Employee Spotlight: Meet Our New Team Members

We’re excited to welcome four new members to our team. The addition of this group of talented individuals strengthens our commitment to delivering great service that exceeds our clients’ expectations.

Meet Our New Team Members

Miranda Lepek, EIT, Water Resource Engineer

Miranda is a civil engineer with expertise in grading and stormwater design, CAD drafting, environmental sampling, and construction oversight. Prior to Princeton Hydro, she worked for a small site development firm in Michigan where she developed her drafting skills and facilitated multiple aspects of private and commercial land development projects.

Miranda holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. While on study abroad, she contributed to the one of the longest-running native amphibian field studies in New Zealand. In other previous experiences, she worked on major projects including the investigation phases of a Superfund site cleanup in Duluth, MN and a comprehensive sampling operation over 40 miles of the Hudson River near Albany, NY. In her free time, Miranda enjoys hiking, foraging, cooking and art.

Sumantha Prasad, PE, ENV SP, Water Resource Engineer

Sumantha is a Water Resource Engineer with a B.S. in Bioenvironmental Engineering from Rutgers University and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science from Johns Hopkins University. She worked in Maryland for seven years focusing on ecological restoration projects, including stream restoration, wetland creation and enhancement, and stormwater management, and she worked for 3 years with a primary focus on highway hydrology and hydraulics.

In her spare time, she enjoys being a Toastmaster and serves as the Treasurer to a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to creating inclusive housing communities for adults with disabilities. She also enjoys telling terrible puns unapologetically.

Pat Rose, Environmental Scientist

Pat’s interest in aquatics began during a summer course studying at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala as an undergraduate at SUNY Oneonta. After graduation, he spent a year volunteering with AmeriCorps in Knoxville, Tennessee as part of a Water Quality Team. While in Tennessee, Pat spent the majority of his time educating high school students on how to protect and improve local waterways and watersheds as part of the Adopt-A-Watershed program. During his year with AmeriCorps, Pat worked with government organizations to perform biological sampling and erosion monitoring in local streams.

Pat graduated from SUNY Oneonta with a M.S. in Lake Management in December 2018. During his time in graduate school, he created an interim lake management plan for a small reservoir in New York that has had cyanobacterial blooms over the past few years. Pat spent this past summer completing a co-op with an aquatic plant management company in the Pacific Northwest, working primarily with invasive Eurasian and hybrid watermilfoil populations.

Duncan Simpson, Senior Environmental Scientist

For nearly a decade, Duncan has served as an Environmental Scientist/Planner in the Mid-Atlantic Region. His experience includes a wide range of natural resource studies, documentation, and permitting at both the project and program level. He has special expertise in wetlands; Waters of the US delineations; and permitting for stormwater management facilities, stream restoration, and TMDL program projects. He has conducted forest stand delineations; rare, threatened and endangered species consultations; mitigation monitoring; and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation.

Duncan holds an M.S in Biology from Towson University and a B.S. in Environmental Science with a Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Minor from the University of Massachusetts. During his graduate studies, he researched amphibian species found in Delmarva Bays and testing models that predict their presence based on abiotic habitat characteristics. He also served as a student member of the Northeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (NEPARC) steering committee. Duncan is a Professional Wetland Scientist and member of the Society of Wetland Scientists. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking with his dog and learning how to fly fish.

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