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2008 Beneficial Use of Industrial Materials Summit Speaker Bios
Ron Affolter, Supervisory geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Energy Resources Program
Ron works on coal quality and database issues involving the characterization of the chemistry, mineralogy, and overall quality of U.S. and world coals. Ron has been an integral member of several multidisciplinary research teams providing coal quality data and quantity interpretations for the Colorado Plateau and Illinois Basin Coal Assessment projects. He is currently a task leader for both the Coal Quality: Geologic Controls and Utilization Issues task and the Laboratory Analytical Issues and Quality Databases task. He also serves as supervisor for the U.S. Geological Survey's Energy Program Geochemical Laboratory in Denver, Colorado and is the 1st Vice Chairman for the Coal Geology Division of the Geological Society of America (GSA). Current studies involve the characterization of coal and coal combustion products (CCPs) and the development of chemical and mineralogical databases of these products for public access on the USGS website.
Matthew Aro, Scientist, University of Minnesota Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute's Market-Oriented Wood Technology Program
Matt Aro is a Scientist at the University of Minnesota Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute's Market-Oriented Wood Technology Program. He supplies quantitative and qualitative product and process development research services for the development of environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient, and recycled wood- and natural fiber-based products. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Broad Field Science from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in the Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota. Project Title: Research into Phosphate-Bonded Fiber and Waste Residual Composites for Applied Commercialization.
J. Daniel Arthur, P.E., Petroleum/Environmental Engineer ALL Consulting
Mr. Arthur is a registered professional engineer specializing in water, oil & gas, underground injection, and environmental/sustainability issues. He has over 25 years of diverse experience that includes work in industry, government and consulting. Mr. Arthur is a founding member of ALL Consulting and has served as the company's President since its inception in 1999.
Mr. Arthur has gained experience in an assortment of technical areas, including, but not limited to beneficially using produced water; produced water management; water treatment technologies; industrial water usage; engineering design; regulatory permitting and environmental work; extensive hydrogeological and geochemical analysis of monitoring and operating data; natural resource and environmental planning; natural resource evaluation; regulatory analysis; restoration and remediation/waste management and minimization; environmental planning, design, and operations specific to the energy industry in environmentally sensitive areas; and data management of oil and gas producing and related environmental data and information.
Ghassem R. Asrar, Deputy Administrator USDA/Agriculture Research Service
Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar is currently the Deputy Administrator for Natural Resources and Agricultural Systems with Agricultural Research Service (ARS), of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was appointed to this position in January 2006 after 20 years service with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Dr. Asrar is responsible for ARS research programs focused on developing scientific knowledge and technology that ensure safe and affordable food, feed, fiber, and renewable energy supplies while enhancing the environment and quality of life for producers, rural communities in the U.S., and globally.
Dr. Asrar served as the chief scientist for the Earth Observing System in the Office of Earth Science at NASA Headquarters prior to being named as the Associate Administrator for Earth Science in 1998. While in his position of chief scientist, he led an international team developing the scientific priorities and measurements to be obtained from a series of advanced Earth-orbiting satellites that promise fundamental new insights into the connections between Earth's land, oceans, atmosphere, ice and life. He also established the NASA Earth System Science graduate fellowship and New Investigators Programs to support training the next generation of Earth scientists and engineers, which have graduated about 1000 recipients to date.
During his tenure as Associate Administrator, NASA's program has achieved successful launches of more than 15 Earth observing research satellites and guided the development of a comprehensive data and information system to manage record amount of useful information resulting from these satellites and serving more than 2 million users each year.
Dr. Asrar is the recipient of U.S. Presidential Distinguished Executive Award (2002), an elected Fellow of American Meteorological Society (2001), and elected fellow of IEEE (2000). He has received numerous awards and honors, including the NASA Exceptional Performance Award in 1997, the AIAA Goddard Memorial Lecture Medal in 1998, NASA Exceptional Service Medal, 1999, NASA Distinguished Leadership Medal, 2000, and the Space System Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2006, Distinguished Alumni from Michigan State University, 2007.
Dr. Asrar earned graduate degrees in civil engineering and environmental physics from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. He conducted research and trained undergraduate and post-graduate students for nine years in academia prior to joining NASA as a senior scientist in 1987. He has authored more than 85 peer-reviewed scientific papers, primarily in the fields of biosphere and atmosphere studies, and has edited several remote-sensing reference books.
Dr. Nicholas Basta, Professor of Soil and Environmental Chemistry, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
Dr. Basta has a very active research program focused on risk-based environmental chemistry and bioavailability of contaminants and nutrients in soil with emphasis on human (e.g., public health), agronomic (e.g., crop, animal), and ecosystem pathways. The Soil Environmental Chemistry program at OSU focuses on beneficial use of agricultural, industrial, and municipal by-products through land application and the fate of by-products in agronomic/environmental systems with emphasis on their risk and environmental impact.
Dr. Basta has more than 250 career publications including more than 70 peer-reviewed manuscripts published in scientific journals. He has served on several Editorial Boards including 12 years as Technical or Associate Editor for The Journal of Environmental Quality. He has served on national and international scientific committees focused on trace element contaminant biogeochemistry, bioavailability, and toxicity. He has conducted many research projects sponsored by competitive extramural funding programs including U.S. EPA, Strategic Environment Research and Development Program, USDA, and other federal, state, and private interests.
Dr. Basta is an active member of several international and national scientific committees focused on bioavailability and toxicity of soil contaminants including the Bioavailability Research Group of Europe (BARGE), the Bioavailability Research Group of Canada (BARC), the International Society for Trace Element Biogeochemistry, and the CSREES Technical Committee, Project W-1170, "Chemistry, Bioavailability, and Toxicity of Constituents in Residuals and Residual-Treated Soils. W-1170's membership includes more than 30 scientists representing academic institutions from 25+ states, federal agencies, and industry.
Craig H. Benson PhD, PE, Co-Director of the Recycled Materials Resource Center and Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Geological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Benson also serves as Chairman of the Department of Geological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Benson has a BS from Lehigh University and MSE and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. All degrees are in Civil Engineering, with the MSE and PhD degrees specializing in geo-engineering. Dr. Benson is a licensed professional engineer.
