Scientific Advisors
James O’Neil, Ph.D.
James R. O’Neil is Emeritus Professor of Geochemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a B.S from Loyola University, an M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, all in chemistry. His research interests include the stable isotope geochemistry of natural and synthetic carbonates and phosphates, the structure of water and concentrated brines, the genesis of granite and basalts, and biomineralization, among other things. Professor O’Neil was awarded the title of Geochemistry Fellow jointly by The European Association for Geochemistry and Geochemical Society in1998, received a Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1998, and was the recipient of the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Medal awarded by the Geochemical Society of America in 2004. He has over 45 years of teaching experience and has published over 165 articles. Dr. O’Neil is currently a Visiting Scientist at the U.S Geological Survey in Menlo Park, CA.
Paulo Monteiro, Ph.D.
Paulo Monteiro is the Roy W. Carlson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been teaching for over 20 years. He received his Civil Engineering degree from Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo and both his M.S and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include applications to synchrotron radiation in the study of cement and concrete, construction methods, corrosion, ice formation, microscopy, sulfate attack and mathematical models. Professor Monteiro was awarded the highest award for concrete research from the Brazilian Concrete Institute, the Premio Ari Torres, in 2005; the Brunauer Award from the American Ceramics Society in 2004; and the Wason Medal for Material Research from the American Concrete Institute in 2003. The textbook on concrete that he co-wrote with P.K. Mehta was translated to Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, and Greek. He has published over 170 articles in refereed journals and presented at multiple conferences around the world.
Gordon Brown, Jr., Ph.D.
Gordon Brown is a Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences and chair of the Geology Department at Stanford University, where his research focus is on phenomena that occur at solid-water and biological interfaces that affect environmentally important processes such as trace element sorption and mineral alteration in aquatic and subsurface settings. He received his B.S Chemistry and Geology from Millsaps College, and his M.S and Ph.D. Mineralogy and Crystallography from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Since 1991 he has held a Dorrell William Kirby Professorship in Earth Sciences at Stanford University, and in 2007 he was awarded the Patterson Medal from the Geochemical Society and the Roebling Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America. In Dr. Brown’s 35 plus years of experience he has published over 220 peer reviewed journal articles, and lead over 500 graduate students to success.
Dimitri A. Sverjensky, Ph.D.
Dimitri Sverjensky is a Professor of Geochemistry in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University. Professor Sverjensky received his B. Sc. degree with First Class Honors from the University of Sydney (Australia) in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1980. He has worked in the fields of economic geology, isotope geochemistry, aqueous solution chemistry, and the geochemistry of the mineral-water interface. In recent years, his research has focused on integrating theoretical and experimental studies of the geochemistry of the mineral-water interface, mainly with applications to environmental geochemistry and to the role of mineral surface chemistry in the origin of life. He has been a Visiting Investigator since 2005 at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Robert Garrison, Ph.D.
Robert Garrison is Professor Emeritus of Earth & Ocean Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his B.S and M.S from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His research interests include sedimentology and diagenesis; the paleoceanographic significance of carbonates and deep water marine sediments; geologic history; evolution of sedimentary basins; natural resources; and economic development. He received the Pettijohn Medal for Excellence in Sedimentology from the Society for Sedimentary Geology, was a Guggenheim Fellow at Oxford University, and has held Fulbright Fellowships at Austria’s Innsbruck University and at the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra, Australia. He has published over 60 books and journal articles in the last ten years.
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