Boris A. Faybishenko - Earth and Environmental Sciences Area

Biography

Dr. Boris Faybishenko is Staff Scientist of Earth Sciences Division 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 energy-water 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. Authored and co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 12 books and book chapters, over 100 abstracts of scientific presentations, more than 50 reports, and 8 patents. Currently is editing 2 books for American Geophysical Union and Wiley Publisher.

Experience

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth Sciences Division (ESD), 1995-Present
Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998
Research Engineer, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California Conducted research on flow and contaminant transport in saturated-unsaturated media, including the design and field monitoring of unsaturated flow and gas transport in organically and radioactively contaminated soils at the LBNL site, 1991-1996
Head of Laboratory for Hydrogeological and Engineering Geology Forecasting, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1983-1990
Lecturer, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1977-1990
Senior Research Scientist, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1977-1983
Senior Engineer, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine Conducted field, laboratory and modeling studies of water and chemical transport in soils and groundwater at agricultural and radioactively contaminated areas, 1970-1977

Professional Activities

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
Participated in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Expert Group mission to Chernobyl, Ukraine, and co-authored (lead author) an IAEA report related to the potential decommissioning and remediation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's (ChNPP) Cooling Pond, 2009
Invited with a presentation to 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
OSHA training, Environmental & Safety Resources, Oakland, California, 1994-1995
Witherspoon, Inc., Geologic and Petroleum Consultants, Berkeley, California, 1991-2008
Weiss Associates, Environmental Consulting Company, Emeryville, California
SOMA Environmental Engineering, Inc., San Ramon, California