Mining Safety and Health Research at NIOSH Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2007) / Chapter Skim
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D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 256-261
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and Anne B Deike Chair of Mining Engineering and professor emeritus of mining and geo-environmental engineering at The Pennsylvania State University.
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David Beerbower is vice president of safety at Peabody Energy Corporation, responsible for corporate-wide safety policies and programs and for compliance with federal mine safety and health laws and regulations. He has worked as a mining engineer and in various operations positions in the coal mining industry.
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He manages the Chicago area office and is responsible for all of its activities. His work has included mining research in ventilation, blasting, ground control, rock mechanics, and mining methods; underground longwall coal mine design and subsidence engineering; underground stone mine design and ground control; cause and origin investigations of tunnel and mine failures and floods; mine ex plosion investigations; and ground control studies.
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He is internationally recognized as an expert in coal seam degasification and coalbed methane production; in 2004, he was awarded the Howard Hartman Award, the Society of Mining Engineering's highest award for lifetime contributions to mine ventilation engineering. His lifetime endeavors have minimized the risk of coal mine explosions in the United States as well as many other countries.
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Weeks is senior scientist at Advanced Technologies and Laboratories In ternational, Inc., a consulting firm in Germantown, Maryland, as well as an adjunct associate professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and at the School of Public Health at George Washington University.
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He has worked in the mining, construction, and manufacturing industries and is senior editor of Preenting Occupational Disease and Injury (Second Edition, 2004) , a book widely used by occupational health professional and others.
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