EXECUTIVE STAFF AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BARBARA WISEMAN
INTERENATIONAL PRESIDENT & U.S. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Barbara Wiseman co-founded The Earth Organization in 2003 with Dr. Lawrence Anthony, becoming its International President and heading up its global initiatives. She has 30 years management consultant, public relations, and international pioneer project management experience. As just one example, seven years ago, in looking for solutions to the largest global environmental situations she came across a relatively unknown science for water that provided the foundation for potential body of knowledge to locate sustainable water resources in drought-prone regions. She brought together a team of scientists to validate, document, codify and expand the science, identifying and allying the top experts in the field. Her purpose was to build alliances to advance and implement LAEO's environmental solutions to regions in dire need of water resources and to ensure that this science is broadly implemented for the benefit of humankind and all life. The work of this team resulted in Deep Seated Water Technology now being implemented around the world.
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YVETTE TAYLOR
INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Yvette Taylor - Our International Headquarters is in Durban South Africa, ably lead by Yvette Taylor. Before coming on board with LAEO as our International Executive Director, she worked for many years in both municipal and private sectors as a certified Town and Regional Planner, and is trained and experienced in sales, marketing, administration, business development and personnel training having advanced to the position of Executive Director previously in a Durban-based community betterment non-profit. Since Dr. Anthony passed away, Yvette has worked intensively to safeguard and forward the work he began in 1) creating community wildlife preserves with and for the benefit of the local indigenous peoples and the wildlife, 2) effectively raising awareness of the plight of rhinos through media, 3) partnering with and fundraising to cover expenses necessary to keep anti-poaching helicopters in the air, 4) the implementation of environmental education workshops and materials to thousands of school children in Kwa-Zulu Natal, and 5) increasing the numbers of our chapters around the world.
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WILLIAM "BILL" BUTLER
U.S. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD & ASSISTANT US EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Bill Butler: LAEO's U.S. Chairman of the Board and Acting Deputy Executive Director, Bill has a passion for helping all life improve their living conditions. During his early career, Bill wore senior executive positions in social betterment non-profits for seven years before entering the finance and mortgage industry. Now, with over 44 years of experience and success in this field, he has arranged well over $1 Billion in funding for commercial and residential construction financing, as well as land development for residential and commercial communities. For 30 of those years, he held senior executive positions, such as President of Eastland Mortgage, Executive Vice President of First Capital Corporation of Los Angeles, and Owner and President of Butler Financial Services, Mortgage Management Services. As a result of becoming a Gold Star Family when his son gave his life in service to the country, he founded Welcome Home Inc., a non-profit dedicated to supporting veterans of all branches of military service.
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ARLIN HOWLES
MANAGING DIRECTOR OPERATIONS & CHIEF HYDRO-GEOLOGIST
Arlin Howles earned his Master’s in Geology from the University of South Carolina with a BS in Environmental Geology from Edinboro State University, and is a Certified Petroleum Geologists, and a Professional Geologists in Texas. Mr. Howles has over twenty-three years of experience as a senior hydrogeologist with wide-ranging skills that include the performance of site assessments, well drilling, geological date mapping, water supply impact, oil and gas operations, environmental impact site assessments, fault mapping, and site safety. Being proficient in geological and geophysical mapping software, he has performed consulting services for nationally recognized consulting firms addressing surface and subsurface fault studies, coastal beach erosion and geologic evaluation of landfills. While supervising drilling activities, he has performed core analysis and stratigraphic studies for a wide variety of project in the U.S. and Canada, and has completed remediation programs at 24 gas pipeline transmission facilities, providing technical review reports and quality control oversite while coordinating field sample programs. He has designed water wells supplying over 100,000 GPD for industrial use. Mr. Howles is the author for three peer-reviewed publications.
