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A
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members and Staff
PERRY HAGENSTEIN, Ph.D., chair, is an independent consultant on natural
resources policy, economics, and management. Since 1982, he has also served as
president of the Institute for Forest Analysis, Planning, and Policy, a national
nonprofit research and education organization. He is the former president of
Resource Issues, Inc., and former executive director of the New England Natural
Resources Center. He has been a visiting professor at the Yale School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies, University of Vermont, University of Massachusetts,
and Vermont Law School. He served as Charles Bullard Research Fellow at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Forest at Harvard Univer-
sity. He was senior policy analyst for the U.S. Public Land Law Review Commis-
sion. He is a national associate of The National Academies and has chaired
several National Academies studies, including the Committee on Hardrock Min-
ing on Federal Lands, the Subcommittee on Air Emissions from Animal Feeding
Operations, the Committee on Abandoned Mine Lands, and the Committee on
Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing. He has also served as a member on the Committee
on Surface Mining and Reclamation, the Committee on Earth Resources, the
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, the Committee on Environmental Issues
in Pacific Northwest Forest Management, and the Committee on Noneconomic
and Economic Value of Biodiversity. Dr. Hagenstein has a Ph.D. in forest and
natural resources economics from the University of Michigan.
GEORGE R. HALLBERG, Ph.D., is a principal with the Cadmus Group, Inc.,
in Waltham, Massachusetts, conducting environmental research, regulatory analy-
sis, and management services for public-sector programs. Previously he was
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associate director and chief of environmental research at the University of Iowa's
environmental and public health laboratory and at the Iowa Department of Natu-
ral Resources. Dr. Hallberg was also an adjunct professor at both the University
of Iowa and Iowa State University. He has served on the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and
Technology and on the Office of Water's Management Advisory Group. He has
30 years experience in research, policy and management of environmental, natu-
ral resources and public health programs. His research interests include environ-
mental monitoring and assessment, chemical and nutrient fate and transport,
contaminant occurrence and trends in drinking water, health effects of environ-
mental contaminants, and groundwater hydrogeology. Dr. Hallberg has served on
the National Academies Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources and on
several committees, including as chair of the Committee on Opportunities to
Improve the USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program and
as a member of the Committee on Long Range Soil and Water Conservation
Policy. He is currently a member of the National Academies Committee on
Assessment of Water Resources Research. Dr. Hallberg received a Ph.D. in geol-
ogy from the University of Iowa.
WILLIAM A. HOPKINS, Ph.D., is an associate professor, Department of Fish-
eries and Wildlife Sciences at Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State Univer-
sity. Until August of 2005 he was an assistant research scientist at the Savannah
River Ecology Lab. Dr. Hopkins' research interests include the effects of trophic
transfer of contaminants on predatory vertebrates, effects of teratogenic com-
pounds on reproduction and development in ectotherms, and the indirect effects
of contaminants on wildlife. Much of Dr. Hopkins' work has focused on the
effects of coal combustion waste on the survival, physiology, and performance of
aquatic life. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on the effects
of aquatic disposal of trace elements, specifically coal combustion wastes. Dr.
Hopkins received his Ph.D. in biology from the University of South Carolina.
THOMAS J. O'NEIL, Ph.D., recently retired from the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron
Company and Cliffs Mining Company where he served as president and chief
operating officer. He was responsible for five North American iron ore mines. He
has experience in other mining activities ranging from coal to copper. Prior to his
private-sector duties, he was professor and head of the Department of Mining and
Geological Engineering at the University of Arizona. He has numerous peer-
reviewed publications and has received numerous honors and awards from pro-
fessional societies and universities. He was the 2003 president of the Society for
Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration. Dr. O'Neil is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering and has served on the National Academies Committee
on Earth Resources. He received his Ph.D. in mining engineering from the Uni-
versity of Arizona.
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CHARLES POOLE, Sc.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Epi-
demiology at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, where his
work focuses on the development and application of epidemiologic research
methods and principles. His areas of substantive research interest include envi-
ronmental and occupational epidemiology. He served with the U.S. Environmen-
tal Protection Agency, worked as an epidemiologic consultant, and taught at the
Boston University School of Public Health. He has served on the editorial boards
of several leading epidemiological journals. Dr. Poole has served on four previ-
ous National Research Council (NRC) committees, including the Committee on
Estimating the Health-Risk-Reduction Benefits of Proposed Air Pollution Regu-
lations. He received his M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina and his
Sc.D. from Harvard University.
