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Boris A. Faybishenko

Earth Staff Scientist

Hydrogeology Department
Energy Geosciences Division
Earth and Environmental Sciences Area

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
M/S 74R316C
510-486-4852

[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education
  • Experience
  • Awards
  • Professional Affiliations
  • Advisory Boards, Committees, Councils, and other Professional Activities

Biography

Boris Faybishenko, Ph.D., D.Sc., is Earth Staff Scientist of Energy Geosciences Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Conducted field site characterization, monitoring and modeling investigations of coupled water and gas flow and chemical transport (organics, radionuclides, and metals) in unsaturated (vadose zone) and saturated (groundwater) soils and fractured rock. These investigations have been related to environmental protection, bioremediation, natural attenuation, long-term monitoring of contaminated areas, and optimization of coupled water-energy systems under present-day and future climatic conditions. Conducted investigations at several organically and radioactively contaminated sites in the USA (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho; Savannah River Site, Georgia; Rifle site, CO; McClellan Air Force Site, Sacramento, CA; Yucca Mountain, NV; Hanford Site, WA) and in other countries—Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Argentina. Led preparation of the Fifth Worldwide Review of Nuclear Waste Disposal in Geological Formations. Development and application of statistical methods for Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) of meteorological and hydrological data related to the assessment of climate changes and ecohydrologic problems.

Provided expert advice and national and international partnership associated with a wide range of contamination issues including Chernobyl and DOE legacy waste sites that have led to major impacts through environmental remediation protecting health, safety, and the environment.

Authored and co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 12 books and book chapters, over 100 abstracts of scientific presentations, more than 50 reports, and 7 patents.

 

Research Interests

Investigations are related to the problems of nuclear waste disposal, environmental protection, remediation, natural attenuation, long-term monitoring, risk assessment and optimization of coupled water-energy systems under present-day and future climatic conditions, as well as climatic investigations. Research includes the development of innovative in situ site characterization and monitoring tools, conceptual and numerical models for complex soil and groundwater systems, using methods of nonlinear dynamics, chaos, fuzzy systems and stochastic modeling. These methods are applied for investigations of coupled subsurface water and gas flow and reactive chemical transport of organics, radionuclides, and metals in unsaturated (vadose zone) and saturated (groundwater) soils and fractured rock.

Education

  • Doctor of Science, Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering, 1988
  • Diploma, Institute of Management, Standardization, and Metrology, Kiev, Ukraine, 1985
  • Ph.D., All-Union Institute of Hydraulic Engineers and Land Reclamation, Moscow, Russia, 1978
  • B.S. and M.S., Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1970

Experience

  • Earth Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, Energy Geosciences Division, 1995-Present
  • Research Engineer, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1991-1996
  • Head of Laboratory for Hydrogeological and Engineering Geology Forecasting, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1983-1990
  • Senior Scientist, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1977-1983
  • Engineer, Senior Engineer, Head of Field Expedition, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1970-1977
  • Lecturer: University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vadose Zone Hydrology, 1998. Invited lecturer at the Department of Nuclear Engineering (2014, 2015, 2019), and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, 2019
  • Lecturer: Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, Groundwater Dynamics, Vadose Zone Hydrology, Land Reclamation Hydrogeology, Hydrogeochemistry, 1977-1990

Awards

  • LBNLs Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievements in the area of Societal Impact, 2019

Professional Affiliations

  • American Geophysical Union
  • Geological Society of America
  • International Association of Hydrogeologists
  • National Groundwater Association
  • Soil Science Society of America

Advisory Boards, Committees, Councils, and other Professional Activities

  • Member of AGU’s Paul Witherspoon’s Mid-Carrier Lecture Award: Nomination Committee, 2016-2019, and Award fund raising Committee, 2016-present
  • Member of the LBNL Conflict of Interest Advisory Committee (COIAC), since 2018
  • Co-Chair, Organizing Committee of the Complex Soil Systems Conference, Soil Sciences Society of America SSSA/Bouyoucos, Berkeley Lab, and DOE Conference, 2014
  • Member of the Organizing Committees of the Dynamics of Flow and Transport in Fractured Rock Symposiums (1999, 2004)
  • Member, Extreme Storm Events Work Group (ESEWG) of the Federal Subcommittee on Hydrology (SOH), since 2019; Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Models (ISCMEM), 2010-2018
  • Participated in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Expert Group four missions (2009, 2010, 2011, 2017) to Chernobyl, Ukraine, and co-authored an IAEA report on the decommissioning and remediation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's (ChNPP) Cooling Pond, 2019
  • Invited presentation at the National Groundwater Association (NGWA) “Pillars of Groundwater Innovation” Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 2013
  • Opening keynote presentation at the Remediation Technology (RemTech 2013) Symposium, Canada, 2013
  • Invited presentation at the Joint Workshop “Climate Change, Regional Consequences and Management Measures” of the US National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which was held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 2009
  • Peer Review Committee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, EPD/ERD Environmental Transport Modeling, 1995
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