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TIGRAN SADOYAN
SENIOR HYDRO-GEOLOGIST
Dr. Tigran Sadoyan is our Senior Hydrologist, Geologist and Engineer and a GIS analysis specialist. He earned his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy in 2007. He also received an Advanced Studies Certificate in Engineering, Geology, and Hydrogeology of Tropical and Subtropical Regions from the University of Tubingen (Germany) in 1998. Dr. Sadoyan has extensive experience in environmental compliance, specializing in natural hazards and risk assessment. As a geologist, he has a strong background in field work, sample and data collection, aero and satellite image recognition, database creation, analysis and reporting. He has more than 9 years of experience as an environmental compliance specialist with extensive knowledge in environmental and geological research. He has researched and written several papers for the United Nations amongst others in his fields of experience. Dr. Sadoyan has demonstrated success in research grant, project development and inter-disciplinary collaboration between different profile scientists and governmental officials. H has teaching, lecturing and instructing experience with audiences ranging from under graduate students to professional employees. In addition to experience in basic geological and geomorphological mapping, slope vulnerability monitoring, and stability assessment, he is a specialist in geospatial analysis and ground-truthing to target sustainable water resources. Dr. Sadoyan is fluent in Armenian, Italian, Russian, and English.
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BETTINA KOCH
SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST
Bettina Koch holds a BSc. in Environmental Science from the Open University OU in Milton Keynes, U.K. and has undertaken postgraduate study courses in environmental technologies at The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern (FHNW) Switzerland in Basel, Switzerland. She is fluent in English, German and Swiss-German and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish. She is currently working towards her Master’s Degree in Environmental Management. Ms. Koch is passionate about the health of the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants and has worked under leading environmental scientists and institutes in Switzerland and the U.K. Trained in advanced geospatial analysis she is also the in charge of soil enhancement and restoration technologies and application, including Microbial Balancing Technologies (MBT).
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WILLIAM "WILL" RONCALI
MEDIA DIRECTOR
William "Will" Roncali was introduced to The Earth Organization through his work with Oil Spill Eater International. He went on to volunteer with us in Tanzania in the early days of our research into Deep Seated Water in 2016. Will has managed IT operations for a wide variety of companies and the U.S. military, with up to 1,200 customers, caring for all of their IT needs to include their look on the World Wide Web. As our Media Director, Will uses his unique skills to manage our advertising campaigns and assist with our educational programs and materials, as well as maintaining and improving our I/T functions.
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ADVISORY BOARD

DR. WILLIAM "BILL" ADAMS
PH.D., PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Dr. Adams has conducted fieldwork in both the Canadian western and eastern Arctic and has visited the Arctic on many occasions and participated in Arctic exercises of the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) and is familiar with these regions. He has worked on Arctic science specializing in lake and sea ice properties including physical and biological. He was a research scientist with Environment Canada where he participated as a principal investigator in the Beaufort Sea Project experimental oil spill trials in the Beaufort Sea. Bill also acts as a Chief Technical Advisor in the Electric Car industry, he was a senior advisor for the International Energy Agency Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Exploratory Battery and Supercapacitor Research Program More recently, he was responsible for directing the Defense Science Advisory Board (DSAB), a private sector body that reports to the Deputy Minister and Chief of Defense Staff at DND, on developments in the area of Arctic related studies. Dr. Adams is currently VP, Strategic Planning for RESTCO that was formed in 2010 (see www.restco.ca). RESTCO has been actively working to identify and commercialize oil spill remediation technologies especially for Arctic conditions. Dr. Adams is the Canadian Lead for the Environmental Monitoring Working Group of the Artic Operations standards program of the International Standards Organization. Dr. Adams is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization.
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LITO AVLONITI
ARTIST
Lito Avloniti is an established and accomplished designer. She has created art to further humanitarian causes in the field of human rights, drug prevention and Cooperative Ecology®. Her art is in use in over 2,900 schools and in 170 countries where several million copies of her work have been distributed to educate and aid those whose rights were violated or who were affected by drug proliferation. She has worked with numerous non-profit organizations and government agencies such as the School Safety Police and the General Prosecutor’s Office in Mexico, the Los Angeles Sheriff Department and HITDA, a branch in the Executive Office of the U.S. President. She also has created art for A-list celebrities in the movie industry that embrace humanitarian causes. She has an innate appreciation of the acute urgency to effectively deal with environmental destruction in a fashion that also enhances human life and prosperity. Her valuable skill and ability to bring subjects to life through aesthetics are a vital asset to LAEO’s mission.
