Chair of the corrective action subcommittee (E50.04) that is part of the committee on environmental assessment, risk management, and corrective action (E50), Tripp Fischer has been an ASTM International member since 2002. He also served on the Committee on Standards (COS) and the soil and rock committee (D18). Fischer has been honored with a COS Service Award, the Robert J. Painter Award by ASTM and the Society for Standards Professionals, and the Award of Merit.

Fischer has been with Brownfield Science and Technology Inc. since 2009, focusing on environmental policy, environmental impacts to business transactions, the assessment and remediation of light non-aqueous phase liquids in the subsurface, and chemical fate and transport in the environment. Prior to BSTI, Fischer served as a hydrologist/ environmental engineer with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.

In addition to work at ASTM International, Fischer is a member of the American Bar Association. He is an advisory board member to the dean of sciences and mathematics at West Chester University. Fischer earned a master’s degree in engineering science from the Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in geology from West Chester University.