PAM HALL
CEO, Board of Directors Chair
Robert (Bob) Varney
President
Col (Ret.) Curt Thalken, PE
Senior Vice President/COO
Normandeau Associates
Environmental Consulting Leadership Team
CHARTER
Normandeau Associates, Inc. is an environmental consulting firm that provides ecological, environmental and natural resources management services across several market sectors and over a wide geographic range. These services are performed to fulfill regulatory requirements and natural resources management and restoration goals.
CORE VALUES
Respect for stakeholders, the public, and our natural environment
Ethical work conduct and scientific integrity at all times
Safe and positive work environment
Supporting community engagement and volunteerism
Pride, investment, and accountability through employee ownership
Pam Hall CEO, Board Of Directors Chair
Pam Hall is CEO and Board Chair of Normandeau Associates, Inc. Prior to becoming Board Chair in 2015, she was President (and CEO) for 27 years. Pam has served on the Company’s Board of Directors since 2000. She was instrumental in leading the effort to develop Normandeau from a small regional firm to a highly regarded, 100% employee-owned firm with business across the United States and internationally. Before becoming President and CEO in 1988, Pam held several other positions in the company including Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Operations Manager. She has over 45 years of experience in business and is a recognized business leader.Pam has served on many non-profit boards in numerous leadership positions, and is currently serving on multiple Boards, including the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Manchester Advisory Board; the Environmental Business Council of New England, where she has been a Director since 1995 and Treasurer since 1997; the NH EPSCoR Statewide Committee; and the Business and Industry Association (BIA) of New Hampshire Executive Board. She serves as Chair Emerita after recently stepping down as Chair from the Volunteer NH Board of Directors, NH’s State Commission for volunteerism, where she served for nine years (4 years as Chair and 4 years as Vice-Chair) after being appointed by two subsequent NH Governors.
Pam has also served on the boards of The New Hampshire Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, where she was a founding Board member, Vice Chair, Chair, and served for 17 years; the Seacoast Science Center, where she served for 6 years and was Treasurer, Vice Chair and Chair; the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests; the NH Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership; and Vivamos Major/USA where she was an Advisory Board member for many years. In addition, Pam was a Governor-appointee to the Land and Community Heritage Commission, which helped develop the NH Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP). She was an Incorporator for the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation for several years and was also a member of advisory committees that helped establish both the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in NH and the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve in Maine.
Pam has a B.A. in Zoology from the University of Connecticut; an M.S. plus additional Doctoral work in marine science from UNH; a B.S. (summa cum laude) in Business Administration from UNH; and considerable graduate-level coursework in Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University. In graduate school, she was elected to Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific society and to Phi Sigma, an honorary biological research society; and she was awarded an NDEA Fellowship for academic excellence. In 1998, she received the Environmental Merit Award for Service to the Environmental Industry from the Environmental Business Council of New England. In 2012, she was honored by The New Hampshire Business Review as one of NH’s “Outstanding Women in Business” for her role as a business leader and her commitment to volunteerism. In 2014, she was honored with an “Above and Beyond” Award by the Business and Industry Association (BIA) of New Hampshire, and in 2017, Pam was bestowed with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the BIA.
Robert (Bob) Varney President
Considered one of the nation’s most experienced and respected environmental leaders, Bob Varney is a former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) New England Regional Administrator, who currently is President of Normandeau Associates. He was the longest-serving regional administrator and top environmental official in New England and is credited with instituting many innovative approaches and policy initiatives that have served as national models. Mr. Varney also was one of the nation’s longest-serving state environmental commissioners, and he has been appointed by two U.S. Presidents and three Governors of both political parties.Mr. Varney has chaired numerous national and regional groups such as the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), State/EPA Superfund Policy Forum, Federal Ozone Transport Commission (OTC), Governmental Advisory Committee to the US Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission and New England Governors Conference Environment Committee and was a member of EPA’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council. He currently serves on the NH Board of Trustees for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the CEC Joint Public Advisory Committee (US, Mexico, Canada), an independent tri-national body which oversees the NAFTA environmental side agreement.
Mr. Varney is the recipient of numerous environmental awards such as the EPA Lifetime Achievement Award, New England Water Works Association’s John H. Chafee Award, Environmental Business Council of New England’s Paul Keough Award, the Charles River Watershed Association’s Anne Blackburn Award and The Environmental Council of the States Founder’s Award.
COL (ret) Curt Thalken, PE Senior Vice President/COO
Normandeau’s Chief Operating Officer Colonel (retired) Curt Thalken has over 33 years of engineering experience including work in both austere and developed environments. Prior to joining Normandeau, COL Thalken served on active duty in the U.S. Army as an engineer officer for over 25 years. His experience includes working in both austere and developed environments and teaching in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point NY. His military engineering career culminated as Commander of the New England District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) responsible for aspects of the Federal Government’s engineering efforts and regulatory programs within New England. Regulatory responsibilities included both administration of Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting, for non-Federal applicants and the development of National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) documents for projects administered by USACE and review of other Federal Agency NEPA documents.
His experience with Normandeau includes extensive oversight of: energy transmission (Gas and electric) and power (including: nuclear, fossil fuel, hydro and other renewables) projects nationwide; Federal, State and Municipal environmental service contracts; and environmental compliance assistance for many private sector entities nationwide.
His education includes a BS from the United States Military Academy and MS from Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer in the states of: CT, NH and FL.
Tim Brush Senior Vice President
Tim is Normandeau’s Corporate Lead for the Hydropower Market Sector and has more than 35 years of service. He is an expert in fish protection and passage issues and impacts of hydroelectric and other electric generating projects. He has been Project Manager in support of licensing, relicensing, and license compliance efforts at more than 25 hydroelectric facilities in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. He is experienced in the FERC processes, experimental design, agency negotiation, and successful implementation and management of large projects, including fish protection/passage effectiveness, survival, radio telemetry, and hydroacoustic evaluations. He is also Principal-In-Charge for large federal hydropower focused contracts.
He has extensive experience related to diadromous fish biology and restoration in the Deerfield/Connecticut, Susquehanna, Willamette/Columbia, and Santee/Cooper basins. Species of specific interest include American Shad, River Herring, Shortnose and Atlantic Sturgeon, American Eel, and Atlantic and Pacific salmonids.
Tim has supported litigation teams in proceedings related to CWA and FPA. He has participated in strategy development, draft testimony preparation and critical review of testimony (team and opponents), production of exhibits, and preparation of witnesses. Clients have included Duke, South Carolina Public Services Authority, Exelon, and Entergy.
Tim has been active in: executive and director roles in multiple professional organizations; the organization and moderation of numerous symposia and conference sessions; and contributed many presentations at professional meetings. Tim earned a B.S. from Waynesburg College and a M.S. from Frostburg State University.
Since 1970, Normandeau Associates, Inc. is recognized as a national leader in providing science-based environmental consulting services, research and technological innovation across a biological spectrum. Employee owned, we pride ourselves on our professionalism, ethics, and integrity.
Contact Info
25 Nashua Road
Bedford, New Hampshire 03110
Phone: (603) 472-5191
