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Presenter Biographies
Dr. Linda Abriola is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Dean of the School of Engineering at Tufts University, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Abriola is a leading researcher in the area of flow and transport in porous media, and has developed several numerical models to describe the contaminant fate and transport in heterogeneous soils and aquifer materials.
Diana S. Aga is an Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She obtained her degree in B.S. Agricultural Chemistry at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Philippines, and her Ph.D. degree in Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Dr. Aga was a postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology (ETH)/ Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland, and at the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, in Lawrence, KS. Recently, she received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct research at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung, Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include investigation of the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, such as persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and engineered nanomaterials.
Dr. Souhail Al-Abed is a Research Chemist at the National Risk Management Research Laboratory of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati Ohio. His research activities include using electrochemical methods and bimetallic nano-materials in the remediation of contaminated soils and sediments, removal of heavy metals from aqueous waste streams, and development of methodical leach tests for waste evaluation. His research contributed to the understanding of many challenging environmental problems and developing cleanup strategies based on sound science. He authored and coauthored more than 42 peer-review journal articles and five book chapters. He is member of the American Chemical Society and the American Geophysical Union and serves in many national and international research committees.
Clare Allocca is the Chief of The United States Measurement System (USMS) Office at NIST. This office is building upon a NIST-led assessment of the state of the USMS to transform the approaches taken into an increasingly more effective and efficient USMS. Her responsibilities include leadership, strategic planning, customer engagement, process development and program implementation. Ms. Allocca previously served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director of the NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory; Senior Technical Advisor for the Automotive Sector in the NIST Industrial Liaison Office; Program Analyst in the NIST Program Office, as advisory staff to the NIST Director; and Program Manager for Materials in the Advanced Technology Program (ATP). Before joining NIST, she was a Senior Materials Engineer for Pratt & Whitney engaged in the development of advanced ceramic composites for jet engines. Ms. Allocca holds Bachelor of Science Degrees in Materials Science and Engineering and Geochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a Master of Science Degree in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and an Executive Master of Science Degree in the Management of Technology from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School/School of Engineering).
Alla L. Alpatova received a M.Sc. degree (2004) in environmental diagnosis from Imperial College, University of London, UK. After graduation, he worked for Anglian Water, UK, where he was responsible for coordination of plumbsolvency trials and monitoring lead levels across domestic pipelines to establish the most cost-effective strategy of lead control in portable water. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University, where he works within the National Science Foundation-funded project "Self-cleaning ceramic membranes for the removal of natural and synthetic nanomaterials from drinking water using hybrid ozonation-nanofiltration." His research interests include: (1) advanced membrane processes such as combination of membrane filtration with oxidation processes; (2) fate and transport of nanomaterials in environment; (3) toxicity of engineered nanomaterials.
Publications:
Alpatova A.L; Shan W; Rogensues, A.R; Masten, S.J; Alocilja, E.A. and Tarabara, V.V. Biocompatibility of single wall carbon nanotubes solubized by non-covalent functionalization technique. In preparation
Alpatova, A.L; Babica, P; Hashsham, S.A; Upham, B.L; Masten, S.J. and Tarabara, V.V. In vitro toxicity evaluations of fullerene nC60 derivatives formed in conditions that simulate disinfection processes at water treatment plant. In preparation
Dr. Pedro J. Alvarez is the George R. Brown Professor of Engineering at Rice University. He previously taught at the University of Iowa, where he also served as Associate Director for the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing and as Honorary Consul for Nicaragua. Prof. Alvarez's research focuses on the environmental applications and implications of biotechnology and nanotechnology, including bioremediation of contaminated aquifers, phytoremediation, fate and transport of hazardous substances, and nanomaterial-bacterial interactions and related disinfection approaches. Dr. Alvarez received a B. Eng. degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, and was a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EAWAG). Dr. Alvarez is a P.E., a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and a Fellow of ASCE. Dr. Alvarez currently serves on the editorial boards of Environmental Science and Technology, Biodegradation, and the European Journal of Soil Biology. He is also an honorary professor at Nankai University in China and adjunct professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil, and UNAM in Mexico City.
James E. Amonette is a senior research scientist in the Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA.
Beth Anderson hails from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health where she shepherds research translation for the Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP). She began her long career at NIEHS in the molecular sciences studying prostaglandin synthesis and later switched to science administration where she worked for the National Toxicology Program (NTP). After a decade with the NTP, she joined the extramural program and SBRP. Here she pursues her professional passion of advancing SBRP research findings with the goals of improving human health and identifying better, faster and cheaper clean-up strategies for hazardous waste sites. Ms. Anderson has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a masters degree from Duke University.
Dr. Anthony Andrady has more than 25 years of research and development experience in polymer science and engineering, having served as program manager on numerous research programs funded by US government agencies. Dr. Andrady is a polymer scientist with specialized research experience in degradation of polymers in the environment. His main areas of research interest are fabrication of electrospun nanofibers, biomedical applications of nanofibers and characterization of nanoscale particles (particularly carbon nanotube materials). He has authored or co-authored about 100 peer-reviewed publications including book chapters and two books.
Donald R. Baer is the lead scientist interfacial chemistry for the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA
Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee is an Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He received his undergraduate degree in B.S. Chemistry at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, in 2000 and his Ph.D. degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Stanislaus S. Wong. His graduate work was focused on the surface chemistry of carbon nanotubes and the use of X-ray absorption spectroscopy to study nanostructures. From 2004 to 2007, he was a post-doctoral research scientist in the group of Professor Irving P. Herman in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Columbia University. Professor Banerjee and his research group are interested in the broad areas of carbon and metal oxide nanostructures for electronics and energy conversion.
Dr. Melissa Baumann is an associate professor in Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. She obtained her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1988, after which she was postdoctoral fellow in the UKAEA Harwell Laboratories, Great Britain.
Dr. Neppolian Bernaurdshaw is a Research Scientist in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea. Dr. Bernaurdshaw earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry at Government College, Kumbakonam, Bharathidasan University, India, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Anna University in India. Prior to joining Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Bernaurdshaw served as a doctoral researcher at Osaka Prefecture University in Osaka, Japan. His work involves preparation of semiconductor photocatalysts (nanotubes, nanorods, etc.) using novel methods, as well as pollution abatement studies both in gas and liquid phases. Dr. Bernaurdshaw works with visible light responsive photocatalysts and synthesized hybrid PLEDs gold capped TiO2 polymer nanocomposites. He also studies Advanced Oxidation Techniques (AOTs) for complete degradation of organic and inorganic pollutants.
Dr. Dibakar Bhattacharyya is the University of Kentucky Alumni Professor of Chemical Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He received is B.S. in chemical engineering from Jadavpur University, M.S. in chemical engineering from Northwestern University, and Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has published 167 (mostly in water related area) refereed journal articles and 21 book chapters, and has recently received five U.S. Patents (Functionalized Materials/Membranes for toxic metals capture from water at ultrahigh capacity, and one on hazardous waste destruction technology). Dr. Bhattacharyya has mentored many graduate and undergraduate students in the area of environmental research, membranes, and separation/reactions. He and his graduate students pioneered the development of poly-ligand functionalized material development for toxic metal capture, and synthesis of nanostructured metals in polymers (nanocomposites) for toxic organic dechlorination from wastewater at room temperature. He has worked with several industries in projects dealing with wastewater, material recovery, and important separation problems. Dr. Bhattacharyya has received a number of awards for his research and educational accomplishments, including the 2004 Kirwan Prize for Outstanding Research, Larry K. Cecil AIChE Environmental Division Award, the Kentucky Academy of Sciences Distinguished Scientist Award, Henry M. Lutes Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Engineering Educator, AIChE Outstanding Student Chapter Counselor Awards, and the University of Kentucky Great Teacher (1984, 1996, and 2008) Awards. For his highly significant technical contributions in the area of environmental separation (particularly water treatment) and polymer-nanoparticle composite materials development for toxic organics degradation, he was recently honored (plenary/keynote lectures) at the NAMS meeting (Orlando), European Chemical Engineering Meeting (Copenhagen), Inter-Federation Chemical Engineering Congress (Buenos Aires), and in Indian Chemical Engineering Congress (Calcutta). In Feb 2007 he was the Technical Program coordinator and Chair of the ECI Water Treatment and Reuse Conference in Tomar, Portugal.
Dr. Pratim Biswas is the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor and Chair, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, USA. He received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, and a M.S. from the University of California.
Claudio Cameselle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Vigo, Spain. He teaches advanced chemical reactors, waste water treatment, and solid waste management and treatment. His research expertise includes electrokinetic remediation of polluted soils and wastes, and bio-production of organic acids and other metabolites of industrial interest. He was awarded the fellowship from Xunta de Galicia (Spain) to perform research at the University of Illinois at Chicago during 2007-2008.
Dr. Tom Campbell of ADA Technologies is an active researcher in the nanotechnology/ environmental, health, and safety sector. He is currently under contract with NIST to support a national assessment of measurement needs for determining the effects of nanomaterials on environmental health and safety. Dr. Campbell received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and his M.S./Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Most recently, he has worked as a Senior Research Scientist/Nanotechnology Program Manager within ADA Technologies, Inc., in Littleton, CO. He recently successfully completed a National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase I STTR project, A Carbon Nanotube Metrology System for Industry and Research Environments, in which he demonstrated the world’s first quantitative, low cost, reproducible, and rapid means to characterize single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Prior to joining ADA, he worked for six years researching advanced materials at Saint-Gobain Crystals. This research had as its focus optical materials (CaF2, BaF2, MgF2) for the 157nm and 193nm microlithography laser markets. Dr. Campbell has also held a post-doctoral fellowship in Germany through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His self-proposed, independent research project was to study Ge1-xSix crystal growth.