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DR. JOHN F. BRATTON
SENIOR SCIENTIST - LIMNO TECH
John F. Bratton, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist at LimnoTech with broad expertise in earth and environmental sciences, including successful leadership of projects involving large ecosystem restoration with a nutrient reduction focus, remedial investigation/remedial design for contaminated sites, and litigation support. He has worked as a consultant, researcher, educator, and science manager for over 25 years, especially in the Great Lakes and Northeast regions, and has contributed to over 100 scientific publications and research presentations. His specialties include Atlantic coastal and glacial geology, groundwater surface water interaction and contaminant transformations, freshwater and ocean sediment geochemistry, environmental history on decade to century scales, and environmental law and policy. John previously served as Deputy Director and Acting Director of NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and as a research group leader with the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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BRIAN BJORNDAL
PRESIDENT & CEO, ASSURE CONTROLS
Assure Controls is a company founded by Bryan based on patented technology which provides fast and accurate testing of harmful contaminant levels in water samples. The innovation was developed by the US Navy researchers in San Diego, and uses sensitive marine plankton as a biosensor, indicating biologically harmful levels of inorganic and organic chemicals in water samples; much faster than laboratory methods that have been used for over 30 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Santa Clara University and studied at the University of California, Berkeley’s Bodega Marine Laboratory. Bryan has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon. He served as a Marine Researcher for the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources as a member of the United States Peace Corps in the Philippines. Bryan is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for The Maritime Alliance (in San Diego), and serves on the Board of Directors for CleanTECH San Diego, and is on the Biotech Industrial Advisory Board for Mira Costa College. In 2016, Bryan became a director of Blue Ballast Solutions, based in France; a company based on ballast water comprehensive services for France and the Mediterranean; he founded the BlueTech Expert Team (BTET) an environmental consultancy based in the UK; and he helped establish the Consortium for Invasive Species Management (CISM), a non-profit organization for business of ballast water management initiatives to the maritime industry.
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KEVIN BURKE
BUSINESS & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIST
Kevin Burke is the CEO of Wiseman & Burke, Inc., a Los Angeles based firm that handles the business and financial affairs of entertainment professionals and other high income/high net worth individuals. As one of the premier financial strategists to some of the biggest names in Hollywood for 30 years, Mr. Burke has dealt with sophisticated and complex business and financial matters on both a domestic and international basis. Mr. Burke lives in Los Angeles where he devotes his “free” time to his family and pro bono work for several non-profit, social betterment activities.
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ANDREA CHALUPA
MEDIA ADVISOR
Andrea Chalupa is a journalist and the author of Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm. She has written for TIME, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and Forbes. Some of the institutions where she has spoken include Columbia University, McGill University, and the National Press Club in Washington, DC. She is a founder of DigitalMaidan, an online movement that made the Ukrainian protests the #1 trending topic on Twitter worldwide. Her first screenplay, about George Orwell struggling to publish Animal Farm, the book that made him famous, is in development in Europe.
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JIM D'AREZZO
CEO, AQUATERREX
James D. D’Arezzo – CEO GIS Analytics LLC. Mr. D’Arezzo comes to GISA with more than 30 years of C-level executive experience in a variety of corporations from start-ups to a Fortune 500 company. His diverse experience includes having held successful positions as CEO, COO, SVP Sales and Marketing, and General Manager. Jim has deep experience in growth at technology companies, from hardware and software to energy. Most recently, as CEO of Condusiv Technologies, the world leader in performance-improving software for Windows computers, he oversaw the sales of over 100 million software licenses for Microsoft Windows based servers and workstations. He transitioned the company’s aging product line to a new generation of technology while driving profit and achieving growth in the last fiscal year.
