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Biographical Sketches
CHRIS G. WHIPPLE (Chair, NAE) is a principal in ENVIRON
International Corporation in Emeryville, California. His professional
interests are in risk assessment, and he has consulted widely in this field
for private clients and government agencies. Prior to joining ENVIRON,
he worked for ICF Kaiser Engineers (1990-2000) and the Electric Power
Research Institute (1974-1990~. He served on the National Research
Council's (NRC's) Board on Radioactive Waste Management (BROOM)
from 1985 to 1995, and as its chair from 1992 to March 1995. He is a
past-president and fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis. He holds a B.S.
degree from Purdue University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
engineering science from the California Institute of Technology.
D. WAYNE BERMAN is president of Aeolus, Inc., in Albany, California,
and has more than 20 years' experience in solving complex
environmental problems for a variety of government and private clients.
He has extensive experience in chemical fate and transport; chemical
process analysis; sampling and analytical method development; data
quality analysis; data quality objectives development; risk assessment;
and regulatory compliance. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from
Muhlenburg College and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the
California Institute of Technology. Dr. Berman is a member of the New
York Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Society for
Testing and Materials.
SUE B. CLARK is the Meyer Distinguished Associate Professor at
Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Dr. Clark's current
research focus is on the oxidation-reduction chemistry of plutonium in
natural aquatic systems. She served previously on the BROOM's
Committee on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. She holds a B.S. degree
from Lander College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in inorganic and
radiochemistr~y from Florida State University. Prior to joining Washington
State University, she worked as an assistant research ecologist at the
University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and as a
research assistant at Katholieke University te Leuven in Belgium. Dr.
Clark has received the Westinghouse Savannah River Company's Total
Quality Achievement Award. She is a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific
Research Society, and the American Chemical Society.
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Science and Technology for Environmental Cleanup
JOHN C. FOUNTAIN is professor and chair of the department of geology
at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Dr. Fountain's
research has focused on contaminant hydrology, specifically aquifer
remediation and characterization of fractured rock aquifers. He has
served on several BROOM study committees, including the Committee on
Technologies for Cleanup of Subsurface Contaminants in the Department
of Energy (DOE) Weapons Complex. Dr. Fountain holds a B.S. degree in
chemistry from California Polytechnic State University, and M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in geology from the University of California at Santa
Barbara. He is a member of several scientific societies, including the
Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the
National Ground Water Association.
LYNN W. GELHAR is a professor of civil and environmental engineering
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research activities
encompass stochastic theories of transport processes for unsaturated
flow, fractured media, chemically heterogeneous media, variable viscosity
fluids, biodegradation, multiphase flow, controlled field experiments on
macrodispersion in aquifers and unsaturated flow, supercomputer
simulation of flow and transport in heterogeneous porous media, and
stimulation of in situ biodegradation using gas injection. Dr. Gelhar has
more than two decades of experience on aspects of subsurface hydrology
relating specifically to problems of radioactive waste disposal in the
United States and abroad. He has served on several multidisciplinary
review teams, including groups reviewing environmental aspects of the
Hanford site, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, and the Nevada
Test Site. He is currently serving on the NRC Panel on Conceptual
Models of Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone. Dr. Gelhar
holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the
University of Wisconsin.
LISA C. GREEN is a technical manager with Lucent Technologies in
Norcross, Georgia. Her expertise is in chemical engineering and
analytical characterization applied to large-scale manufacturing, and she
has more than 20 years of process engineering and project management
experience. At Lucent, she has had extensive experience in engineering
and management of chemical processing and waste management
systems, including experience in working with regulatory agencies, risk
management teams, and insurance companies. She holds an M.S.
degree in analytical chemistry and a B.Che. degree from the Georgia
Institute of Technology. She has received three STAR (Significant
Technical Achievement Recognition) awards and three Lucent
Environmental Hero Awards for her work.
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ROBERT O. HALL, JR., is an assistant professor in the Department of
Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming. His current
research interests include interactions of aquatic community structure and
ecosystem function, energy, and nutrient flow in food webs; bacterivory by
aquatic invertebrates; stable isotopes as food web tracers; and nitrogen
cycling. His current research projects include estimating controls of
nutrient uptake and retention in streams in Grand Teton National Park.
Dr. Hall holds a B.S. degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. degree
from the University of Georgia.