CAROL J. PTACEK, Ph.D., holds a joint appointment as a research scientist with
the National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, and a research associ-
ate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo. She has
conducted research on a variety of topics in contaminant hydrogeology and
geochemistry, including studies on mechanisms controlling the fate and transport
of metals, nutrients, pathogens, organic solvents and petroleum products in ground-
water, and the development of passive methods for remediating contaminated
groundwater. Her current research focuses on passive groundwater remediation
technologies, the release and transport of metals at northern mine sites, and the fate
of wastewater contaminants in shallow sand aquifers. Dr. Ptacek holds a Ph.D. in
groundwater geochemistry from the University of Waterloo.
ROBIN MILLS RIDGWAY, Ph.D., is an environmental regulatory consultant
and environmental engineer employed by Physical Facilities Radiological and En-
vironmental Management/Utilities at Purdue University. She assists and advises
the university with environmental compliance with state and federal regulations,
including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. She also provides technical
guidance and recommendations to the university's Wade Utility, which provides
heating and cooling and approximately half of the electricity for Purdue's West
Lafayette, Indiana, campus. She is a licensed professional engineer in Indiana. Dr.
Ridgway holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Purdue University.
LARRY ROBINSON, Ph.D., is a professor in the Environmental Sciences Insti-
tute at Florida A&M University (FAMU). He previously served as director and
professor of FAMU's Environmental Sciences Institute for six years and provost
and vice president for academic affairs for two years before returning to the
faculty ranks. Previously he was group leader of a neutron activation analysis
laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His research interests
include environmental chemistry, the application of nuclear methods to detect
trace elements in environmental matrices and environmental policy and manage-
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ment. While at ORNL he served on the National Laboratory Diversity Council
and was president of the Oak Ridge Branch of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. Dr. Robinson is currently a member of the
National Academies Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Eco-
system. He earned his Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry from Washington University in
St. Louis.
MADAN M. SINGH, P.E., is director of the Arizona Department of Mines and
Mineral Resources. Previous positions include president of Engineers Interna-
tional, Inc., a faculty member at The Pennsylvania State University and manager
for Soil and Rock Mechanics at IIT Research Institute. Dr. Singh's research
interests and expertise encompass diverse aspects of rock mechanics, mining,
hydrogeology, soil mechanics, grouting, tunneling, drilling, water jetting and
pellet impact, nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy, subsidence, geotechni-
cal engineering, sustainable development, and environmental work. He devel-
oped a graduate-level course in mine subsidence engineering at The Pennsylva-
nia State University and acted as advisor during the drafting of subsidence control
legislation in the State of Pennsylvania. He has a Ph.D. in mining engineering
from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Singh has served in several capaci-
ties for professional societies, including national director of the American Con-
sulting Engineers Council, president of the Consulting Engineers Council of
Illinois, member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy,
and Exploration, Inc. (SME), chair of the SME Coal Division, and chair of the
American Society for Testing and Materials subcommittee on rock strength. He
has authored more than 100 technical papers, in addition to serving as chapter
author on mine subsidence in the SME Mining Engineering Handbook (also
associate editor), and Mining Environmental Handbook. Dr. Singh has served on
two NRC committees, the U.S. National Committee on Rock Mechanics (1977-
1980) and the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology (1974-1976).
He was named a centennial fellow by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
(1996) and honored with the Robert Stefanko Distinguished Achievement Award
by the Department of Energy and Geoenvironmental Engineering (1999), both at
The Pennsylvania State University. He won the SME Howard N. Eavenson Award
in 2000 and was selected as a distinguished member in 2004. In 1997, Dr. Singh
was elected fellow of the American Consulting Engineers Council and fellow of
the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1985. He is a life member of the
Society of the Sigma Xi (since 1964), life member of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (since 1965), and a charter member of the
Institute of Shaft Drilling (since 1982). In 1990, he won the Minority Vendor of
the Year Award (Illinois Minority and Female Business Enterprise Council). The
Federal Highway Administration selected his company, Engineers International,
Inc., for its 1999 Environmental Excellence Award.