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ROBERT GOURLAY
CEO, PHI'ON
Robert Gourlay is our Senior Technical Consultant. He received his Master’s in Applied Science from the University of Canberra in 1989. He was co-founder and Director of Australian-based Environmental Research and Information Consortium (ERIC) since 1992. Mr. Gourlay developed advanced techniques for locating abundant, fresh, high-quality water, including outside of the conventional hydrological cycle. He has sited over 1,500 water wells in Australia and abroad (often when others had repeatedly failed, he was called in to rescue the operation), and he has developed and pioneered world-leading techniques in the use of airborne radiometric data for mapping salinity, other soil properties, water and minerals. Gourlay has extensive environmental field experience specializing in biological research, resource assessment, and management. He has researched water structure, invented water restructuring devices, and developed biological formulations for soils, plants, water, air odor, and animal and human probiotics.
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DR. LAUREN HEINE, PHD
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CHEMFORWARD
Dr. Lauren Heine applies the principles and practices of green chemistry, green engineering and multi-stakeholder collaboration leading to systemic changes and innovation to enhance human and environmental health. She co-authored and led the development of GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals, the leading method for comparative chemical hazard assessment currently used by a growing number of NGOs, governments and manufacturers of products ranging from chemicals to electronics, apparel and footwear. For the OECD, she drafted Policy Principles for Sustainable Materials Management. Lauren is currently serving on the Apple Green Chemistry Advisory Board, which is tasked with advancing Apple’s efforts to minimize or eliminate toxins from its products and supply chain. Lauren served on the California Green Ribbon Science Panel and worked closely with the USEPA Design for the Environment Program (DfE) and stakeholders to develop the DfE Criteria for the Safer Choice Program and Criteria for Alternatives Assessment. She served as technical advisor for the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse Alternatives Assessment Guide and co-chaired the buyer’s tool development subcommittee for Wal-Mart’s Chemical Intensive Products Network. From 2003-2007, Lauren created and led the development of CleanGredients™, a web-based information platform for identifying greener cleaning chemicals in partnership with DfE. Lauren co-founded the Zero Waste Alliance in Portland, OR. Prior to that Lauren was a Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the Green Chemistry Program at the US EPA and taught Organic Chemistry labs at Bowdoin College. Lauren publishes and speaks frequently on green chemistry metrics, alternatives assessments and science-based multi-stakeholder processes. As an author for the university textbook, Introduction to Environmental Engineering curriculum. Lauren earned her doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University.
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MARYNETTE HERNDON, EN, CHMM, REM
Ms. Herndon has a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and is a Certified Hazardous Material Manager (CHMM) and a Registered Environmental Manager (REM). She has managed remediation projects for surface spills, groundwater cleanup and bioremediation projects as well as recycling and federal compliance for corporate, commercial nuclear, and Department of Energy nuclear and non-nuclear facilities. For five years, she represented the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) interests with Louisiana and Texas state regulators at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (a terminal and six storage facilities for one billion barrels of crude oil). While there, she won the National DOE Pollution Prevention Award for Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Recycling as well as the Louisiana Governor’s Environmental Leadership Award and the DOE Certificate of Appreciation for Mentoring Suppliers & Small Companies to Prevent Pollution. Additionally, she was the Environmental Operations Manager for cleanup and closure of the Yankee Rowe nuclear plant where she managed sampling, characterization and cleanup of PCBs, PAH, Dioxin, petroleum, lead and other heavy metals on the 12 acre industrial site. She also managed the characterization of PCB disposition within a 30,000 cu. ft. landfill on Yankee Row property and, introduced Thermal Desorption Technology, saving 1.8 million dollars in hazardous waste shipping costs. Marynette has consulted at several Superfund sites around the country, training workers on environmental regulations and clean-up methodologies. She is currently consulting with Idaho Cleanup Project at the Idaho National Lab near Idaho Falls, Idaho for radioactive materials and approximately three thousand chemicals.
