Environmental & Public Health

Since June of 1999 I have been working in the lab of Derek Lovley at University of Massachusetts as a post-doc researcher. My work involves studying the microbial degradation of hydrocarbon contaminants in marine harbor sediments. These...

Amy D. Kyle has research and teaching appointments at the School of Public Health at the University of California Berkeley. Her research focuses on analysis to improve the policy basis for protection of health from environmental...

Marianne Fisher Vandiver is currently working as a physician assistant in a rural family practice office in Stonington, Maine. She previously was one of two staff scientists for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, focusing primarily on...

Karl G. Linden, Ph.D., is the Helen and Huber Croft Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Colorado Boulder. He has a BS from Cornell University and an MS and PhD from University of California at Davis. He teaches...

John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.

Donna Vorhees leads HEI Energy’s work in providing impartial science about potential community exposures and health effects associated with energy production, with an initial focus on unconventional oil and gas development. In this role...

Tom Gill is Professor of Geological Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP). He teaches classes in climate science, geology, atmospheric science, and environmental science. Through UTEP...

Marijke's dissertation developed a market-based control plan for locomotives. She was the lead staff developing the 1998 Memorandum of Understanding wherein southern California railroads committed to using only the cleanest locomotives in...