For the last 20 years Dr. Benson has been conducting experimental and analytical research in geoenvironmental engineering, including various aspects related to the reuse of industrial byproducts in civil and geotechnical engineering. This research has included laboratory studies, large-scale field experiments, and computer modeling. Dr. Benson has received several awards for his work, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and the Distinguished Young Faculty Award from the US Dept. of Energy. Dr. Benson has also received the Huber Research Prize as well as the Croes, Middlebrooks, Collingwood, and Casagrande Awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Benson is a member of the ASCE Geo-Institute (GI) and is former Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE/GI Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. He currently serves on the ASCE/GI Board of Governors and the Executive Committee of ASTM Committee D18 on Soil and Rock. Dr. Benson is also a founding member of ASTM Subcommittee D18.14 on Geotechnics of Sustainable Construction.
Bob Breuer, Manager of inspection and enforcement in the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ)
Bob's responsibilities include inspection of all solid and hazardous waste management facilities in Wyoming including petroleum refineries, used oil or hazardous waste generators, treatment/storage/disposal facilities (TSDF), landfills, etc. Prior to this job, he was the environmental coordinator for a petroleum refinery in Casper, Wyoming. Duties included day to day environmental coordination during the operating phase of the refinery and site manager of remediation work following permanent shutdown. Responsibilities also included work in waste management, air & water quality, water rights, contractor management, dismantling activities and safety. Previous jobs included preparing Environmental Assessments (EA) for a petroleum pipeline engineering firm, environmental coordinator for an oil shale operation, and working for a consultant in the mining and energy industries.
Sally Brown, PhD, Research associate professor at the University of Washington
Dr. Brown received a BA from Williams College and her MS and PhD in soil science from the University of Maryland. Her research has centered on risks and benefits of the use of residuals. She has won the U.S. EPA Clean Water Act research award for her work on the use of municipal biosolids for restoration of metal contaminated soils. She was a member of the NAS panel on bioavailability of contaminants in soils and sediments and is currently a member of the NAS standing committee on soil science.
Thomas (Tom) Burns, Chief, Program Management Unit, Solid & Hazardous Waste Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 8
Mr. Burns has been with EPA for over 33 years. He joined the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program in Region 8 in 1990, and his responsibilities have addressed all areas of EPA's Solid & Hazardous Waste Program. Among other things, his current responsibilities include overall management and direction for the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) in the region. He previously has worked in the CERCLA program as a Remedial Project Manager and head of the Site Assessment Program. He also has experience with the NPDES Permit and Compliance program. His first five (5) years with EPA were with the National Enforcement Investigations Center. He has a bachelors of science in Civil Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Rufus L. Chaney, Senior Research Agronomist in the Environmental Management and By-Product Utilization Laboratory of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service at Beltsville, MD
Dr. Chaney conducts research on the fate, food-chain transfer, and potential effects of soil microelements. The research includes studies on 1) plant uptake of metals and translocation to edible plant tissues; considers plant-soil interactions in microelement phytoavailability; 2) speciation of metals in plants and bioavailability to animals; 3) development of hyperaccumulator crops to phytoextract and recycle metals in contaminated soils; 4) bioavailability of lead and other metals in soils, biosolids, and composts directly ingested by animals; 5) development of "Tailor-Made Composts and Biosolids" to remediate Pb, Zn, Cd, Ni and other element contaminated soils including urban gardens; and 6) potential methods to reduce food-chain transfer or toxicity of metals in these organic resources and potential regulatory approaches to protect food safety and soil fertility. Since beginning his career in 1969, Dr. Chaney has 423 papers and 235 published abstracts on these topics. He has cooperated with the US-Environmental Protection Agency, the US-Food and Drug Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, and many States in preparing advice and regulations for utilization of biosolids and remediation of metal contaminated soils.
Julie Chiaravalli, Trihydro Corporation
Ms. Chiaravalli has over 9 years experience working in the environmental industry with a special interest in air quality issues within the petroleum refining, waste management, automotive and airline industries. She holds an ISO 14001:2004 36-Hour Advanced Lead Auditor certification. This training allows her to assist companies either in the development or third party auditing of Environmental Management Systems, which promotes sustainability and continual improvement of environmental performance. Ms. Chiaravalli was a contributor to the development of the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WRI/WBCSD) Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard (2004), which is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage Greenhouse Gas emissions. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies on internal Greenhouse Gas policy development, and has performed numerous independent assurance audits of Greenhouse Gas inventories. Ms. Chiaravalli has air quality expertise in gap analyses, independent assurance auditing, metrics evaluations, and the writing of corporate environmental and sustainability reports. Currently, she is working closely with the petroleum refining industry on development of base year GHG inventories and early reporting. Ms. Chiaravalli recently held a Greenhouse Gas Management Workshop at the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association conference in September 2007 in Austin and spoke at the National Oil Recyclers Association (NORA) Annual Trade Show in November 2007. She formerly worked for Safety-Kleen as part of their environmental consulting division in Boulder, Colorado, and currently works for Trihydro Corporation in the Denver, Colorado area.
Captain Alvin Chun, USPHS (Ret.), Consultant and Trainer
Captain Chun is currently a consultant and trainer working with public and private sector clients worldwide on risk communication, stakeholder negotiations, and related organizational issues.
Alvin is the former Director of EPA's National Center for Communicating Complex Science and Promoting Public Involvement (2005-2007). There he mentored, taught and consulted on risk communication and public involvement issues for organizations working on controversial environmental issues.
For 31 years, Captain Alvin Chun served in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps where he held various positions at the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As the Senior Environmental Health Policy Advisor for EPA, Region 9, he taught risk communication and public involvement to Federal, state, local and military organizations working on such controversial issues as land management, biosolids, genetically modified organisms, chemical contamination, radiation, emergency response, and infectious diseases.
Alvin is Adjunct Professor at the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Officers School where he teaches Environmental Negotiations, Program Director at the University of California Extension Program where he teaches Communication Essentials for Environmental Managers, and Visiting Program Director of Risk Communication at the University of Adelaide where he teaches risk communication to government officials in Australia and the Pacific Rim. Captain Chun earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, along with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.