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PATRICIA HILGARD
For 33 years, from 1976 to 2010, Ms. Hilgard served as a senior Toxicologist, Risk Assessor, and Technical Review Panelist for the U.S. EPA based in Washington, D.C. Among many impressive accomplishments during her tenure with the EPA, she developed health and environmental criteria for acceptable fragrance ingredients to be used in commercial cleaning product formulations, published (2013) by EPA under the Green Chemistry Program. Pat co-chaired the Risk Assessment Training Program, covering such topics as green chemistry and engineering, emerging chemical issues, new and alternative testing methodologies, and the analysis and interpretation of genomic studies for their application in new chemical reviews and determinations, life-cycle accounting and economics related to chemical substitutes and affordability of proposed testing; represented EPA regulatory perspective while serving as an Editor for the Risk Assessment section of the Journal of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (JSETAC). Other career highlights were her participation in environmental programming of the Woodrow Wilson International Center including the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, and with the Wilson Center, US AID, and EPA on issues of China, India, and Africa.
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CHRISTOPHER IVES
VICE PRESIDENT OF TECHNOLOGY, RESTCO INC.
Honors Graduate 1965 in Mechanical Sciences, Cambridge UK - Postgrad studies in Industrial Administration. 5 year Scholarship Apprentice 1961-1966 Nuclear Power Plants, Mining Equipment, Turbo-Generated manufacture. Engineer-scientist with broad background in Energy, Transportation, and Housing (in Canada, UK and Europe). A skilled designer/builder/project-manager of prototype/demonstration/production systems, and test equipment.
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DR. ELIZABETH MACPHERSON
DR. MACPHERSON LIVES IN NEW ZEALAND AND IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND IS A WATER REGULATIONS SPECIALIST
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NORMAN MUELLER
EARTH OBSERVATION SCIENTIST, GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA
Norman Mueller is an Earth Observation Scientist with Geoscience Australia, having received his degrees in Physics and Applied Science with a specialization in Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing. He has an industry background in emergency response applications from satellite imagery, chemistry, information technology, and environmental consultancy and is a specialist in the analysis of optical satellite imagery for land cover and inland water. Working for Geoscience Australia for the past 12 years, he has led or contributed to several continental earth observation products including the Dynamic Land Cover Map of Australia and Water Observations from Space.
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ALEX NICHOLSON, M.SC. MECH ENG., MBA, P.E
TECHNICAL WRITER
Alex obtained both a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Marketing and Finance.  He has over 45 years experience in all aspects of Mechanical Engineering, including detailed design, finite element modeling, steady state and transient thermal stress, high cycle and low cycle fatigue analysis.  He is experienced in advanced metallurgy, specialty diffusion and plasma spray coatings, new product development, testing and manufacturing, quality assurance, marketing, sales and product support of high-tech industrial products in the U.S. and abroad.  His management experience includes middle and senior management positions, such as VP Marketing and Sales, both in a successful startup company and in large corporations.  Recently as a senior engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he was involved in the Mars Rover Curiosity and various Space Satellite projects. He has written a long list of technical articles covering a wide range of manufacturing, engineering, and product development. With respect to projects, current and in the recent past, he has been conducting interdisciplinary studies examining coral communities associated with oil/gas platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico in association with the U.S. Dept. of Interior Minerals Management Service/Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement for over 10 yrs. He has determined sources and sinks of coral larvae and documented and quantified the expansion of coral populations throughout the northern Gulf via these platforms. He has also conducted deep-water reconnaissance on these platforms and toppled structures used as artificial reefs (“Rigs-to-Reefs” program), and has determined the degree of genetic connectivity between populations of major coral species in this region. He has also developed statistical techniques