External Advisory Board


	Stephen Borleske, Former Director, Delaware EPSCoR Borleske served as the Delaware state EPSCoR director from 2002-2010 and has served as an associate director for the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, where he was involved in the development and implementation of the institute's strategic plan. Borleske retired from the DuPont Company in 2004 after 32 years of service; while with DuPont, he had a wide range of roles in basic and applied research and strategic business planning focused on the development of new products, new markets, and new businesses in advanced materials. In 1991, he served as a congressional fellow to the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee working on technology policy. He served as the chair of Delaware's Council of Science and Technology and was instrumental in creating the state’s Advanced Technology Center program. He served on the executive board for the Delaware Manufacturing Extension Partnership and was the chair of the advisory board for Fraunhofer Center-Delaware. Borleske has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Duke University. Website
	Jeffrey Bross, Chair of Duffield Associates, Inc., Board of Directors and Executive Committee A registered Professional Engineer in Delaware, Nebraska, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and a fellow of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), Jeffrey Bross has served as past president of ACEC Delaware, chaired the board of the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce, co-chaired the New Castle County Economic Development Council, and served on the board of the Associated General Contractors of Delaware. He holds appointments to the state’s Workforce Investment Board, Stormwater Management Task Force, Clean Water Advisory Council, Livable Delaware Infill and Redevelopment Subcommittee, and the New Castle County Executive’s Task Force on Redevelopment. An adjunct instructor in civil and environmental engineering at UD, Bross has authored numerous technical articles and is a national speaker on environmental and construction issues. He was named Delaware’s Engineer of the Year in 2006. Website
	Hugh J. Campbell, Jr., Director, Chemical and Environmental Management Programs, DuPont Company At the DuPont Company, Campbell has been involved in various chemical and environmental engineering and management assignments involving industrial wastewater treatment, solid/hazardous waste, remediation, Superfund, underground injection, and other risk-based chemical management programs. He focuses on legislative/regulatory advocacy at the federal and state levels and on global implementation programs. Campbell has served in numerous leadership roles with the Chemical Manufacturers Association related to environmental health, safety, and chemical management. He has been vice chair and chair of the American Industrial Health Council (AIHC) board of directors; chair of the Alliance for Chemical Awareness (ACA); chair of the Water Pollution Control Federation's Industrial Wastes Committee; a member of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association's (SOCMA) Environmental Quality Committee and chair of its Water Subcommittee. In his ACC and SOCMA responsibilities, Campbell has represented the chemical industry in testimony before Congress and in various regulatory forums at the federal and state levels. Campbell has served as a member of the ASCE Oxygen Transfer Committee, working on the development of oxygen transfer testing methods, and as chair of an ASCE Steering Subcommittee, managing a $1.2 million EPA research grant. Website
	Patricia Dwyer, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wesley College Dwyer is the vice president for academic affairs and a professor in the Department of Language and Literature at Wesley College. Before arriving at Wesley in June 2009, she was associate vice president of academic initiatives at College of Notre Dame of Maryland for almost four years. Prior to Notre Dame, she was at Shepherd University in West Virginia for 13 years, where she a professor in the Department of English and Modern Language and served in a variety of administrative positions. Her work in assessment began in 1998 when she chaired the assessment committee in preparation for the Higher Learning Commission accreditation for Shepherd University. Since then, she has presented at national and international conferences, published on assessment in peer-reviewed books and journals, and represents the Middle States Commission on Higher Education as a site-team reviewer. Website
	Menachem Elimelech, Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Director of the Environmental Engineering Program, and Roberto Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering Elimelech holds a B.S. in soil and water sciences, an M.S. in environmental science and technology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University. As his first appointment, Elimelech served as professor and vice chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCLA. Upon coming to Yale in 1998, he founded Yale's Environmental Engineering Program, which he continues to direct. Elimelech was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and was awarded the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize in 2005. His research focuses on problems involving physicochemical and biophysical processes in engineered and natural environmental systems, including membrane separations for desalination and water quality control; transport and adhesion of microbial pathogens; processes involving nanoparticles and biomacromolecules; and water, sanitation, and public health in developing countries. Elimelech has authored more than 140 refereed journal publications and is a co-author of the book Particle Deposition and Aggregation (1995). He currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Colloids and Surfaces A, Desalination, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Engineering Science, and Separation Science and Technology. Website
	Scott Fendorf, Terry Huffington Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Stanford University Fendorf is interested in the chemical and biological processes that control the fate and movement of elements (ranging from carbon to arsenic to uranium) within soils, sediments, and surface waters. His research group examines the chemical environments that develop as a result of both biotic and abiotic processes and strives to account for the physical complexity and hydrology of natural settings. A particular emphasis is given on reactions which change the oxidation state (redox reactions) and associated speciation of contaminants/nutrients or solids that control their partitioning. Website
