Mohammad Sharif Environmental Engineer, EIT
CV
Discipline
Environmental Engineer, EIT
Based in
Sacramento, California
Licensure
PE, anticipated 2027

Mohammad Sharif

Environmental engineer on California remediation and landfill projects, currently leading Phase 1 construction on the Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine Superfund cleanup.

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Where the work is

Every project sits on its real coordinates, rounded to about a kilometre. Scroll and the map goes to each one; select a row to read the report.

  1. 01 Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine Clearlake Oaks, CA · Superfund mercury mine — pre-design investigation & remediation Active May 2025 — Present 39.00° N 122.66° W
  2. 02 City of Roseville — Closed Landfill Compliance Monitoring Roseville, CA · Closed MSW landfill — post-closure monitoring Active Jan 2025 — Present 38.75° N 121.29° W
  3. 03 PG&E Bakersfield MGP Bakersfield, CA · Former manufactured gas plant — DTSC cleanup Active Sep 2023 — Present 35.37° N 119.02° W
  4. 04 Woodville Landfill — Southern Phase Cell Expansion Tulare County, CA · Active Class III MSW landfill — new lined cell Complete 2024 — 2025 36.10° N 119.20° W
  5. 05 Travis AFB — SERDP PFAS Study Travis AFB, Fairfield, CA · PFAS research & field study Complete Jun 2025 — Jun 2025 38.27° N 121.93° W
  6. 06 Colton Sanitary Landfill — Final Cover & LFG System Colton, CA · Closed MSW landfill — final closure construction Complete Oct 2022 — Jul 2024 34.00° N 117.30° W

Selected work

Each project is written up like a report: the setting, my role, what I did and what came of it.

  1. 2.1

    Superfund mercury mine — pre-design investigation & remediation

    Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine

    A former mercury mine on the shore of Clear Lake, now a federal Superfund cleanup. I helped lead the 2025 pre-design test-pit, soil-boring and boulder XRF campaigns that fed the remedial design, and now lead the construction effort for Phase 1, the cleanup of residential yards.

    Role
    Construction lead, Phase 1 remediation; co-lead, pre-design field campaigns
    Dates
    May 2025 — Present
    Where
    Clearlake Oaks, CA
    Status
    Active
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  2. 2.2

    Closed MSW landfill — post-closure monitoring

    City of Roseville — Closed Landfill Compliance Monitoring

    Deputy project manager for Title 27 compliance at the City of Roseville’s closed, unlined landfill: coordinating the semiannual groundwater sampling, running the landfill gas monitoring, and helping write the reports the Regional Water Board relies on.

    Role
    Deputy project manager (DPM)
    Dates
    Jan 2025 — Present
    Where
    Roseville, CA
    Status
    Active
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  4. 2.4

    Former manufactured gas plant — DTSC cleanup

    PG&E Bakersfield MGP

    The cleanup of an 1880s gas plant site in downtown Bakersfield under DTSC oversight. I worked it end to end: characterization, the scope of work and specifications, field engineer through construction, and the software that turns perimeter air, noise and vibration monitoring into live data and daily reports.

    Role
    Field engineer; characterization, specifications & monitoring software
    Dates
    Sep 2023 — Present
    Where
    Bakersfield, CA
    Status
    Active
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All 6 projects

Built for the field

Software I wrote because a job on site needed it. Each one started as a specific, slightly annoying problem.

Fig. 3.0 Section A–A′ along 38.6° N, looking north. The land surface is real; the strata beneath are schematic.
  • Valley fill, sand
  • Silt and clay
  • Gravel
  • Bedrock
  • Water table
  • Boring at a project site

Field notes

Methods, lessons from site, and how the tools came about.

All 3 notes
  1. The ‘diff every number’ rule: catching stale carryover in cyclic reports Recurring regulatory reports fail QC at the copy-paste step. Here’s the paragraph-diff workflow I use to catch it — and the small tool that automates it. Technical 2 min
  2. Building a Field-Navigation Tool for Grid Sampling Why I built a lightweight tool to find sampling-grid nodes in the field, and what it changed about how the team collects data. Professional 1 min
  3. Reading an XRF in the Field What a handheld XRF analyzer actually tells you during site characterization — and the field habits that keep the data defensible. Technical 1 min

From the field

Photographs from site: the ground itself, the instruments, and the work of sampling it.

Fig. 5.1 Historical view of the open-pit mercury mine and its terraced benches.
Fig. 5.2 The mine's pit lake — iron-stained shoreline and pale mineral crust along the water's edge.
Fig. 5.3 Taking a handheld XRF reading directly on exposed rock.
Fig. 5.4 A cinnabar-red rock among the mine waste.
Fig. 5.5 A soil sample collected and sealed in a labeled jar.
Fig. 5.6 Drilling a rock chip to collect a sample in the field.
Fig. 5.7 An excavator working among boulders.
Fig. 5.8 Red mineral crystals on a pale rock face.
Fig. 5.9 A handheld XRF analyzer in its field case.
Fig. 5.10 Excavation with a water spray to keep the dust down.
Fig. 5.11 Excavation behind the exclusion zone, with a water spray for dust and excavated material laid out on plastic sheeting.
Fig. 5.12 Cinnabar-red rock from the excavation, in a gloved hand.
Fig. 5.13 Altered, mineral-stained ground running down to the pit lake.
Fig. 5.14 A trench wall: roots and dark soil over weathered rock, with pale, altered material at the base.
Fig. 5.15 The pit lake, with the mine's terraced benches along the far shore.
Fig. 5.16 An excavator digs while a crew member in protective coveralls sprays water to keep the dust down.
Fig. 5.17 Drilling on the upper slope, with the valley spread out below.
Fig. 5.18 Unrolling textured geomembrane across the prepared slope.
Fig. 5.19 A field tensiometer for seam samples: each weld is pulled apart to check its strength.
Fig. 5.20 The new cell from its rim: liner going down across the floor, the existing landfill beyond.
Fig. 5.21 Placing drain rock around the leachate collection pipe.
Fig. 5.22 Sunset over newly deployed geomembrane, its wrinkles catching the light.

About

Portrait of Mohammad Sharif

Civil and environmental engineer (EIT) at Jacobs in Sacramento, on remediation, landfill and Superfund projects across California: from pre-design investigation and field leadership to construction quality assurance and regulatory reporting. I also build the software my field teams use.

Credentials
Engineer-in-Training (EIT)NCEES No. 180474 · 2023
Professional Engineer (PE)California — Civil / Environmental · Anticipated 2027
OSHA HAZWOPER 40-Hour2022
HAZWOPER 8-Hour Refresher2026 · renews 2027
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Get in touch

A question about a project, a site or one of the tools? Email is the quickest way to reach me.

engr.sharif209@gmail.com