Lily Barkau is an Environmental Project Manager with the Hazardous Waste Permitting and Corrective Action section of the State of Wyoming – Department of Environmental Quality (WY DEQ) in Cheyenne. She has worked at the WY DEQ since 2006. She reviews complex permit applications for technical adequacy; evaluates complicated environmental monitoring systems and data, determining whether releases of contaminants to the environment have occurred; reviews complicated site investigation work plans and reports; and takes actions to address releases to the environment. Previously, she worked for 5 years as a geologist/project manager at Earth Tech in Englewood, Colorado and has worked as a geologist for ThermoRetec, Tetra Tech EMI, and Barkau Engineering. She has been a member of the ITRC LNAPL team since the team started in 2007. Lily earned a bachelor's degree in geology from Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas in 1998 and a master's degree in Environmental Science & Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado in 2004.