	Stephanie L. Hansen, Associate, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP Hansen practices in the areas of land-use and environmental law with a special interest in Sussex County land-use development and statewide brownfields redevelopment. Along with shepherding land-use development projects through Sussex County and various municipalities, Hansen also directs brownfields projects through the investigation, cleanup, and approval process. She is a frequent lecturer on brownfields redevelopment in Delaware and has published numerous articles on local land-use and environmental law. She also has participated in drafting Delaware brownfields legislation and serves on the committee drafting regulations and policy to implement the brownfields program. Additionally, Hansen's practice is expanding into municipal law where she has drafted the new statewide municipal election law on behalf of Delaware's municipalities, represents municipalities with environmental issues, and represented a Delaware municipality confronted with the prickly issue of picketing at a local military funeral. Website
	Michael Hochella, University Distinguished Professor of Nanogeoscience and Biogeochemistry, Virginia Tech Hochella received his B.S. and M.S. from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Among his honors, he has been a Fulbright Scholar to Germany, served as president of the Geochemical Society, received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and Fellowship, and was awarded the Dana Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America. He was named Virginia Scientist of the Year in 2005 by Gov. Mark Warner and elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2006. He has served on the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Geosciences and currently serves on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Earth Sciences Council. Hochella has written more than 125 professional publications and edited two books. Currently, he also is the principal editor of the science magazine Elements. Website
	Ruben Kreztschmar, Deputy Head of the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich) Kretzschmar is full professor of soil chemistry and deputy head of the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1994 in the Department of Soil Science at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, where he specialized in soil chemistry and mineralogy. The research of his group is primarily concerned with the chemical behavior and cycling of trace elements in soils and sediments. Topics of past and current research include colloid aggregation and colloid-facilitated transport in natural porous media, competitive sorption of trace metals to minerals and humic substances, speciation of trace elements using synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and dissolution of oxide and silicate minerals in the presence of organic ligands. Currently, his group focuses on the biogeochemistry of metals and metalloids in periodically anoxic soils, such as contaminated river floodplains and irrigated rice paddies. Kretzschmar is an associate editor of the journal ES&T, and he also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition and Geoderma. Website
	Dyremple Marsh, Dean, College of Agriculture and Related Sciences, Delaware State University Marsh is the dean of the College of Agriculture and Related Sciences at Delaware State University and serves on the Delaware EPSCoR leadership team. He has also played an integral role in the catalysis of the Center for Integrated Biological and Environmental Research (CIBER), a faculty network hub housed at DSU. Website
	Patricia Maurice, Professor, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame Maurice's research is focused on field and laboratory based studies of mineral-water interface geochemistry; organic and microbial interactions with mineral surfaces; geochemistry of humic substances; soil chemistry; chemical weathering; hydrology and biogeochemistry of freshwater wetlands; remediation of metal contamination; and global climate change. Website
	Alexandra Navrotsky, Edward Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Director of the Nanomaterials in the Environment, Agriculture and Technology (NEAT) Organized Research Unit at the University of California, Davis Navrotsky’s research focuses on relating microscopic features of structure and bonding to macroscopic thermodynamic behavior in minerals, ceramics and other complex materials. A fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geochemical Society, and the Mineralogical Society (Great Britain), she has published over 480 scientific papers and served as editor of the journal Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. Among her many honors, Navrotsky has received the Mineralogical Society of America Award, Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society, Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science, an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden, and the Urey Medal of the European Association of Geochemistry. Navrotsky is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Chicago. Website
	Helen Fischel, Associate Director, Delaware Nature Society Fischel joined the Delaware Nature Society education department in 1980. Her undergraduate degree is a BS in elementary education from University of Delaware, and she holds a MS in education from Widener University. Helen oversees the education department staff at all of the Delaware Nature Society's sites (Ashland Nature Center, Abbotts Mill Nature Center, Coverdale Farm Preserve, and the DuPont Environmental Education Center) and coordinates the 21 credits worth of classes offered through the University of Delaware. Look for her each season on the trail teaching 1.5-year-olds to teachers programs. Website
	Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University Rosenzweig's primary research involves the development of interdisciplinary methodologies by which to assess the potential impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change. She has joined impact models with global climate models (GCMs) to predict future outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions. Advances include the development of climate change scenarios for impact analysis, and the application of impact models at relevant spatial and temporal scales for regional and national assessments. Recognizing that the complex interactions engendered by global environmental change can best be understood by coordinated teams of experts, Rosenzweig has organized and led large-scale interdisciplinary, national, and international studies of climate change impacts and adaptation. She is the co-leader of the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. She leads the climate impacts research group at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies, whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Website
