Karianne Czajkowski

Ms. Czajkowski is a Principal Scientist and Roux’s Ecological Risk Assessment Practice Leader with over twenty years of environmental project support experience, primarily focused on ecological risk evaluations and sediment remedial investigations and remedial actions. She holds a BS in Environmental Science and an MS in Environmental Science from Drexel University. Her expertise encompasses project management, investigation design, implementation, sampling, assessment activities, and technical document preparation and review. Ms. Czajkowski has experience with State and Federal agency-led projects, including California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Florida State environmental regulatory agencies; United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Regions 2, 3, and 9; as well as the Government of Bermuda and the Canadian Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. She has extensive experience conducting screening level and ecological risk assessments and sediment remedial investigations. Additionally, her expertise extends to development, design, and negotiation of ecological risk-based remediation cleanup strategies under both state and federal programs. Ms. Czajkowski has also participated in international ecological investigations of threatened and endangered sea turtle populations and nesting grounds on the Pacific Coast beaches of Costa Rica.

She is an active Steering Committee member of the New Jersey Society of Women Environmental Professionals. Ms. Czajkowski is also a participant on the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Ecological Risk Assessment Stakeholder Workgroup and co-author and trainer of the NJDEP Ecological Evaluation Technical Guidance. She has served as the former President, Vice President, and member of the Board for the Hudson-Delaware Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Additionally, Ms. Czajkowski served as a member of the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council Contaminated Sediments – Bioavailability and Remediation teams.