Barbara J. Carter is the Director of Research and Development for EcoArray, Inc. She is the Principal Investigator on two Phase 2 SBIR grants awarded by NIEHS, “Microarrays in fathead minnows and bass,” in the process of completion, and “Developing and using sheepshead minnow microarrays for ecotoxicology” which began August 2007. She is also P.I. of a Phase 1 SBIR awarded by the EPA in March 2008, “Using fathead minnow microarrays to test toxicity of nanoparticles.” She was hired in 2002 at the inception of EcoArray; providing laboratory expertise on two NIEHS Phase 1 SBIR grants, a CRADA with the EPA, and a grant from Project Wild Dolphin. Ms. Carter graduated from Northwestern University with a dual major in biological sciences and anthropology, and received her M.A. in anthropology (archaeology) from the University of Washington. A career military officer, she retired as a Captain, U.S. Navy Reserve.
Evrim Celik is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea. Mr. Celik received his bachelor’s degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and his master’s degree from Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey. His areas of interest include reactive membrane synthesis, membrane filtration processes, advanced oxidation processes, and water and wastewater treatment.
Maryam Zarei Chaleshtori holds a B.S. and a M.S. from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran. After her bachelor’s degree, she worked with the Textile Department of Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, for almost 8 years as an expert and teacher of textile laboratories in dyeing and printing techniques, natural fibers chemistry, and textile fibers and material identification labs. During her employment, she also continued her study toward an M.S. at the same university. As an undergraduate, she studied the dyeing of wool with natural dyes. A paper was published from her work in the 6th National Conference of Rug, Tehran, Iran, 1999, on which she received an award. Also, in her post-graduate research work, she studied the treatment of wool and nylon with the sulfamic acid to improve their dyeability. A paper was published from her work in 3rd National Conference on Textile Engineering in Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 1999. She came to the United States in 1999, attended El Paso Community College, and then she started her Ph.D. studies in 2004 at the University of Texas at El Paso. Since then she has been doing research with Professor G. Saupe on photochemical water decontamination. Also she published a paper in Renewable Energy magazine in 2007.
Dr. Sylvia Chan-Remillard is an Alberta Ingenuity Industry R&D Associate awarded an Industrial Post Doctoral Fellowship through the Alberta Ingenuity Fund. She is an Environmental Scientist within the Strategic Risk Group in the Contaminated Sites Management Division of Golder Associates Ltd., Calgary and the Applied Sciences Group at HydroQual Laboratories Ltd. Calgary. Sylvia obtained her undergraduate degree in Food Sciences and Nutrition and a Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from the University of Alberta. Her Ph.D. examined the ability of dairy derived probiotics and bioactive peptides in altering intestinal microbial ecology in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer. She was nominated for the Governor General Gold Medal Award for her Ph.D. research. Sylvia is currently examining the fate and effects of nanoscale particles on ecological receptors and involved in developing a risk-based framework to assess the impact of nanotechnology on the environment. She has presented her current and previous work at numerous international and local conferences. Sylvia is a member of various ad-hoc nanotechnology working groups (SETAC, ASTM and SRA) and is a fellow of the International College of Nutrition.
Dr. Mark Chappell is a Research Physical Scientist at the Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, MS. He received his Ph.D. in Soil and Science in 2004 from Iowa State University, a M.S. in Plant & Soil Science in 1998 from the University of Kentucky, and a B.S. in Agronomy in 1995 from Brigham Young University. He was the ORISE Postdoctoral Research Fellow, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH, in 2005 and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Iowa State University in 2004. His research interests include metal-organic complexes in soil, solid-phase in-situ speciation of metals and organics, and chemistry of formulations in soil
Dr. Sandip Chattopadhyay, TetraTech/EM, Inc., has more than 18 years of experience in environmental fate and transport of emerging contaminants, sampling, handling, preservation techniques of samples in various matrices, development of analytical methodologies, treatment and monitoring of contaminated sediment, soil and groundwater and air. He has more than 10 years experience in managing numerous task orders for U.S. EPA. In the past, he has collaborated with different national laboratories and universities, such as Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and Purdue University. He is organizing, presenting and chairing a session on “Nanoscale ZVI” at the Sixth International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds at Monterey, California. He has participated as an Expert Panel Member on Water Security Workshop organized by U.S. EPA and other federal agencies. He is a member of the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council’s (ITRC) technical team, and has prepared technical guidance documents for scientists, engineers, regulators. Dr. Chattopadhyay published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and reports. He led various R&D effort on dispersion, aggregation and sampling of anthropogenic (manufactured) nanoparticles (iron oxides and titanium oxides and other manufactured nanomaterials) in treatment of groundwater. These studies resulted in successful application of dispersed nanoparticles and control of aggregation in subsurface systems, and several reports for U.S. Navy and U.S. EPA. He is interested in application of nanomaterials (natural or man-made) as decontamination agent for chemical/biological/radiological- contaminated systems. He has received his Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Ohio University and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Presently, he is Tetra Tech’s National Program Manager under the company’s STREAMS contracts with ORD. Previously, he worked at Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio; ManTech Environmental Research Services Corp., and U.S. EPA's Kerr Environmental Research Center in Ada, Oklahoma. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and reports.
Dr. Heechul Choi is an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea. Dr. Choi received his bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from National Fisheries University in Busan, Korea, his master’s degree from Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand, and his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Texas A&M University in the United States. Prior to joining Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, he worked as a senior researcher in the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Korea Institute of Construction Technology. Dr. Choi’s areas of interest include using nanomaterials (e.g., metal oxides, mesoporous materials, carbon nanotubes, etc.) for water purification and fate and transport of nanomaterials in ecosystems, advanced oxidation technologies for water and wastewater, contaminant transport and modeling through porous media, remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater, and water reuse and reclamation by natural purification.
Dr. Hyeok Choi is currently an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education research fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Cincinnati in 2007. His general research area includes environmental nanotechnologies with emphasis on the novel synthesis and environmental applications of nanostructured TiO2 photocatalysts and reactive metallic nanoparticles, advanced oxidation technologies, and membrane separation processes.
Okkyoung Choi is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri. She previously studied in the Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, USA. She earned her B.S. and M.S. Degrees in environmental engineering from Korea in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Ms. Choi worked as a Research Associate, Research Institute of Biological and Environmental Technology, Biosaint Co., Seoul for one year before coming to the U.S. to pursue her Ph.D. degree. She has published several papers related to silver nanoparticle research in Water Research and Environmental Science & Technology.
Chanlan Chun was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota,
Sue Cumberland is currently a third year PhD student at the University of Birmingham UK under the supervision of Dr Jamie Lead. Her study area is the fate, transport and behaviour of manufactured nanoparticles within the aquatic environment. To date she has investigated the aggregation behaviour of synthetic iron oxide nanoparticles under conditions of pH and natural organic matter. Techniques include light scattering, electrophoresis, TEM and flow-field flow fractionation separation techniques. In addition she is also investigating in-house synthesized silver nanoparticles and bonding properties to natural organic matter and trace metals. Her background as a research assistant has involved working in areas of soil science, hydrology, water quality, and catchment studies of upland agricultural pollution in Scotland and lowland ground water recharge and wetland sytems in the Midlands. Her research interests include the role of humic substances in aquatic environment particularly with nanoparticles and pollution pathways through riparian systems. She holds degrees from Plymouth and Reading University, UK.
Kenneth Darko-Kagya: Kenneth Darko-Kagya is a doctoral graduate student in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focus is on the fate and transport of nanoscale iron particles in soils and the remediation of contaminated sites.
Dr. Christophe Darnault is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Burke Endowed Hydrology and Hydraulic Laboratory in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2004. He is specialized in the hydrological, biochemical and environmental processes impacting water dynamic, water quality and quantity, the fate and transport of contaminants in the subsurface environment as well as water resources engineering and management. He obtained his PhD in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from Cornell University in 2000. He is the editor of the book titled “Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources: Management, (Bio)Technological, and Political Approaches to Avoid Conflicts” published by Springer in collaboration with NATO in 2008. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles and presented more than 50 conferences papers at national and international meetings.
Dr. Simon Davies is a research specialist in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He obtained his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1985, after which he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Dermot Diamond received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from Queen’s University Belfast (Chemical Sensors, 1987, Internet Scale Sensing, 2002), and was Vice president for Research at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland (2002-2004). He has published over 160 peer reviewed papers in international science journals, is a named inventor in 13 patents, and is co-author and editor of three books ‘Spreadsheet Applications in Chemistry using Microsoft Excel’ (1997), ‘Principles of Chemical and Biological Sensors’, (1998) both published by Wiley, and ‘Smart NanoTextiles’, (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Volume 20, (2006). Professor Diamond is currently director of the National Centre for Sensor Research at DCU (www.ncsr.ie) which is one of the largest sensor research efforts world-wide (>260 researchers) and a Principal Investigator with the Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC), a major research initiative in the area of wireless sensor networks founded by Science Foundation Ireland (see www.adaptiveinformation.ie). He was also formerly the director of the Centre for Bioanalytical Sciences (www.cbas.ie). He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the international journals ‘The Analyst’ and ‘Talanta’. In 2002 he was awarded the inaugural silver medal for Sensor Research by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. Details of his research can be found at http://www.dcu.ie/chemistry/asg/.
Dr. Steve Diamond is a Research Biologist with the US EPA's National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, within the Office of Research and Development. He currently coordinates the EPA's nanomaterials ecological toxicology research. He is a contributing author of EPA's ORD Nanotechnology Research Strategy, has coordinated reviews of standard test guidelines for their adequacy for testing nanomaterials for both the EPA and the Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD), and plays a leading role in the development of the OECD's nanomaterials research program (OECD Sponsorship Program). He earned his Ph.D. at Miami University (Ohio) and has worked in the area of Natural Resource Damage Assessments and phototoxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Dr. Baolin Deng is currently C. W. LaPierre Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri (MU). He completed his Ph.D. training from the Johns Hopkins University in 1996. After a year of postdoctoral research as a National Research Council research associate at the Air Force Research Laboratory, he began his academic career at New Mexico Tech as an assistant professor in 1996 and moved to MU in 2001. His research concerns with important environmental and geochemical processes relevant to contaminated site remediation, drinking water treatment, and chemical and biological transformation of contaminants in aquatic systems. More recently, he has been exploring environmental applications of nanotechnologies and examining the aquatic toxicity of nanomaterials. He has obtained funds from the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and Environmental Protection Agency to support the research activities, and has authored ~50 journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Deng teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses, including Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, Water Treatment Process Design, Water and Wastewater Laboratory, Aquatic Chemistry, Environmental Chemical Kinetics, Physicochemical and Biological Processes, and Hazardous Waste Management.
