ENE People

ENE Faculty

Name	Department	Phone	E-mail
Thomas P. Ballestero Professor	Civil Engineering	862-1405	tom.ballestero@unh.edu
Dale P. Barkey Professor	Chemical Engineering	862-1918	dpb@kepler.unh.edu
Russell T. Carr Professor	Chemical Engineering	862-1429	rtc@cisunix.unh.edu
M. Robin Collins Professor	Civil Engineering	862-1407	robin.collins@unh.edu
Ihab H. Farag Professor	Chemical Engineering	862-2313	ihab.farag@unh.edu
Kevin H. Gardner Associate Research Professor	Civil Engineering	862-4334	kevin.gardner@unh.edu
Jennifer M. Jacobs Associate Professor	Civil Engineering	862-0635	jennifer.jacobs@unh.edu
Jenna R. Jambeck Assistant Research Professor	Civil Engineering	862-4023	jenna.jambeck@unh.edu
Nancy E. Kinner Professor	Civil Engineering	862-1422	nancy.kinner@unh.edu
James P. Malley Professor	Civil Engineering	862-1449	jim.malley@unh.edu
Virendra K. Mathur Professor	Chemical Engineering	862-1917	vkm@christa.unh.edu
Jeffrey S. Melton Assistant Research Professor	Civil Engineer	862-2107	jeffrey.melton@unh.edu
Palligarnai T. Vasudevan Professor	Chemical Engineering	862-2298	vasu@unh.edu

ENE Advisory Board

William A. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His teaching interests and expertise are in the areas of air pollution control, process simulation and design, and environmental chemistry. His research activities include air pollution control using biofiltration and photocatalysis, and water treatment using UV disinfection, photocatalytic oxidation and biological treatments. These activities are funded by a variety of Canadian and U.S. industrial and government organizations. Dr. Anderson is currently Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in Chemical Engineering, and serves on the Environmental Engineering Program Board at Waterloo. He has also served on committees with the National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the American Water Works Association Research Foundation. Dr. Anderson received a B.A.Sc. (1981), M.A.Sc. (1986), and Ph.D. (1991) from the University of Waterloo, and worked as a Design and Development Engineer for Esso Chemicals Canada (1981-1983).

Amoret L. Bunn is an environmental engineer with the Ecology Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle. She specializes in integrated risk assessments, ecological risk assessments, and contaminant fate and effects in biological systems. For the last few years she has been part of the risk assessment team for the U.S. Department of Energy's Groundwater Protection Program in Richland, Washington, working on projects with the System Assessment Capability, Characterization of Systems, and Science and Technology's Biological Exposure Studies. She works with many of the projects that monitor the Columbia River for potential impacts from Hanford. In addition, Dr. Bunn prepares information on aquatic and terrestrial resources for the National Environmental Policy Act concerning projects for future nuclear energy production as well as past contamination from energy related systems. Before arriving in the Pacific Northwest, she received a B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1986), and a M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1992) from the University of New Hampshire.

Dr. Russell Ford is a Vice President and the Global Technology Leader for Water Treatment with CH2M HILL. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University and a M.E. and Ph.D.in Environmental Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. For over 18 years, he has researched, evaluated, designed and constructed a variety of water treatment system processes and facilities. He is a past chairperson of the AWWA Plant Operations Research Committee and also the Past Section Chair for the New Jersey Section of AWWA. He is also professional engineer and licensed water treatment plant operator. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in the Civil, Ocean and Environmental Engineering Department.

Douglas M. Owen is a Vice President with Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. in White Plains, NY and is the firm's Managing Director for its Municipal Water Environment business unit. His field of specialization is drinking water and water resources, focusing on source water availability and treatment. He has led applied research projects on advanced drinking water technologies and consulted with utilities on treatment and facility planning for over 6 billion gallons per day of treatment capacity throughout the United States. Over the past decade, he has provided technical and facilitation support to USEPA and AWWA on a range of policy issues, including drinking water regulatory development, advanced technology implementation and utility compliance. Mr. Owen is active in professional organizations, most recently serving as a Trustee in AWWA's Water Science and Research Division and as Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for Journal AWWA. Prior to beginning his professional career, he received a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University (1980) and Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1982).

Dwight Peavey, Ph.D. is a senior scientist in the Boston regional office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Peavey is the regional expert on toxic chemicals and their environmental fate and adverse effects on the environment and human health. Dwight is EPA's New England Small Business Ombudsman, Chemical Right-To-Know liaison, Brominated Flame Retardant expert and the Senior Assistance Coordinator. Dwight is the regional coordinator for the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. Dwight serves as the regional Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxics (PBTs) and High Production Volume Chemical Challenge Program liaison. In his various positions, Dr. Peavey has made presentations at state, regional, national and international seminars, workshops and conferences on all aspects of small business assistance, EPCRA, Toxics Release Inventory, Pollution Prevention, PBTs, Chemical Right-To-Know, and EPA's Small Business Policy. As the regional Small Business Ombudsman, Dwight has partnered with SBTAPs, the Small Business Development Centers, colleges/universities and various small business trade associations throughout New England. Prior to EPA, Dr Peavey was the executive director for the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association, consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture, and assistant professor at the SUNY Geneseo. Dwight received a B.S. from Bates College, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

Richard D. Siegel, Ph.D. is an environmental consultant with over 30 years of experience focused on risk management for a wide variety of chemical, petrochemical pharmaceutical, and government clients. He is the owner of R & B Consulting Services and Senior Vice President of KERAMIDA Environmental, Inc. Dr. Siegel began his career as a specialist in air quality related matters; for example, he obtained one of the first Prevention of Significant Deterioration and emission offset approvals in Delaware for the expansion of the then Getty Oil refinery to include a new methanol plant. Dr. Siegel was also project director for one of the first air toxics studies in the country; a project to characterize the emissions and their impact on air quality levels in the Hennepin County, MN, airshed for a waste to energy facility. The project included a comprehensive ambient air toxics monitoring program. Dr. Siegel has directed services and programs focused on business risk and sustainability, built around the fundamental tenet that the pathway to sustainability begins with compliance and must pass through public trust to be achievable and meaningful. His most recent projects have involved risk communication and risk management, including development of guidance manuals for the American Chemistry Council and training programs for member companies of the National Association of Manufacturers. Dr. Siegel received a B.S. (1964) and M.S. (1966) in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University (1969).

Frederick R. Symmes is a senior technical manager with Weston Solutions, Inc. in Manchester, NH. His expertise includes remediation of soil and groundwater, and he has designed, constructed and operated remediation systems at numerous contaminated sites throughout the United States, as well as overseas. In the New England region, he has implemented cleanups at many high-profile Superfund sites, including Kearsarge Metallurgical, Ottati and Goss, and Pease Air Force Base Superfund sites in New Hampshire. Internationally, he has designed several major remediation systems, including one of the world's largest air sparging/soil vapor extraction systems at the former Kai Tak International Airport in Hong Kong. As a Senior Technical Manager at Weston, Mr. Symmes provides guidance for projects involving a wide range of remedial technologies involving physical, chemical, thermal, and/or biological processes. He is currently managing several major projects for Weston that link transfer of environmental liability and accelerated remediation of contaminated sites. This facilitates rapid return these properties to productive use. Mr. Symmes received a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1992 and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New Hampshire.