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Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
JANE C.S. LONG (Chair) is dean of the Mackay School of Mines at
the University of Nevada, Reno. She is an expert in fracture hydrology
and has worked on several U.S. and international underground nuclear
repository research projects. She serves on the National Research Coun-
cil's Board on Radioactive Waste Management and has served as chair
of the Board on Earth Science's Rock Mechanics Committee. Dr. Long
received an Sc.B. in engineering from Brown University, an M.S. in
geotechnical engineering and a Ph.D. in materials science and mineral
engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
NAMES K. MITCHELL (Vice-Chair) is university distinguished profes-
sor emeritus atVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He
has served on several NRC committees including the Committee on
Seeing Into the Earth and as chair of the Geotechnical Board. Dr.
Mitchell's expertise lies in the areas of soil behavior related to geotech-
nical problems, soil improvement and ground reinforcement, and in
situ measurement of soil properties. He received his B.S. in civil engi-
neering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his M.S. and Sc.D.
in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is
a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National
Academy of Engineering.
RANDALL ]. CHARBENEAU is professor of civil engineering and
associate dean for research in the College of Engineering at the Univer-
sity of Texas at Austi n. H is expertise is i n grou ndwater pal I ution, fate
and transport, and modeling. Dr. Charbeneau is a member of the NRC
Committee on Technologies for Cleanup of Subsurface Contaminants in
the DOE Weapons Complex. He holds civil engineering degrees from
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the University of Michigan (B.S.), Oregon State University (M.S.), and
Stanford University (Ph.D.~.
JEFFREY J. DANIELS is an associate professor in the Department of
Geological Sciences at Ohio State University. His expertise is in shal-
low geophysics for subsurface characterization, and he focuses his
research on the use of ground penetrating radar and shallow seismic
techniques for remote characterization of the subsurface. Dr. Daniels is
a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Explora-
tion Geophysicists, and several other professional societies. He holds a
B.S. and an M.S. in geology from Michigan State University and a Ph.D.
in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
JOHN N. FISCHER is an environmental consultant. His expertise is
in groundwater hydrology. His career includes 22 years with the U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS) during which time he served as acting asso-
ciate director, associate chief of the Water Resources Division and the
National Mapping Division, and as assistant chief hydrologist for pro-
gram coordination. In the latter capacity, he was responsible for USGS
programs at civilian and DOE radioactive waste disposal sites and at
the DOE site atYucca Mountain. He holds degrees from the U.S. Naval
Academy, Michigan State University, and the University of Arizona.
TISSA H. ILLANGASEKARE is the AMAX distinguished chair of envi-
ronmental sciences and engineering and a professor of civil engineering
at the Colorado School of Mines. Until August 1998, he served as a
professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Department of
Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of
Colorado, Boulder. His expertise is in numerical modeling of flow and
transport in porous and fractured media, multiphase flow modeling,
aquifer remediation, and physical modeling of flow and transport in
laboratory test tanks. He holds a Ph.D. in civil engineering from
Colorado State University. He is also a registered professional engineer
and a professional hydrologist.
AARON L. MILLS is a professor of environmental science at the
University of Virginia. He has expertise in microbial transformations of
organic and inorganic pollutants and bacteria in the subsurface envi-
ronment. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the
American Society for Microbiology, and the National Ground Water
Association. Dr. Mills holds a B.A. in biology from Ithaca College, and
an M.S. in soil science with a minor in microbiology and a Ph.D. in
soil science and ecology from Cornell University.
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DONALD T. REED is group leader of the Actinide Speciation and
Chemistry Group in the Chemical Technology Division at Argonne
National Laboratory. He is an expert in radionuclide speciation and
migration in subsurface media. He has undertaken a number of basic
and applied projects in the fields of actinide speciation, solubility, and
subsurface interactions. His most recent research is focused on micro-
biological-actinide interactions in the subsurface and the application of
synchrotron-based methods to the analysis of actinide species in envi-
ronmental samples. He is a member of the Nuclear Chemistry Division
of the American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, and
the Material Research Society. He holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry
from Oh io State U n iversity.
JEROME SACKS is director of the National I nstitute of Statistical
Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and a professor at
the I nstitute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Du ke U n iversity. H is
interests include the use of statistical techniques for characterization of
subsurface properties. He has served on several National Research
Council committees and boards including membership on the NRC
Committee on Building an Environmental Management Science Pro-
gram, which helped the Department of Energy establish its Environ-
mental Management Science Program, the topic of the current study.
He has held professorships at the California Institute of Technology,
Columbia University, Cornell University, Northwestern University,
Rutgers University, University of Illinois, and Duke University. Dr. Sacks
has served as program director for statistics and probability at the
National Science Foundation. He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in mathemat-
ics from Cornel I U n iversity.
BRIDGET R. SCANLON is a research scientist in the Bureau of
Economic Geology and also teaches courses in the geology and civil
engi neeri ng departments at the U n iversity of Texas at Austi n. Her
expertise lies in unsaturated zone hydrology, soil physics, environmen-
tal tracers, and numerical simulations to quantify subsurface flow in
arid regions. She served on the National Research Council Committee
on Ward Val fey. She has served as a consu Itant to the N uclear Waste
Technical Review Board. Dr. Scanlon received her Ph.D. in geology at
the University of Kentucky.
LEON T. SILVER is a W.M. Keck Foundation professor for resource
geology, emeritus, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, at the
Cal iforn ia I nstitute of Tech nology. He has expertise i n geology, petrolo-
gy, and geochemistry, with special emphasis on uranium and thorium.
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Dr. Silver was a public works officer in the U.S. Naval Civil Engineer
Corps from 1945 to 1946, and held several positions at the U.S. Geo-
logical Survey before he joined Caltech. He has served on numerous
NRC committees, panels and boards, including his past membership on
the committee on Building an Environmental Management Science
Program. He earned a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of
Colorado, an M.S. in geology from the University of New Mexico, and
a Ph.D. in geology and geochemistry from the California Institute of
Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and
a past president of the Geological Society of America.
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CLAIRE WELTY is associate professor of civil and environmental
engineering and associate director and graduate advisor at the School
of Environmental Science, Engineering and Policy at Drexel University.
She has expertise in groundwater hydrology and contaminant transport.
Her current research projects include evaluation of the effects of the
interaction between porous medium heterogeneity and fluid density on
field-scale dispersion, stochastic analysis of virus transport in aquifers,
and tracer tests in fractured sedementary rock. She teaches graduate
courses in groundwater hydrology, subsurface contaminant transport,
water resources systems analysis, and stochastic subsurface hydrology.
Dr. Welty holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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