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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Technical Advisory Committee and Peer Review

The Lower Passaic River is a complex estuarine system. The partner agencies will need to use the latest scientific techniques to study where contaminants are in the river, how those contaminants might affect the river's inhabitants, and how habitat might be created or enhanced. To make sure that the partner agencies are using sound science in the study, a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has been formed. The TAC consists of nationally recognized experts in the scientific areas indentified as important for this project's success. These areas include sediment transport, sediment geochemistry, bioaccumulation and food chain modeling, contaminant fate and transport, mercury modeling, field sampling techniques, and engineering aspects of sediment remediation.
   
A group of peer reviewers was convened to review the Comprehensive Conceptual Site Model (with associated Empirical Mass Balance), which is a key decision-making tool in the Early Action. The group consisted of TAC members with relevant expertise who were not involved in the day-to-day development of the Conceptual Site Model and other outside experts.

TAC Members

Alan F. Blumberg, Ph.D.
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, New Jersey
Richard F. Bopp, Ph.D.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Troy, New York
Bruce J. Brownawell, Ph.D.
Marine Sciences Research Center
State University of New York
at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York
Jonathan Butcher, Ph.D., P.H.
Tetra Tech, Inc.
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina

Frank A. P. C. Gobas, Ph.D.
School of Resource and Environmental Mgt.
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia; Canada
Wilbert J. Lick, Ph.D.
University of California at Santa Barbara
Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
Santa Barbara, California
Robert P. Mason, Ph.D.
Department of Marine Sciences
University of Connecticut
Groton, Connecticut

Peer Review of Comprehensive Conceptual Site Model

Richard F. Bopp, Ph.D.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Troy, New York
Bruce J. Brownawell, Ph.D.
Marine Sciences Research Center
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York
Jonathan Butcher, Ph.D., P.H.
Tetra Tech, Inc.
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina

Erik R. Christensen, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dominic M. DiToro, Ph.D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Wilbert J. Lick, Ph.D.
University of California at Santa Barbara
Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
Santa Barbara, California