Statement
of Accomplishments
The Association for the Environmental Health of Soils (AEHS)
is an organization of 400 professionals representing a
variety of disciplines from across the U.S. and abroad
including biology, chemistry, geology and hydrogeology,
engineering and regulatory science.
Technical
Information Exchange:
- Developed, organized, and
conducted 17 national conferences on Petroleum and
Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soils in Massachusetts,
California, and Texas since 1985.
- Wrote, edited, and
published 18 books on the analysis, assessment, and
remediation of petroleum contaminated soils since 1985.
- Created, produce and
distribute Journal of Soil Contamination since 1991.
- Serve as Associate Editor
for Journal of Soil Contamination (1995).
- Created, produce and
distribute Journal of Human & Ecological Risk
Assessment since 1994.
- Created, Soils magazine
and serve as Contributor and Chairman of Scientific
Advisory Board Soils Magazine since 1990.
- Conduct Annual U.S.
State-by-State survey for soil and water cleanup
standards since 1985.
- Developed and manage
current references for contaminated soils database since
1990.
- Developed, maintain and
grow database of environmental professionals interested
in soil contamination (100,000 + entries) since 1985.
- Created and manage the
environmental publishing company, Amherst Scientific
Publishers (1994).
- Distributed hypertext
version of the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP)
(1995).
- Serve as Scientific
Advisor to Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of
Science and the Arab School of Science & Technology
(1995).
Education
& Training
(Developed and Conducted):
- International Workshop on
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment for Contaminated
Sites for Canadian government (1991).
- Risk Assessment workshops
for Louisiana Department of Environmental Protection
(1993-94).
- Introduction to Remedial
Technologies for Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soils workshop
for Louisiana Department of Environmental Protection
(1994).
- Principles & Practices
for Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Soils,
graduate and continuing education course at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1993 &
1994).
- Hydrocarbon Contaminated
Soils workshop for Region 6/EPA, private industry and
state regulators in New Orleans (1995).
- Assessment and Remediation
of Oil Contaminated Soils in the Middle East, workshop
for Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science and
the Arab School of Science & Technology (1995).
Product
Development:
- Created and served as
Chairman of Product Advisory Committee for the private
sector development of an immunoassay analysis kit for
hydrocarbon contaminated soils.
- Developed searchable
computerized database of state soil and groundwater
cleanup standards (1995).
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Department
of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Waste Site
Cleanup Subcommittee (member) (1990).
- University of
Massachusetts' Consortium for Contaminated Soils
Research (Co-Director) (1994).
- University of
Massachusetts' Northeast Regional Environmental Public
Health Center (Associate Director) (1990).
- Council for the Health and
Environmental Safety of Soils (CHESS) (Past Managing
Director) (1988-1992).
- U.S. Navy's Hydrocarbon
National Test Site Committee (member) (1993).
- U.S. Air Force's Total
Petroleum Hydrocarbons Work Group (Steering Committee
member); Technical Information Exchange Action Group
(Chairman) (1994).
- Florida Power &
Light's Integrated Assessment Team for Tampa Bay
(member) (1994).
- International Society for
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (member) (1987).
- ASTM Committee D-18: Soil
and Rock (member) (1992).
- Steering Committee.
International School for Innovative Technology for
Cleaning the Environment - Environmental Risk Management
Applied to the Cleanup of Central and Eastern Europe
(Member). (1995).
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