Dr. K.C. Das, Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Biorefining and Carbon Cycling Research Initiative at University of Georgia
Dr. Das has worked in research, outreach, and teaching related to biomass management for over 15 years focusing on possesses for value addition and new product creation. His technical areas include pyrolysis, gasification, anaerobic digestion, algae processing, and special focus on biomass conversion to energy (renewable fuels) and value added products (chemical feedstocks and bioproducts). Through his research, he has authored or coauthored 45 peer reviewed journal articles, 4 book chapters and 95 conference papers and he has participated as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI in over 40 federal, state, or industry funded projects. He teaches senior level engineering process design and environmental engineering at the University of Georgia.
Cathy Davis, Environmental Protection Specialist in the Hazardous Waste Identification Division in EPA's Office of Solid Waste
Cathy works with other parts of EPA, States, and other federal agencies in answering questions about hazardous waste identification and hazardous waste characteristics. Her projects include enforcement and compliance cases, fluorescent lamp recycling, leach test methods, nanotechnology, the Industrial Materials Recycling Risk Framework, and risk assessment of the beneficial use of spent foundry sands.
Cathy earned her M.S. in Environmental Science at University of Wisconsin - Green Bay and her B.S. in Chemistry and Environmental Science at DePaul University.
Chuck Daye, Co-Processing Sales Manager, Geocycle
Chuck has 20 years of experience in the environmental sector preceded by over 10 years of experience in the chemicals industry.
Prior to joining Geocycle, Chuck marketed and sold services and equipment for the management of industrial waste, municipal solid waste, medical waste, hazardous waste and radioactive waste in North America, Asia, Western Europe and Central America where he has observed the benefits and weaknesses of a variety of waste recycling and management systems and regulatory structures.
As Sales Manager for Co-Processing, Chuck represents Geocycle's services to divert wastes from landfills and incinerators by converting the wastes to materials that are used beneficially through co-processing as alternative feedstock or fuel for production of cement. In the USA alone, Geocycle co-processed over 3.3 billion pounds of waste in 2007. Geocycle currently operates 38 facilities world-wide, including 13 in the US, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Holcim(US), one of the world's largest cement producers with operations in 70 countries.
He holds a bachelor's degree with a major in Chemistry from Olivet Nazarene University supplemented by post-graduate studies in Marketing and Business Finance at Akron University.
Dr. Elizabeth (Libby) Dayton, Research Scientist of Soil and Environmental Chemistry , School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
Dr. Dayton received a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts, a M.S. and Ph.D. in Soil Science from Oklahoma State University. As part of the Soil Chemistry Research Group at OSU, Dr. Dayton has an active research program focused on the environmental chemistry and risk (human and ecosystem) of by-products in agronomic/environmental systems. Her research includes the beneficial use of agricultural, industrial, and municipal by-products in soils applications.
Warren Dick, Professor of Soil and Environmental Science at The Ohio State University
Warren grew up on a farm in North Dakota and attended Wheaton College (BS) and Iowa State University (MS, PhD). In 1980, Warren began his work at The Ohio State University where his major responsibilities include research and teaching. Warren has spent more than 30 years studying the biochemistry of nutrient cycling in soils. Since 1990, he has been heavily involved in studying the properties of FGD by-products and evaluating land application uses of these materials, especially FGD gypsum. Warren has been an invited speaker at various FGD conferences and agricultural conferences. He has published more than 100 refereed journal articles and numerous other scientific reports. Warren has served as Editor of the Journal of Environmental Quality and as Editor-in-Chief of all publications of the Soil Science Society of America. He became a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and The Soil Science Society of America in 1997.
Bob Doctor, Program Manager for the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ), Solid Waste Permitting and Corrective Action Program
He is a life-long Wyoming resident; growing up in the small town of Lusk and earning a BS in Geology from the University of Wyoming. Bob has been with the DEQ for more than 12 years. Before coming to the DEQ, his work included geophysical exploration for oil and gas and environmental consulting. He has experience with RCRA Subtitle C & D permitting and corrective action, soil and groundwater sampling, and environmental site assessments. Bob's work with the DEQ has included landfill permitting, corrective action, statistical evaluations of groundwater data, integrated solid waste management planning, recycling, and beneficial use. Bob is the DEQ's representative on the Wyoming Solid Waste and Recycling Association's Board of Directors and serves on the Beneficial Use Task Force for the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials.
Dr. Robert Dungan, Soil microbiologist in the Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research Laboratory with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Kimberly, Idaho
Dr. Dungan is currently investigating the transport of pathogenic bacteria in soil, water, and bioaerosols, with a focus on the dairy industry. During the last five years he was lead scientist of the USDA-ARS Foundry Sand Project, where he assessed the safety of using waste foundry sands in soil-related applications. Dr. Dungan's prior research activities focused on the bioremediation of seleniferous soils and waters, and the use of organic amendments to reduce fumigant pesticide emissions. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology and Soil Science Society of America. Dr. Dungan received his B.S. degree (1993) in Environmental Science from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. degree (1999) in Soil and Water Science from the University of California at Riverside.
Dr. Stephan Durham, University of Colorado Denver
Dr. Durham obtained his MSCE and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arkansas in the area of repair and strengthening of concrete bridge superstructures. He teaches courses in structural materials, reinforced and prestressed concrete design, and advanced concrete materials. His interests include concrete materials, structural concrete, and repair.
Lisa Gard, Business Development Manager - Recycled Materials Company, Inc. (RMCI)
Ms. Gard is a key member of the RMCI management team, providing analysis and information on key jobs, market decisions, and operations decisions on key market areas. Ms. Gard has over 25 years of experience in the environmental industry, with strong management, communication, policy and information management skills in sustainable development, environmental and energy management, planning, regulatory compliance and guidance development, strategic planning and program implementation. Ms. Gard's career has focused on supporting government environmental compliance and development programs, with a strong background in regulatory, permitting and approval processes, brownfields initiatives, and risk and energy management alternatives, all of the components of the catchword "sustainability".
Career highlights include developing a recycling and sustainability compliance program for USPS Western Area Office; managing initiatives for the NAVY Environmental Leadership Program, San Diego, CA, which included a recycling and reuse program for all bases and facilities; and developing the environmental management program for FAA across regional offices, which addressed pollution prevention, environmental compliance and a recycling program at the employee level. Ms. Gard has managed large government projects for the US Navy, DoD, and EPA cleanup and pollution prevention programs. She has served as a corporate Quality Assurance, Quality Control manager, providing leadership and support for the review of reports, publications and other media as well as development of many successful proposal and marketing efforts.
