Dr. Michael C. Kavanaugh - (Chair)
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
MICHAEL KAVANAUGH, Chair, is a Vice President and a Global Science and Technology Leader at Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. Dr. Kavanaugh’s primary areas of expertise include hazardous waste management with a particular focus on groundwater remediation, risk and decision analysis, water quality, water treatment, potable and non-potable water reuse, and fate and transport of chemical contaminants in the environment. Dr. Kavanaugh has served on numerous National Research Council boards and committees, chairing both the Water Science and Technology Board and the Board on Radioactive Waste Management. He is also a Consulting Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Kavanaugh received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil/Sanitary Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. William M. Arnold
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
WILLIAM M. ARNOLD is an Associate Professor and the Joseph T. and Rose S. Ling Professor at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Civil Engineering. He specializes in the fate and transport of anthropogenic organic chemicals (solvents, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals) in natural and engineered aquatic systems. In particular, he studies diffusion, mass transfer, and partitioning processes and how knowledge of these processes can be used to develop containment/remediation schemes. Dr Arnold is familiar with subsurface remediation techniques such as zero valent metals, phytoremediation, surfactants, reactive membranes, and sediment capping. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from MIT, an M.S. in chemical engineering from Yale, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Barbara Beck
Gradient Corporation
BARBARA D. BECK is a principal at Gradient Corporation. She is an expert in toxicology and in human health risk assessment for environmental chemicals, especially metals and air pollutants, and is the author of over 100 book chapters and journal articles on these topics. Dr. Beck directs Gradient's toxicology and risk assessment practice and has performed site-specific and chemical-specific risk assessments across the country, as well having developed exposure and risk assessment methodologies. Before joining Gradient, she was Chief of the Air Toxics Staff for U.S. EPA Region I. Prior to that she was a Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Programs in Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Beck received her A.B. in biology from Bryan Mawr College and Ph.D. in hydrogeology from Tufts University.
Dr. Kevin J. Boyle
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
KEVIN J. BOYLE is Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech. Dr. Boyle has extensive experience in the economics of groundwater valuation and the application of these values to environmental policy decisions. He helped to co-author U.S. EPA’s strategy for the economic valuation of groundwater for Regulatory Impact Analyses. Dr. Boyle’s recent research focuses on the property price stigmas from groundwater contamination, whether risk information changes households’ perceptions of the risks of tap water, and if households take extra actions to avoid exposure to drinking contaminated groundwater. Dr. Boyle is the PI of a current groundwater valuation study for the State of New Jersey that investigates the publics’ willingness to pay for cleanup of groundwater beyond what would occur with natural attenuation. Dr. Boyle was a member of the NRC’s Committee on Assessing and Valuing Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Maine, M.S. in agricultural and resource economics from the Oregon State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Yu-Ping Chin
The Ohio State University
YU-PING CHIN is Professor and Division Chair of Global and Environmental Change for the Department of Geological Sciences at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining The Ohio State University, Dr. Chin conducted research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and Technology on photochemical cycling in lacustrine systems and at the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory at MIT on the properties of organic humic materials in marine and lacustrine porewaters and on the fluxes of particle reactive contaminants across the sediment/water interface. He is a specialist in zero valent metals, natural attenuation, reactive barriers, and surfactant and co solvent behavior in the subsurface. He is a current member of the Water Science and Technology Board. Dr. Chin received his A.B in geology from Columbia University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Aquatic Chemistry from the University of Michigan.
Dr. David E. Ellis
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
David E. Ellis Ph.D., P.G. is a Principal Consultant in DuPont's Corporate Remediation Group in Wilmington, Delaware. He has 30 years experience in the science of subsurface cleanups. Dave leads the remediation technology and science program for the DuPont Corporate Remediation Group. He is Chair of the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF) and Chair of the UK’s SABRE consortium on bioremediation of chlorinated solvent source areas. He served on two National Research Council committees - natural attenuation and source removal. Dave was very active in ITRC, serving both on the Board of Advisors and a lead instructor in several ITRC classes. He received his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1978, was a research faculty member at the University of Chicago and has published over 30 papers on environmental technology, geochemistry, and high temperature thermodynamics.
Mr. Jerome B. Gilbert
Independent Consultant
JEROME B. GILBERT, NAE, is a consulting engineer and founder of J. Gilbert, Inc. His interests include water supply and planning and water quality management. Mr. Gilbert has managed local and regional utilities, developed basin water quality plans and watershed protection plans, supervised water rights and water quality state regulatory activities, and led national and international water utility and research associations. Areas of recent experience include application of privatization contracting procedures to government projects, water treatment and watershed management for drinking water safety, groundwater remediation and conjunctive use, economic analysis of alternate water improvement projects, and the planning of multipurpose projects for water supply and water quality remediation. He has been a consultant to industry and the U.S. government on the subject of appropriate remediation measures for groundwater contamination. He served recently for the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the City of Moses Lake's claims for damages caused by Larsen Air Force Base. Mr. Gilbert received a B.S. from the University of Cincinnati and a M.S. from Stanford University.
Ms. Marianne Horinko
The Horinko Group
MARIANNE L. HORINKO is a lawyer and the President of The Horinko Group, which provides expertise on solid waste and remediation issues for a variety of public and private clients. She is currently involved in reforming Michigan’s remediation statutory framework to encourage more efficient cleanups. Prior to joining The Horinko Group, she served as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2001 to 2004, and Acting EPA Administrator in 2003. Following the events of September 11, Ms. Horinko led EPA cleanup activities at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, at the Pentagon in Washington DC, and at the U.S. Capitol due to anthrax contamination. In 2003, she oversaw EPA’s response to the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster. Ms. Horinko is an alumna of the University of Maryland, College Park (B.S. in analytical chemistry, 1982) and Georgetown University Law School (J.D., 1986).
