CRESP III 
CRESP III: People and Organization
CRESP III is a multi-university consortium working to advance cost-effective, risk-informed cleanup of the nation's nuclear weapons production facility sites and cost effective, risk-informed management of potential future nuclear sites and wastes. The CRESP Management Board and Key Personnel are experts in the areas of engineering ,ecology, economics, ethics, geology, health physics, law, occupational medicine, organizational behavior, project and fiscal management, public health, public policy, subsurface remediation, risk evaluation, and risk communication.
CRESP III Management Board
CRESP III will be managed by a broad group of academic leaders who bring a diverse set of skills and strategic interests of relevance to the issues at hand. The management board is led by the Co-Principal investigators David S. Kosson and Charles W. Powers, Professors at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering.
The functions of the Management Board will be to provide annual review of all CRESP review, strategic analysis, research and educational efforts, including discussion with all lead researchers and key personnel; evaluate and recommend the annual CRESP research portfolio to the CRESP co-PIs; evaluate and assist in the formulation of CRESP strategic assessment initiatives, and provide leadership or participate in, as appropriate, review and strategic analysis functions of CRESP. The board will also identify additional participants as needed for review and strategic analysis initiatives.
Management Board Members:
Charles W. Powers
David S. Kosson
Joanna Burger
Michael R. Greenberg
Kathryn A. Higley
James H. Johnson
Shlomo Neuman
Richard B. Stewart
CRESP III Board Members
Charles W. Powers, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University
CRESP III Co- Principal Investigator
– expertise in environmental management and policy, organizational design and development, and ethics.
David S. Kosson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University
CRESP III Co- Principal Investigator
– expertise in chemical and environmental engineering, remediation, leaching processes, and contaminant mass transfer.
Joanna Burger, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Biology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
– expertise in restoration ecology, ecological risk assessment, biological systems, and stakeholder involvement.
Michael R. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
– expertise in public policy, economics and risk communication.
Kathryn A. Higley, Ph.D., C.H.P.
Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Oregon State University
– expertise in environmental health physics, radiological dose and risk assessment, radioecology, nuclear emergency response.
Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences
Howard University
– expertise in environmental engineering, nuclear waste management systems, stakeholder engagement and education of ethnic minorities and native Americans; member, U. S. EPA Science Advisory Board, Executive Committee.
Shlomo Neuman, PH.D.
Reagents Professor
University of Arizona
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources
- expertise in Subsurface hydrology and contaminant transport; pumping test design and analysis, flow in multilayered geologic media, finite element simulation of subsurface flow and transport, estimation of aquifer parameters, fractured rock hydrology, peat hydrology, geostatistics, and stochastic analysis of heterogeneous geologic media.
Richard B. Stewart, LL.B.
University Professor and Director
NYU Center on
Environmental and Land Use Law
– expertise in environmental and administrative law and public policy; former Assistant Attorney General for environmental issues.
CRESP III Key Personnel
CRESP III has selected key personnel that will contribute to review, strategic analysis and research functions. Each of the key CRESP contributors are nationally and internationally recognized for their contributions. CRESP III is made up of senior researchers from Vanderbilt University (lead institution), Rutgers University, University of Pittsburgh, New York University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Howard University, University of Arizona and Oregon State University.
Mark Abkowitz, Vanderbilt University
Craig Benson, University of Washington
Kevin G. Brown, Vanderbilt University
Ramesh Chawla, Howard University
Jim Clarke, Vanderbilt University
Michael Gochfeld, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
David Hamby, Oregon State University
Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University
Henry Mayer, Rutgers University
Todd Palmer, Oregon State University
Frank L. Parker, Vanderbilt University
Michael Stabin, Vanderbilt University
Jane B. Stewart, New York University
Mark Abkowitz
Vanderbilt University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Education:
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, 1980,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S. Civil Engineering, 1976
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Civil Engineering, 1974,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research Interests:
Environmental risk management, risk assessment, intelligent transportation systems, transportation of hazardous materials, emergency response planning
http://www.cee.vanderbilt.edu/facultystaff/abkowitz.html
Craig Benson
Professor and Chairman
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
Education:
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
MS, University of Texas at Austin
BS, Lehigh University
Research Interests:
Geo-environmental engineering, Landfill design and construction, Remediation of hazardous waste sites, Field testing and performance evaluation, Transport of groundwater pollutants, Statistical construction quality control, Stochastic modeling of flow and transport, Data sufficiency
http://www.ce.washington.edu/people/faculty/bios/benson_c.html
Kevin G. Brown
Research Scientist
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Education:
PhD, Vanderbilt University
