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

bafaybishenko@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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 150 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.

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

Service to the Community

Member of the Geological Society of America (GSA) Membership and Fellowship Committee (since 2020).
Member of AGU’s Paul Witherspoon Mid-Carrier Lecture Nomination Committee (2016-2019) and the Fund-raising Committee (2016-present).
Senior Editor, Environmental Sciences, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Oxford University Press, 2014-Present.
Associate Editor, Vadose Zone Journal (2003-2011, 2016).
Guest Editor, International Journal Water, Special Issue on Water and Solute Transport in Vadose Zone, 2016-2018.
Guest Editor, Vadose Zone Journal, Special Issue on Complex Soil Systems, 2015-2016.
Guest Editor, International Journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Special Issue No.1 on Chernobyl, December 2003.
Co-Editor of five AGU/Wiley Geophysical Monographs Series: Dynamics of Flow and Transport in Fractured Rock (2000 and 2005); Groundwater Vulnerability: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (2014); Fluid Dynamics in Complex Fractured-Porous Systems (2015); Hydrogeology, Chemical Weathering, and Soil Formation (2021); Leading co-editor of the AGU/Wiley monograph Fuzzy Systems Modeling for Environmental Management and Human Health Risk Assessment, (2021-Present).
Co-Editor of the Fifth Worldwide Review on International Approaches for Nuclear Waste Disposal in Geological Formations (2017).