Dr. Kevin Gardner, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of New Hampshire
Dr. Gardner is the Co-Director of the Recycled Materials Resource Center, a partnership between the Federal Highway Administration, UNH and UW-Madison, and the UNH Environmental Research Group. Dr. Gardner received his Ph.D. from Clarkson University in 1996, and has held faculty positions at Case Western Reserve University and the University of New Hampshire. His primary research interests are related to beneficial use of recyclable materials, particularly with regard to the environmental behavior of materials, contaminant leaching, fate, and transport, risks associated with beneficial use of materials, life cycle analysis of recycled materials use, and multicriteria decision analysis involving stakeholders in decision making.
In the classroom, Dr. Gardner has focused in recent years on leading multidisciplinary senior design projects, involving business, engineering, liberal arts and science students. Dr. Gardner also teaches Sustainability Engineering at UNH and heads up a new PhD fellowship program in this area.
Rick C. Givan, President - Recycled Materials Company, Inc. (RMCI)
Rick Givan has extensive and in-depth experience in all phases of construction field operations management combined with a financial background initially entering the heavy civil construction industry as a financial manager with the ability to translate estimates and proposals into detailed project plans that involve significant Value Engineering features. Mr. Givan's major project recycle experience highlights include On-Grade Highway Recycle projects with the Kansas Turnpike Authority, The Lowry Re-Development Authority Base Recycle and Re-Development Project, The Stapleton International Airport Re-Development and Recycle Project and the El Toro BRAC Re-Development and Recycle in Orange County, Calif. His accomplishments include promoting the general acceptance of recycle brand aggregate products in project use in Colorado and California and the general acceptance of industry practice and procedure by national groups, including the Federal Highway Administration, and state agencies for the use of recycled aggregate products. Mr. Givan is involved with association activities on the policy, material acceptance and waste stream minimization issues at the national level through interaction with Federal Highway Administration and EPA offices. Mr. Givan is a member of the Colorado Contractors Association, Inc. (CCA) Denver Joint Cooperative Committee; CCA Tax Committee Chairman; CCA Community Project volunteer; Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) Board of Directors and Association Past President; and National Demolition Association (NDA).
Mr. Givan began his construction career in heavy civil construction and started working with recycling-specific applications in the early 1980's. He has a successful track record in the initiation, control and final completion of projects with team-building expertise and as a management team member able to monitor, evaluate and direct project results to compliment organizational performance. He is experienced in project management of recycled aggregate production including gradation, testing and end quality to the customer. He is skilled in the development, communication and implementation of all phases of planning, budgeting, cost accounting and operations management in the construction, development and heavy civil and recycling construction business environment. Mr. Givan has managed division heads and staff in all areas and phases of construction-related accounting, data processing, credit, treasury operations and related control areas.
David C. Goss, Executive Director American Coal Ash Association
David C. Goss, Executive Director, began with the American Coal Ash Association in August 2002. ACAA provides a unified national voice on the management and use of coal combustion products (CCPs) in ways that are environmentally responsible, technically sound and commercially competitive. ACAA works together with national and international partners to support this multi-billon dollar industry's contribution to a more sustainable environment. Previously he worked for Xcel Energy where he coordinated the ash management activities for nine coal-fueled power plants located in Colorado and Texas.
Goss is a former Co-Chair of the Western Region Ash Group (WRAG), and a former National Steering Committee Chair for the Combustion Byproducts Recycled Consortium (CBRC). He has been active in the Coal Combustion Products Partnership (C2P2) since its inception in 2003 and is presently the CCP industry representative to the Industrial Resources Council (IRC). He is serving as a co-chair of the Recycle/Reuse Team of the Mid-Atlantic Green Highways Partnership and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Recycled Materials Resource Center (RMRC) and the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center Advisory Board. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society for Testing and Materials (Committees E50 and C618), the American Concrete Institute (Committees 232 and 230) and the Air & Waste Management Association. Goss received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Denver and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma.
Jennifer Griffith, Project manager at the Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan interstate governmental organization that includes the solid and hazardous waste programs in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont
At NEWMOA Ms. Griffith manages a variety of waste-related projects including one that focuses on state beneficial use determination (BUD) programs. NEWMOA has developed a password-protected, searchable database of information about the BUD approvals granted by the eight NEWMOA states, as well as by Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in order to help the participating states share information and improve their BUD processes. Prior to joining NEWMOA in 1995, Ms. Griffith worked for over 8 years as a consultant at various firms involved with landfill design, and waste site investigation and cleanup. Ms. Griffith has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Matthew (Matt) Hale, Director, Office of Solid Waste (OSW) Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mr. Hale is responsible for managing EPA's programs governing hazardous and solid waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Before becoming Office Director, Mr. Hale served as Deputy Office Director. Prior to being elevated to the front office, Mr. Hale served as the Director of the Permits and State Programs Division (PSPD) within OSW. There, he was responsible for implementing the RCRA program throughout the country. Before joining OSW, Mr. Hale was with EPA's Office of Toxic Substances, assigned to the new chemicals program. Mr. Hale holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and PhD in history from the University of Maryland.
Kent Hansen, Director of Engineering for the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA)
Kent graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1977 with a BS in Civil Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in California. His experience includes general civil, geotechnical, material testing, and pavement evaluation, design, and research with private consultants and contractors in Nevada, Arizona and Missouri. Kent joined NAPA in 1995 and has authored a number of technical publications and articles, and has given numerous presentations dealing with the design and construction of Hot-Mix Asphalt (HMA) Pavements. He is responsible for NAPA's training programs, and working with contractors, agencies, and consultants on issues related to the design, construction, and performance of HMA.
K. Jason Harrington, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Pavement Technology
Jason is Co-Chair of Federal Highway Administration's Pavement and Materials Focus Area Leadership and Coordination (FALCON) Team for Environmental Stewardship. As well as being the long time Team Leader of FHWA's Recycling Team that ultimately was folded into the new FALCON Team. Jason is also a leader for the Green Highway Partnership Recycle/Reuse Team, where he is the representative for the Chair held by FHWA's Associate Administrator of Infrastructure. He is a team member of Resource Conservation Challenge efforts for Scrap Tires, and Jason is a member of two Transportation Research Board committees that deal with recycling issues and Urban Heat Island issues. Jason has a Civil Engineering degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and attended a 6-week intensive Materials Engineering Master Degree course at Purdue University. His technical knowledge of recycling has benefited from over 13 years of learning experiences about the rather large arena of recycling technology.