M.S. Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Vanderbilt University
B.E. Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Research Interests:
Risk Assessment of Buried Transuranic Wastes
Ramesh C. Chawla
Professor and Chair
Department of Chemical Engineering
Howard University
Education:
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1978
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1972
B.S. Chemical Engineering, I.I.T. Kanpur, India, 1970
Research Interests
Chemical and Environmental Engineering – Hazardous Waste Treatment, Air and Water Pollution, Separation Processes and Kinetics in Environmental Systems
http://www.howard.edu/ceacs/departments/Chemical/Faculty/Ramesh-Chawla.htm
James H. Clarke
Professor of the Practice
Vanderbilt University
Education:
Ph.D. Theoretical Chemistry
The Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore MD
1973
B.A. Chemistry,
Rockford College,
Rockford IL
1967
Research Interests:
Risk Analysis, Long-term Management of Legacy Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Sites, Environmental Contaminant Transport, Sustainable Environmental Protection, Environmental Forensics
http://www.cee.vanderbilt.edu/facultystaff/clarke.html
Michael Gochfeld
Director, Occupational & Environmental Residency Program
Professor
Environmental & Occupational Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Education:
M.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1965
Ph.D. City University of New York 1975
Research Interests:
Occupational Medicine, Environmental Toxicology, Environmental Risk Assessment, Risk and Policy, Heavy Metals and Neurobehavioral Development, Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic, Chromium and Dioxin
http://www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/facultystaff/view.php?id=51
David Hamby
Professor
Nuclear Engineering and
Radiation Health Physics
Research
Oregon State University
Education:
Ph.D. University of North Carolina 1989
M.S. University of North Carolina 1986
B.S. Mercer University 1984
Primary Research Areas: Radiographic Studies, Instrumentation Development, Beta Spectroscopy/Dosimetry, Environmental Dosimetry, Risk Assessment, International Assesssments, Biota Dose Methodology, Probabilistic Dosimetry
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~hambydm/
Sankaran
Mahadevan
Vanderbilt University
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Education:
Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology 1988
M.S.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1985
B.S.
Indian Institute of Technology [India] 1982
Research Interests:
Probabilistic Computational Mechanics, Random Vibration, Reliability and Risk Assessment, and Optimization
Henry Mayer
Faculty Fellow and Executive Director, National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment
Rutgers
University
Education:
Ph.D. Urban Planning & Policy Development, Rutgers
M.S. Environmental Sciences, Rutgers
B.S. Industrial Management, Purdue University
Research Interests : The complex and inter-related land use, infrastructure, financial and public policy issues associated with the revitalization of America’s older urban and suburban communities; The equally complex issues surrounding the cleanup, closure and long-term reuse of the Department of Energy’s former nuclear weapons sites; Using GIS, computer modeling and other related technologies to gain a better understanding of the environmental, infrastructure and fiscal impact of alternative regional land use scenarios Regional land use planning.
http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/mayer.html
Todd Palmer
Oregon
State University
Education:
Ph.D. The University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering and Scientific Computing1993
M.S. The University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering 1988
B.S. Oregon State University, Nuclear Engineering, 1987
Frank L. Parker
Vanderbilt University
Education:
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1955
M.S. Harvard University, 1950
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1948
Research Interests:
Hazardous Chemical and Radioactive Waste Disposal Policy; Risk Analysis of Hazardous Chemical Waste Disposal; Risk Analysis of Radioactive Waste Disposal
http://www.cee.vanderbilt.edu/facultystaff/parker.html
Michael G. Stabin
Assistant professor in the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
Education: B.S. University of Florida 1981
M.E.
University of Florida 1983
Ph.D. University of Tennessee 1996
Research Interests: radiation dosimetry, radiation safety, nuclear medicine, health physics
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/radiology/faculty/faculty_desc.php?val=6579867
Jane B. Stewart
Director, International Environmental Legal Assistance Program
Center on Environmental and Land Use Law
New York University School of Law
Education: J.D. New York University School of Law 1979
Brown University 1976
University Consortium Members
CRESP III is made up of senior researchers from Vanderbilt University (lead institution), Rutgers University, University of Pittsburgh, New York University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Howard University, University of Arizona and Oregon State University.
Vanderbilt University (Lead Institution)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Howard University
College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences
New York University School of Law
Center for Environmental and Land Use Law
Oregon State University
College of Engineering, Department of Nuclear Engineering
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
University of Arizona
College of Engineering Department of Hydrology and Water Resources
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
The Organizational Structure of CRESP
Organizational components for CRESP III include the Management Board, Independent Peer Review Board, and External Advisory Board. Charles Powers is responsible for the strategic initiatives and review functions of CRESP. David Kosson is responsible for the research and education of CRESP. David Kosson and Charles Powers share the administrative functions.