	David Small, Deputy Secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Small is the deputy secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control where he has worked for 23 years. He has served as the deputy secretary since 2001. Small has also worked as executive assistant to the secretary and joined the department as chief of the Office of Information and Education. He represents Delaware on the board of directors of The Climate Registry and is a member of the board of directors of Wilmington’s Riverfront Development Corporation. He is a past president of the Northeast Fish and Wildlife Information and Education Association and a former State of Delaware Employee of the Year. He is responsible for overseeing six divisions within the department and coordinates legislative and policy matters, enforcement, and communications. Small is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College. Website
	Stephen Sutton, Senior Scientist, Department of Geophysical Sciences and Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory A senior scientist at the University of Chicago’s Department of Geophysical Sciences, Sutton's research focuses on X-ray fluorescence microprobe development and applications in the earth, planetary, and environmental sciences, including studies of extraterrestrial materials. In particular, he is working on the development and application of synchrotron X-ray microanalysis instrumentation and methods for trace-element quantification using the X-ray fluorescence microprobe and chemical speciation determinations using X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy. He has been involved in synchrotron radiation research for over 20 years, currently as co-project leader for the GeoSoilEnviroCARS beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory) and as spokesperson for beamline X26A at the National Synchrotron Light Source (Brookhaven National Laboratory). He received his B.S. in physics and his Ph.D. in earth and planetary sciences from Washington University in St. Louis. Website
	Bernard Sweeney, Director, President, and Senior Research Scientist, Stroud Water Research Center Sweeney's research focuses on the role of water quality monitoring in conservation, population and community ecology of temperate and tropical aquatic invertebrates; pollution assessment in temperate and tropical streams using macroinvertebrates; the role of streamside forests in the structure and function of stream and river ecosystems; factors affecting the growth and survivorship of trees in riparian forests; the effects of global warming on stream ecosystems; genetic variation and gene flow among populations of stream insects; the effects of diel and seasonal temperature change on aquatic insect populations; evolution of facultative parthenogenesis in aquatic insects; bioenergetics and secondary production of aquatic insects; and the bioassay of toxic materials in aquatic systems. Website
	Robert Taylor, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Food Sciences and Director of Land-Grant Programs, Florida A&M University Taylor's research focuses on the mechanisms of toxic heavy metal sorption on soil media particles using classical isothermic techniques coupled with cutting-edge high technology methods such as synchrotron extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (EXAFS). His past research was mainly in the areas of screening soybeans and Bradyrhizobium for tolerance to soil chemical stresses; studying the mechanism and kinetics of phosphate and zinc sorption on soil and mineral surfaces; use of wastewater algal biomass as nitrogen fertilizer using N15-technique; and effects of residual levels of sludge-borne toxic heavy metals and phosphate on soil pollution and phytotoxicity. Website
	June Turansky, Dean of Instruction, Delaware Technical and Community College June Turansky has had a 25-year-long career in the field of nursing. She has an associate degree in nursing from Delaware Tech, a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Marymount University, a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Delaware, and a doctorate in education. Before becoming a nursing instructor at Delaware Tech in 1982, Turansky was a nurse in the critical care unit at Beebe Hospital in Lewes, Del., and at Arlington Hospital in Arlington, Va. Turansky taught at Delaware Tech for 16 years. In 1998, she became the chair of nursing technology and the assistant dean of instruction in 2005. Website
	Fu-Suo Zhang, Dean of the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University Zhang received his B.S. in soil science and agricultural chemistry from Northwestern A&F University, China; his M.S. in soil science and agricultural chemistry from Beijing Agricultural University; and his Ph.D. in plant nutrition from Hohenheim University, Germany. He is the past president of the International Plant Nutrition Council and has served as vice president of the Soil Science Society of China, the Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer Science Society of China, and the Academy of Natural Resources of China. He has also chaired the soil testing and fertilization expert committee serving the Chinese Department of Agriculture. His research focuses on rhizosphere dynamics, plant nutrition mobilization and uptake, and nutrient management. Since 1998, he has been especially interested in developing integrated nutrient management concepts and techniques to realize high-yield and high-efficiency crop production while reducing environmental pollution. He has established a network that of more than 300 soil, plant nutrition, and agronomy professionals in China and 58 experimental stations in 20 provinces and actively maintains research and education programs with 40 scientists from approximately 30 countries. Website
	Yong-Guan Zhu, Professor of Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biology and Director General of the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhu was previously the assistant director of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he still leads a research team working on various aspects of soil-plant interactions. Before joining CAS in 2002, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He obtained his B.Sc. in soil science from the former Zhejiang Agricultural University in 1989 and his M.Sc. in soil science from the Institute of Soil Science, CAS, in 1992. He completed his Ph.D. in environmental biology from Imperial College, London, in 1998. Zhu has received a number of national and international awards, including the National Young Scientist Award, July 2006; “Top Ten Youth” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, April 2007; and the National Natural Science Award in 2009. He has published over 100 papers in international journals, including Environmental Science and Technology, Plant Physiology, Environmental Microbiology, Trends in Plant Science, New Phytologist, Environmental Pollution, and Plant and Soil. Website