by which to predict coral bleaching at intermediate SSTs, based on temperature trend data as well as techniques by which to hind-cast periods of seawater cooling through the microstructure of coral skeletons. His present studies include the effects of climate change and global warming on coral reefs at the cellular level within the coral hosts and their symbionts. These effects include changes in global climatic regions and predicted regions of coral extinction. Another current project is coral species that have invaded the Atlantic Ocean from the Pacific, as part of continuing studies on coral dispersal, recruitment processes, and reef-regeneration processes. He has also become heavily involved with environmental issues resulting from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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JEANNE PASCAL, BA, MS, & JD
While in college and law school Jeanne volunteered much of her time to non-profits and a veterinary clinic, working tirelessly to oppose vivisection, protect our environment and wild habitats, rescue horses and donkeys, and to change the laws in Washington state so that animal cruelty became (and is now) a felony. Upon graduating from law school at University of Memphis, TN, Jeanne moved to Washington state to practice environmental law. She went to work for the Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney and eventually wound up at EPA where she was an Assistant Regional Counsel for approximately 10 years. In the early 1990s, Jeanne transferred to the EPA Suspension and Debarment Division where she handled cases for EPA Regions 8 and 10 (CO, ND, SD, MT, Utah, WY, WA, AK, OR and ID) overseeing governmental grantees and contractors. Retiring after 25 years with EPA, Jeanne followed her lifelong passion for the care and protection of animals and is currently the President of the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center and an Advisor to the Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization (LAEO).
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STEVEN PEDIGO
CEO, OSEI CORPORATION
Steven Pedigo is the CEO of OSEI Corporation, a biotech scientist and the foremost expert in the mitigation and removal of oil, fuel and other toxic chemical spills in fresh water, soil and ocean environments. Mr. Pedigo formulated an enzymatic bioremediation agent (OSE II) that emulates and speeds natural processes for removing oil and chemical spills on land and in water. He has also advanced techniques in wastewater treatment, remediating soil and ground water pollutants. OSEI operates globally with large-scale ongoing clean-up projects in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America and the U.S.
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DR. IAN RAPER, DLITT ET PHIL
CHAIRMAN, LAEO'S INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE ADVISOR BOARD
Dr. Raper is the President of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science (S2A3). Additionally, he is the Chair of the Scientific Editors Forum of South Africa (SEFSA). Dr. Raper has helped to guide a number of our campaigns and initiatives, most notably our work to prevent the unnecessary culling of over 3,000 elephants, as well as our informational publications.
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PETER A. G. RUSSELL
ACTING PRESIDENT & CEO, RESTCO, INC
Peter Russell is a Professional Engineer whose experience straddles the fields of Industrial Engineering and Building Technology and is backed by a long-time commitment to seeking paths to greater sustainability. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering, and then obtaining a master’s degree in Production Engineering, at Birmingham University in the UK, Peter pursued a career in manufacturing industries in the UK and Canada. During 19 years at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) in Ottawa he managed the contracting and research into a very broad range of topics, including solar energy systems, indoor air quality, basement structures, composite wood structures, mechanical systems, district heating, prefabricated housing, foundation systems for Arctic housing, life-cycle costing of houses, and embodied energy of building materials. This mix of experience formed the basis for his role as one of the principals involved in establishing CMHC’c Healthy Housing initiative. He was appointed as Canada’s representative on the International Energy Agency (IEA) Future Buildings Forum, an international body required to identify energy- and building-related research priorities. He has chaired 13-nation IEA Annex 31 – Energy Related Environmental Impact of Buildings, bringing together leading expertise. He was vice-chair of the Canadian Standards Association’s (CSA) committee on Heat Recovery Ventilators, and also served on CSA’s committee set up to establish a ventilation standard.
