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Gregory W. Characklis

Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

School of Public Health

Rosenau Hall, CB7431

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400

email: abou55@r.postjobfree.com

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Education

Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1999.

M.S. Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1994.

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1989.

Professional Experience

Director, Center for Watershed Science and Management, Institute for the Environment,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011-present

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Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, 2007-present

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Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2010-

2011

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Associate Editor, Water Resources Research, 2003-2010

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Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, 2001-2007

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Director, Resource Development & Management, Azurix Corp., Houston, TX, 19992001

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Fellow, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC, 1997-1999

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Research Asst., Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Rice University,

Houston, TX, 19921997

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Visiting Scholar, Van Hall Institute, Groningen, Netherlands, MayJuly 1994.

Associate Scientist, EG&G Idaho, Inc., Idaho National Engineering and Environmental

Laboratory (INEEL), Idaho Falls, ID, 1990 1991.

Honors & Professional Activities

Task Force, A New Scientific Agenda for the Hydrologic Sciences, International

Association of Hydrologic Sciences, 2011-present.

Vice-Chair, Committee on Water and Society, American Geophysical Union, 2011-present.

Fellow, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, Stanford University, 2011

Co-Chair, Workshop on Integrating Economic and Financial Principles into Environmental

Engineering Research and Education, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, January

2011.

Session Co-Chair, Meeting of the European Geosciences Union, 2011, 2012.

Kenan Competitive Research Leave, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010-2011.

Working Group, Hydrologic Synthesis: Toward a New Research Agenda for Water, National

Science Foundation, 2010-2011.

Chair, AEESP President's Strategic Initiative, "Expanding Opportunities for Environmental

Research Using Economic, Financial and Business Entrepreneurship Principles," 2009-2011.

Invited Participant, German-American Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of

Engineering, Potsdam, Germany, April 2009.

Chair, ASCE Environmental and Water Resource Systems Committee, 2008 (Secretary, 2006;

Vice-Chair, 2007; Past-Chair, 2009).

Technical Advisory Committee, North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, 2003;

2006-2008.

Chair, ASCE Task Committee on Systems Analysis and NSF Environmental Observatories, 2006-

2008.

Session Co-Chair, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

Invited Speaker, Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering, Irvine, CA,

September 2003.

Fellow, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C., 1997-99.

Outstanding Doctoral Student, Environmental Science and Eng., Rice University, 1998.

Hudspeth Graduate Research Award, Delange Conference, Houston, TX, March 1997.

Graduate Research Award, Water Environment Association, Austin, TX, June 1993.

Publications (superscript indicates student or postdoc working with Dr. Characklis: M =

masters; D = doctoral; P = post-doc)

National Research Council

North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute and North Carolin Urban Water

Consortium, $50,000, 03/10 - 06/11, Principal Investigator.

Operating Policies and Administrative Procedures Governing Operations of the John H.

Kerr Project on the Roanoke River, North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural

Resources, $74,282, 09/08 04/09, co-Principal Investigator (PI: Richard Whisnant).

Linkage of bacterial pathogens to human infectious disease in an estuary subjected to

extreme climatic events, National Science Foundation, $1,527,139, 9/08 08/12, co-

Principal Investigator (PI: Rachel Noble).

National Strategy for Environment and Health for the United Arab Emirates, Environment

Agency Abu Dhabi, $4,562,312, 6/08 5/11, co-investigator (PI: Jacqueline MacDonald).

North Carolina Water Allocation Study, North Carolina Environmental Review Commission,

$100,000, 1/08 12/08, co-Principal Investigator (PI: Richard Whisnant).

"Promoting North Carolina's Economic Development through Strategic Water Resource

Management", North Carolina Research Competitiveness Fund, $246,000, 12/07 12/08,

Principal Investigator.

Evaluating Giardia and Cryptosporidium Partitioning in New York City Water Supply

Reservoirs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/New York City Department of

Environmental Protection, $385,000, 8/06 8/07, Principal Investigator.

"Improved Regional Supply Strategies Using Probability-based Inter-utility Transfer

Agreements," Research Triangle Utilities, $80,000, 9/06-7/08, Principal Investigator.

"Developing a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for a Biologically Impaired Waterbody",

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/North Carolina Dept. of Environment and Natural

Resources, $200,000, 7/06 6/09, Principal Investigator.

