报告题目：Bioreactor Landfills for Sustainable Solid Waste Management: Design, Operation, Monitoring and Management
报 告 人：Dr. Rao Y. Surampalli
报告时间：2008年6月4日 下午3：00-4：30
报告地点：浙江大学华家池校区环保楼204室
报告人简介：
Dr. Rao Y. Surampalli, Engineer Director with United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), has been with EPA for the past 21 years. Rao received M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from
Dr. Rao Y. Surampalli has authored more than 370 technical publications, including five books, 31 book chapters, 136 refereed (peer-reviewed) journal articles, presented at more than 180 national and international conferences, and given over 30 plenary, keynote or invited presentations worldwide. Currently, he serves on 39 national and international committees, review panels, or advisory boards including the ASCE’s National Energy, Environmental and Water Resources Policy Committee. He is Editor of two well-known refereed journals - the Water Environment Research Journal published by the Water Environment Federation (WEF), and the Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management Journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He also serves on the Editorial Boards of three other Environmental Journals. He is as well an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Engineering at five universities: Iowa State University-Ames, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
At the request of host nations, he has provided technical assistance, facilitated technology transfer, and built technical capacity for numerous developed and developing nations including Brazil, India, Nepal, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Panama, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Philippines and Korea.
In his 28-year career, Dr. Surampalli has received numerous awards and honors including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) “National Government Engineer of the Year Award” for his exemplary professional work, research, prolific contribution to technical literature, and voluntary activities around the world as a technical expert and advisor. He also received the ASCE “State- of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award,” “Rudolph Hering Medal,” “Wesley Horner Medal”, and the “Best Practice Oriented Paper Award” for various research publications in applied research. He received the “Founders Gold Medal” conferred by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) in 2001. He was, as a result, designated the 22nd “National Federal Engineer of the Year” for 2001. Nominees from 78 federal departments and agencies competed for this national award. He was the only professional to be selected from among the 124,000 engineers working for the Federal Government and is the very first USEPA engineer to win this prestigious award. NSPE also designated him as one of the “Top Ten Federal Engineers of the Year” for 2000 and 2001. He received the Water Environment Federation’s (WEFs) “Philip Morgan Award” for improving the performance of existing RBC systems, the U.S. EPA’s “Scientific and Technological Achievement Award,” thrice the “EPA Engineer of the Year Award” (1987, 2000, 2001) and, twice, the “Outstanding Service Medal”. He also is a recipient of the American Society of Military Engineer’s (ASME) “Hollis Medal” in 2000, Federal Executive Board’s “Distinguished Military Award” in 2007, and the U.S. Public Health Service’s “Samuel Lin Award” in 1999.
Named a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus (the highest award given to an alumni) of both the Oklahoma State University and Iowa State University, Dr. Surampalli was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005. AAAS is the world’s largest scientific society and election as a fellow is a high honor and recognizes an individual for his/her "efforts toward advancing science or fostering applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished". He also is a Diplomate of the American