ENE People

ENE Faculty

Name	Department	Phone	E-mail
Thomas P. Ballestero Associate 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 Professor	Civil Engineering	862-4334	kevin.gardner@unh.edu
Jillian Goldfarb Assistant Professor	Chemical Engineering	862-1917	J.Goldfarb@unh.edu
Nivedita Gupta Associate Professor	Chemical Engineering	862-3655	ngupta@unh.edu
Jennifer M. Jacobs Associate Professor	Civil Engineering	862-0635	jennifer.jacobs@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
Jeffrey S. Melton Assistant Research Professor	Civil Engineering	862-2107	jeffrey.melton@unh.edu
Robert Roseen Research Assistant Professor	Civil Engineering	862-4024	robert.roseen@unh.edu
Palligarnai T. Vasudevan Professor	Chemical Engineering	862-2298	vasu@unh.edu
Alison W. Watts Research Assistant Professor	Civil Engineering	862-0585	alison.watts@unh.edu

ENE Advisory Board

Amoret L. Bunn, Ph.D. 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.

Toby Fedder, Vice Chair

Alvin C. Firmin

Kerry J. Meyer, P.E., Chair

Lynn Santos, P.E.

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 where he specializes in assisting companies market and sell their professional services in EHS&S. 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, P.E. 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.

Laura Thompson