esteemed network of academics and companies globally-recognized for promoting green innovation, and we look forward to working together to stay at the forefront of the latest environmental research and technological advances.”

Craig A. Moyer, Chair of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

"Vertum Partners is an early phase, small business start-up. The partnership was established after recognizing that the atmospheric modeling capabilities of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability's regional climate group could be disseminated to the renewable energy business community through the combined expertise of our three founders. We hope to continue to learn from the research being conducted and the researchers themselves at the Institute of the Environment and UCLA as a whole."

Cameron Whiteman, Managing Partner, All Vertum Partners