Part Coordinators

L. Malcolm Baker, recently retired as the Laboratory Operations Supervisor with the Dallas Water Utilities, is coordinating Part 1000 Introduction. His work there included the development of analytical techniques to monitor organic compounds in treated and untreated water, project management for the laboratory's master plan, and development of priority pollutant analysis using GC/MS. Mr. Baker received his BS in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a member of the AWWA Taste and Odor Committee, both the AWWA and WEF Research Foundation Project Advisory Committees, and the Quality Assurance Committee of the Laboratory Analyst's Section of the Texas Water Utilities.

Terry Baxter is the PC in Part 2000 Physical and Aggregate Properties. Dr. Baxter is an Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University where he teaches courses in Environmental Engineering. He has a BS degree, MS degree, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He was recently the Chair of the Joint Task Group for Section 2710, Tests on Sludges. Prior to Northern Arizona University, Dr. Baxter was with the Quality Assurance Office for Region 7 of the USEPA. He has experience with wastewater treatment and operations, air quality, quality assurance and multimedia application development. Dr. Baxter is also co-author of Environmental Management, Problems and Solutions. He recently directed a project for the City of Phoenix on the development and production of a multimedia computer application for wastewater operations training.

Randy Gottler, Part 3000 Metals, earned a BS degree in zoology from the University of Michigan and an MS in aquatic biology from Eastern Michigan University. He spent ten years with the National Sanitation Foundation (now NSF International) working in several programs including Point of Use Drinking Water Treatment. From there he spent five years with a small Consulting Engineering Firm, McNamee, Porter, and Seeley, as Laboratory Manager and Consultant. He came to the City of Phoenix as Laboratory Superintendent in 1993. His education and background is primarily in public health/water quality management.

Dr. Edward F. Askew is the coordinator for Part 4000 Inorganic Nonmetallic Constituents. His experience has included being the Indiana State Chemist and Seed Commissioner, an analytical chemist with Black and Veatch, and a senior research chemist with Miles, Inc. (now Bayer) in their Agricultural Chemicals Division. Most recently, he has also served as the Laboratory Supervisor/Pretreatment Coordinator for Davenport, Iowa, Water Pollution Control and the Associate Director of the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center in New Mexico.

Dr. Askew received a BS in Chemistry from Northwest Missouri State University in 1982 along with a BS in Secondary Education from that university at the same time. His doctorate is in inorganic chemistry from the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Roy-Keith Smith is the new PC for Part 5000 Aggregate Organic Constituents. Keith graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976 with a BS degree in Chemistry. He graduated from Colorado State University with a Ph.D in Chemistry in 1981. Dr. Smith has worked in medical, pesticide residue, and environmental laboratories, with a specialization in Analytical Chemistry and Quality Assurance in Chemical Measurements. He was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Southern Institute of Technology. He is the author of 11 books and over 60 articles in Chemistry and Chemical Ecology, including "The Third Century of Biochemical Oxygen Demand". He retired from daily participation in the environmental laboratory industry in 2000, but still provides consulting services to industry and government. He is currently a High School Chemistry teacher in St. Augustine, FL. He holds a Florida Professional Teaching Certificate in Chemistry and is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Water Environment Federation, and the National Science Teachers Association.

John Gumpper of ChemVal Consulting in Salt Lake City is the new coordinator for Part 6000 Individual Organic Compounds. John is a Senior Chemist with ChemVal, involved with the upgrade and maintenance of quality assurance systems to meet NELAP requirements. He also supports the Directorate of Environmental Programs at the Dugway Proving Ground and provides quality assurance consulting to a number of environmental laboratories. John has a B.A in Chemistry from Hope College in Holland, Michigan and has spent his career in the determination of organic compounds using a variety of techniques.

The PC for 7000 Radioactivity is Robert T. Shannon. He works as a technical consultant for government and private entities in the areas of radioanalytical chemistry and quality systems with Quality Radioanalytical Support, LLC in Denver, CO. Most recently, he has held positions as Site Subject Matter Expert for Radiobioassay and Radiochemistry and Deputy Manager of the B559 analytical laboratories at Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site in Golden, CO. Previously he has worked with a number of commercial laboratories including positions as Director of Radiochemistry Programs with Acculabs, Inc. in Golden and as Radiochemistry Technical Manager with Paragon Analytics in Fort Collins, CO. Mr. Shannon has a B.A from Grinnell College in Iowa and has studied at the Albert-Ludwig-University School of Earth Studies in Freiburg, Germany and the Colorado School of Mines.

Dr. Donald J. Reish is the PC for Part 8000 Toxicity. He is currently Emeritus Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Reish has been associated with the University for 45 years. He was the first person in North America to demonstrate the importance of the benthic environment in assessing the effects of pollution on marine and estuarine waters and was the first person in the United States to use polychaetes in toxicity tests. An expert on polychaetous annelids specifically and marine invertebrates in general, he has given presentations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In addition, he has presented papers or conducted workshops in Europe, Asia, and South America and has published nearly 300 papers in the field of invertebrate zoology and marine toxicity along with reviews and books. For nearly 40 years, he has annually reviewed the effects of pollution on marine and estuarine waters for the journal Water Environment Research. Dr. Reish's books include "Marine Life of Southern California" and "The Ecology of the Southern California Bight." He received his BS from the University of Oregon, his MA from Oregon State University and his PhD from the University of Southern California.

The PC for 9000 Microbiological Examination is Dr. Margo Hunt, currently a microbiologist with USEPA in Washington, DC. Dr. Hunt received a BA in botany from Drew University, an MS in microbiology from Pennsylvania State University, and her doctorate in ecology from Rutgers University. She has experience in a variety of duties for USEPA such as the development of quality assurance and quality control guidance documents, technical audits of field and laboratory monitoring programs, and technical system assessments of USEPA, state, and commercial laboratories.

Michael K. Hein, Senior Scientist with Water and Air Research, Inc. in Gainesville, Florida coordinates Part 10000 Biological Examination. Mr. Hein has 25 years of experience in vegetation and wetland mapping, protected species surveys, water quality studies, fish surveys, and algae identifications. He is an expert in diatom and algal systematics for both fresh and marine waters. He has had over 30 papers published in the field of aquatic biology including descriptions of new genera and species of diatoms. He is listed in American Men and Women of Science. Mike received his BS in botany from Iowa State University and an MS in botany from Rutgers University.

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