L. Carrol Fowler
President

Carrol is the co-founder and President of KBE. Carrol completed her B.A. in Geography from the University of South Florida and has worked in the environmental field her entire professional career. Prior to KBE, she has also served as a top executive for two other leading environmental firms.  Through this experience she has acquired and developed an extensive combination of administrative, technical and managerial skills.

Carrol’s technical areas of expertise encompass both air quality and noise. Specific skills include the preparation of the air quality element of environmental assessments which comprise air emissions inventories and atmospheric dispersion modeling, air quality monitoring, emission factor development, air quality mitigation plans as well as agency and public coordination. Her work in noise also involves monitoring, modeling, reduction and mitigation measures, and community coordination.

Over the past 30 years, Carrol has successfully managed and provided technical analyses for a wide assortment of transportation-related improvement projects and actions; many of them considered “first-of-their-kinds”. These projects include the original air quality assessments of “green field” airport sites in Denver, Colorado, Senegal, Africa, and Hong Kong, China; the first air quality management plans for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (ATL) and Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) airports; and the recently approved Chicago O’Hare (ORD) Airport Modernization Program.

Carrol is also an instructor on the topics of airport air quality and the EDMS, a contributor to the publication entitled Airport Air Quality: Approaches, Basics & Challenges, on the subject of construction emissions and the primary author of the Florida Department of Transportation’s guidance for the assessment of air quality impacts associated with their transportation improvement projects.