Aaron E. Edgington is a Ph.D. candidate at Clemson University in South Carolina. Aaron is a graduate research assistant in Dr. Stephen Klaine’s lab.Debbie Elcock is a policy analyst with the Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Among other things, she evaluates environmental regulatory approaches and helps develop cost-effective alternatives. She helped develop a strategy for establishing a laboratory-wide ES&H program for nanotechnology and has examined potential applications for nanotechnologies in areas ranging from groundwater remediation to energy transmission corridors. She has also made presentations on the ES&H concerns of nanotechnologies and the consequent challenges for regulation. Ms. Elcock has taught courses on environmental management standards, conducted workshops with various stakeholder groups on improved environmental regulatory approaches, authored more than 50 reports on environmental and energy topics, and spoken at numerous national and international conferences. Her education includes a masters degree in Business Administration from Dartmouth College and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Connecticut College.
Dr. Daniel W. Elliott has more than 15 years of experience in the environmental industry 11 of which were spent in industry and that past 4 in consulting. In industry, Dr. Elliott focused on environmental due diligence assessments, the quantification of environmental liability, and internal compliance audits at two Fortune 500 multinational industrial firms. In the consulting arena, he has significant experience in leading and conducting environmental due diligence assessments as well as the management of various complex remediation projects in accordance with NJDEP’s Industrial Site Recovery Act. He also led or supported several remediation projects, including one in NJ utilizing the innovative nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) technology. Dr. Elliott is a recognized expert in the application of the emerging nZVI technology and has co-led implementation of numerous bench-scale and pilot scale assessments. He has co-authored several articles on the nZVI technology and applications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Elliott has significant experience in negotiating with regulators at all levels and has worked on technical, regulatory, and technology-transfer aspects of environmental projects in the United States, Mexico, and the Peoples Republic of China. Dr. Elliott holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, an M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering, and an A.B. in Chemistry.
Robert J. Ellis, L.G., is a Senior Scientist, based in the ARCADIS Novi, Michigan office. He received a B.S. in Geology and a M.S. in Environmental Geosciences, both from Michigan State University. Mr. Ellis has been in the environmental consulting industry since 1998 and has managed remedial investigations and remedy selection/implementation at Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and state-lead project sites with soil, sediment, and/or groundwater impacted with metals, chlorinated solvents, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Mr. Ellis is currently focused on performing geochemical evaluations that enhance conceptual site models, design and management of effective bench scale and field pilot studies for technology demonstrations, and development of remediation strategies that complement ARCADIS’ innovative in-situ remediation techniques and lead to effective site closure strategies for industrial and federal government clients.
Dr. David Ensor has 30 years of experience in aerosol and air pollution research as Director of the Center for Aerosol Technology (CAT), Senior Program Director, and Department Manager at RTI and as Manager of the Aerosol Science Department at Meteorology Research, Inc. Dr. Ensor has managed programs in nanotechnology, aerosol research, filtration, air pollution control technology, particle sampling and characterization, indoor air quality, pollution prevention, exposure research, surface cleaning, protective garments, microcontamination control, instrumentation development, and test methods development. These projects have been for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Army, SEMATECH, Semiconductor Research Corporation, universities, and numerous private organizations. Recently Dr. Ensor has been shifting his research interests to nanotechnology.
Dr. R. Keith Esch is a research microbiologist now serving in RTI’s Microbiology Department and as adjunct faculty member in the Biochemistry and Biophysics department of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Esch received his B.S. degree in genetics from the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. in biology from the University of California, San Diego. He designs, and conducts applied and basic research in environmental biotechnology and bioaerosol science. Some areas of expertise include: method development, system evaluation, environmental monitoring, and exposure assessment. He conducts research in environmental microbial assessment, biological particulate matter analysis and antimicrobial/biocide efficacy evaluations. He supervises the sampling, isolation, quantitation, identification, and inactivation of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses) and their components in air, water, soils, industrial fluids and materials. His background in biochemistry and molecular biology is applied to bacteriology; mycology; sampling and analysis of microbiological agents, components or by-products; study design; quality assurance and quality control; and exposure assessment.
Dr. Anne Fairbrother, DVM, leads the Risk Assessment and Toxicology program at Parametrix, Inc. in Seattle, WA. She provides services in ecological risk assessment and ecotoxicology, with an emphasis on wildlife toxicology and terrestrial systems. Anne works in the areas of contaminated site assessment, pesticide regulatory science and similar needs of the chemical and metals industries. A recent addition to her practice has been regulatory support for companies that now need to comply with the European REACH legislation. She also supports state or national agencies through development of guidance documents e.g., for metals risk assessments and through technical support for site-specific soil and water criteria development for wildlife protection. Anne received her D.V.M. from Univ. California, Davis and her Ph.D. from Univ. Wisconsin. She has been the recipient of several honors and awards from professional societies, and holds a courtesy appointment on faculty at Oregon State University. She has authored more than 75 scientific papers and has delivered over 100 seminars, workshops, or other technical presentations.
Karin Foarde is a Senior Research Microbiologist with 30 years of experience and is the Director of RTI International’s (RTI’s) Microbial and Molecular Biology Department. She designs, directs, and conducts applied and basic research in microbiology and aerobiology. Her research interests focus on bioterrorism associated biological aerosols (bioaerosols) and the environmental causes of allergy and asthma. Her bioterrorism research experience includes detection, decontamination, and protection from biowarfare agents. Her asthma/allergy work focuses on researching the biological contaminants isolated from the environment to identify environmental causes of illness and to recommend methods for preventing such biological contamination and its associated adverse health effects. Some areas of expertise include isolating and characterizing environmental microorganisms, airborne allergens, and pathogens. She directs analysis of samples for microorganisms, endotoxins, β-(1-3) glucans, and a variety of antigens.
Dr. Glenn E. Fryxell is a member of the Materials Chemistry and Surface Research Group within the Materials Division of ESTD, and has been a member of Materials since 1990. For the last 15 years, his research has focused on organic synthesis, surface chemistry, silane chemistry and the interfacial elaboration of self-assembled monolayers. He is a co-inventor of self-assembled monolayers on mesoporous supports (SAMMS) and has developed these materials for a wide variety of environmental applications, such as the sequestration of toxic heavy metals, radionuclides and oxometallate anions. Dr. Fryxell is named as inventor in 11 patents, and has over 100 publications and 60 invited presentations. He obtained his B. Sc. from the University of Texas in 1982, where he worked for two years in the laboratories of Prof. Marye Anne Fox studying the photochemistry of enolates and carbanions. His Ph. D. was award in 1986 from the University of North Carolina, where he worked with Prof. Paul J. Kropp studying the photochemistry of phenylthio ethers. A two-year postdoctoral appointment with Prof. Albert Padwa at Emory University was dedicated to the study of intramolecular dipolar cycloaddition and heterocyclic synthesis.
Florin Gheorghiu, C.P.G. is Project Director and Principal in the Philadelphia Office of Golder Associates. He is an expert in hydrogeologic testing, modeling and hydrogeologic designs and has over 29 years of experience in engineering geology and hydrogeology. He has directed numerous environmental projects at CERCLA and RCRA sites that required numerical groundwater flow and solute transport modeling using computer codes such as MODFLOW, MODPATH and MT3D. Mr. Gheorghiu served as Project Director and technical manager for the design and implementation of a large bedrock remedial system at Modern Landfill that involved extensive hydrogeologic testing of fractured bedrock, numerical modeling and deep bedrock blasting. This project received the Year 2000 Outstanding Groundwater Remediation Award from the National Groundwater Association. His publications include: “Hydrogeologic Characterization of Blasted Rock Mass,” (2001 Key Note to the Geological Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); “Enhanced Western Groundwater Control System,” (2000 Key Note to the Regional Hydrogeologists Meeting of the Department of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); “Application of Analytical and Numerical Models for Natural Attenuation Characterization,” (1997 Presentation at the Golder Associates Natural Attenuation Seminar, Princeton, New Jersey); “Advanced Test Analysis Methods for the Hydrogeological Characterization of Potential Nuclear Waste Repositories in Switzerland and Germany,” (1996 Presentation to the technical staff of the U.S.EPA Region 3, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); “Use of Derivative for Hydrogeologic Test Flow Model Identification with Application in Deep Borehole Testing,” (1995 Presentation to the technical staff of the U.S.Geological Survey, Trenton, New Jersey).
Dr. Subhasis Ghoshal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering & Applied Mechanics. He joined McGill as an Assistant Professor in 1997 after completing his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His research is in the area of Environmental Engineering and currently focuses on bioremediation of polluted sites and groundwater, and on carbon dioxide sequestration technologies for greenhouse gas mitigation. Prof. Ghoshal has contributed substantially to the understanding of NAPL-water interfacial mass transport processes and its impacts on remediation performance and groundwater quality. He has worked extensively on NAPL dissolution, biodegradation and interphase mass transfer in NAPL-surfactant systems. He has recently developed techniques for imaging of NAPL contamination in porous media using a medical X-ray scanner which allows non-invasive, quantitative contaminant mass characterization in soil columns and cores. Prof. Ghoshal received the PetroCanada Young Innnovator Award in 1998 and was named as a Dawson Scholar in 2005. He is a founding member of the CT Scanning Laboratory for Agricultural and Environmental Research at McGill.
Michael Gill received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston and his MSEE from Renssalear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He practiced electrical engineering in the 1980's with the U.S. Navy and government contractors until he made a career change to the environmental field in 1992.
He is currently the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) Superfund and Technology Liaison to EPA's San Francisco office (Region 9). This position is one of technical support and information brokering. His customers are for the most part Remedial Project Managers in the Superfund Program, but may include RCRA and other Regional EPA staff, state environmental staff, industry, and the public. In this position since 1998, he provides hazardous waste technical support to his customers and he also participates in research planning, environmental technology demonstrations, and workshop planning. He has been with EPA since 1992, when he took a position as a Remedial Project Manager in Region 9's Superfund program.