EDWIN E. HERRICKS is professor of environmental biology in the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of expertise include aquatic
ecology and stream ecosystem and watershed management, and he has
broad experience in the identification, assessment, and restoration of the
adverse effects of man's activities on streams, rivers, lakes, and their
watersheds. His current research has focused on the development of
methods to restore and manage wetland design and management, the
development of test systems to assess episodic exposure to
contaminants common in urban runoff, and the assessment of the effects
of global climate change on natural resources. Dr. Herricks is currently
serving on the NRC's Surface Transportation Environmental Research
Advisory Board. He has written numerous articles and papers on the
broad theme of improving engineering design and environmental decision
making. He is a member of the Urban Water Resources Research
Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers and chairman of a task
group on receiving system effects from urban runoff. He holds a B.A. in
biology and english from the University of Kansas, an M.S. in engineering
from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in biology from the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
BRUCE D. HONEYMAN is a professor of environmental science and
engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. His research
interests include the physical and chemical processes controlling the fate
of chemical species, especially radionuclides, in natural and engineered
systems; nuclear environmental chemistry; actinide surface chemistry;
colloid-facilitated contaminant transport; metal-organic complex formation;
and treatment of radionuclide-contaminated environmental media. Dr.
Honeyman holds a B.S. degree in applied earth sciences and M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in environmental engineering and sciences from Stanford
University. He is a member of several professional societies, including
the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and
the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
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SALOMON LEVY (NAE) is a retired chairman and chief executive officer
of S. Levy Inc., a consulting firm to the power industry that he formed in
1977. He is now a principal in Levy & Associates and continues to provide
personal consulting services to the power industry. He has served as a
consultant or on oversight committees for several utility companies and as
an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Los
Angeles. From 1953 to 1977, the General Electric Company employed
him in a variety of technical and managerial positions, the last of which
was as general manager of the Boiling Water Reactor Operations. He is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering and has served on
several NRC committees. Dr. Levy holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
JAMES K. MITCHELL (NAS, NAE) is University Distinguished Professor
Emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
Blacksburg and a consulting geotechnical engineer. Dr. Mitchell's
expertise is in civil engineering and geotechnical engineering, with
emphasis on problems and projects involving construction on, in, and with
the earth; mitigation of ground failure risk; waste containment and site
remediation soil improvement; soil behavior; geotechnical earthquake
engineering; environmental geotechnics; and compositional and
physicochemical properties of soils. He has served on several National
Research Council committees, most recently the BRWM-Water Science
and Technology Board (WSTB) Committee on DOE Research in
Subsurface Science. Dr. Mitchell holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
LEON T. SILVER (NAS) is the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor for
Resource Geology (emeritus) at the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Silver's research focuses on several areas of geology and
geochemistry including the petrology and history of the continental
lithosphere. He has served on numerous National Research Council
committees, most recently the BRWM-WSTB Committee on DOE
Research in Subsurface Science. Dr. Silver was elected to the National
Academy of Sciences in 1974. He holds a B.S. degree in civil
engineering from the University of Colorado, an M.S. degree in geology
from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. degree from the
California Institute of Technology.
LESLIE SMITH is the Cominco Chair in Minerals and the Environment at
the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His expertise is in the
areas of subsurface hydrology and contaminant transport processes. His
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current research interests include transport processes in fractured rock
masses, hydrologic processes in unsaturated waste rock piles,
hydrogeological decision analysis and risk assessment, inverse modeling,
and radionuclide transport in watersheds near the Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant in the Ukraine. Dr. Smith has served on several National
Research Council committees, including the BROOM's Committee to
Review Specific Scientific and Technical Safety Issues Related to the
Ward Valley, California, Low Level Radioactive Waste Site. Dr. Smith
holds a B.S. degree in geology from the University of Alberta and a Ph.D.
in geological sciences from the University of British Columbia.
DAVID A. STONESTROM is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, California. He is chief of the research
project titled "Application of Unsaturated Flow Theory to the Phenomena
of Infiltration and Drainage" for the National Research Program of the
Water Resources Division. He is also a coordinator of the Amargosa
Desert Research Site for the USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology
Program. His current research investigates processes governing the
occurrence and movement of gases and liquids in unsaturated zones by
applying principles of soil physics, pedology, and geochemistry. He holds
a B.S. degree in geology from Dickinson College and M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in hydrology from Stanford University. Dr. Stonestrom holds
membership in several professional societies, including the American
Geophysical Union, the Soil Science Society of America, and the
Coalition for Earth Science Education.
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