For the last 13 years Jason has extensively been working on promoting and transferring recycling technology for FHWA to their partners: State DOTs, government agencies, and local/county engineers. He has spearhead and spoke at many workshops, lead in development of a NHI training course focused on In-place HMA Recycling technology, provided expertise to recycling research projects, and has worked closely with the Recycled Materials Resource Center. His primary goal is to continually help to increase the beneficial re-use of the various industrial by-products back into beneficial use in highway/bridge construction. FHWA has for a long time focused to reuse materials generated from our own highway industry process back into highway construction. Jason has helped expand the Agency's focus and program to include other industry's by-products as material to construct our Nation's highways and bridges.
Jason has been recognized by his peers and partners both nationally and internationally for his efforts and knowledge on recycling technology, and is particularly proud of the recognition that US EPA has bestowed upon him for his partnering work on the Mid-Atlantic Green Highway Partnership program with a Gold Medal Award. He has also been awarded a Bronze Medal Award from US EPA Region 5 Office for teamwork on the 2006 Beneficial Use of Industrial Materials Summit. One personal goal that Jason has made great strides toward approaching success is the changing of the culture within US EPA from thinking and talking about "waste" materials to thinking and talking along the lines of enhancing the use of "Recycled" materials.
Stephen David Hoffman, Senior Environmental Scientist and Federal Enforcement Officer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mr. Hoffman received a B.A. in Physical Geography from Bowling Green State University in 1972, and an M.A. in Physical and Economic Geography from Boston University in 1976. He has thirty two years of experience in conducting RCRA inspections and environmental risk studies of mining and mineral processing, petrochemical, nuclear, pharmaceutical, and hazardous waste disposal facilities. He serves as EPA's representative on the United Nations Industrial Development Organization global mercury mining project and is senior staff on the National Mining Team and the Abandoned Mine Lands Team. Prior to joining the EPA in 1989, Mr. Hoffman was the Manager of the Washington, D.C. office of Fred C. Hart, an environmental consulting firm where he conducted environmental risk audits of industrial facilities throughout the US, as well as conducting environmental risk studies at industrial plants in Belgium, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Mr. Hoffman has also held environmental consulting positions with Woodward Clyde, Booz Allen and Hamilton, Mitre Corporation, and the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation.
Mr. Hoffman has published several books on environmental auditing, and has published a number of articles on the environmental impacts of energy and mineral development.
Hunho Kim, PhD, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Kim conducts research on the use of inorganic by-products to reduce phosphorus solubility in biosolids and manure, and the use of Fe enriched compost for in-situ sequestration and engineered bioavailabilty reduction of metals in soils/stormwater runoff (advisors: Dr. Allen P. Davis and Dr. Rufus L. Chaney). Hunho Kim received a Master of Science from University of Maryland at College Park and a Bachelor of Science in environmental engineering from Inha University at Incheon, Korea.
Lamar Larrimore, Principal Research Engineer within the Research & Environmental Affairs organization at Southern Company
Lamar's responsibilities primarily include developing and managing laboratory and field R&D programs to evaluate a variety of utilization and disposal applications for coal combustion products -- ash and FGD gypsum - throughout the four-state area served by Southern Company. He has 30 years experience with technologies in these areas.
Lamar attended the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil engineering. He is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers and is a registered Professional Engineer in Alabama.
Greg Malone, Kurtz Bros., Inc.
Greg Malone received degrees in Horticulture from The Ohio State University and Business Technology from DeVry University. Mr. Malone has spent 35 years in retail sales and marketing of Horticultural products (many from recycled resources), and 5 years in wholesale manufacturing, sales and marketing of recycled, industrial and organic resources including foundry sand, bio-solids, industrial and natural wood waste, concrete, and cold process recycled asphalt paving.
Clark Martin, Team Leader for the Affiliate Programs Team for the Office of Professional and Corporate Development (OPCD) of the Federal Highway Administration
The Affiliates Team primary focus is to support the LTAP/TTAP Program which consists of 58 technical assistance and technology deployment centers, one in each state, Puerto Rico and seven Regional Tribal Technical Assistance Centers. The LTAP/TTAP Centers develop and conduct training, and professional development programs to address local agency, and tribal government needs and in some instances, state DOT training interests.
In the area of workforce development, Mr. Martin works with public and private transportation industry organizations at the federal, state and local levels, and the education community to help assure there is a skilled, technically competent workforce to deliver the Nation's highway program now and for the future. Workforce development is becoming increasingly important as more baby boom generation workers retire, and changes in transportation management and technology require new workforce skills.
Mr. Martin has been involved with highway transportation throughout his career having served as Director of Safety for the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and Executive Director of the ATA Council of Safety Supervisors. He has also served as the National Coordinator for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) for the implementation of the Commercial Driver License Program and as AAMVA Director of Motor Carrier Services.
Mr. Martin has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland with a major in government and politics.
Patricia Martinek, Colorado Department of Transportation
Patricia is currently the Environmental Research Manager for Colorado's Department of Transportation in Denver. She earned a Bachelor's degree cum laude from Western Washington University, and a Master's Degree in Geology from Colorado State University. Pat has worked in Colorado's state government for over 20 years in mine reclamation, uranium mill tailings clean-up, landfills, sustainability, hazardous materials, water quality, transportation project environmental clearances, research, and training. Prior to her work at the state, she was an environmental consultant, exploration geologist, surveyor, and forest fire fighter.
Pat is considered to be the Greenest employee at CDOT in her efforts to bring an environmental sustainability ethic to her fellow co-workers. Her current work involves managing 16 research projects, four of which she initiated that focus on sustainable actions and goals.
She is a member of the Colorado Association For Recycling and the Rocky Mountain Association of Environmental Professionals. She was a member of the Environmental Management System (EMS) team at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and was the leader of the agency's Paper Reduction Team. S he initiated CDOT's water quality program Environmental Management System, and developed a comprehensive recycling program at CDOT's headquarters complex in Denver. Pat has received many awards for her work at the state, the most recent being an Environmental Leadership Program Bronze Level award from the CDPHE.
