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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members." National Research Council. 2001. A Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10181.
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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

Peter B.Lederman (Chair), retired executive director of the Hazardous Substances Management Research Center and executive director of the Office of Intellectual Property, is research professor of chemical engineering and environmental policy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Dr. Lederman has 47 years of experience in all facets of environmental management, control, and policy development; hazardous substance treatment and management; process engineering; and more than 18 years of experience as an educator. He is a registered professional engineer and a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Dr. Lederman has worked on environmental policy at the federal and state levels and has served on several National Research Council committees, most recently the Committee on Decontamination and Decommissioning of Gaseous Diffusion Plants.

Charles I.McGinnis (Vice Chair) has an M.Engr. from Texas A&M University. After retiring from the U.S. Army as a major general and former director of civil works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he served in senior positions at the Construction Industry Institute in Austin, Texas. He was also director of engineering and construction for the Panama Canal Company and was subsequently vice president of the company and lieutenant governor of the Canal Zone. As director of civil works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he was responsible for a $3 billion per year budget for the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of public works nationwide. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas and Missouri.

David H.Archer, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and mathematics from the University of Delaware. He is a retired consulting engineer with the Westinghouse Electric Company and is currently adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Archer has worked in both industry (at Westinghouse as an engineer, supervising engineer, department manager, and consulting engineer) and academia (at the University of Delaware and Carnegie Mellon University for almost 10 years). He has considerable experience in research and management related to chemical engineering, as well as experience with combustion and plant management.

Piero M.Armenante has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia and is currently Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and director of the Northeast Hazardous Substance Research Center, a seven-university center funded by the Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Armenante’s research interests include multiphase mixing in agitated systems, the biological treatment of hazardous waste, industrial sterilization processes, and biomedical engineering. He has an extensive list of peer-reviewed and other publications and has administered numerous grants, studies, and projects.

Jerry L.R.Chandler has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Oklahoma State University and has done extensive post-graduate study in mathematics. He is currently a research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. During his long career, Dr. Chandler served with the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Cancer Institute Epidemiology Program. More recently, he was a neuropharmacologist in the Epilepsy Branch of the National Institute of Neurology and Strokes of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Chandler is a founding member and president of the Washington Evolutionary Systems Society and has published extensively on using mathematical category theory to understand the origins of disease. He previously served as a NIOSH observer with the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Panel on Risk Assessment.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members." National Research Council. 2001. A Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10181.
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John J.Costolnick graduated from Northwestern University with an M.S. in chemical engineering and is a registered professional engineer. He retired as vice president of engineering at Exxon Chemical Company, where he worked for more than 35 years in positions of increasing responsibility, from manufacturing manager and plant manager to vice president for agricultural chemicals and vice president for basic chemical technology. Mr. Costolnick’s areas of expertise are chemical operations and manufacturing.

Frank P.Crimi is a part-time consultant and retired vice president of Lockheed Martin Advanced Environmental Systems Company. He has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Ohio University and has done graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Mr. Crimi was appointed to the National Research Council Committee on Decontamination and Decommissioning of Uranium Enrichment Facilities and has firsthand knowledge and experience with radioactive and hazardous waste treatment and disposal technologies.

Michael R.Greenberg is a professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Community Health at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and an adjunct professor of environmental and community medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. His principal research and teaching interests include urbanization, industrialization, and environmental health policy. Dr. Greenberg holds a B.A. in mathematics and history, an M.A. in urban geography, and a Ph.D. in environmental and medical geography.

Deborah L.Grubbe graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in chemical engineering and received a Winston Churchill Fellowship to attend Cambridge University in England, where she received a Certificate of Postgraduate Study in chemical engineering. She is a registered professional engineer and engineer of record for DuPont, where she is currently corporate director for safety and health. Previously, she was operations and engineering director for DuPont Nonwovens, where she was responsible for manufacturing, engineering, safety, environmental systems, and information systems. She is a board member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Engineering and Construction Contracting Division and has led several committees of the Construction Industry Institute. Her areas of expertise are safety, chemical manufacturing technology, and project management and execution.

David A.Hoecke, who graduated from Cooper Union with a B.S.M.E., is currently president and chief executive officer of Enercon Systems, Inc. His expertise is in the fields of waste combustion, pyrolysis, heat transfer, and gas cleaning. In 1960 he began working for Midland-Ross Corporation as a project engineer, becoming its chief engineer for incineration by 1972. At that time, he founded his own company, and has been responsible for the design and construction of numerous combustion systems, including solid waste incinerators, thermal oxidizers, heat recovery systems, and gas-to-air heat exchangers.

David H.Johnson graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an Sc.D. in nuclear engineering. Currently senior vice president and chief scientist of EQE International, Inc., Dr. Johnson has more than 20 years of experience in risk-based analysis for industry and government applications. His area of expertise is probabilistic risk assessments, including probabilistic modeling and investigation of the impacts of industrial projects.

