Cherlyn Seruto: Consultant

Contact Information

Rocky Mountain Institute
Attn: Built Environment Team
1820 Folsom Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302

e-mail: BET@rmi.org
phone: 303-245-1003

Cherlyn Seruto is a Consultant on RMI’s Built Environment Team. Her primary roles include project management, project development, and expanding metrics for ecosystem impact analysis.

Ms. Seruto manages donor-funded initiatives within the Built Environment Team, initial client contact and project selection, and educational outreach.

RMI Projects

• Roadmap to a Cooler Planet
  
• Busting Barriers through Integrated Design
  
• Democracy Now Headquarters Retrofit

Background

For the past nine years, Ms. Seruto has worked in research and consulting, investigating sources and effects of environmental degradation. She has researched the effects of contaminants on various biological systems, from nutrient dynamics in kelp forest ecosystems to liver biotransformation of specific compounds and their resulting toxicology. In the industrial sector she has worked to project and/or mitigate the effects of contaminants and clean up environmental plumes through mechanical and biological means. She has conducted ecological risk assessments for mining and oil exploration operations, and worked to remediate results of metal and organic contamination at various sites across the country. She holds an undergraduate degree in aquatic ecology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree in environmental toxicology from the University of California, Riverside. She continually seeks to create compelling reasons for the use of sound alternatives to ecologically harmful and persistent compounds throughout the spectrum of industrial to individual applications.

Education

Master of Science, Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Riverside, 2004
Bachelor of Science, Aquatic Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 200

Qualifications