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DR. PAUL SAMMARCO
CHAIRMAN OF LAEO US SCIENCE & TECH ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Sammarco is a Professor at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), Chauvin, Louisiana, USA who has been conducting research on coral reef ecology for over 40 years, in the western Atlantic (Caribbean, Florida Keys, Gulf of Mexico, and the Bahamas) and on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. He has over 235 publications and has served as an Assistant Professor at Clarkson University (NY), a senior research scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and Executive Director and a Research Professor at LUMCON. He also served as the Director of Environmental Research for the Resource Assessment Commission, Dept. of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia for several years (PM’s personal commission on key natural resource and environmental issues), providing Dr. Sammarco with intensive training and experience in government policy and decision making. He is currently Executive Director of the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC), Chairman of the State Commission for the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center (SLWDC), Associate Editor of Aquatic Biology. He was also an editor for Marine Ecology Progress Series and Marine Biology (Berlin) for 6 years each, consecutively. His Ph.D. is in ecology and evolution, but has conducted interdisciplinary work with numerous collaborators in biophysics; natural products chemistry and chemical ecology; geology – stable isotope geochemistry, bio-erosion, and reef growth processes; meteorology – climate change, sea surface temperatures, and prediction of coral bleaching; mathematics – analytical modeling; and oil spill remediation techniques.
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DR. IAN STEWART
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HUMANITITES, UNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE
Dr. Stewart is a historian of science and technology at the University of King's College in Halifax.
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DAVID SUPPLE
CEO, NEW ENGLAND DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION
David Supple is the CEO of New England Design & Construction (NEDC), an award-winning, full-service creative Architectural Design Build firm showcasing the beauty of sustainable design in Boston. Lifting Spirits with Spaces is NEDC’s motto. David is an architecture alumnus of Tufts University, former standout football & lacrosse player, father of two, and passionate advocate of the true role of the Architect throughout history as Master Builder, writing extensively on this topic. Inspired by hearing Lawrence Anthony speak in 2005, the same year NEDC was founded, David focuses his firm heavily towards eco-friendly and creative, sustainable design. David is working to forward LAEO’s Cooperative Ecology™ concept, aiming to increase awareness in the construction industry of the vital partnership for survival we all have with the natural world. With the profound impact the built environment has on the natural environment, David’s work to bring about a more in-depth understanding of the CoEco concept that "none survive alone" is of vital importance.
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JOHN TURLEY
PETROLEUM ENGINEER & RETIRED VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS FOR MARATHON OIL
Mr. Turley's multi-decade career includes the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Marietta College (professor, petroleum engineering), and Marathon Oil, where he served as Gulf Coast drilling manager, U.K. operations manager, manager of worldwide drilling, and VP of engineering & technology. His academics include petroleum engineering (Colorado School of Mines), ocean engineering (U of Miami), and executive education (Harvard). He is the author of THE SIMPLE TRUTH: BPs MACONDO BLOWOUT, a definitive work on the cause of British Petroleum's devastating blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010
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DR. ELDAR URMANCHEYEV
Dr. Urmancheyev is a Doctor of Economics and an engineer. As the CEO and Founder of The Investor’s Guardian, he utilizes advanced patented software algorithms designed to fully analyze risk management of land development projects. Additionally, he is the owner of a highly successful real estate investment and management firm in Moscow, with extensive experience in legal and IP protection management. He is a construction risk management expert and consultant and has developed and managed a wide range of real estate development projects for both private and government enterprise.
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MAKS VRECKO
CEO, FLASKA
Based in Slovenia, the Flaska Company has a fascinating history behind its founding by Maks Vrecko. After achieving spectacular results with large fields of strawberry crops utilizing “restructured water” (a method intended to bring water stored in pipes and other containers back to its more natural, spring water state), he devised a method to create glass water bottles that contain vibrational frequencies projected to make water that is put into the bottle more like healthy spring water to enhance human and animal health. Maks was introduced to our organization in 2020 and immediately decided to become a Corporate Sponsor to help forward our work in truly meaningful ways.