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MARK SQUILLACE, J.D., is a professor of law and director of the Natural
Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado School of Law. Before the
University of Colorado he was the Charles Fornoff Professor of Law and Values
at the University of Toledo. His teaching and research interests include public
land law, water rights, natural resources law, environmental law, and administra-
tive law. From 1986 through Mr. Squillace taught at the University of Wyoming
College of Law. While there, he was the Winston Howard Professor of Law from
1993 to 1996. Prior to his academic career, Mr. Squillace worked as the director
of litigation at the Environmental Policy Institute from 1981 through 1984 and as
an attorney adviser at the Department of the Interior from 1978 through 1981,
where he was involved in the early development of the Surface Mining Control
and Reclamation Act. Mr. Squillace received his B.S. in mathematics from Michi-
gan State University and his J.D. from the University of Utah College of Law. He
is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on these subjects, in-
cluding the National Environmental Policy Act Litigation Guide. In addition to
his academic duties, Professor Squillace frequently offers pro bono legal assis-
tance to conservation groups, primarily in the areas of mining law, endangered
species protection, and environmental decision making.
RICHARD J. SWEIGARD, Ph.D., is chairman and professor in the Depart-
ment of Mining Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Prior to his academic
positions, he was engineer for Betz-Converse-Murdoch and a consulting engi-
neering geologist. Dr. Sweigard's research falls under the category of environ-
mental impacts of mining including the alleviation of excessive compaction of
reconstructed soil, post-mining land use, slope stabilization on abandoned mine
lands, and disposal of coal combustion by-products. He is a registered engineer in
Pennsylvania and his professional activities include the SME, the American So-
ciety for Surface Mining and Reclamation, and the ASCE. Dr. Sweigard served
as a member of the National Academies Committee for the Study on Preventing
Coal Waste Impoundment Failures and Breakthroughs. He received his Ph.D. in
mining engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.
BAILUS WALKER, JR., Ph.D., is professor of environmental and occupa-
tional medicine at Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC. His
research interests include lead toxicity and environmental carcinogenesis. He
was the commissioner of public health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
and state director of Public Health for Michigan. He is past president of the
American Public Health Association, and a distinguished fellow of both the
Royal Society of Health (London, England) and the American College of Epide-
miology. Dr. Walker is a member of the National Academies' Institute of Medi-
cine. He has served on several National Academies' committees, including as
chair of the Committee on Toxicology. Dr. Walker received his Ph.D. in occupa-
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tional and environmental medicine from the University of Minnesota and his
M.P.H from the University of Michigan.
JOHN J. WARWICK, Ph.D., is executive director of the Division of Hydro-
logic Sciences and director of the Nevada Institute for Water Resources at the
Desert Research Institute (DRI). Prior to DRI, Dr. Warwick was professor and
chair of the University of Florida's Department of Environmental Engineering
Sciences and the director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Environmental Systems Commercial Space Technology Center. Dr.
Warwick's research interests include numerical modeling of the transport and
fate of contaminants in surface-water systems and quantifying the impact of
imperfect knowledge on the confidence associated with model predictions (un-
certainty analysis). Dr. Warwick was named as a fellow of the American Water
Resources Association in 2002, has served as vice chairman of the Urban Water
Resources Research Council of the ASCE, and is a past president of the Ameri-
can Water Resources Association. He is currently a registered professional engi-
neer in Pennsylvania. Dr. Warwick received a Ph.D. in environmental engineer-
ing from The Pennsylvania State University.
JEFFREY J. WONG, Ph.D., is the deputy director of the Science, Pollution
Prevention and Technology Program for the California Department of Toxic
Substances Control (DTSC) at the California Environmental Protection Agency.
His office is engaged in environmental measurements, biological and exposure
monitoring, toxicology and risk assessment, pollution prevention and waste mini-
mization, and verification and evaluation of technologies involved in hazardous
waste detection, containment, treatment, disposal, or cleanup. Before his current
appointment, Dr. Wong served as chief of DTSC's Human and Ecological Risk
Division. In that position, he directed the scientific organization that gathers site
characterization data and performs risk assessments in support of the state's
hazardous waste and site remediation programs. He served by presidential ap-
pointment on the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board from 1996 until
2002. Dr. Wong has served on several National Academies committees, includ-
ing the Committee on Risk-Based Approaches for Disposition of Transuranic and
High-Level Radioactive Waste, the Committee on Environmental Remediation at
Naval Facilities, the Committee on Remedial Action Priorities for Hazardous
Waste Sites and the Panel for Review of the DOE Environmental Restoration
Priority System. Dr. Wong received his Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology
from the University of California at Davis.