Dr. Vicki Grassian is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and has secondary appointments in the Departments of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and Occupational and Environmental Health. At the University of Iowa, Professor Grassian has been the recipient of a Faculty Scholar Award (1999-2001) a Distinguished Achievement Award (2002), a James Van Allen Natural Sciences Faculty Fellowship (2004), the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence (2006) and was named a Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2007. In 2006, she became the Director of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute at the University of Iowa. She also serves as an Associate Director for the Institute of Clinical and Translational Science. For the past several years, a major research focus in her group has been on the applications and implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology in environmental processes. Professor Grassian has edited three books including the most recent one published by John Wiley and Sons entitled Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Environmental and Health Impacts. She has over 140 peer-reviewed publications. In 2003, Professor Grassian received a US-National Science Foundation Creativity Award and in 2005, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. George M. Gray was sworn in on November 1, 2005, to serve as the Assistant
Administrator for the Office of Research and Development, which is the
1,900-person, $600 million science and technology arm of the
Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Gray was appointed to this position
by President George W. Bush and confirmed – by unanimous consent – by
the U.S. Senate.
Prior to joining EPA, Dr. Gray was Executive Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and a Lecturer in Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). In 16 years at HSPH, his research focused on scientific bases of human health risk assessment and its application to risk policy with a focus on trade-offs in risk management. Dr. Gray taught toxicology and risk assessment to both graduate students and participants in the School´s Continuing Professional Education program.
Dr. Gray holds a B.S. degree in biology from the University of Michigan, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in toxicology from the University of Rochester.
Kimberly Guzan is an aerosol engineer at RTI. She earned a Masters of Science at University of Akron School of Polymer Science and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Chemical Engineering. Her research interests include polymer nanotechnology and spectroscopic characterization in materials fabrication, aerosol filtration, chemical sensors and bio-materials research. Subsequently, her research work has included metal/polymer interfacial adhesion in biomedical devises and organometallic-crystal synthesis.
Scott Hall manages ENVIRON’s Ecotoxicology Group and toxicity testing facilities in Nashville, Tennessee. He serves on ENVIRON’s Nanto-technology Task Force, and is conducting research related to the effects of titanium dioxide on aquatic life. Mr. Hall received a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Protection from West Virginia University and a master’s degree in Aquatic Toxicology from North Texas State University. He has been a consultant to industry for over 20 years.Dr. Li Han has more than eight years of research and development experience in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Her original research findings have been published in 30 peer-reviewed journals, and resulted in two patents and six RTI International invention disclosures. Dr. Han’s research interests include fabricating nanoscale materials, developing novel microscopic and spectroscopic characterization techniques for nanoparticles and nanofibers, and exploring the application of nanoscale materials in chemo- and biosensors, catalysis, and biomedical devices.
Dr. Stacey Harper leads the Nanotoxicology Division of the Tanguay laboratory at OSU where she employs in vivo approaches to provide feedback on the biological activity and toxic potential of nanomaterials. She has established a collaborative research group to develop the knowledgebase of Nanomaterial-Biological Interactions (NBI). She received her B.S. in natural sciences and mathematics from Mesa State College, Colorado in 1990; and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in biological sciences from University of Nevada Las Vegas in 1998 and 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she held a biology postdoctoral position with the Exposure and Dose Research Branch of the EPA.
Dr. Ted Henry is a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at The University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) and a Research Council of the United Kingdom (RC-UK) Academic Fellow at the University of Plymouth (Plymouth, UK). Investigating the characteristics and toxicity of nanoparticles is major part of his research program at both institutions and presently his work is supported by a U.S. EPA STAR grant to investigate the ecotoxicology of fullerenes in fish. A primary objective is to link nanoparticle characteristics with toxic effects and his research aims to clarify mechanisms at lower levels of biological organization with higher order effects at tissue and whole organism levels. His role at The University of Tennessee and the University of Plymouth provides a unique opportunity to integrate research in nanotoxicology among laboratories in the U.S. and the UK.
Mbhuti Hlophe is Head of the Department of Chemistry at North-West University (Mafikeng campus) in South Africa. His major research area is water treatment, particularly for the provision of potable water to rural communities. He is one of the principal researchers in water purification in the India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) trilateral cooperation agreement on nanotechnology. He has authored relevant conference papers, including a case study on a nanofiltration method for water treatment in South Africa background paper for Meridian`s workshop in Chennai (India), membrane nanotechnology in water treatment (IBSA workshop in Kalpakkam, India), and the role of nanotechnology in the provision of potable water to rural communities (IBSA workshop in Pretoria, South Africa). Papers that have been published include: “Nanotechnology, Water and Development” (http://www.merid.org/nano/waterpaper); “Nanotechnology and the challenge of clean water” (Nature Nanotechnology, 2 (11), 663 – 664); “Nitrogenous pollution in borehole water due to pit latrines and fertilizers” (submitted to Water SA review for possible publication); and a chapter in a book for the U.S. EPA titled “Nanotechnology Applications: Solutions for improving water quality.”. He also has performed consulting work, the most important of which was the development of water safety and security plans for the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry in South Africa.
Dr. Patricia Holden is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. The Holden lab researches environmental microbiology, focusing on questions in water, soil science and emerging pollutants. Holden’s education is in Civil & Environmental Engineering (B.S., M.S.) with 8 years of professional engineering experience followed by her Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Research in Soil Microbiology (U.C. Berkeley). Holden has been on the faculty at UC Santa Barbara since 1997. Current projects in the Holden group are in coastal bacteriological water quality with an emphasis on watershed processes, bacterial interactions with engineered nanomaterials, and vadose zone microbial ecology. Her co-authors for this talk include Allison Horst (doctoral student), John Priester (postgraduate researcher) and Dr. Andrea Neal (postdoctoral researcher) who are all actively researching nanomaterials interactions with bacteria.
Dr. Zhiqiang Hu is an Assistant Professor of environmental engineering at the University of Missouri. Dr. Hu has been studying biochemical processes for wastewater treatment and nutrient removal for more than ten years. His recent research interest includes bioavailability and toxicity of nanoparticles in wastewater treatment systems. One of his ongoing research projects entitled “Nitrification inhibition by silver nanoparticles” was financially supported by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Hu has published some of the nanotoxicity research findings by working with her Ph.D. student, Okkyoung Choi. The Water Environment Research Foundation recently awarded Dr. Hu $150,000 to determine more precisely when silver nanoparticles start to impair wastewater treatment. In that project, his research team will determine how silver nanoparticles affect representative wastewater treatment processes by gradually releasing as well as injecting a shock load of the nanomaterial into wastewater and sludge. Measuring subsequent microbial growth will allow MU researchers to determine the nanosilver levels that will harm wastewater treatment and sludge digestion.
De-Huang Huang is a senior environmental engineer in the Chinese Petroleum Corporation, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC. He received his M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Taiwan University. He is interested in applying novel technologies for groundwater remediation including iron nanoparticles, chemical oxidation and thermal technology.
Dr. William D. Hunt is Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Hematology and Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine. He runs the Microelectronics Acoustics Group at Georgia Tech and has a diverse collection of graduate students
Dr. Robert Hurt is Professor of Engineering at Brown University and Director of Brown University’s Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation (IMNI). Dr. Hurt has a hybrid technical background in nanomaterials science and energy/environment. He has devoted the last four years to understanding the fundamental biological interactions of nanomaterials and in developing new nanostructures for environmental and biological applications. He has been involved in discussion of nanotechnology environmental safety and health policy and regulation through talks at the National Research Council of Canada (2007), the Environmental Business Council of New England (2006), the World Technology Evaluation Center (2006), and participation in the 2007 NanoBusiness Alliance Public Policy Tour in Washington D.C. Dr. Hurt received a Sc.B. from Michigan Technological University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in chemical engineering. Prior to joining Brown in 1994 he held posts at Bayer AG in Leverkusen, Germany, and Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore California. Professor Hurt is an Editor of the materials science and nanotechnology journal CARBON, has served as the Graffin Lecturer of the American Carbon Society, and has won the Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute for work on the high-temperature reactions of carbon materials. His current research interests are in the applications and implications of nanotechnology for human health and the environment, including nanosorbents for pollution abatement and the intelligent design and formulation of nanomaterials to minimize health risks. He is a member of the scientific advisory board for the company Nanotox.
Dr. Jim Hutchison is Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon. He also directs the Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute and has pioneered the University’s Green Organic Chemistry Laboratory program. A native of Oregon, he received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Oregon in 1986 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991 (with James P. Collman). He then did postdoctoral work with Royce W. Murray at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has won numerous awards including a Postdoctoral Fellowship and a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, as well as awards from the Sloan and Dreyfus Foundations. His current research interests include the design, synthesis and study of functional organic and inorganic materials, including functionalized surfaces and nanoparticles, green chemistry and green nanoscience.
Nick Jaynes is a Geotechnical Engineer for MSE Technology Applications in Butte, Montana. Mr. Jaynes holds degrees in Environmental Engineering and Civil/Geotechnical Engineering from Texas A&M University. His previous experience includes consulting in the environmental and geotechnical fields in Wyoming and Montana.Dr. Gautham Jegadeesan is an Environmental Engineer with Pegasus Technical Services, Inc at Cincinnati. A graduate in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D in Engineering Science, Dr. Jegadeesan has worked on diverse water remediation projects including the use of bimetallic nanoparticles for trace metal remediation and electrolytic processes for contaminant reduction. He is currently working on the fate and transport of engineered nanoparticles in the environment, speciation of trace metals in coal combustion residues and mining wastes.
Vijay T. John is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University. He works on self-assembled nanoscale materials for environmental applications and in targeted drug delivery. He has published 130 Journal articles and has supervised 19 Ph.D. dissertations. He is funded by U.S. EPA, the NSF, U.S. Department of Energy, and NIH.
