Lifetime Achievement Award:
Tom Schneider
- Involved with ITRC since 1998:
- Served on multiple teams and Team Leader for 2 Radionuclides Teams
- Ohio POC
- Board At-Large State Representative in 2012
- Co-Chair 2013 to April 2017 overseeing major enhancements (Strategic Plan, Remediation Plus, new federal partners and ERIS restructuring)
- Represented Ohio on various national organizations addressing cleanup of federal facilities including State and Tribal Governments Working Group, National Governors Association Federal Facilities Task Force, and ECOS Federal Facilities Forum
- Ohio Trustee representative implementing largest natural resources damages settlement against the federal government for contamination at Fernald
- Currently Federal Facilities Program Administrator in the Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization
Environmental Excellence Awards:
Jim Harrington
- Part of ITRC since its inception in 1995:
- Played an integral role in the creation and establishment of ITRC's strategic direction and functions
- ITRC Team Leader Liaison to the Board
- Team leader for 4 teams
- IBT Trainer for Vapor Intrusion & ISS Teams
- Served as Point of Contact for New York since 1995
- Currently a Director in the Division of Environmental Remediation at NY Department of Environmental Conservation and will retire in 2017
Jeff Heimerman
- EPA Liaison to the ITRC Board from 1995 to early 2000's
- Pioneered the development and use of online tools to share ITRC content
- Founded EPA’s TechDirect
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of:
- Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN)
- Brownfields Technical Support Center
- Field Analytical Technologies Encyclopedia (FATE)
- Currently Senior Advisor, Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
Michael Murphy
- With ITRC and ECOS for over 9 years
- ITRC Board of Advisors member for 7 years
- Co-Chair 2012 to Jan. 2017 – overseeing major ITRC enhancements (Strategic Plan, Remediation Plus, new federal partners and ERIS restructuring)
- Currently an emeritus stakeholder member of Methane Detection Team
- Over 30 years helping advance environmental technology:
- Director of Virginia DEQ’s Division of Environmental Enhancement for over 15 years
- Last 6 years Director of the Virginia DEQ Piedmont Regional Office
- Retiring from VADEQ in 2017
Charles J. Newell, PE, PhD
- VP of GSI Environmental Inc. and Adjunct Professor at Rice University:
- Over 20 years of experience with fate, transport, and remediation of soil and groundwater contaminants
- Co-authored 5 USEPA publications, 12 environmental decision support software systems, over 60 technical articles, & 2 books
- Served as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on numerous DoD SERDP/ESTCP projects
- Worked with ITRC for >10 years as a team member on several teams:
- Co-authored many technical documents
- Served as an instructor for both online and classroom courses
- Helped recruit other leading experts to participate in ITRC work groups
Dr. David Tsao
- Involved with ITRC for over 19 years:
- Participated in 13 technical teams
- Industry Representative on the Board of Advisors since 2013 & Coordinates many Board special projects
- Currently BPs Americas Technology Manager for Remediation Engineering and Technology
- Co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and textbooks
- Held many professional positions:
- Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for USEPA's Midwest Hazardous Substance Research Center
- Industrial Partner on the DOE's joint program with the Russian Academy of Sciences
- BioChem Strike Team Leader for the Deepwater Horizon response