U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Workgroup on Coastal Mississippi Water Quality Assurance Plan


U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board Workgroup on Coastal Mississippi
Water Quality Assurance Plan

To expedite the development of advice on Hurricane Katrina related issues, the SAB
Staff Office did not follow the usual shortlist process. Instead, it convened workgroups
of technical experts drawn, as described in 70 FR 54046, from the U.S. EPA SAB, the
Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, the Advisory Council on Clean Air
Compliance Analysis (chartered advisory committees), their standing committees,
subcommittees, and advisory panels. Workgroup members were invited to serve based on
their scientific and technical expertise, knowledge, and experience; availability and
willingness to serve; absence of financial conflicts of interest; and scientific credibility
and impartiality.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Science Advisory Board
Workgroup on Coastal Mississippi Water Quality Assurance Plan

Singer, Phil, Chair

University of North Carolina

Dr. Philip C. Singer is the Dan Okun Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering in the School of Public
Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He directed the Water Resources Engineering Program at UNC for 19 years and currently directs UNC's
Drinking Water Research Center. He has conducted research on chemical aspects of water and wastewater treatment and on aquatic chemistry for the past 35
years, and has published more than 160 papers and reports in these areas. For the past 27 years, Dr. Singer's research has focused on the formation and control
of disinfection by-products in drinking water. In 1993, Dr Singer was selected for the Freese Lecture by the American Society of Civil Engineers, in 1995 he was
given the A.P. Black Research Award by the American Water Works Association, and in 1999 he received the Fuller Award from the North Carolina section of the
American Water Works Association. Dr. Singer has been active in the American Water Works Association, serving as a past Chair and Trustee of the Research
Division, and has served on the Research Advisory Council of the American Water Works Association Research Foundation. He was on the editorial board of
Ozone Science and Engineering and is a past associate editor of Environmental Science and Technology. He was a member of the Water Science and Technology
Board of the National Research Council, and served on the National Research Council's Committee on Drinking Water Contaminants. He is currently on the Board
of Directors of the Water Environment Research Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board's Drinking Water Committee.
In 1995, Dr. Singer was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

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Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths is currently Director of the Graduate Programs in Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine. Associate Professor of Family Medicine and
Community Health, Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine; Associate Physician, Division of Geographic
Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New England Medical Center; Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, and Consulting
Physician, Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Carney Hospital and Quincy Hospital. Dr. Griffiths received is AB in Chemistry in 1977 from Harvard College and a MD
from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1982. He received a MPH and TM in Tropical Medicine from Tulane University in 1982. Internships occurred at Yale-New
Haven Hospital, 1982-84 in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; Research Fellow in Tropical Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health in 1986-88; Research and
Clinical Fellow at Tufts-New England Medical Center from 1988-91 in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease; National Board of Medical Examiners certification
in 1984. He received a Connecticut Licensure in Medicine, 1985; Massachusetts Licensure in Medicine, 1986; Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine
(ABIM), 1987; Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics, 1987; Govt, of Bangladesh Licensure in Medicine, 1989; Diplomate, Sub-specialty Board in Infectious
Diseases, ABIM, 1992; and Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health, 2000. National Committees or Advisory Groups: Member,
National Academies' Committee on Drinking Water Contaminants (1999-2001); Member, Public Interest Advisory Forum, American Water Works Association (1999-
2001), Public Health Subgroup; Member, National Drinking Water Advisory Council of the EPA (1998-2000; 2001-2003); Federal representative for the National
Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) to the EPA Drinking Water Microbial Disinfection and Byproducts Committee, 1997-current; Member, AIDS Clinical Trials
Group (ACTG) Focus Group on Enteric Pathogens, 1998-; Member, AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Focus Group on Microsporidiosis and Cryptosporidiosis, 1996-
1998; Consultant to ACTG 336, A Phase II/III Placebo-controlled study of Nitazoxanide (NTZ) for persons with AIDS and Cryptosporidiosis. Other Research &
Professional Experience: Director of Microbiology and Serology, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, 1991-1997; Director, Traveler's Clinic, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center,
1991-1997; Consultant, the Applied Diarrheal Diseases Project, Harvard Institute of International Development, 1991-94; represented USAID to the government of
Ecuador during the cholera outbreak; experience in Ecuador and Central America; Field work at the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research in Dhaka,
Bangladesh 1988-89; Fellow in Tropical Nutrition, Tulane Univ. School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA. July 1981-June 1982; Field work on
the north coast of Haiti, 1981.