She has given many presentations at these and other associations on many topics including highway spill remediation, solid waste landfill regulations, paper reduction, methamphetamine lab awareness, sustainability in transportation, Superfund uranium tailings removal, Greening Government, and CDOT research topics. Sometimes she even sings original songs about these projects in her presentations.
The house she and her husband built has been on the Colorado Renewable Energy Society Solar Home Tour several times, for its use of passive solar energy and many other conservation features. She is a fourth-generation Colorado native, and lives in Golden with her husband, two teenage sons, and angora rabbit.
Kendra A. Morrison, Environmental Scientist, REHS/RS
Kendra Morrison joined the U.S. EPA's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Program in the Region 8 Denver office in 1998. She currently serves as industrial materials recycling coordinator and team leader of the Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) for the region. Over the past year she led the program development for the 2008 Beneficial Use of Industrial Materials Summit, along with co-chair Dr. Matt Smith of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service. Kendra has worked in many areas of RCRA, serving as remedial project manager for corrective action sites; program manager for hazardous waste minimization; providing program and technical assistance including universal wastes, mercury management, remediation technology resources, and subsurface vapor intrusion modeling; conducting extensive measurement and analysis of hazardous waste management and priority chemicals data; and participating on teams for electronics management and tribal school laboratory chemical cleanouts, among many others. Prior to joining the Agency, Kendra worked for Tri-County Health Department in the Air Quality Program and Rocky Mountain Arsenal Program. She also worked in the Consumer Protection Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment for a short time before joining Tri-County.
Kendra has a B.S. in Environmental Health from Colorado State University, and a M.S. from the University of Colorado Denver in Environmental Sciences, concentration in Environmental/Civil Engineering.
Hamid Moussavi, PE, Senior Engineer, California DOT (Caltrans)
Hamid has a BS degree from California State University of Sacramento (CSUS) in Civil Engineering. Hamid is a licensed professional engineer. Hamid's entire engineering experience (25 years) has been with Caltrans. His experience includes Design, Traffic Operations, Hydraulics, Structures Construction, Maintenance, Materials Research, Roadway Construction, Rigid and Flexible pavement.
For the last 11 years Hamid has been working in the Office of Flexible Pavement Materials. Hamid provides investigation and consultation to 12 Districts in all aspects of flexible pavement design, construction, rehabilitation and maintenance. He has performed many pre-mature and/or failure investigation of different HMA mixtures. Hamid has represented Caltrans in many Agency/Industry committees like, ACTG, PPTG, Rock Products, CCSA, CSSA, RPA, etc. He has provided pre-paving workshops for the contractor paving and the RE construction crews. He is trained in CPM and TQM. Hamid has been active in development and enforcement of new specifications and test methods.
Currently, Hamid is Caltrans chair person for asphalt concrete recycling technology. He has been appointed to lead and investigate the CIWMB and Caltrans interagency agreement to study the addition of RAS in HMA mixtures in pilot project(s). Hamid is also, the committee chair for the pavement related "new products".
Hamid is a father of three children ages 8, 10 and 12. He enjoys running, hiking, cycling swimming. He has his black belt in martial arts "Tae Kwon Do" style.
Dr. L. Darrell Norton, Research Soil Scientist for the USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory located on the campus of Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Dr. Norton is a Professor in the Departments of Agronomy and Agricultural and Biological Engineering. He has been with the Laboratory since 1982 conducting research on various aspects of soil erosion related to physio-chemical interactions between soil and rainwater. The last 17 years he has been leading research in the Laboratory to evaluate various industrial waste materials for use in controlling erosion in agricultural production systems. Much of his research has focused on relatively clean high Ca and S containing materials from air purification systems from coal-fired power plants. Dr. Norton's research team conducted an award winning project that created an environmental friendly synthetic soil from composts of fly-ash, bottom-ash and bio-solids from a pharmaceutical plant for use in reclamation and re-vegetation of strip mined lands. Dr. Norton and co-authors including many of his PhD students have published more than 250 articles and technical reports and has been widely invited to present results of his research at Scientific Congresses all over the World. He has conducted projects and cooperative research with many Agencies in the USA and many International Research Institutions such as CSIRO, Australia, EMBRAPA, Brazil, UN-FAO, India, CAS, China, US-AID, Africa, BARD, Israel, and many University and Institutes in the USA and Europe.
Elizabeth Olenbush, Executive Director - FIRST, E.O. Associates
Elizabeth Olenbush is the Executive Director of FIRST (Foundry Industry Recycling Starts Today). FIRST is an industry consortium focused on developing sustainable recycling markets for foundry byproducts. Ms. Olenbush is also president of EO Associates, a consulting practice focusing on environmental marketing and public policy. Ms. Olenbush has been involved in recycling market development projects since 1989, when she was recruited to join the Pittsburgh-based Steel Recycling Institute as its Director of Marketing. She became educated on foundry issues while working for the Wisconsin Recycling Market Development Board where she implemented a statewide program to reuse and recycle industrial byproducts.
Elizabeth is a graduate of Duke University and is an avid basketball fan. She remains involved in many recycling organizations, including the state recycling associations in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. She is a former Board member of NYSAR3 (New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse and Recycling) and the Steering Committee of the Buy Recycled Alliance of New York (BRANY).
Professor Anu Ramaswami, Director of the sustainable urban infrastructure program in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Denver
Professor Ramaswami received her BS in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and her MS and PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Ramaswami's research spans environmental modeling, technology development for sustainability and integration of science and technology with policy and planning for real-world implementation in communities. She has led university research teams that received national awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. She is a technical advisor to the city and county of Denver, conducting a greenhouse gas inventory and developing climate action plans for the city. She is also an expert advisor on developing greenhouse gas emissions inventory protocols for ICLEI, formerly the International Council for Local Environmental Affairs. In 2005, Ramaswami was invited by the National Science Foundation to represent the United States at the World Science Forum to discuss "Knowledge, Ethics and Responsibility" in an international setting.
Cliff Ramsier, Technical Director for Ag Spectrum Company
Cliff has over twenty-five years experience in the practical aspects and applications of soil chemistry, soil bio-stimulants, and nutrient management. Cliff has completed course work at The Ohio State University majoring in Chemistry. Out of a desire to help the American Farmer and continue the advancement of agriculture, in 1984 Cliff became one of the co-founders of Ag Spectrum Company. He has supported growers in the United States and abroad with information on soil chemistry and nutrient management, as well as presenting at several national conservation tillage conferences. Together with a number of other researches Mr. Ramsier has collaborated and co-authored six research publications.
