NORTECH Expands Anchorage Offerings
An engineer in Juneau is moving to NORTECH’s Anchorage office. By relocating, Haley Michael enables the environmental engineering firm to expand its services.
Michael directly manages and assists NORTECH’s engineers with spill prevention, control, and countermeasure plans; hazardous materials project design; land farm design; and more. As a consultant, she works with clients and regulators to develop and manage tank inspection schedules, environmental compliance manuals, and a range of oil spill prevention and response programs.
Michael has conducted work throughout Alaska and is experienced with all phases of projects, including design, field supervision, reporting, and coordination with various regulatory agencies.
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May 2026
Michael graduated from the Northern Arizona University honors program with a degree in environmental engineering and holds an American Petroleum Institute Tank Inspector 653 certification. Michael is experienced with hazardous material assessment and demolition design, tank inspections, contaminated site assessment and remediation design, and spill prevention, control, and countermeasure plan writing. Prior to joining NORTECH in 2017, Michael published undergraduate research at Northern Arizona University on projects involving GIS mapping mycorrhiza (soil fungi).
NORTECH is a sustainable environment, energy, health, and safety professional services firm that collaborates with clients to provide expedient and sustainable solutions to maximize project efficiency, cost savings, and client profitability.
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