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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BEM SYSTEMS, INC. ADDS THREE TO FLORIDA ENVIRONMENTAL TEAM WEST PALM BEACH, FL, October 15, 2004 —-/WORLD-WIRE/-- Environmental consulting firm BEM Systems, Inc. (BEM) announces that three senior environmental specialists, Patricia Strayer, P.E., Joanne R. Chamberlain, and Susan M. Carstenn, Ph.D., have joined the company’s new office in West Palm Beach, Florida. They will support BEM’s scientific and engineering services under several contracts with the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) under the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Program (CERP) as well as other state and federal water and environmental restoration programs. Patricia Strayer, P.E., is Senior Project Manager in BEM’s West Palm Beach office, which she opened in July. Ms. Strayer comes to BEM with nearly 20 years of experience, including 13 years with SFWMD. In her most recent position, as Department Director at SFWMD, she managed a multidisciplinary staff responsible for projects throughout central and southern Florida, including the Kissimmee River and Lake Okeechobee ecosystem restoration projects, the St. Lucie Estuary restoration and protection, CERP, and coastal watershed flood protection. She also serves on the planning committee of the First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER), which will be held December 5 – 10 in West Palm Beach. Joanne R. Chamberlain, Senior Engineer/Project Manager, also joins BEM from SFWMD, where she worked for the past 13 years. She was Project Manager for two CERP projects: the Strazzulla Wetlands Project, which is intended to protect and restore the area near the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in Palm Beach County, and the C-111 Spreader Canal Project, which will demonstrate the techniques needed to re-establish native habitat and tropical hardwood forests on agricultural land in southern Miami-Dade County. Susan M. Carstenn, Ph.D., Senior Restoration Ecologist, comes to BEM from Hawaii Pacific University, where she was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Engineering Sciences of the University of Florida. Her areas of expertise include wetland restoration design, successional processes, and the development of methods and measures to assess the viability of natural and engineered ecosystems. About BEM Systems BEM Systems, Inc. is an independent, employee-owned, multidisciplinary environmental consulting firm. Headquartered in Chatham, N.J., with offices in Arizona, New Mexico, Missouri, Virginia, Florida, New York City, and Washington, D.C., BEM’s environmental scientists and engineers provide a full range of environmental compliance, cleanup, prevention, computer modeling, environmental restoration, and risk management services for public and private-sector clients nationwide. For further information, see the company website at www.bemsys.com or contact Senior Scientist Sharon Stecker, tel. 908-598-2600; email sstecker@bemsys.com. PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST: 212-873-1944 / salwenpr@yahoo.com CONTACT: BEM Systems, Inc. Environmental Scientists & Engineers 1601 Belvedere Road, Suite 305 West Palm Beach, FL 33406 561.615.2210, fax 561.615.2490 www.bemsys.com Peter Salwen Salwen Business Communications 114 West 86th Street New York, NY 10024 T 212-873-1944 F 212-873-0028 C 917-620-5371 info@salwen.com or William James 212-873-1944
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