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 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.

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

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