Jon Josephs' academic background includes degrees in chemical engineering from Rutgers University (1971) and Stevens Institute of Technology (1973). He was selected for membership in Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. In 1973, Jon joined the EPA Region 2 office in New York City where he was employed in permitting industrial wastewater discharges, regulating hazardous-waste management facilities and as a Superfund Remedial Project Manager. In 1994 Jon was reassigned from Region 2 to the Office of Research and Development as the Superfund and Technology Liaison (STL) assigned to EPA Region 2.
As an STL, Jon's activities have included: organizing a workshop on the natural attenuation of chlorinated solvents in groundwater, managing the development of a compendium of methods for monitoring the remediation of contaminated sediments, serving on Science Advisory Committees for the Northeast Hazardous Substance Research Center and for the Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments, participating in the workgroup that developed the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response's directive on monitored natural attenuation and serving as EPA project coordinator for a research project on biodegradation of polychlorinated-dibenzo-p-dioxins. More routine activities include coordinating technical support for Region 2 Superfund projects, identifying EPA Region 2 research needs, serving on the EPA Region 2 Science Council and organizing technical presentations for Region 2 staff.
Dr. Agnes Kane is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University, and has devoted her career to the study of biological responses to particulate and fibrous toxicants. She has served on scientific panels in environmental health sciences, including current membership of the EPA Science Advisory Board and the ICON working group on nanomaterial safety. She has devoted the last four years to understanding the biological impacts of new nanomaterials. She has served as scientific advisor and invited participant in workshops on fiber toxicology and nanotechnology for NIOSH, US EPA, NAS, IOM, NTP and IARC.
Dr. Barbara Karn, a U.S. EPA scientist, built and managed a research grant program in nanotechnology and the environment at EPA. She formed and sustained a community of researchers in nanotechnology and the environment-both applications and implications-and brought nanotechnology into EPA’s programs and mission. Through the interagency Nanoscale Science and Technology subcommittee of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, she led workshops to build consideration of the environment and human health in other government agency research programs related to nanotechnology. She helped provide leadership in international activities involving nanotechnology in the environment and human health. Currently, she is the nanotechnology scholar at Georgetown University's Program for Science in the Public Interest and recently returned from a detail at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Program in Emerging Nanotechnologies. Dr. Karn holds the Ph.D. from Florida International University and a B.S. in chemistry from Ohio State.
Dr. Ian M. Kennedy joined the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California Davis in 1986 after a period as a Research Staff member at Princeton University and several years at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Australia. He has developed a major aerosol research facility at the University of California Davis in which efforts are directed at varied problems related to ultrafine particle synthesis and applications in technology. A major thrust of Dr. Kennedy’s efforts is directed towards understanding the impact of ultrafine aerosol particles on human health. This interest is pursued via extensive multidisciplinary collaborations with colleagues in Environmental Toxicology, Land Air Water Resources, Veterinary Medicine, Chemistry and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also involved in applying nanoscale particles to detection technologies in biology and biophotonics e.g., using nanoscale phosphors as labels of bio-molecules. This work involves collaborative research with colleagues in the Departments of Entomology, Internal Medicine and Land Air Water Resources.
Alan J. Kennedy is a Research Biologist with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His responsibilities include serving as project manager/principal investigator for ecotoxicological exposure and effects assessment; conducting water column and whole sediment toxicity and bioaccumulation testing in support of research, dredged material assessments, and other client needs; writing manuscripts, proposals, technical reports and laboratory SOPs; and managing laboratory technicians. His research has involved chemicals such as DDTs, PCBs, PAHs, explosives, metals and nanoparticles. Mr. Kennedy received a M.S. in Aquatic Ecotoxicology in 2002 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His thesis work involved risk assessment methodologies to gauge multiple levels biotic impairment caused by the total dissolved solids (TDS) toxicity of a treated coal-mining effluent in southeastern Ohio. He received a B.S., with high honors, in Environmental Biology/Zoology in 1999 from Michigan State University.
Dr. Amid P. Khodadoust is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches environmental engineering, physico-chemical processes, waste water treatment, and pollution prevention. His research expertise includes bioavailability of contaminants in sediments, remediation of contaminated soils and sediments, and environmental nanotechnology.
Dr. Jeonghwan Kim is a research associate in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005.
Ayla Kiser received her bachelor of science in mechanical engineering and her master of science in environmental engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In August 2006, she began the environmental engineering Ph.D. program at Arizona State University. Under the guidance of her advisors, Dr. Paul Westerhoff and Dr. Bruce Rittmann, Kiser is currently doing research on the biological removal, environmental fate, and detection of engineered nanoparticles from wastewater. She is expected to graduate in 2010.
Dr. Stephen J. Klaine is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University in Pendleton, SC. Dr. Klaine received his bachelor’s degree in biology from University of Cincinnati and his master’s degree and Ph.D in environmental science from Rice University in Texas. Dr. Klaine’s research focuses on the fate and effects of contaminants in the environment. Specifically, he is interested in contaminants that migrate from various land uses into aquatic ecosystems and their effects on aquatic plants and animals. His laboratory studies contaminant effects on fish, aquatic invertebrates, plants, and algae. Current research on nanomaterials includes work on their behavior in aquatic systems, bioavailability, and food chain transport.
Dr. Rebecca Klaper received her Ph.D. in Ecology from the Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia. She is currently a Shaw Scientist at the Great Lakes WATER Institute, an organization dedicated to providing basic and applied research to inform policy decisions involving our freshwater resources. Dr. Klaper studies the potential impact of emerging contaminants, such as nanoparticles and pharmaceuticals, on aquatic organisms using traditional toxicology methods as well as investigations using genomic technologies. Dr. Klaper has served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science-Science and Technology Policy Fellow where she worked in the National Center for Environmental Assessment at the US Environmental Protection Agency. She has served as an invited scientific expert to the Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development panel on nanotechnology where she testified on the potential impact of nanoparticles on the environment. She also was involved in writing the EPA White Paper on the use of genomic technologies in risk assessment. She belongs to several scientific societies including the Ecological Society of America, The Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and the American Fisheries Society.
Dr. Sarah C. Larsen, is a Professor of Chemistry and the Associate Director of the Nanoscience and Nanotechology Institute at the University of Iowa. Professor Larsen has research interests in the applications of nanocrystalline zeolites to environmental remediation, decontamination and drug delivery. Professor Larsen has expertise in the synthesis, characterization and functionalization of nanocrystalline zeolites and hollow zeolite structures. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Research Office, the Department of Energy and the Petroleum Research Fund. Professor Larsen has also been involved with educational efforts in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Currently, she is the Director of an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program focused on nanoscience and nanotechnology. Professor Larsen is also a senior editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Dr. Warren Layne has a BA in chemistry from Boston University, MS in inorganic analytical chemistry from University of Massachusetts, and Ph. D. in medicinal chemistry from Northeastern University in Boston, with postdoctoral training at Harvard School of Public Health in nuclear medicine. He also has additional years of industrial experience in radiopharmaceutical research as an Assistant Professor at University of Connecticut Medical Center, University of Texas at Galveston, and Baylor University in Houston. Dr. Layne joined the EPA in 1991 as the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) coordinator for Region 6 (Dallas, TX) and is the currently serves as a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) reviewer and Regional Sample Coordinator for the Superfund Division as well as Nanotechnology expert in Region 5 (Chicago, IL). He was a coauthor of Nanotechnology White Paper, participated in EPA-sponsored National Nanotechnology Conferences, and is a member of Nanometers, the current co-chair of the EPA National Nanotechnology Workgroup. He is co-chair of the multi-agency steering committee for the International Environmental Nanotechnology Conference: Applications and Implications scheduled for Chicago, October 7-9, 2008.
Dr. James M. Lazorchak is an aquatic biologist/toxicologist for the U.S. EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory, Ecological Exposure Research Division, where he is Acting Chief of the Molecular Indicators Research Branch. He received a B.S. in biology (1987) from Southeast Missouri State University, a M.S. in aquatic ecology (1974) from Wright State University, and a M.S. in environmental sciences (1978) from the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in ecotoxicology (1986) from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Research in Dr. Lazorchak’s early career centered around developing fish, invertebrate, and plant bioasssessment and ecotoxicology methods to assess the biological integrity of lakes, streams, rivers, and estuaries. My current research activities are to bring genomic tools to bioassessments and ecotoxicity tests to assess ecosystem health and develop water quality criteria and water quality standards and limits that can be used in regulatory programs of emerging contaminants (i.e., EDCs and pharmaceuticals).
He has written 36 peer reviewed papers, 13 EPA manuals, 4 book chapters.
Dr. Qilin Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. Dr. Li obtained her B.E. in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University in China. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Before joining the faculty at Rice University, she worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Yale University from 2002 to 2003 and an assistant professor at Oregon State University from 2004 to 2005. Dr. Li’s current research focuses on advanced technologies for water quality control including adsorption and membrane separation, and environmental application and impact of nanotechnology.
Dr. Yusong Li is currently a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2005. She will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research area is numerical simulation of fate and transport of contaminants in the subsurface system.
Dr. Hsing-Lung Lien is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2000 from Lehigh University, under the guidance of Dr. Wei-xian Zhang. He worked as a research associate at the Ground Water and Ecosystems Restoration Division, an USEPA research laboratory, in Ada, Oklahoma from 2000 to 2002. Dr. Lien has joined the National University of Kaohsiung since 2002. His research interests include environmental nanotechnologies and physicochemical processes for water treatments. He has published over 10 peer-reviewed papers on the use of iron nanoparticles for groundwater remediation.