Mark Reiner, PhD, PE, PG, LEED AP, Projects Director for Engineers Without Borders
Mark left his career as a water resource engineer five years ago and has since served as the Projects Director for Engineers Without Borders - USA and as adjunct faculty at the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center where he taught "Urbanization of Developing Nations". He also received his PhD from the same institution in Civil Engineering where he was a co-author of the City and County of Denver's green house gas inventory. Currently, Mark is Principal of Symbiotic Engineering in Boulder, Colorado and Founder of a 501 (c) 3 Non-Profit called Birambye International that helps to develop economically sustainable projects for communities in need. Birambye has recently registered the first LEED building in Africa.
Dr. Zubair Saleem, USEPA, Office of Solid Waste
Dr. Saleem received his Ph.D. in hydrology and is currently a senior scientist, modeling expert in the Office of Solid Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has been with USEPA for more than 20 years and has worked on the development of several models, including EPACML, EPACMTP, IWEM, and 3MRA (Multimedia, Multipathway, and Mutlireceptor Risk Assessment). Currently he is working on the assessment of impacts of the beneficial uses of recycled materials and the development of IWEM Version 2.0 (IWEM for highways). He also worked on the TC Rule, hazardous waste identification rule, lead-based paint risk assessment, Subtitle C leak detection rule, headwork exemptions rule, and several hazardous waste listing determinations, including petroleum refining listing determination. He is the recipient of several bronze medals and the technical achievement awards. Before coming to USEPA, Dr. Saleem was the Director of the Groundwater Modeling Center for SAIC and a tenured faculty member at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he headed the Hydrology and Environmental Sic. program. He has also worked on numerous Superfund sites and has authored or co-authored over 60 publications and edited the books, Advances in Groundwater Hydrology and A Decade of Progress in Water Resources. He also was the General Chairman of Twelfth American Water Resources Conference.
Dr. Matt. C. Smith, Research Leader for the USDA-ARS Environmental Management and Byproduct Utilization Laboratory in Beltsville, MD
Dr. Smith supervises 12 Research Scientists and their associated staff. His personal research is in the areas of animal manure management and bioenergy. Prior to joining ARS in December 2004, he was an Associate Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. At UGA he conducted research in the areas of water quality and quantity as impacted by human activities and natural wastewater treatment systems. Dr. Smith is a registered Professional Engineer in Maryland and Georgia.
Reid Smith, Senior Environmental Advisor; BP America Production Company
Reid Smith is a Senior Environmental Advisor with BP's Exploration and Production Segment and North America Gas Operations. He has 27 years of varied environmental experience in the upstream oil and gas industry that spans all aspects of the global upstream industry and includes extensive air quality experience and expertise. Reid holds a lead role in BP's green house gas and emissions reduction strategy and management programs. Reid has a Bachelors of Science degree from Utah State University.
Timothy Taylor, USEPA Office of Solid Waste
Mr. Taylor has worked as an environmental health risk assessor for over 10 years. For the last 5 years he has worked in USEPA's Office of Solid Waste, where he currently leads EPA's effort with the states and other stakeholders to develop a framework for assessing risk of industrial materials recycling. Other accomplishments include contributing to and helping finalize the Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities.
Mr. Taylor came to EPA from the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. While at USACHPPM he helped develop health-based environmental screening levels for chemical warfare agents, as well as conducting Superfund- and RCRA permit-related risk assessments of army facilities. Mr. Taylor earned his Master of Science in Environmental Science from The Johns Hopkins University.
Gregg Thomas, Environmental Assessment and Policy section supervisor for the Denver Department of Environmental Health
Mr. Thomas is responsible for air quality, water quality, and noise assessments in Denver, as well as legislation and policy around these topics. Gregg has been with Denver Environmental Health for the past nine years.
Since 2006, Gregg has overseen the development of Denver's greenhouse gas inventory and participated in the development of Denver's Climate Action Plan to support Greenprint Denver, a Mayor's office initiative launched in 2005. Denver is partnering with Dr. Anu Ramaswami at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) Urban Sustainability and Infrastructure Engineering Project (USIEP) in the Civil Engineering Dept. Gregg has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Meteorology from the State University of New York at Oswego in New York and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from Montana Tech.
Steve Tillotson, Assistant Director of the Division of Waste Management and manages the State Solid Waste Program, North Dakota Department of Health
In addition to overseeing the regulation of Municipal, Industrial, and Inert (C&D) waste, Steve helped develop and implement the state's programs for managing coal combustion waste, certain oilfield wastes, and agricultural processing waste. He has been active in the recent EPA and OSM review of coal combustion waste issues.
North Dakota is the eleventh largest coal producing state, with eight major coal-fired energy facilities, including the largest coal gasification plant (with carbon sequestration) in North America. Coal combustion waste that is not beneficially used is managed in accordance with state rules that closely reflect the framework of Federal RCRA Subtitle D Criteria.
Mr. Tillotson has been active in North Dakota's evaluation of beneficial use applications for various byproducts including coal combustion material, agricultural processing residuals, construction and demolition waste, scrap tires and other feed stocks. Mr. Tillotson also coordinates the state's recycling, solid waste education and Pollution Prevention programs.
Steve is active as a founding member and registered agent for the North Dakota Solid Waste and Recycling Association, a non-profit educational group that provides information, newsletters, workshops and symposiums on recycling and solid waste topics.
Mr. Tillotson has a Bachelor's Degree in Geology and Soils from North Dakota State University with postgraduate studies at the University of Minnesota. In previous employment, Steve was a Soil Scientist with the North Dakota Soil Conservation Committee. He is a Registered Professional Soil Classifier and he received two Outstanding Achievement Awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Stephen S. Tuber, Assistant Regional Administrator, Office of Partnerships & Regulatory Assistance, EPA Region 8
Steve Tuber is the Assistant Regional Administrator for the Office of Partnerships and Regulatory Assistance, EPA Region 8, Denver, Colorado. He assumed this position in May 2003. His responsibilities include Air and Radiation, Water, Solid and Hazardous Waste, Toxics, Pesticides, Pollution Prevention and Sustainable Practices, and State/Tribal Assistance.
