Disposal of Activated Carbon from Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities (2009)

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Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members Robert A. Beaudet, Chair, is professor emeritus of a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Technical chemistry at the University of Southern California. He University of Krakow, Poland, in 1989 and a D.Sc. in received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Harvard physical chemistry/analytical chemistry from the Marie University in 1962. From 1961 to 1962, he was a U.S. Curie University in Poland in 1998. Dr. Bandosz has Army officer and served at the Jet Propulsion Labora- been a faculty member of the Chemistry Department tory as a research scientist. He joined the faculty of of CCNY/CUNY since 1996 and guest professor at the University of Southern California in 1962 and has Dalian University of Technology in China since 2006. served continuously in the Department of Chemistry Her research, which has been reported in over 190 peer- since that time. He also has served on Department of reviewed papers, 5 book chapters, and more than 100 Defense committees addressing both offensive and conference presentations, focuses on the application defensive considerations surrounding chemical warfare of adsorption to environmental problems and includes agents. He was chair of an Army Science Board com- the development of new adsorbents based on activated mittee that addressed chemical detection and trace gas carbons, clays, and industrial waste; desulfurization of analysis. He also was the chair of an Air Force technical air, fuel gases, and liquid fuel; and removal of toxic conference on chemical warfare decontamination and industrial gases. Dr. Bandosz has vast experience in the protection. He has participated in two NRC studies on study of the surface chemistry of nanoporous carbons chemical and biological sensor technologies and ener- using infrared spectroscopy, titration, and TPD among getic materials and technologies. Most of his career other methods and relating this surface chemistry to the has been devoted to research in molecular structure and performance of these materials in the environmental molecular spectroscopy. Previously, Dr. Beaudet served context. She holds four patents, is a consultant for com- as a member of the NRC’s Board on Army Science and panies such as Dupont, Synagro, and Fuel Cell Energy, Technology (BAST), as a member of the NRC Commit- is responsible for controlling or removing odor from the tee on Review of the Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel water pollution control plants of New York City, has Disposal Program, as a BAST liaison to the Commit- been a member of the scientific committees of various tee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical international conferences, serves on the editorial boards Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee), of Adsorption Science and Technology and the Journal and as chair of the Committee on Assembled Chemical of Colloid and Interface Science, and recently edited Weapons Alternative Program. the book Activated Carbon Surface in Environmental Remediation. Teresa J. Bandosz is a full professor in the Chemis- try Department of the City College of New York of Joan B. Berkowitz is currently managing director of the City University of New York. She was awarded Farkas Berkowitz & Company. She graduated from the 68 

APPENDIX C 69 University of Illinois with a Ph.D. in physical chem- of the Society for Risk Analysis, the American Institute istry. Dr. Berkowitz has extensive experience in the of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and the American area of environmental and hazardous waste manage- Nuclear Society (ANS). ment, a knowledge of the technologies available for the cleanup of contaminated soils and groundwater, Loren D. Koller is an independent consultant and and a background in physical and electrochemistry. former professor and dean of the College of Veteri- She has contributed to several Environmental Protec- nary Medicine at Oregon State University. His areas tion Agency studies, been a consultant on remediation of expertise include pathology, toxicology, immuno- techniques, and assessed various destruction technolo- toxicology, carcinogenesis, and risk assessment. He is a gies. Dr. Berkowitz is the author of numerous publica- former member of the NRC Committee on Toxicology tions on hazardous waste treatment and environmental and has participated on several of its subcommittees, subjects. primarily those involved in risk assessment. Dr. Koller has served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Herek L. Clack is an associate professor in the the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Vietnam and has been invited to serve on committees Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology. for the CDC, EPA, Homeland Security, the Agency He received his B.S. in aeronautical and astronauti- for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the cal engineering from MIT (1987) and his M.S. (1997) U.S. Army. He received his D.V.M. from Washington and Ph.D. (1998) in mechanical engineering from the State University and his Ph.D. in pathology from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin. IIT faculty, Dr. Clack was an NRC postdoctoral fellow in residence at the National Institute of Standards and M. Douglas LeVan is currently the J. Lawrence Wilson Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland (1998-1999) Professor of Engineering and chair of the Department and a member of the technical staff at the Rocketdyne of Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Division of Boeing Corporation (1987-1992). He is He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the engaged in research and publication in the general University of Virginia in 1971 and a Ph.D. in chemical area of transport phenomena within dispersions such engineering from the University of California, Berke- as sprays and aerosols, as applied to such areas as trace ley, in 1976. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked for and toxic gas adsorption from combustion flue gases 2 years at Amoco Production Company’s Research and combustion of droplets and sprays. Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after which he was on the faculty of the University of Virginia for 19 years. He Willard C. Gekler is currently an independent consul- has been at Vanderbilt as department chair for 11 years. tant working for his previous employer, ABS Consult- Professor LeVan’s research area is adsorption. His work ing, Inc. He graduated from the Colorado School of covers the full range from materials development to Mines with a B.S. in petroleum refining engineering adsorption equilibria/thermodynamics to rate behavior and pursued graduate study in nuclear engineering to processes. at the University of California at Los Angeles. His extensive experience includes membership on NRC’s John Pendergrass, senior attorney at the Environmen- ACWA committee and on the Mitretek Systems expert tal Law Institute (ELI), received his B.S. in environ- panel reviewing the quantitative risk assessments mental science from Michigan State University in 1976 and safety analyses of hazardous materials handling, and his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University in storage, and waste treatment systems for the Army’s 1979. His expertise includes Superfund enforcement, Anniston, Umatilla, Pine Bluff, and Aberdeen chemi- brownfields cleanup and redevelopment, hazardous cal agent disposal facilities. He also participated in a substances, nanotechnology, national pollutant dis- consequence screening assessment for the Newport charge elimination system permits, climate change as Chemical Destruction Facility. Previously he was proj- it relates to state programs to reduce greenhouse gas ect engineer for various nuclear test facility designs emissions, environmental management systems and and for development of facility design criteria for the conformity assessment, judicial education, and state Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System. Mr. programs. He was among the first to address improv- Gekler is a certified reliability engineer and a member ing legal and administrative mechanisms for protecting 