Dr. Tissa H. Illangasekare
Colorado School of Mines
TISSA H. ILLANGASEKARE is a Professor and AMAX Chair of Environmental Science and Engineering in the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and the Director of the University/Industry/National Laboratory collaborative Center for the Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes. Professor Illangasekare has 30 years of experience with numerical modeling of saturated and unsaturated flow in soils, surface-subsurface interaction, arid-zone hydrology, integrated modeling of hydrologic systems, subsurface chemical transport and multiphase flow, and environmental impacts of energy development. He served on the NRC Committee on Subsurface Contamination at Department of Energy (DOE) Complex Sites: Research Needs and Opportunities, an important precursor to this activity. Dr. Illangasekare received a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, a M.E. from the Asian Institute of Technology, and a B.S. from University of Ceylon, Sri Lanka.
Dr. Paul C. Johnson
Arizona State University
PAUL C. JOHNSON is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and is also the Executive Dean of the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. Prior to joining ASU in 1994 he was a Senior Research Engineer at the Shell Oil Westhollow Technology Center. His teaching, research, and professional activities focus on the application of contaminant fate and transport fundamentals to subsurface remediation and risk assessment problems. Dr. Johnson is recognized for contributions to the fields of soil and groundwater remediation and risk assessment; more specifically, the design, monitoring, and optimization of soil and groundwater remediation systems and the monitoring and modeling of exposure pathways. Dr. Johnson is also the editor-in-chief for the National Ground Water Association's journal Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation. He received a B.S. from the University of California, Davis, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.
Dr. Mohsen Mehran
Rubicon Engineering Corportion
MOSHEN MEHRAN is a principal hydrologist with Rubicon Engineering Corporation. He has been the principal investigator and manager for Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Studies; RCRA Facility Investigations, risk assessment; and design, installation, and operation of remediation systems. He has developed and applied numerous computer models to solve groundwater flow problems and investigate the migration of various chemical compounds in fractured/porous media - e.g., petroleum compounds, hexavalent chromium and other metals, chlorinated solvents, herbicides, volatile organic compounds, and numerous other chemicals. He has applied this technical specialty to site characterization, evaluation of remedial alternatives, development of cleanup criteria, and allocation of cost among potentially responsible parties for the aerospace, petroleum, electronics, chemical, wood preserving, and communications industries. Dr. Mehran holds a B.S. from Tehran University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.
Dr. James W. Mercer
HSI GeoTrans, Inc.
JAMES W. MERCER is a hydrogeologist and executive vice president of GeoTrans, Inc. Dr. Mercer has more than 35 years of experience specializing in all phases of geohydrologic transport analysis including groundwater flow, heat, and solute transport in porous media for a wide range of applications such as aquifer resource analysis, aquifer thermal storage, geothermal energy development, radioactive waste storage, seawater intrusion, and hazardous waste characterization and remediation, especially dense non-aqueous phase liquids. Dr. Mercer frequently provides expert technical review, expert witness testimony, litigation support and regulatory compliance services for clients throughout the United States and internationally. Previously a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources Division, he has served on an advisory panel on national ground water contamination for the Office of Technology Assessment and on National Research Council committees on groundwater contamination and groundwater models. He received his B.S. in geology from Florida State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in geology from the University of Illinois.
Dr. Kurt D. Pennell
Tufts University
KURT D. PENNELL is a Professor and Chair at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. His research interests include fate and transport of engineered nanomaterials and non-aqueous phase liquids in the subsurface; development and testing of in situ remediation technologies including thermal treatment, surfactant flushing and bioremediation; and the relationship between chronic exposure to persistent organic pollutants and human health; oxidative stress and neurodegenerative disease. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. Dr. Pennell received a B.S. from the University of Maine, an M.S. from North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida.
Dr. Alan J. Rabideau
State University of New York at Buffalo
ALAN J. RABIDEAU is a Professor of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Rabideau's primary research interests include mathematical modeling of flow and reactive contaminant transport in groundwater, subsurface remediation, and decision and risk analysis for environmental systems. He was a co-recipient of the 2001 American Society of Civil Engineers’ Rudolf Hering medal for the best paper in environmental engineering, and recipient of the 2004 Brigham Award for outstanding service from the New York Water Environment Association. Dr. Rabideau received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, M Eng. in Civil Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Allen M. Shapiro
U.S. Geological Survey
ALLEN M. SHAPIRO is currently a Senior Research Hydrologist with the National Research Program of the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA. His research focuses on the development of field techniques and methods to integrate and interpret geologic, geophysical, hydraulic, and geochemical information in order to characterize fluid and chemical transport in fractured rock over dimensions from meters to kilometers. His research has been applied to issues of water supply, geotechnical engineering, waste isolation, and groundwater contamination and restoration, including the fate of dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) and transport of pathogens in fractured rock. Dr. Shapiro is the Principal Investigator in research to investigate the fate of DNAPLs in fractured sedimentary rock at the former Naval Air Warfare Center in West Trenton, NJ. In 2004, the National Ground Water Association selected Dr. Shapiro as the 2004 Distinguished Darcy Lecturer. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from Lafayette College, M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in civil and geological engineering from Princeton University.
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