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DR. RICHARD A. F. WARBY
Dr. Warby graduated from Natal University in South Africa with a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry and a U.S. coursework Masters equivalent in Pure Chemistry. Dr. Warby got his M.Sc. degree in Soil Science from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University in upstate New York. He also was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal looking at the remediation of rehabilitated mine soils. Dr. Warby’s research focuses on the development of analytical techniques for environmental samples with complex matrices, and the development/application of QAQC procedures in environmental chemistry. Specifically, he is interested in how northeast forest soils and surface waters respond to changes in atmospheric deposition and climate. He is also developing various analytical methods including: a non-lethal method to sample and analyze avian adipose tissue for Persistent Organic Pollutants; detect, identify, and quantify TCE and its metabolites in genetically modified plants used in phytoremediation; and qualitatively identify VOCs emitted from plants. Dr. Warby has 17 years of experience working in an analytical or synthetic chemistry laboratory and he worked as an environmental engineer specializing in sample collection and data analysis before returning to academia. Dr. Warby also owns an environmental consulting and education company, The Warby Group LLC, specializing in QAQC, data validation, and general environmental education for universities and private industry.
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DR. JOHN R. WOLFE, PH.D., P.E., BCEE
John is a Vice President at LimnoTech, managing corporate efforts to expand scientific and technical capacity through innovation and training. He has managed projects involving fate and transport of contaminants, site investigation, discharge to surface waters under NPDES and industrial pretreatment permits, effects of CSOs on water quality, energy-water issues, and environmental economics. He has extensive expertise in surface water quality modeling, including contaminated sediments, wastewater treatment, and permitting; and groundwater protection, and is a Board Certified Environmental Engineer in the specialty area of Hazardous Waste Management. Prior to his career in engineering, John worked for 13 years as an economist, including 11 years as a university professor. He served as a member of the Committee on Sediment Dredging at Superfund Megasites of the National Research Council of the National Academies. John also now resides in the Los Angeles, California area, and is seeking to expand LimnoTech’s services to West Coast clients.
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DR. DAVID WRIGHT, PH.D DSC
Dr. David Wright is the President of Environmental Research Services. Dr. Wright has a long and impressive history as an Environmental Toxicologist with a niche expertise in the testing of ballast water discharge for enforcement of the International Ballast Water Convention standards. His company, Environmental Research Services (ERS), is primarily involved with providing information and biological and chemical analytical services. He has worked in the field of physiological effects of trace metals and petroleum hydrocarbons; toxicity bioassays; environmental risk assessments; effects of UV light on aquatic organisms; physical/chemical anti-fouling strategies; control of non-indigenous aquatic species; natural product biocides; and water treatment technologies. In 2010 he was Senior Scientist aboard two vessels monitoring the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a career spanning more than forty years he has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and books on aspects of environmental physiology and toxicology involving trace metals, petroleum hydrocarbons and non-indigenous species control. He holds three patents on water treatment technology.
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MERLIN YOCKSTICK
Author – Instructional Designer – Co-Founder of Blue Planet Groupe, & Refounding a BOLD America. Activist in health care and social, economic, environmental sustainability challenges and adaptability. Merlin’s focus is on the fundamentals of Societies and Civilization – Water/Food-Agriculture/Health and Education and has a Massive Transformative Purpose to engage youth, community and business leaders in “building smart communities and a more evolved world from the bottom up.” Merlin is a new water scientist and is credited with creating a new category of “functional” and wellness water for the bottled water industry in the mid 90’s. He is the co-author of a new book The Water Solution which introduces technology capable of solving global water scarcity. He is also committed to disrupting the existing bottled water industry by improving its quality, its delivery and by replacing plastic packaging with a zero-carbon, plant-based compostable packaging. Member of Smart Growth America, U.S Water Alliance and Escape Fire • USA – the Fight to Rescue American Health Member and Active Participant in the Singularity University HUB group that is advancing the Exponential Growth of Information Technology. Trained as an educator and in instructional design, Merlin is credited with re-inventing the educational text book in 1973 and from 73-90 published interactive and graphic-based social studies, science and reading/language arts materials for grades k-12 in the US and Canada. Merlin understands the fundamentals and nature of learning and is committed to the advancement of 21st Century education and lifelong learning in our nation’s schools, organizations and communities. His love for nature and commitment to the stewardship of our Blue and Water Planet is the central theme of his vision for business and humanitarian endeavors 2016 and beyond.
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