Gary L.Lage is the founding principal of ToxiLogics, Inc., where he is responsible for incorporating current data on the toxicology of chemicals and modern risk assessment into scientific decisions. For 20 years he was an educator at the University of Kansas, the University of Wisconsin, and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, where he taught pharmacology and toxicology. Dr. Lage was project director, vice president, and practice leader for human health practice at the Roy F.Weston Company for 4 years and a principal in the human health practice area with ENVIRON Corporation. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and has a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Iowa.

James F.Mathis, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Dr. Mathis was vice president of science and technology for Exxon Corporation, where he was responsible for worldwide research and development programs, and chair of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology until his retirement in 1997. Dr. Mathis’s expertise is in research and development and chemical engineering.

Frederick G.Pohland, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, graduated from Purdue University with a Ph.D. in environmental engineering and is currently professor and Edward R.Weidlein Chair of Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as director of the Engineering Center for Environment and Energy and codirector of the Groundwater Remediation Technologies Analysis Center. He is a registered professional engineer and a diplomate environmental engineer and has taught and written extensively on solid and hazardous waste management; environmental impact assessment; and innovative technologies for waste minimization, treatment, and environmental remediation. Dr. Pohland has expertise in minimizing the impacts of hazardous waste on workers, the public, and the environment.

Robert B.Puyear graduated from Missouri School of Mines

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members." National Research Council. 2001. A Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10181.
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and Metallurgy with a B.S. in chemical engineering and from Purdue University with an M.S. in industrial administration. He is currently a consultant specializing in corrosion prevention and control, failure analysis, and materials selection. Mr. Puyear worked for Union Carbide for 16 years developing high-performance materials for chemical and aerospace applications and for Monsanto for 21 years as a corrosion specialist, where he managed the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Section. He is an expert in materials engineering and the evaluation of materials of construction.

Charles F.Reinhardt, who has an M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine and an M.Sc. in occupational medicine from Ohio State University School of Medicine, retired after more than 30 years with the DuPont Company, where he was a physiologist, then chief of the physiology section, and then research manager for environmental sciences. In 1971 he became assistant director of the laboratory and in 1976 was named its director, a position he held until his retirement in 1996. Dr. Reinhardt has served on numerous National Research Council panels and committees, including the Committee on Toxicology. His areas of expertise are occupational medicine and toxicology.

Kenneth F.Reinschmidt, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in engineering, is currently a consultant specializing in management of engineering, design, and construction projects; project and technology risk analysis; and project simulation and modeling. For 21 years he worked at Stone & Webster, Inc., from which he retired as senior vice president in 1996. He also taught civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 10 years. Dr. Reinschmidt’s expertise is in project design, development, and construction.

W.Leigh Short earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. He recently retired as a principal and vice president of Woodward-Clyde, where he was responsible for management and business development associated with the company’s hazardous waste services in Wayne, New Jersey. Dr. Short has expertise in air pollution, chemical process engineering, hazardous waste services, feasibility studies, site remediation, and project management. He has taught courses in control technologies both to graduate students and as a part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) national training programs. He has also served as chairman of the EPA’s NOX Control Technology Review Panel.

Jeffrey I.Steinfeld graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. in chemistry and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. He is currently professor of chemistry at MIT, where he has taught for almost 35 years. Dr. Steinfeld’s expertise is in high-sensitivity monitoring techniques, pollution prevention, and environmental research and education, as well as in bringing scientific knowledge into environmental decision making through stakeholder involvement.

Chadwick A.Tolman received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and until recently was a program officer in the organic and macro-molecular chemistry program in the Division of Chemistry of the National Science Foundation. He is now a staff officer for the National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. He has extensive experience and expertise in chemistry and chemical process development. Dr. Tolman spent 31 years in Central Research at the DuPont Experimental Station. His work has spanned a broad range of subjects, from hydrocarbon oxidation and organometallic chemistry to the destruction of toxic organic compounds in wastewater.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members." National Research Council. 2001. A Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10181.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members." National Research Council. 2001. A Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10181.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members." National Research Council. 2001. A Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10181.
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The United States has maintained a stockpile of chemical warfare agents and munitions since World War I. The Army leadership has sought outside, unbiased advice on how best to dispose of the stockpile. In 1987, at the request of the Under Secretary of the Army, the National Research Council (NRC) established the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee) to provide scientific and technical advice and counsel on the CSDP. This report is concerned with the technology selection for the Pueblo site, where only munitions containing mustard agent are stored. The report assesses a modified baseline process, a slightly simplified version of the baseline incineration system that was used to dispose of mustard munitions on Johnston Island. A second NRC committee is reviewing two neutralization-based technologies for possible use at Pueblo. The evaluation in this report is intended to assist authorities making the selection. It should also help the public and other non-Army stakeholders understand the modified baseline process and make sound judgments about it.

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