JANET G. HERING
Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering Executive Officer for Keck Laboratories
jhering@caltech.edu
Biography
CV (pdf)Education
A.B., Cornell University, 1979
A.M., Harvard University, 1981
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988
Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science & Engineering
Executive Officer for Keck Laboratories, Professor (2002 to present); Associate Professor (1996-2002)
University of California, Los Angeles, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Adjunct Professor (1997-1999), Associate Professor (1995-1996), Assistant Professor (1991-1995)
Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control (EAWAG), Duebendorf, Switzerland, Chemistry Department
Research Fellow (1988-1991)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water Resources and Hydrodynamics, Department of Civil Engineering
Research and Teaching Assistant (1982-1988)
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Chemistry Department
Research and Teaching Assistant (1979-1981)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Chemistry Department
Teaching Assistant (1978-1979)
Mobil Oil Research and Development Corporation, Princeton, NJ
Summer Research Intern (Summer 1978)
Patents and Invention Disclosures
Hering, J.G. and Min, J.H., Calcium-Iron(III)-Doped Alginate Gel Beads for Sorption of Arsenate and Selenate, U.S. Patent No. 6,203,709 (issued 3/20/2001).
Awards, Professional Affiliations, and Activities
2004 Associate Editor, Environmental Science & Technology (to present)2003 Co-organizer of an international workshop on "Biogeochemical Controls on the Mobility and Biolavailability of Metals in Soils and Groundwater", Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ascona, Switzerland, March 2-7.
2002 Invited speaker, National Academy of Sciences, "Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century: Workshop on the Environment", Irvine, CA, November 19-19,2002
2002-2003 Panel member, National Science Foundation, Hydrology Panel
2001 Invited participant, National Science Foundation workshop on Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Assessment Network for Environmental Research, Stanford, CA, December 4-5.
2001 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow (to present) 2000 Editorial Advisory Board Member, Environmental Science and Technology (to present)
2000 Co-organizer of symposium on "Chemical Speciation and Reactivity in Water Chemistry and Water technology: A Symposium in Honor of James J. Morgan", Environmental Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society 220th National Meeting, Washington, DC, August 20-25.
2000 Consultant, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science Advisory Board, Drinking Water Committee. 2000 Panel member, National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship Panel, Arlington, VA, February 17-20.
1999 Co-organizer of symposium on "Interfacial and Colloidal Phenomena in Aquatic Environments", Environmental Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society 217th National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25.
1999 Panel member, National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship Panel, Arlington, VA, February 5-7.
1998 Guest Editor, Environmental Science and Technology.
1998 Co-organizer of symposium on "Research and Education Challenges in Environmental Chemistry", Environmental Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society 216th National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 23-27.
1997 Invited participant in the National Academy of Sciences "Ninth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Science," Irvine, CA, November 6-8.
1997 Invited session chair at National Science Foundation Workshop on "Research Needs for Coastal Pollution in Urban Areas", Milwaukee, WI, October 16-17.
1997 Invited participant at the Sandia National Laboratories workshop on "Natural Attenuation of Metals and Radionuclides," Alburquerque, NM, June 18-20.
1997 Co-organizer of symposium on "Redox Reactions in Natural and Engineered Aqueous Systems", Environmental Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society 213th National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13-17.
1997 Panel member, National Science Foundation, Minority Graduate Fellowship Panel, Washington, DC, February 12-14.
1997 Panel member, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Arsenic Research, Board of Scientific Counselors, Washington, DC, January 22-23.
1996 Invited participant in the National Academy of Engineering "Second Annual Symposium on Frontiers in Engineering," Irvine, CA, September 19-21.
1996 Invited speaker at the American Water Works Association Research Foundation Technology Transfer Conference, Costa Mesa, CA, August 1-2.
1995 NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows Award
1995 Co-organizer of symposium on "Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena in Aquatic Environments", Environmental Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society 209th National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, April 2-6.
1994 UCLA Faculty Career Development Award
1994 Invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences - Water, New Hampton, NH, June 20-24.
1994 Invited participant in the National Science Foundation Workshop on "Environmental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry", Airlie, VA, May 18-21.
1994 Co-organizer of symposium on "Physical-Chemical Processes Controlling Contaminant Mobility in Aquatic Environments", Environmental Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society 207th National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13-17.
1994 Invited participant in the National Academy of Engineering workshop on "Academic Engineering Research in a Changing World: Issues, Problems, and Solutions", Irvine, CA, Feb. 18-20.
1993 Who's Who in the World, 11th ed.
1992 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award.
1992 Invited discussion leader at the Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Sciences - Water, New Hampton, NH, June 15-19.
1990 Poster Session Chair, European Research Conference on Particles in Natural Waters and in Water Technology, Il Ciocco, Italy, Sept. 3-7.
1988 Student Research Award from the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry for the paper "Slow Coordination Reactions in Aquatic Systems".
1975-1979 National Merit Scholar, Cornell University.
Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Water Works Association, Association of Environmental Engineering Professors, The Oceanography Society, Sigma Xi
Reviewer: Environmental Science and Technology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Deep-Sea Research, Journal of Environmental Engineering ASCE, Colloids and Surfaces, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of the American Water Works Association, Nature, Separation Science and Technology, Water Environment Research, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ACS/Petroleum Research Fund
Consulting: Carollo Engineers (2002), Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (2001), Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (2000-2001), Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board (2000), Lord, Bissell & Brook (2000), Law Office of Irwin Stevenson (1999), TetraTech (1999), Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro (1996), LaFollett, Johnson, de Haas, Fesler and Ames (1996), Zeneca (1995-1996)
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