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STAFF BIOGRAPHIES
TAMARA L. DICKINSON, study director, is associate director for the Na-
tional Academies Space Studies Board. Prior to joining the Space Studies Board,
she served as a senior program officer in the Board on Earth Sciences and Re-
sources for the Committee on Earth Resources working on mining and energy
policy issues. She has served as program director for the Petrology and Geochem-
istry Program in the Division of Earth Sciences at the National Science Founda-
tion. She has also served as discipline scientist for the Planetary Materials and
Geochemistry Program at NASA Headquarters. As a postdoctoral fellow at the
NASA Johnson Space Center, she conducted experiments on the origin and evo-
lution of lunar rocks and highly reduced igneous meteorites. She holds a Ph.D.
and an M.S. in geology from the University of New Mexico and a B.A. in
geology from the University of Northern Iowa.
STEPHANIE E. JOHNSON is a senior program officer with the Water Science
and Technology Board. Since joining the NRC in 2002, she has served as study
director for four committees, including the Panel to Review the Critical Ecosys-
tem Studies Initiative and the Committee on Water System Security Research.
She has also worked on NRC studies on contaminant source remediation and the
restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem. She received her B.A. from
Vanderbilt University in chemistry and geology, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in
environmental sciences from the University of Virginia on the subject of pesti-
cide transport and microbial bioavailability in soils. Her research interests in-
clude contaminant transport, aqueous geochemistry, and hydrogeology.
K. JOHN HOLMES is a senior program officer with the NRC's Board on
Environmental Studies and Toxicology. Dr. Holmes has directed several major
studies while at the NRC, including those that produced Modeling Mobile Source
Emissions, Evaluating Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance Programs,
and The Ongoing Challenge of Managing Carbon Monoxide Pollution in
Fairbanks, Alaska. He received his Ph.D. from The John Hopkins University in
environmental systems analysis, his M.S.E. in water resources management from
University of Washington, and his B.S. in geology from Indiana University. His
research interests include environmental systems modeling, policy analysis, and
the history of environmental management.
TANJA E. PILZAK is a research associate for the Board on Earth Sciences and
Resources (BESR) in the Division on Earth and Life Studies. She holds an M.S.
in environmental management from the University of Maryland University Col-
lege and a B.S. in natural resources management from the University of Mary-
land College Park. Ms. Pilzak has been with the National Academies since 1997;
prior to her work in BESR she was a research associate in the Board on Agricul-
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ture and Natural Resources and a proposal specialist and contract assistant in the
Office of Contracts and Grants.
SANDI M. RUDENSTEIN is a report review and communications officer for
the Division on Earth and Life Studies. She received an M.A. in government with
a focus in environmental policy from The Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and
a B.A. in environmental studies with a minor in political science from The George
Washington University in 1999. Since joining the NRC in 2003, she has pro-
duced communications materials and managed the peer-review process for nu-
merous reports on topics such as air quality, disaster mitigation, geography,
chemical sciences, sustainability, water resources, and toxicology.
JAMES B. DAVIS is a program assistant for the Board on Earth Sciences and
Resources. He received a B.A. in political science from Brigham Young Univer-
sity in 2001. He began working for the National Academies in 2004 and has
primarily supported BESR activities on earth resource issues.
ELIZABETH A. EIDE is a senior program officer and joined the Board on
Earth Sciences and Resources as staff officer for the Committee on Earth Re-
sources in October 2005. With a background in isotope geochronology applied to
crustal processes, she spent twelve years at the Geological Survey of Norway in
Trondheim as a researcher prior to joining the Academies staff. While at the
Survey, her responsibilities included constructing and managing the 40Ar/39Ar
Geochronology Laboratory, and directing several research departments. She com-
pleted a Ph.D. in geology at Stanford University and received a B.A. in geology
from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
NICHOLAS D. ROGERS is a program assistant for the Board on Earth Sci-
ences and Resources. He received a B.A. in history, with a focus on science and
history, from Western Connecticut State University in 2004. He began working
for the National Academies in 2006 and has primarily supported the Board on
Earth Science and Resources activities on earth resource issues.
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