From January to May 2003, he was Acting Assistant Regional Administrator for the Office of Partnerships and Regulatory Assistance. He served as Deputy Assistant Regional Administrator for the Office of Partnerships and Regulatory Assistance from November 2002 - January 2003. From 1995 to 2002, Steve was the Director, Region 8 Water Program, where his priorities were direct implementation of non-delegated programs, especially for Indian Country (all programs) and Wyoming Drinking Water; CAFOs; permits backlog; SDWA 1996 Amendments/ new rule implementation; integration of financing programs and permits into priority watershed efforts. From 1979 to 1995 Steve served as Regional Comptroller (or like-responsibility position), Acting Assistant Regional Administrator for Policy and Management, Acting Deputy Director for OUST's Implementation Division, Acting Deputy Director for the National Enforcement Investigations Center, Program Analyst with Budget and Planning Branch, and was part of the SES candidate program. He began his career with EPA as a GS-5 environmental protection assistant in the Region 8 Air Program in 1978.
Steve received a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Colorado (1979), a BA degree from City College of New York (1973), and spent a year in law school at the University of Colorado (1973-74).
Raja Veeramachaneni, P.E., Director, Office of Planning and Preliminary Engineering, Maryland State Highway Administration
In this capacity, Raja leads four divisions at the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) that are responsible for Regional and Intermodal Planning, Project Planning, Highway Information Services, Program Development and Asset Management. All of SHA's major capital projects are developed through their project planning phase under his direction.
Prior to the current assignment as SHA's Planning Director, Raja Veeramachaneni was the Chief of the Highway Hydraulics Division at the SHA. He served as the Chairman of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Technical Committee on Hydrology and Hydraulics, and has had numerous presentations and publications over time. Raja was a member of a committee that produced Maryland's Stormwater Design Manual, and the Urban Stormwater Working Group of the Chesapeake Bay Program. He studied civil engineering in India (J.N.T. University and Indian Institute of Technology) and at Clemson University, specializing in hydraulics and water resources engineering, and numerical modeling. He has been working at SHA since 1988.
Raja is an active leader in the Green Highways Partnership effort, and promotes the watershed approach to stormwater management, ecosystem management, and environmental protection. He is the co-chair of SHA's Environmental Compliance and Stewardship Council, and is engaged in many objectives in SHA's business plan related to the environment, safety, mobility, system preservation and customer service. He has successfully led many SHA projects and partnerships in collaboratively applying the watershed approach. Raja has facilitated the multi-agency team the successfully planned the $2.4 billion Intercounty Connector project, which reflects the state-of-the-art in environmental stewardship and streamlining on highway projects.
As part of his responsibilities, Raja is leading the development of an asset management structure for the SHA, which is a coordinated investment strategy to manage SHA's infrastructure at desired performance levels. This effort includes linking existing asset management systems and developing new asset management systems into a common decision-making platform, and the creation of an Asset Data Warehouse.
Nicole Villamizar, EPA's Office of Solid Waste (OSW), Presidential Management Fellow
As coordinator of OSW's Construction Initiative, Nicole works to increase the recycling and beneficial use of industrial materials in building and transportation construction projects. Nicole is currently on detail to EPA's Office of Homeland Security, but her absolute love of industrial materials recycling just could not keep her away from participating in our BU Summit. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brandeis University and a Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University.
Kimery Vories, Natural Resource Specialist/Technology Transfer, Office of Surface Mining
Kimery is chairperson of several multi-agency, multi-interest group steering committees that hold forums, publish proceedings, and manage Internet Websites on mining and reclamation issues related to the technical aspects of Coal Combustion By-Products, Prime Farmland Reclamation, Bat Conservation and Mining, and Reforestation. He has been professionally employed in coal mining and reclamation since 1979 with over 60 related professional publications. He serves on: (1) the National Steering Committee and is the Midwestern Review Team Chair for the USDOE Combustion By-Products Recycling Consortium; (2) the Coal Combustion By-Products Working Group Chairman for the Acid Drainage Technology Initiative Coal Mining Section; (3) the technical lead for the OSM CCB rulemaking team; (4) the National Executive Council of the American Society for Mining and Reclamation; and (5) is the team leader of the Office of Surface Mining National Technology Transfer Team. He holds a BA & MA in Biology/Geology from Western State College of Colorado with an additional 3 years Post MA Graduate work in Ecology and Reclamation at the University of Massachusetts and Colorado State University.
John N. Ward, Vice President, Marketing & Government Affairs, Headwaters Incorporated
Headwaters Incorporated is a leading provider of pre-combustion and post-combustion clean coal technologies and services. John serves on the National Coal Council as appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy. He served as a director of the American Coal Council for five years, including a term as the council's president. He also serves on the National Mining Association's Coal-to-Liquids Coalition. John is chairman of the Government Relations Committee of the American Coal Ash Association and participates in numerous industry groups related to the manufacturing and use of construction materials.
Bob Yost, A1 Organics, Vice President, New Business Development
A1 is Colorado's largest and most diverse Organic Recycling company and operates multiple facilities along the front range of Colorado and Nevada including several composting and collection/transfer facilities. A1 is celebrating its 34th year of operations in Colorado and is recognized as the regions premier organic recycling company.
A1 recently received the Colorado Environmental Leadership Bronze Achiever Award from the State of Colorado and the Untied States Composting Council's Composter of the Year Award for 2007.
Bob has 21 years experience in commercial recycling and bioremediation of organic waste materials of all types, including design, permitting, and operation of (5) Class I, and (1) Class III composting facilities in Colorado and has also worked with Colorado regulatory agencies for 15 years regarding development of quality standards for products and regulatory requirements pertaining to organic recycling operations.
Mr. Yost recently completed a 6 year term as a member of the Colorado Association for Recycling Board of Directors, is an active member of the Rocky Mountain Organics Council (RMOC), and also serves on the Market Development Committee for the United Sates Composting Council. Mr. Yost authored the Compost Classification System later adopted by the RMOC that is has also been used nationally as a standard for development of compost quality standards. Bob has also developed the Performance Valuation Index System (PVIS) which is a tool designed to assign numeric and economic value's to products to assist in competitive comparison by purchases and users. The Closed Loop Sustainability Program now being utilized by numerous municipal and private entities in the industry to promote true sustainability practices is also a program developed and implemented by Mr. Yost.
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