About

Robert Adam Schneiker

A geophysicist and self-taught programmer, his SEVIEW software is the industry standard used by regulatory agencies and environmental consultants around the world to develop contaminant cleanup standards. His full-day courses on contaminant transport and fate modeling are accredited for continuing education credits for professional engineers and geologists. He has presented papers on the Sphinx, Göbekli Tepe, paleomagnetism, geophysics, vadose zone and groundwater modeling in the United States, Canada and European Union. He is currently a member of the MassDEP Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFAS) in Residuals Technical Workgroup. Bob first became aware of a controversy regarding the age of the Sphinx after watching Nova on PBS. On it he saw archaeologist Mark Lehner describe how shallow groundwater wicks up and evaporates leaving a salt residue. Eventually the salt accumulates filling the pore spaces causing the limestone to exfoliate, slowly destroying the Sphinx. Like salt, groundwater contaminants, can migrate upward where they either volatilize, degrade, or concentrate. His objective was to use the Sphinx as an example of this contaminant migration pathway. But that was just the beginning of a journey that includes an presentation on Wisconsin Public Television and a trip to Egypt.