"Identifying the Origins and Attachment Behavior of Non-point Source Microbial

Contaminants", North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute/North Carolina Urban

Water Consortium, $49,000, 7/05 12/06, Principal Investigator.

"Regional Solutions to Developing Water Supplies", American Water Works Association

Research Foundation (AWWARF) and USEPA, $347,000, 10/03 9/05, co-Principal Investigator

(PI: Stratus Consulting, Inc.).

"Reducing the Cost of Maintaining Regional Water Supply Reliability", Progress Energy/NC

Urban Water Consortium, $80,000, 6/04 6/06, Principal Investigator.

"Impacts of Anthropogenic Change on the Ecology of Human Pathogens in a Eutrophic

Estuary", National Science Foundation/National Institutes of Health, $1,796,000, 9/03

8/08, co-Principal Investigator (PI: Crawford-Brown, D.).

"Impact of Microbial-Particle Interaction on Microbial Fate and Transport in Stormwater",

North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, $75,000, 6/03-5/04,

Principal Investigator.

"Drought vulnerability in the Catawba River Basin", Duke Energy Foundation, $100,000,

5/03 1/04, co-Principal Investigator (PI: Band, L.).

"Reducing the Cost of Maintaining Reliability in Regional Water Supplies", IBM/UNC Junior

Faculty Development Grant, $5,000, 1/03 12/03, Principal Investigator.

"An Expert System for Decisionmaking in the Use of Desalination for Augmenting Water

Supply", U. S. Dept. of Interior/Bureau of Reclamation, $60,000, 9/02 6/04, Principal

Investigator.

"Developing a Minimum Cost Portfolio of Water Assets", University Research Council,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $3,900, 5/02 4/04, Principal Investigator.

"Reduced Cost Strategies for Regional Integration of Surface and Ground-water Use", North

Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, $80,000, 2/02 6/04, Principal Investigator.

"Minimizing Regional Cost of Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater", University

Research Council, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $3,900, 12/01 11/03,

Principal Investigator.

"Conversion from Conventional Treatment to Microfiltration in a Small Water System", U.

S. Environmental Protection Agency, $115,000, 12/01 3/03, co-Principal Investigator (PI:

DiGiano, F. A.).

Invited Presentations

Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, January 2012.

Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Institute for Environmental Engineering,

Zurich, Switzerland, June 2011.

Eidgenossische Anstalt fur Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewasserschutz (EAWAG-

Kastanienbaum Laboratory), Kastanienbaum, Switzerland, May 2011.

Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK,

April 2011.

Landolt Chair Symposium, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, March 2011.

Eidgenossische Anstalt fur Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewasserschutz

(EAWAG), Dubendorf, Switzerland, December 2010.

Latsis Symposium on Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL),

Switzerland, October 2010.

School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale

de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, October 2010.

New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, May 2010

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Virginia Water Resources Research Center, Virginia Tech University, April 2010

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Thomson-Reuters Water Markets Workshop, London, UK, November 2009

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Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, November 2009.

Tribute to Bill Glaze, American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington, DC, August 2009

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North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute Advisory Board Meeting, Raleigh, NC,

May 2009

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Rotary International, Chapel Hill, NC, May 2009

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Water CAMPWS Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2009.

UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands, April 2009.

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 2009.

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain,

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 2009.

Global American South Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, April

2008.

Current Science Forum, Morehead Planetarium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

NC, December 2007.

Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,

NC, November 2007.

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, State College, PA,

October 2007.

Nicholas School for the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, March 2007.

Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Morehead City, NC, September

2006.

Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, MT, June 2006.

Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 2006.

College of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, April 2005.

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March

2005.

Kenan-Flagler Business School, Water and Wastewater Executive Education Program, Chapel

Hill, NC, February 2005.

Dept. of Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, November

2004.

Dept. of Geography & Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD,

November 2004.

Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,

October 2004.

CONCARIBE Environmental Conference, Cartagena, Colombia, May 2004.

Kenan-Flagler Business School, Water and Wastewater Executive Education Program, Chapel

Hill, NC, February 2004.

Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, National Academies

Beckman Center, Irvine, CA, September 2003.

Gregory W. Characklis, Ph. D.

Associate Professor Dept. of Environmental Sciences & Engineering University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill

Rosenau Hall CB# 7431 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7431 Phone: 919-***-**** Fax: (919)

966-7911

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