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Otis Shelton

Otis Shelton received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Houston. In 1967, he joined UnionCarbide Corporation in Texas City, Texas where he held various manufacturing assignments in low density polyethylene production, suspension/non-solvent vinyl chloride production and operations supervision of the Texas City Marine Terminal.

In 1992, Otis joined Praxair where he lead its Safety and Environmental Assessment Program which conducted thorough assessments of health, safety, process safety, distribution, environmental and emergency planning...Read more

Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park

Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park is the Lenfest Chair in Applied Climate Science of Earth and Environmental Engineering & Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. She is also the Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute.Read more

Paul Edmiston

Dr. Paul L. Edmiston is the Theron and Dorothy Peterson Professor of Chemistry at the College of Wooster (Ohio). He is also Chief Science Officer and Founder of ABS Materials Inc. Paul has invented numerous versions of swellable glass materials (Osorb®) capable of capturing organic solvents, explosives, pesticides and related agents from water. Between 2008-2010 Dr. Edmiston was a Research Fellow at the Georgia Tech Research Institute where collaborated with members of the Eletro-Optical Systems Laboratory and the Nanotechnology Research Center to develop sensors used for TNT detection...Read more

Robin Rogers

Dr. Robin D. Rogers obtained both his B.S. in Chemistry (1978, Summa Cum Laude) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry (1982) at The University of Alabama and currently serves as Distinguished Research Professor, Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry, and Director of the Center for Green Manufacturing at UA. In 2007 he was also Chair of Green Chemistry and Co-Director of QUILL at The Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland (UK) before returning full time to The University of Alabama in 2009. In 2009, he was named Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute for Process...Read more

Desmond King

Chris Whipple

Dr. Chris Whipple has more than 35 years of environmental engineering experience in the management of human health and environmental risk, with a particular focus on radiological issues. His work experience has included risk assessment methodology, risk management, regulatory analysis, and risk communication. He brings considerable expertise to a number of key areas, most notably public health and environmental management issues related to radioactive and hazardous waste and hazardous air pollutants. Dr. Whipple has served on and chaired numerous national committees to study and advise on...Read more

Per Peterson

Per F. Peterson holds the William and Jean McCallum Floyd Chair in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California and performs research related to high-temperature fission energy systems, as well as studying topics related to the safety and security of nuclear materials and waste management. He was appointed in February 2010 as a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future and co-chaired its Reactor and Fuel Cycle Technology Subcommittee with Senator Pete Domenici.  He has served as a member or chair of numerous advisory committees for...Read more

Vasilios Manousiouthakis

Dr. Manousiouthakis received his Diploma, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1981) and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1985, 1986) respectively. Dr. Manousiouthakis has over 100 refereed journal publications, 2 patents, numerous conference publications and presentations, and has supervised 16 PhD students, many of which are in academic positions. He has received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988), the Northrop Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (1989) the AIChE Ted Petersen Best Student Paper...Read more

Richard Calabrese

Richard V. Calabrese is Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.  Before joining Maryland in 1981, he worked for Pickard, Lowe & Garrick and Stevens Institute of Technology.  He received his BS degree from the University of Rochester and his MS and Ph.D degrees from the University of Massachusetts.

Rich’s expertise is in the areas of turbulent mixing and multiphase flow, with emphasis on particle-eddy interactions, drop dispersion & coalescence, prediction & measurement of particle size distribution...Read more

Beth Beloff

Beth Beloff is Founder and Principal of Beth Beloff & Associates, a consulting group that develops sustainability strategies and assessment methodologies for all kinds of organizations.  She is President of the non-profit think tank, BRIDGES to Sustainability Institute (BRIDGES), which she founded in 1997 to develop approaches to support corporate decision-making regarding sustainability. Prior to BRIDGES, Ms. Beloff founded and directed the Institute for Corporate Environmental Management in the business school at the University of Houston.


Her professional goal...Read more

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