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Maddalena, Rand;

University of Tennessee

Dr. Gary S. Sayler is a Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. (1974)
in Bacteriology and Biochemistry from the University of Idaho where he conducted research of heterotrophic turnover of organic matter in freshwater environments.
This was followed by postdoctoral training in Marine Microbiology and Biodegradation at the University of Maryland after which he joined the faculty of the
University of Tennessee in 1975. He is the Founding Director (1986) of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology, a recently designated Research Center-of-
Excellence, and is current Director of the State Center-of-Excellence, Waste Management Research and Education Institute. Over his career he has directed
approximately $25,000,000 in environmental, biodegradation, and molecular ecological research for numerous federal, state, and industrial sponsors. He has
directed the graduate programs of approximately 34 Ph.D. and 15 Master's students in Microbiology, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology. He has edited five books
and contributed 251 publications in broad areas of molecular biology, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, and biotechnology, and holds seven patents on
environmental gene probing, genetic engineering for bioremediation and bioelectronic sensor technology. His work has included molecular and environmental
aspects of PCB, PAH, BTEX and TCE metabolism. He has given invited presentations at over 200 national and international meetings in the broad area of
biotechnology and the environment. He has served on numerous panels and chaired advisory review committees of ORNL, LBNL, ANL, NSF, NIH, DOE, EPA, and
four different NAS/NRC subcommittees and panels. During his career, he has been awarded a NIEHS' Research Career Development Award (1980-1985); he
received the American Society for Microbiology, Procter and Gamble Award for Environmental Microbiology (1994), the Distinguished Alumni Award of the University
of Idaho (1995) and the DOW Chemical Foundation SPHERE Award (1998-2000). He was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 1991. He has served
in an editorial capacity for six journals and is currently an associate editor for Environmental Science and Technology. Professional memberships include AAAS,
ASM, ACS, SIM, SETAC and SPIEE. Dr. Sayler served as a member of the Water Environment Research Foundation, Research Council from 1999 to 2001. Recent
research support is from NIH, NASA, DARPA, NSF, USDA, WERF, US Army, DOE, Perkin Elmer Instruments and Eastman Chemical in areas integrating
Bioluminescent Bioreporter Integrated Circuit technology, nucleic acid environmental diagnostics and expression, and biosensing and monitoring in complex system
analysis. Areas of research expertise include microbiology, genetic engineering, molecular biology in biodegradation and bioremediation; PAH, PCB soils, sediments,
and H20; molecular ecology in biological waste treatment, PCR-gene probes, biosensors for bioavailable pollutants including endoctrine disruptors, nanotechnology,
and carbon nanofibers in microbial biofilms.

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Stubblefield, William

Parametrix

Dr. William Stubblefield is a senior environmental toxicologist with Parametrix, Inc. in Corvallis, Oregon; he also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the
Department Molecular and Environmental Toxicology at Oregon State University. Dr. Stubblefield has more than 15 years of experience in environmental
toxicology, ecological risk assessment, water quality criteria derivation, and aquatic and wildlife toxicology studies. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed
publications and technical presentations in the areas of aquatic and wildlife toxicology and environmental risk assessment. He is a co-editor of a recently published
book entitled, "Re-evaluation of the State of the Science for Water Quality Criteria," that specifically examines the issues and approaches to be used in the
evaluation of environmental impacts associated with contaminants in multiple media. Dr. Stubblefield's research efforts have looked at the fate and effects of metal
and hydrocarbon contaminants in the environment and the relationships between these contaminants in the water/sediment/soil compartments. He has also
investigated food chain concerns through research efforts such as the investigation of metals transfer in resident aquatic and terrestrial organisms on Alaska's
North Slope. His most recent research uses a combination of laboratory and field methods to investigate the effects of storm water-associated short-term pulse
exposures of metals to aquatic organisms and examines the fate and disposition of storm water-associated metals in natural systems. About 70% of Parametrix
projects are funded by municipal and other government agencies the remainder are industrial clients. Funding for the majority of Dr. Stubblefield's metal related
work comes from industrial trade associations or not-for-profit research organizations working in cooperation with U.S. EPA. Dr. Stubblefield is an active member
of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, where he serves as the Society's vice-president, member of the Board of Directors, chairman of the
Publications Advisory Council, chairman of the SETAC's Metals Advisory Group, past member of the Editorial Board for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry,
and 2002 annual meeting co-chair. He has been an invited participant at a number of scientific and regulatory conferences, served on U.S. EPA peer-review
panels, and frequently acts as a technical reviewer for a number of scientific publications. Dr. Stubblefield has a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from the
University.

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