Socioeconomics

Quent has had considerable experience with socioeconomic impact assessment, including demographic, economic, social, housing, infrastructure, and fiscal impact assessment. He has been involved in the development of integrated regional economic computer models, including all phases of model specification, parametrization, operationalization, and validation.  Representative relevant experience, includes:

Technical Consultant on the Brooks City Base Project EIS. Responsible for evaluating the employment, income, population, and housing, community services and infrastructure impacts of three alternative land use development scenarios involving different levels of development, and different mixes of public/open space, mixed-use/ transportation orientated development, traditional neighborhood development, multi-family residential, light industrial, research and development park, and retail/commercial land uses.  For USAF CEE, Brooks AFB, TX, (to Earth Tech, Inc., Colton, CA) - 2000.

Principal Investigator on the Women’s Prison and Intake Center EA.  Responsible for evaluating the potential for land use, socioeconomics, transportation, and utilities impacts of the construction and operation of a 1,600-bed prison in the Portland, OR. Metropolitan area.  For the Oregon Department of Corrections, Salem, OR (to Coles Environmental Consulting, Inc., West Linn, OR) - 1999-2000.

Principal Investigator on the Suite of Integrated Radio Frequency Countermeasures (SIRFC) Life-Cycle EA. Responsible for assessing the potential for land use, socioeconomic and environmental justice, transportation and utilities impacts from activities associated with the engineering and manufacturing, production and deployment, operations and support, and disposal life-cycle phases of an integrated electronic combat system.  For PEO Aviation, Huntsville, AL (to STEP, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN) - 1999.

Principal Investigator on the Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures/Common Missile Warning System Life-Cycle EA.  Responsible for assessing the potential for land use, socioeconomic and environmental justice, transportation and utilities impacts from activities associated with the concept exploration/demonstration validation, engineering and manufacturing, production and deployment, operations and support, and disposal life-cycle phases of an incoming missile detection and defensive countermeasures system.  PEO Aviation, Huntsville, AL (to STEP, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN) - 1999.

Principal Investigator on the Aviation Electronic Combat Avionics Systems Life-Cycle EA. Responsible for assessing the potential for land use, socioeconomic and environmental justice, transportation and utilities impacts from activities associated with the concept exploration/demonstration validation, engineering and manufacturing, production and deployment, operations and support, and disposal life-cycle phases of an avionics system. For PEO Aviation, Huntsville, AL, for STEP, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN - 1999.

Principal Investigator on the Theater Missile Defense Programmatic EIS.  Responsible for assessing the potential socioeconomic, housing, infrastructure, public services and finance impacts at a programmatic level.  For Ballistic Missile Defense Organization/ USASDC, Huntsville, AL (for The Earth Technology Corporation, San Bernardino, CA) - 1993.

Technical Director on the Recommended Comprehensive Strategy Report to the U.S. Congress. Responsible for directing a team of multidisciplinary professional in identifying critical socioeconomic (boomtown) issues that might affect and/or constrain development of alternative synthetic fuels throughout North America. Prepared issue fact sheets on critical issues, and directed MITRE Corporation’s effort to characterize the severity of constraints to synthetic fuels development under alternative development scenarios.  For the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, Washington, DC - 1983-84.

Project Manager on the Supplemental Labor Force EIS (to the M-X Missile Deployment Area and Land Withdrawal/Acquisition EIS). Responsible for producing a supplemental analysis of the employment, income, population, and socioeconomic impacts of alternative construction scenarios for deployment of the M-X Missile Analysis consisted of extensive sensitivity analyses.  For Ballistic Missile Office, Norton AFB, CA (for HDR Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA) - 1982.

Senior Environmental Scientist on the M-X Missile Deployment Area and Land Withdrawal/ Acquisition EIS. Participated as a member of an interdisciplinary team of economists, planners, sociologists, geographers and programmers in constructing several interrelated economic and planning models which together constituted a unified system for comprehensive regional socioeconomic analysis.  Responsible for the spatial allocation (development of algorithms to allocate the in-migrants to surrounding communities) and facilities and services modules or components.  For Ballistic Missile Office, Norton AFB, CA. (for HDR Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA) - 1980-82.

Senior Environmental Scientist on the M-X Missile Deployment Area and Land Withdrawal/ Acquisition EIS. Responsible for assessing the quality of life impacts of deploying the M-X Missile. Effort included a review of the academic, planning, and sociological literature on the effects of rapid growth on rural communities in the American West. Research resulted in an extensive annotated bibliography of the literature, including an abstract, descriptors, methods/techniques employed, data and/or indicators used, and a summary of findings included in an Appendix to the EIS.  For Ballistic Missile Office, Norton AFB, CA. (for HDR Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA) - 1980-82.