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Ph.D.
Environmental Science,
SUNY
College
of Environmental Science and Forestry
M.S.
Environmental Science,
SUNY
College
of Environmental Science and Forestry
B.S.
Chemistry,
Marywood
University
Environmental
Science and the Human Community
GIS,
Watershed Management, Onsite and Municipal Wastewater Treatment, Stream
Evaluation, Wetland Protection, Solid Waste Management, Environmental Assessment,
Environmental Impact Statement Analysis and Preparation, Environmental
Chemistry, Online Science Education
Primary Interest Areas:
My service on the Darien, Connecticut
Environmental Protection Commission influenced my concept on how an
environmental education can be used to serve the needs of a community to
improve the environment. One
in-depth study resulted in a textbook on onsite wastewater treatment
systems and how they can address community sanitation needs and recycle
water in an efficient and environmentally-sensitive manner.
I have used and taught GIS to address community issues in watershed
protection, water quality
mapping, open space analysis, historic preservation, 3-D analysis of
watershed boundaries and air quality analysis.
I have also developed new
methods and techniques to use GIS and have created a website of over 40
GIS instructional videos.
I have trained and led volunteer groups to monitor streams using the
Izaak Walton League of America’s Save Our Streams program, training
participants to identify benthic macroinvertebrates and perform
field-based chemical analysis of the waters.
Prior to teaching at Pace, my research was devoted to using scanning
electron microscopy and energy-dispersive x-ray analysis to analyze
particulates, concentrating on developing a signature to
identify the fly ash from coal-fired power plants.
Courses Taught
Environmental Assessment
Geographic Information Systems
Waste Management
Environmental Science
Consumer Chemistry (online, with at-home labs)
Chemistry of Food and Cooking
Environmental Communications
Recent Presentations:
“Creating a GIS Hub at
Pace
University
” 24th Annual Northeast
ArcUsers Group Conference, Nashua,
NH, October 2009.
“Synchronizing Photos to Tracklog Points” NEARC
Spring 2009 Meeting,
Northampton,
MA, May 12, 2009.
More Presentations
Textbook:
Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems. M.M. Minnis, B.D.
Burks. Hogarth House, Ltd. 1994.
Publications
& Links to online publications or abstracts.
Graduate
Student Theses
This link gives the titles and a description of each of the graduate
student theses I have mentored at Pace University.
Volunteer Project
Since 1986, I have been the principal contact for US Peace Corps
volunteers to obtain free books through Darien
Book Aid. This all-volunteer organization serves over 400 PCVs
in all the countries that the Peace Corps operates. The
organization has close ties to the environmental volunteers who work to
instill ideas of sustainability in the developing world.
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