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Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, J.D.: Senior Environmental Law Advisor

Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, an environmental attorney from New York City and Highland Falls, New York joined the law firm of Lacher & Lovell-Taylor as Of Counsel in October, 1999.  Before that he was with Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP as Of Counsel.

 

Mr. Sidamon-Eristoff was EPA Regional Administrator for Region II 1989-1993 under William K. Reilly during the first Bush Administration and since then has practiced environmental and urban transportation law.  He started his public career as Assistant to the Mayor, Highway Commissioner and then Transportation Administrator for New York City under Mayor John V. Lindsay, and then spent fifteen years as a senior Board Member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority before joining the EPA.  At Region II, he forced the cessation of ocean dumping of sewage sludge; he commenced the re-assessment under CERCLA of the Hudson River PCB contamination and he dealt with a host of air and water quality issues and oversaw over a billion dollars worth of superfund hazardous waste cleanup actions.  During his tenure the Region set an all-time high in enforcement activity, with over a half-billion dollars in superfund settlements and orders alone during his last year in office.

 

Since then, he has continued his environmental work as Chairman of Audubon New York, as a Member of the National Audubon Society Board, and as a Commissioner of the Orange County, NY, Planning Commission. Mr. Sidamon-Eristoff is a member of the New York State Bar Association's Environmental Law Section and serves on its Executive Committee and as Co-Chairman of its Standing Committee on International Environmental Law.  He is also a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; the New York County Lawyers' Association; the American Bar Association.

 

At Lacher & Lovell-Taylor he provides environmental counseling, negotiating and strategic planning advice relating to projects for port development and modernization, water and wastewater treatment, brownfield remediation, waste management facilities, transport of waste streams, and the offshore containment of dredge spoils and other hazardous materials.  He also provides counsel in a broad variety of other practice areas including land use, urban transportation and administrative law.

 

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Stuart H. Russell, P.E.

Mr. Russell has 25 years experience in environmental engineering including planning, designing and implementing waste management systems.  He authored or co-authored three books and dozens of technical papers on wastewater treatment, and serves as President of Hard Hat, Inc., an environmental engineering company.

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Daniel Noble, M.S.

Mr. Noble is Founding Financial Editor and Director of Research for Environmental Business International (EBI), the leading market research and information company on the environmental industry. The industry classification system developed by Mr. Noble has been adopted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EuroStat (the statistical arm of the European Economic Union) and the 25 country members of the international Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development Paris, France). Mr. Noble routinely advises companies regarding environmental technology and strategy development. His positions have included:

  • B.S. (Biology/Chemistry) University of California - San Diego

  • M.S. (Molecular Biology/Science Education) - University of Oregon

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Betty H. Olson, Ph.D.

Dr. Olson has served as Chair of the Environmental Analysis and Design Program at the School of Social Ecology, University of California - Irvine (UCI). During this period, she also served as a Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Medicine at the School of Medicine at UCI as well as Professor in the Program in Social Ecology at the University. Dr. Olson is a highly recognized authority in the field of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment and has been awarded numerous research grants and contracts with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Interior (Office of Water Resources and Technology) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). She has been a Reviewer and/or on the Editorial Board of a number of leading technical and scientific trade journals. Dr. Olson has also been a Member of the Science Advisory Board with the EPA Committee on Drinking Water and the EPA Committee on Ecological Processes and Effects. Dr. Olson has authored and/or co-authored more than 65 published technical papers and has been a contributing author to 24 books in the field of microbiology and biotechnology. In addition, she has contributed to more than 30 Symposium Volumes and has made over 93 presentations/abstracts to environmental groups and agencies around the world. 

  • B.S. (Biology/Microbiology) - University of California, Irvine

  • M.S. (Environmental Health Science) - University of California, Berkeley

  • Ph.D. (Environmental Health Science/Microbiology) - University of California, Berkeley

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Richard R. Burgess, Ph.D.

Dr. Burgess currently serves, and has served for the past decade, as Director of the University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center (UWBC). This biotechnology center provides services and coordination to one of the world's largest biological research communities. More than 300 faculty research groups and programs on the university campus, conducting biotechnology-related studies, utilize the center. Dr. Burgess and his research group have published more than 160 research papers in scientific journals on biochemistry, molecular biology and biology. In addition to his role as Director of UWBC, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry and a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Study Section on biophysics and biochemistry. Formal seminars on Dr. Burgess' research have been presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MUD, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and more than a dozen other leading U.S. Universities.

  • B.S. (Chemistry) - Harvard University

  • Ph.D. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) California Institute of Technology

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Janice A. Sharp, Ph.D., J.D.

Dr. Sharp is currently a patent attorney practicing with the law firm of Merchant & Gould. Prior to her law career, Dr. Sharp was Director of Research for American Biogenetics Corporation in Irvine, California. She has also served as a Research Specialist in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California Irvine and was a postdoctoral Associate/Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. Dr. Sharp has lectured graduate courses in Molecular Genetics at the University of California Irvine and has authored more than 13 papers for scientific and legal publications.

  • B.S. (Biochemistry/Microbiology) - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  • J.D. (Cum Laude) - Western State University, College of Law

  • Ph.D. (Biochemistry) - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Thomas G. Tornabene, Ph.D.

Dr. Tornabene has served as Associate Dean, College of Sciences, at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to this position, Dr. Tornabene was Director and Professor of the School of Applied Biology and Director, Research Center for Biotechnology, both at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Tornabene has worked, lectured and published extensively (over 62 technical papers) in the area of pathogenic mechanisms, metabolic pathways and mechanisms of synthesis of biochemical compounds, degradation of agricultural and industrial wastes, biogenesis and distribution of hydrocarbons, microbial transformation of metals, cell immobilization and fermentation processes.

  • B.S. (Biology) - St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas

  • Ph.D. (Biological Chemistry) - University of Houston, College of Natural Sciences

  • M.S. (Immunochemistry) - University of Houston

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Anmin Liu

Anmin Liu has over 30 years of experience in operations, maintenance, and management in wastewater treatment with the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation. He directed start-up operations of the pure oxygen and sludge dewatering pilot projects at the 400-MGD Hyperion Treatment Plant, and has consulted on wastewater design projects internationally in Mexico City, Taiwan, and Dalian, China. He has expertise in advanced primary treatment and authored the Anaerobic Digestion Chapter of the Water Environment Federation’s Manual of Practice of Operation of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants.

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