Senior Staff

Senior Staff

SWCA Environmental Performance Group is a dedicated team of professionals that can help your organization reduce your impacts, reduce costs, increase revenues and reduce risks.

Richard Young, PE 

Mr. Young is SWCA’s climate change and sustainability manager. He is a licensed professional engineer with more than 25 years of environmental engineering, consulting, and project management experience working with municipal, private, and federal clients on a broad range of environmental projects. Mr. Young has successfully managed hundreds of environmental projects, including more than two dozen climate-change and sustainability planning projects. These encompass large GHG inventories, ecological footprinting, water-use assessments, waste stream analysis, energy use analysis, and impact reduction and climate mitigation planning. Mr. Young recently acted as lead project manager on a review of Boulder, Colorado’s Climate Action Plan, which included analysis of all Boulder climate documents, interviews with City staff, review of best practices, mitigation strategy research, and recommendations for climate mitigation action planning and implementation.

Mr. Young was formally senior vice president and member of the board of directors for a large national environmental consulting firm and has a strong business management background. His environmental and management background brings a unique perspective to GHG mitigation and sustainability planning. He specializes in sustainability planning, GHG inventories, climate mitigation strategies, and program development, as well as stakeholder communication and engagement. Mr. Young has presented on sustainability and GHG management issues at a number of conferences across the United States.

Andrew Hultgren, CE

Andrew Hultgren holds a chemical engineering degree from Princeton University and has acted as project manager and lead technical analyst on more than two dozen GHG inventories. Mr. Hultgren has extensive experience in climate-change analysis and GHG inventory development and management and has served on The Climate Registry’s Technical Expert Panel.

Mr. Hultgren is an expert in GHG inventories, ecological footprinting, and environmental-baseline assessments. He has developed a custom database of local GHG conversion factors and is experienced with many GHG reporting protocols (including EPA Climate Leaders, The Climate Registry General Reporting Protocol, The Climate Registry Local Government Operations Protocol, the ICLEI International Local Government GHG Emissions Analysis Protocol, the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol, the IPCC’s Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, and ISO 14064-1). Mr. Hultgren has been the lead technical analyst on GHG inventories for several large municipal clients, government agencies, and private-sector businesses. His recent clients include Park City Municipal Corporation, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City Corporation, Deer Valley Ski Resort, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Questar Gas Company, Kennecott Land Company (Rio Tinto), Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, and many others. He has a broad range of experience in data collection, data management, emissions calculation tools, and environmental sustainability opportunities assessments and planning.

Erica Gaddis, PhD

Dr. Gaddis holds a PhD in natural resources from the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, a leading institution in researching sustainability and human well being—specifically, the integration of built, social, natural, and human capital. Dr. Gaddis has experience in climate change, water resources, ecological economics, systems dynamics and modeling, and sustainability indicators. She has completed GHG inventory analysis and reporting for several large organizations, and recently completed the Utah Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) study for the Utah Population and Environmental Coalition. The GPI measures environmental, economic, and social indicators to assess trends in quality of life issues in communities and can serve as an alternative to GDP (http://www.utahpop.org/gpi.html). The study included an examination of damage costs associated with climate change. Dr. Gaddis has worked with the United Nations Environment Programmer since 2005 to draft the water chapter for two editions of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report series (www.unep.org/geo). The GEO report focuses on assessing key drivers of change in environmental state, critical impacts to human communities associated with those changes, and innovative responses to these concerns with a particular focus on the most threatened natural resources and vulnerable human populations. This work has given Dr. Gaddis access to the most recent climate change research as well as adaptation planning in unique environments around the world. In addition, Dr. Gaddis has authored numerous publications and papers and is an expert in economic and environmental factors for social and ecological models, especially as they relate to water resources.

Patrick Crowley, MS

Mr. Crowley is an environmental specialist with an MS from the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is a past fellowship recipient of the National Science Foundation program. Mr. Crowley has worked on community climate-change projects and instructed both students and educators on watershed, environmental issues, and climate change. As part of this fellowship, Mr. Crowley worked as a public outreach coordinator for a large municipality. He also instructed students and educators on the potential impacts of climate change. He is experienced in GHG source evaluation and quantification. Mr. Crowley has completed research into the effects of climate change in the Western States. He is also using satellite imagery and global information systems (GIS) to evaluate environmental conditions. This methodology includes an evaluation of climate change and its effects on water resources.

David Reinhart, BA

Mr. Reinhart has over nine years of experience as a data management systems specialist. He has extensive experience with environmental data management to support data collection, data storage, analysis, calculations, and report figures. His expertise includes developing a custom GHG and sustainability data management and reporting tools. These GHG management tools allow for detailed data storage, reporting and year-over-year inventory comparisons. He has also designed project Websites for public involvement, including functionality for automated mailing lists and online forms to receive and store comments.