Dr. Igor Linkov is a Research Scientist at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center and Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Linkov has managed multiple risk assessments and risk management projects. Many of his projects have included application of the state-of-the-science modeling and software tools (e.g., probabilistic and Bayesian Monte-Carlo, spatially-explicit modeling) to highly complex sites and engineering problems (e.g., Hudson River, Dow Midland, Natick Soldier Systems Command, Elizabeth Mine, etc.) and projects (e.g., insuring emerging risks, risk-based prioritization of remedial projects, developing performance metrics for oil spill response). He was instrumental in developing an integrated risk assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis framework that is now being widely applied by the US Army Corps of Engineers, including restoration planning for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi affected by the hurricane Katrina where a multi-billion dollar budget is at stake. Dr. Linkov is currently involved in several projects that examine factors responsible for nanotoxicology and nanomaterials risks. These projects investigate fate and transport of nanoparticles in the environment, ecotoxicology, assessment of nano-enabled product life cycle and risks. Dr. Linkov have organized three continuing education workshops in the area of nanomaterials health and safety and an international conference on “Nanomaterials: Environmental Risks and Benefits” (Portugal, April 2008). Dr. Linkov was part of international and national panels on nanotechnology, including: EPA Nanotechnology White Paper Peer Review Panel (2006), Nanotechnology Research Strategy (2008), and Nanotechnology Grants Review Panel (2007); Environment Canada Nanotechnology Expert Panel (2007); and the City of Cambridge Nanotechnology Ordinance Advisory Panel (2007-2008). The Governor of Massachusetts has appointed Dr. Linkov as a Scientific Advisor to the Massachusetts Toxic Use Reduction Institute. He is the recipient of the prestigious Chauncey Starr Award for exceptional contribution to Risk Analysis. Dr. Linkov has a BS and MSc in Physics and Mathematics (Polytechnic Institute, Russia) and a Ph.D. in Environmental, Occupational and Radiation Health (University of Pittsburgh). He completed his post doctoral training in Biostatistics and Toxicology and Risk Assessment at Harvard University.
Dr. Bruce Lippy has a Ph.D. in policy from the University of Maryland, with coursework concentrated in regulatory economics and quantitative measures of management. His doctoral research was on communicating the hazards of operating and maintaining innovative environmental technologies for cleaning up the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex. His work led to the development of over 150 Technology Safety Data Sheets for the Department of Energy. His undergraduate degree is a B.A. summa cum laude in biology from Western Maryland College. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Certified Safety Professional. While with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he co-authored an extensive review of the hazard communication literature on MSDSs, labels and warnings. He has participated in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Nanoscale Environment and Health Initiative. Dr. Lippy has spoken on the worker health and safety issues of nanotechnologies at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication, the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Community Colleges of Baltimore.
Dr. Tom Long is a staff scientist in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (US EPA) National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA). Here, he prepares science assessments that evaluate the scientific evidence that relates to the health effects of criteria air pollutants. Prior to joining NCEA, he conducted research in the laboratory of Dr. Bellina Veronesi on the biological effects of titanium dioxide and nZVI nanoparticles used in environmental remediation. He has published these findings in Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Health Perspectives. He recently received his Ph.D. from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2007).
Dr. Gregory Lowry is an associate professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He teaches Environmental Engineering, Water Quality Engineering, Environmental Fate and Transport of Organic Compounds in Aquatic Systems, and Environmental Sampling and Sample Characterization. His research interest is broadly defined as transport and reaction in porous media, with a focus on the fundamental physical/geochemical processes affecting the fate of inorganic and synthetic organic contaminants and engineered nanomaterials in the environment. He is primarily an experimentalist and works on a variety of application-oriented research projects developing novel environmental technologies for restoring contaminated sediments and groundwater. His current projects include in situ sediment management using innovative sediment caps, DNAPL source zone remediation through delivery of reactive nanoparticles to the NAPL-water interface, and CO2 capture, sequestration, and monitoring. The primary goal of most projects is to provide economical engineering solutions to specific relatively well-defined environmental problems, but each step of engineering development also provides the opportunity to make fundamental scientific contributions in the areas of contaminant transport and fate.
Dr. Bettye L.S. Maddux is the assistant director of the Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative, a major research thrust of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute and a member of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon. In 1992, she earned her Ph.D. in biological sciences with an emphasis in chemical carcinogenesis from the University of Texas at Austin. Her postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara involved elucidating nature’s mechanisms for creating environmentally benign nanomaterials. Previously, she has published peer-reviewed research articles as ‘Bettye L. Smith’ in the fields of nanotechnology, biophysics and chemical carcinogenesis.
Dr. Shaily Mahendra is CBEN Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. Dr. Mahendra earned her B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, M.S. from Syracuse University, and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. Her research areas are environmental toxicology and applications of nanomaterials, applications of molecular and isotopic tools in environmental microbiology, and biodegradation of emerging groundwater contaminants.
Dr. Susan Masten is a professor in Department of Civil Engineering at McMaster University, Canada. She obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Harvard University in 1986.
Bharat Mathur was appointed Deputy Regional Administrator of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 in 2002. In this role, he assists the Regional Administrator in implementing federal environmental programs in the Great Lakes states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Mr. Mathur served as Acting Regional Administrator twice — for 16 months, beginning in April 2004, and again for six months, beginning in April 2006. During his second stint as the Region’s acting leader, he assumed the additional responsibilities of Acting Manager of the Great Lakes National Program. In this role, he oversaw EPA’s continued efforts to protect and clean up the Great Lakes, including advancing the efforts of the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration and pushing forward with Great Lakes Legacy Act cleanups.
Mr. Mathur came to EPA in January 2000 as director of the Air and Radiation Division after a lengthy career with the state of Illinois, where he managed Illinois EPA offices dealing with air pollution, hazardous and solid waste, and Clean Water Act programs.
He has served on numerous state and national committees to develop environmental policies and programs, and has consulted with government agencies in India, China, Indonesia, Korea and Mexico
Dr. Charles Maurice has served as the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) Superfund & Technology Liaison (STL) to Region 5 (Chicago, IL) since April 2004. As such, he holds a joint appointment with the Office of Science Policy in ORD and with the Innovative Systems & Technology Branch in the Region 5 Superfund Division. Chuck provides technical support regarding hazardous substances both through his own expertise as an ecological risk assessor and by coordinating with other scientists in the technical support centers and laboratories throughout ORD. He also communicates Regional research priorities and needs to ORD.
From 1995 to 2004, Chuck was an ecologist and ecological risk assessor the Region 5 Office of Strategic Environmental Analysis (OSEA), both in the immediate office and on the Critical Ecosystems Team. Chuck was an ecological risk expert, corrective action manager, and permit writer in the RCRA Permitting Branch, Region 5 Waste Management Division from 1993 to 1995. Before joining EPA, Chuck was a senior ecologist and ecological risk assessor for Ecology & Environment, Inc., a Superfund contractor.
Chuck holds a B.S. degree (1980) in environmental biology from Eastern Illinois University, a M.S. degree (1982) in biological sciences from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. (1989) in plant biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Ann Miracle is currently involved in research incorporating environmental biomarkers into relevant remediation, monitoring, and risk assessment guidelines; and the environmental exposure of nanomaterials to aquatic organisms. Dr. Miracle leads a team of scientists addressing anthropogenic impacts to complex, ecological assemblages in freshwater communities using system biology approaches. In previous employment with the US EPA, Dr. Miracle led a team of scientists in linkages of chemical exposure and effects using ‘omics technologies in small fish models as a part of that agency’s Computational Toxicology Initiative.
Jeff Morris is EPA’s National Program Director for Nanotechnology, and is responsible for managing EPA’s Nanomaterials Research Program. Mr. Morris leads the U.S. delegation to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials, and co-chairs the Working Party’s test guidelines steering group. He also co-chaired EPA’s Nanotechnology Coordinating Committee, which issued EPA’s Nanotechnology White Paper in February 2007. Prior to becoming National Program Director for Nanotechnology, Mr. Morris served as acting director of EPA’s Office of Science Policy. His academic training is in economics and environmental policy, and all of the several positions he has held during his 16 years at EPA have focused on either regulatory issues or science policy.
Divina Angela G. Navarro is a graduate student at the Chemistry Department of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, working towards her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry. She obtained her undergraduate degree in B.S. Chemistry at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos, Philippines. Currently, she is working on studying the fate and transport of quantum dots in the environment, under the supervision of Dr. Diana Aga and Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee.
Dr. Arianne M. Neigh received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Environmental Toxicology and Zoology. Her work focused on ecosystem-level studies to identify exposure and effects of polychlorinated biphenyls to wildlife in a riverine system. This work is to date the most detailed evaluation of congener pattern changes of organochlorines in aquatic and terrestrial food webs. Dr. Neigh then joined CDM Federal Programs Corporation where she conducted human health and ecological risk assessments, biological evaluations, remedial investigations, and feasibility studies at hazardous waste sites for military and industrial clients. In 2007, she joined nanoComposix as a research scientist to apply her knowledge in risk assessment, environmental fate and transport, and toxicity evaluations to nanomaterials. Her work with nanomaterials includes evaluating assays for compatibility, high-level characterization during the course of experiments, and detecting and evaluating nanomaterials in the environment. Dr. Neigh’s work is also focused on developing collaborations with a diverse group of researches in the US and in Europe in a multi-disciplinary approach to understand nanomaterials and the environment. She has authored or co-authored nine papers in the area of toxicology and risk assessment, in addition to presenting her work at national and international scientific meetings.
Dr. James T. Nurmi is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR.
Dr. Denis O’Carroll is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. O’Carroll completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan where he was awarded the 2004 Walter J. Weber, Jr. Student Prize. Upon completion of his Ph.D. Dr. O’Carroll completed one postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan and was awarded a Government of Canada NSERC postdoctoral award to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. He was recently awarded the Province of Ontario 2007 Early Researcher Award for his work in the “Development of Nanomaterials and Hot Water Flooding for Enhanced Groundwater Remediation”. The goal of this award is to attract and retain the best and brightest research talent in the Province of Ontario. Dr. O’Carroll has significant experience in laboratory studies developing innovative remediation schemes in addition to site remediation consulting experience. His work has investigated the utility of nanotechnology for contaminated site remediation, the impact of soil surface chemistry on NAPL migration and remediation and the utility of hot water flooding for NAPL remediation. He has ongoing research projects developing nanometals for contaminated site remediation and investigating the fate of carbon based nanoparticles in the environment.