70 DISPOSAL OF ACTIVATED CARBON FROM CHEMICAL AGENT DISPOSAL FACILITIES public health and the environment from the risks at Institute for Environmental Sciences, Engineering and contaminated sites where some hazardous substances Technology; and founding director of the National are left in place. His research and writing on such insti- Center for Integrated Bioremediation Research and tutional controls and long-term stewardship have led Development. Dr. Weber has been recognized by the to changes in national policy and in the laws of many International Science Index as one of the most highly states. He also writes regularly about innovative state cited and quoted scientists in the world. He has served environmental and natural resource programs as well as on the National Academies Engineering Review Panel federal preemption of state laws. He leads ELI’s Judi- as well as on its Board on Environmental Studies and cial Education Program to educate judges in the United Toxicology. Dr. Weber received an Sc.B. in chemical States and throughout the world about environmental engineering from Brown University, an M.S.E. in civil law. Since 1997, Mr. Pendergrass has been a member of engineering from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in the accreditation council overseeing ISO 14001 (envi- water resources engineering from Harvard University. ronmental management systems) certification bodies He was elected to the National Academy of Engineer- in the United States. ing in 1985 and chosen by the American Institute of Chemical Engineering’s 2008 Centennial Celebration Krista S. Walton is the Tim and Sharon Taylor Assis- as one of the 100 most influential individuals of the tant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineer- New Era of Engineering: post-World War II. ing at Kansas State University. Her research activities focus on various aspects of the design and synthesis Yu Chu Yang is a consultant to both government and of functional porous materials for use in applications industrial organizations and a former employee of including adsorption separations, air purification, gas the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological storage, chemical sensing, and catalysis. She has been Center (ECBC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Mary- recognized for her contributions to adsorption science land. She has a B.S. in chemical engineering from and technology by the Graduate Research Award in Taiwan National University and a Ph.D. in physical Separations from AIChE in 2005 and by the Army chemistry from Tulane University. She worked for Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2007. Exxon Corporation for over 5 years. In 1986, she She has published over 15 research articles in peer- joined ECBC and spent the following 10 years work- reviewed journals in the fields of novel porous materi- ing as a research chemist. Her research focused on als, adsorption separations, and gas storage and has the reaction chemistry of chemical agents with appli- given more than 30 presentations at national and inter- cations to decontamination and neutralization. She national research conferences. She is currently serving has published in the fields of reaction kinetics and as a director in the Separations Division of AIChE mechanisms, analytical chemistry, and the chemical and also serves on the AIChE Area 2e adsorption and detoxification reactions of chemical warfare agents. In ion exchange programming committee. She received 1997-2000, Dr. Yang served as chief of chemistry and a B.S.E. in chemical and materials engineering from biological sciences at the U.S. Army Research Labora- the University of Alabama at Huntsville and a Ph.D. in tory-European Research Office in London, where she chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University. interacted with European researchers engaged in U.S.- Army-sponsored research. She later worked for the Walter Weber, Jr., NAE, has been the Gordon M. Fair Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons and Earnest Boyce Distinguished University Profes- Alternatives (PMACWA), an organization responsible sor of Environmental Engineering at the University of for the disposal of chemical weapons stored in Pueblo, Michigan since 1994. He is also founding director of Colorado, and Blue Grass, Kentucky. As chief scientist ConsEnSus, the university’s program Concentrations of PMACWA, she directed and advised on a number of in Environmental Sustainability; founding director laboratory-scale testing projects, which supported the of the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic Center for Haz- plant designs at both sites. She retired from government ardous Substance Research; founding director of the service in February 2007.