Pankaj J. Parikh has been with U.S.EPA over 25 Years. He is an environmental scientist. He worked in EPA's Chicago Regional laboratory as a team leader/chemist, Asian Pacific Program manager, and as a project officer for Superfund contracts. He also has been a commissioner on the Village of Mount Prospect Solid Waste Commission and has served on the Village's Community Relations Commission for over five years. Prior to joining, EPA, he worked in private industry as a qualty control manager.
Dr. R. Lee Penn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Dr. Kurt Pennell is a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Georgia Tech and an adjunct professor in the Department of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. His expertise is in the areas of soil physics, contaminant fate and transport, and multiphase flow.
Tanapon Phenrat is a Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. His PhD research involves the application of nanoscale zerovalent iron (nZVI) particles for groundwater and soil remediation. He has published multiple original papers on nanoparticle characterization in peer-reviewed journals including Environmental Science & Technology, Nano Letters, and Journal of Nanoparticle Research. In addition, he is involved in an EPA study on the fate, risk, and toxicity of nanomaterials in the environment.
Dr. Jonathan D. Posner earned his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine in 2001. In addition, he spent 18 months as a fellowship student at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Mechanics in Rhode Saint Genese, Belgium and two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory. Dr. Posner is currently an assistant professor at Arizona State University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering and director of the ASU Micro/Nanofluidics Lab. His interests include manipulation and self-assembly of nanomaterials, the physics of nanoparticles at interfaces, and transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment and within animals. Dr. Posner was honored with a 2008 NSF CAREER award for his work on the physics of self-assembly of nanoparticles at fluid-solid and fluid-fluid interfaces. He has also been recognized for his Excellence in Experimental Research by the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.
You Qiang is an Associate Professor of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow ID.
Eric J. Reardon is a Professor in the Department of Geology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.
Dr. Krishna R. Reddy is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches courses on environmental remediation, solid waste management and landfill engineering, and groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling. His research expertise is remediation of contaminated soils, sediments and groundwater, environmental nanotechnologies, waste containment and landfills, and beneficial reuse of waste materials.
Dr. Bruce Rittmann is a professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at Arizona State University. Rittmann is an international leader in the fields of biofilm kinetics, biological treatment of drinking water, detoxification of hazardous organic chemicals, nitrification, the use of molecular techniques to study microbial communities in natural and engineered processes, bioremediation, and mathematical modeling that couples microbial kinetics to geochemical processes. His professional standing is evidenced by the numerous research prizes he received and his selection to be a chairman of two National Research Council committees (Water, Science, and Technology Board and Committee on Intrinsic Remediaion). Rittmann was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004, cited for pioneering the development of biofilm fundamentals and contributing to their widespread use in the cleanup of contaminated waters, soils and ecosystems. Other honors and awards include: Founders Award, USA National Committee of IAWQ (1998), Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (1996), A.R.I Clarke Prize, National Water Research Institute (1994), Engineering-Science Award, AEEP (1979, 1993), Montgomery-Watson Award, AEEP (1992, 1995).
Dr. Aaron P. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of North Texas in Denton, TX. Dr. Roberts received his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Missouri and his master’s degree and Ph.D. in zoology from Miami University. His laboratory studies the interactive effects of non-chemical and chemical stressors on aquatic organisms including fish and zooplankton. He is primarily interested in the mechanisms by which these stresses elicit effects as well as the adaptations organisms use to ameliorate those effects. Work conducted in his laboratory on carbon nanomaterials has focused on dietary uptake, food chain transport, and biomodification.
Anna Ryu has research experience in water purification using nanoscale zero-valent iron, DNAPL, and water treatment of nitrate. She received a M.S. in environmental engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea, and a B.X. in construction, urban, and environmental engineering from Handong Global University, Pohang, Korea.
Dr. Vaishnavi Sarathy received her Ph.D.from the Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR.
Dr. Christie M. Sayes is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology at Texas A&M University. Before her appointment at A&M, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at DuPont Haskell Global Centers for Health and Environmental Sciences under the direction of Dr. David Warheit. She is actively studying the health effects of various nanomaterials in animals, tissues, and cultured cells. She has made significant correlations between in vitro and in vivo studies, which in turn have the potential to shape the landscape of nanotoxicology. Dr. Sayes earned her Doctorate of Philosophy in Chemistry, specializing in nanotechnology, from Rice University in Dr. Vicki Colvin’s research group and earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry from Louisiana State University, magna cum laude. Dr. Sayes has authored numerous research publications, reviews, and book chapters. She has ongoing collaborations and funding with academic, industry, and government. She has received awards including a Welch Fellowship, the Harry B. Weiser Graduate Student Award for Research, the Houston Livestock and Rodeo Endowed Scholarship, the International Toxicology of Nanomaterials: Young Investigator Award, a Society of Toxicology Post-doctoral Award, and a Society of Toxicology Best Publication Award. She is currently an active member of Texas A&M’s Intercollegiate Faculty of Toxicology as well as the Faculty of Material Sciences & Engineering.
Dr. Kirk Scheckel is a Research Soil Scientist in the Waste Management Branch of the National Risk Management Research Laboratory at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, OH. Dr. Scheckel received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in Soil Science and a BS in Agronomy from Iowa State University. Dr. Scheckel professionally serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality, as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Soil Chemistry at the Ohio State University, and as Chair-elect of the Division of Environmental Quality for the Soil Science Society of America as well as other committee assignments. Kirk Scheckel actively participates in laboratory and field research projects with the assistance of Postdoctoral Fellows and collaborators. The focus of his research program is solving fundamental problems regarding metal speciation in soils, sediments, and water via advanced, molecular-level spectroscopic techniques coupled with macroscopic kinetic and thermodynamic laboratory studies to elucidate reaction mechanisms that influence fate, transport, reactivity, mobility, bioavailability, and toxicity of metals in the natural environment leading to effective and economic remediation strategies.
Hatice Şengül is an Environmental Manufacturing Management fellow at the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy (IESP) and a Ph.D. student at the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She has a B.S. degree in environmental engineering from Middle East Technical University and an M.Sc. degree in environmental engineering from Tulane University. She worked at TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) and Simas Engineering (a private engineering firm based in Ankara) as an intern engineer. At UIC, she has been involved in an NSF funded research project under the direction of Thomas L. Theis concerning life cycle impacts of nanomanufacturing techniques. Her research interests include nanotechnology, clean energy, sustainable technology development, and natechs.
Dr. Virendra Sethi is Professor of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai, India. She received her PhD in Environmental Engineering in 1996 and a M.S. in Environemtal Engineering in 1990 from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dr. Jo Anne Shatkin is Managing Director of CLF Ventures, a non-profit affiliate of the Conservation Law Foundation, New England’s most influential environmental advocacy organization. CLF Ventures works at the intersection of business, stakeholder, and environmental issues to optimize environmental and economic gain. Dr. Shatkin is a recognized expert in strategic environmental initiatives, human health risk assessment, technical communications, and environmental aspects of nanotechnology. She leads and provides expertise on projects and manages the day to day operations of CLF Ventures.
Her work focuses on approaches for evaluating new and emerging contaminants in the environment, particularly on assessments of chemical and microbial concerns that inform policy development. She recently developed NANO LCRA, an adaptive life cycle framework for identifying and managing the risks of nanomaterials, described in her book, Nanotechnology Health and Environmental Risks, published in 2008 (CRC Press). Dr Shatkin recently founded the Emerging Nanoscale Materials Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis, with 130 international members from public and private organizations. A Research Fellow at the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University, she received her Ph.D. in Environmental Health Science and Policy in 1994 and her MA in Risk Management and Technology Assessment, both from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts and possesses a Bachelor of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic University in molecular biology.
Dr. Weiguo Song is Professor of Chemistry, Key Laboratory for Molecular Nanostructures and Nanotechnologies, Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in Beijing, Chinia. He received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 2001 from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, a B. Sc. In Chemistry in 1992 from Beijing University, Beijing, China. Prior to joining ICCAS, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, from 2003 to 2005, and at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, from 2001 to 2003. He was named to National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2007) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences One Hundred Talented Program (2005)
Dr. Desmond Dion Stubbs received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Morris Brown College, Atlanta GA in 1997. He later received his M.S. in Chemistry from Georgia Tech in 1999. After working in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemistry as a Demonstrations Teacher for two years he later returned to Georgia Tech and received his doctoral degree in May, 2006. One of the highlights of his graduate career was a publication in Analytical Chemistry entitled “Investigation of a Cocaine Plume Using Surface Acoustic Wave Immunoassay Sensors”. The paper was then flagged by the American Chemical Society interest and later featured as a press release on their website. The story led to numerous media interviews including an appearance on Fox News (cable service) and a feature in Time Magazine’s new series Innovators highlighting the “dog-on-a-chip” a chemical sensing electronic device. Desmond currently holds joint positions at Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and Battelle as a Senior Project manager and a Scientist in Residence respectively.
Dr. Chunming Su is a Soil Scientist in the Subsurface Remediation Branch in the Ground Water and Ecosystems Restoration Division (GWERD) of the USEPA’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Ada, Oklahoma. He received a B.S. degree from China Agricultural University, China, an M.S. degree from University of Guelph, Canada, and a Ph.D. degree from Washington State University, all in Soil Science. His former work experience includes a term soil scientist position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a National Research Council Resident Research Associateship, and a project scientist position with ManTech Environmental Research and Services Corporation. Dr. Su conducts laboratory and field investigations in environmental geochemistry and nanotechnology. He is interested in studying: (1) applications and implications of environmental nanotechnology with respect to fate and transport of nanomaterials in the subsurface, (2) in situ treatment of organic (chlorinated solvents) and inorganic (chromate, arsenic, nitrate, etc) contaminants in ground water and soils using permeable reactive barrier technologies and monitored natural attenuation approaches, (3) arsenic sorption and redox transformation processes using specimen iron minerals including green rusts and iron oxides, and (4) organic contaminant degradation pathways using stable isotopes. Dr. Su is the principal author of more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and a co-recipient of a US patent. He also has served as a technical reviewer for numerous scientific journals including Environmental Science and Technology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Chemistry of Materials, and Soil Science Society of America Journal; and on proposal review panels for the Department of Commerce, EPA, USDA, and USGS. Dr. Su has received several EPA awards for his research and technical support activities (including EPA Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards and an ORD Honor Award for Exceptional/Outstanding Technical Assistance to the Regions and Program Offices).
Dr. Rao Y. Surampalli is the Engineer Director with United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA, Region 7). He received M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from Oklahoma State and Iowa State Universities, respectively. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and has authored more than 370 technical publications, including five books, 31 book chapters, 136 refereed (peer-reviewed) journal articles, presented at more than 180 national and international conferences, and given over 30 plenary, keynote or invited presentations worldwide. Currently, he serves on 39 national and international committees, review panels, or advisory boards including the ASCE’s National Energy, Environmental and Water Resources Policy Committee. He is Editor of two well-known refereed journals - the Water Environment Research Journal published by the Water Environment Federation (WEF), and the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management Journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He also serves on the Editorial Boards of three other Environmental Journals. His main expertise includes, but is not limited to emerging contaminants including nanomatetrials, water/wastewater treatment, hazardous/solid waste management, soil and groundwater treatment, and sludge treatment/disposal.
Dr. Robert Tanguay received a B.A. degree in biology from California State University, San Bernardino in 1988 and his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside in 1995. He received postdoctoral training in molecular and developmental toxicology with Richard E. Peterson at the University of Wisconsin between 1996 and 1999. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology at Oregon State University and is the director of the Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory. His current research interests include developmental biology, nanotoxicology, developmental toxicology, regenerative medicine, and chemical genetics.
Dr. Volodymyr Tarabara is an assistant professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and Computational Science and Engineering from Rice University in 2004.
Leigh M. Taylor is an undergraduate student at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. Leigh is an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Aaron Roberts’ lab.
Dr. Thomas L. Theis is the director of the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy and a full professor at the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Theis' areas of expertise include the mathematical modeling and systems analysis of environmental processes, the environmental chemistry of trace organic and inorganic substances, interfacial reactions, subsurface contaminant transport, hazardous waste management, industrial pollution prevention, and industrial ecology. He has been principal or co-principal investigator on over forty funded research projects totaling in excess of eight million dollars, and has authored or co-authored over one hundred papers in peer reviewed research journals, books, and reports. He is a member of the USEPA Science Advisory Board (Environmental Engineering Committee), is erstwhile editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering, and serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Contaminant Transport, and Issues in Environmental Science and Technology. From 1980-1985 he was the co-director of the Industrial Waste Elimination Research Center (a collaboration of Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Notre Dame), one of the first Centers of Excellence established by the USEPA. He is currently Principal Investigator on the Environmental Manufacturing Management Program, one of the Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) grants of the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Vinay Tiwari is a Research Scholar at the Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He receive a M.E. in Chemical Engineering in 2004 from the Nirma Institute of Technology, Gujarat, India
Dr. Paul G. Tratnyek is Professor in the Department of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR.
Dr. Ashok K. Vaseashta is Professor of physics and physical sciences in the Graduate Program in physical sciences at Marshall University, Huntington, WV. Presently, he is on detail to the U.S. Government. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Physics Honors from the University of Delhi, M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. He directs research at the Nanomaterials Processing and Characterization Laboratories at Marshall University. His current research interests include nanostructured materials for energy generation and storage; development of chemical-bio sensors; and use of nanomaterials for monitoring, detecting and remediation of environmental pollution. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of green nanotechnology. He has authored over 170 research publications, edited/authored two books on nanotechnology, presented many keynote and invited lectures worldwide, served as Director of two NATO Advanced Study Institutes, and co-chair of an International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Environmental Protection and Pollution in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He is an active member of several national and international professional organizations. He has earned several awards for his meritorious service including 2004/2005 Marshall University Distinguished Artist and Scholar (MU DASA) award. His experience spans the spectrum of academic and industrial positions. He has visiting positions at several national laboratories and universities in Eastern Europe. He also serves on the Nanotechnology Standard Committee of ISO/ANSI TAG-TC 229 and ASTM.
Dr. Bellina Veronesi is a senior scientist at the US EPA Division of Neurotoxicology (NHEERL). She is an in vitro and in vivo experimentalist and has published extensively in the areas of in vitro modeling, pesticide neuropathology and air pollution neurotoxicity. More recently, she has documented the oxidative stress-mediated neurotoxicity of various nanomaterials used in environmental remediation. Currently, she is developing in vitro models to examine how the physical properties of nanoparticles influence their movement through biological barriers such as the intestines and blood brain barrier.
WDr. T. David Waite is Director, Centre for Water and Waste Technology, and Director of Research, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales. He hold a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA); a M.App.Sci. from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria ,(Australia); a Grad. Diploma of Electronic Instrumentation from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria (Australia); and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania (Australia). His research interests include chemical processes involving colloids and particles in aquatic systems; redox chemistry at the solid-solution interface; photochemistry in aquatic systems; water and wastewater treatment processes; hydrometallurgical techniques involving redox processes; hydrogeochemistry; theoretical and experimental studies on the fate and effects of chemical pollutants; and interactions between trace elements and microbiota in aquatic systems.
Barbara T. Walton is Assistant Laboratory Director for Emerging Programs, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has responsibility for EPA’s research on the health and ecological effects of nanomaterials.
Walton’s 20-year career at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory focused on the ecotoxicology of organic, inorganic, and radioactive contaminants in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Before joining EPA, Barbara was Senior Policy Analyst for Environment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC. She’s a board-certified toxicologist (American Board of Toxicology) and Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Walton is a former President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Yonggang Wang is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research area is experimental investigation of fullerene nanoparticle aggregates transport in saturated and unsaturated soils.
Dr. Mahmoud Wazne is Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2003 from Stevens Institute of Technology, a M.S. in 1991 and a B.S.in 1990 in Civil Engineering from Columbia University in New York. He was a Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering., Stevens Institute of Technology from 2004 to 2005; a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stevens Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2004; a Graduate Research Assistant, Stevens Institute of Technology from 2000 to 2003; a Licensed Civil Engineer, Sands Contractors from 1992 to 1998; Lecturer, City University of New York from 1991to 1992; and a Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University from 1990 to 1991.
Yu-Ting Wei is currently a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU). He works with Dr. Shian-Chee Wu for investigating the feasibility of using iron nanoparticle for groundwater remediation in field tests. He has been working as a senior engineer at Apoll Tech Environmental Consulting and Engineering Company in Taiwan for over 10 years.
Ryan Westafer is a doctoral candidate and NNCS fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was previously awarded the President’s Scholarship at Georgia Tech and subsequently graduated with Highest Honor in Computer Engineering in 2005. After a brief stint in residential broadband at the Broadcom Corporation, he received the MSECE degree from Georgia Tech in 2006. As a graduate researcher in the Microelectronic Acoustics Group, Ryan has since authored multiple papers in the area of surface acoustic wave devices and sensors.
Dr. Paul Westerhoff is a professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. His research focuses on water quality and treatment, and he has led the department’s environmental and water faculty group for the past six years. He has earned some of the leading research awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Water Environment Federation. In 2006, the WERF Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research presented Westerhoff with the Paul L. Busch Award for his research investigating the fate of commercial nanomaterials in drinking water and wastewater treatment plants, and their potential human toxicity. More than 65 of his research articles have been published in peer-reviewed science and engineering journals, and he has made more than 200 conference presentations. Westerhoff earned a bachelor of science from Lehigh University, a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a PhD from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Dr. Frank A. Witzmann is Professor of Cellular & Integrative Physiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He has applied gel and mass spec-based proteomic analyses in a variety of paradigms for over two decades and currently directs the use of these proteomic approaches in projects concerning various aspects of toxicology and cardiovascular, renal, and CNS physiology.
Dr. Shian-Chee Wu is a professor in the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU). He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 1987 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under the guidance of Prof. Philip M. Gschwend. He became a faculty member at the NTU in 1998. His research interests focus on environmental pollutants fate and environmental hazard assessment. He serves as an Asia regional editor for Environmental Engineering Science.
Gary Wyss is a Senior Geochemist for MSE Technology Applications in Butte, Montana. Mr. Wyss holds master’s degrees in Chemistry and Geology from Montana Tech in Butte. His previous experience includes serving as Laboratory Manager, Quality Assurance Officer, and Organic Chemist for HKM Analytical Laboratory in Butte, Montana.
Weile Yan is currently a Ph.D. candidate at civil and environmental engineering, Lehigh University, working on nano-engineered zerovalent-iron materials for environmental applications. She received her bachelor’s degree (B. Eng) in environmental engineering from the National University of Singapore, and holds a master degree in molecular engineering for biological and chemical systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance.
Dr.Gordon C. C. Yang is Professor, Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. His specialties and research interests include Nanotechnology and the Environment; Membrane Technology Preparation, Characterization, and Applications; Treatment and Reclamation of Nanoparticles-Containing Wastewaters; Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater; Hazardous Waste Management and Treatment; and Resources Recovery and Recycling. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, a S., University of Alaska in 1979, and a B.S. from the National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan in 1974. He was Editor, Journal of Hazardous Materials (1998-2002), Editorial Board Member, Journal of Hazardous Materials (1994-1998), Guest Editor, Journal of Hazardous Materials—Special Issue on Waste Management Technology in Taiwan ’97 (1998).
Dr. Marek Zaluski holds Master and Ph.D. degrees in Hydrogeology. He is currently working for MSE Technology Applications in Butte, Montana as a Staff Hydrogeologist. His previous experience includes professorship at Montana Tech in Butte, consulting in hydrogeology and environmental sciences in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and in Libya, North Africa, as well as research for Geological Institute in Poland.
Dr. Wei-xian Zhang is Professor of Environmental Engineering, Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He teaches Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Environmental Nanotechnology. His research is in the area of chemical and biological transformation of environmental contaminants such as chlorinated organic solvents, pesticides, PCBs and heavy metal ions. His research group has pioneered the research and development of iron nanoparticles for environmental remediation.