Alice Gilliland, Ph.D.

Deputy Director, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, USEPA Office of Research and Development

Dr. Alice Gilliland is currently serving as the Acting Director of EPA's Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling (CEMM), which conducts research to advance the Agency's ability to measure and model contaminants in the environment to support implementation of environmental statutes. CEMM has six research Divisions in five different geographic locations (RTP, NC; Cincinnati, OH; Narragansett, RI; Gulf Breeze, FL, and Athens, GA). EPA's Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling group is part of the CEMM RTP, NC based team.

Dr. Gilliland entered federal service over 22 years ago with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, then joining EPA in 2008. For the first half of her federal career, Dr. Gilliland was a member of the CMAQ modeling group leading research in air quality model evaluation, inverse modeling of emission estimates, and climate and air quality interactions. Since then, she has served in multiple senior leadership positions in research areas including air quality, drinking water and water quality, waste and materials management and contaminated site remediation. Dr. Gilliland has worked collaboratively across federal Agencies including the Centers for Disease Control, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Department of Energy. Dr. Gilliland earned a B.S. in Applied Biology (Ecology) and a Ph.D. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Charles Thomas (Tom) Moore, Jr.

Western States Air Resources Council - Western Regional Air Partnership

Tom works for the Western States Air Resources (WESTAR) Council as manager of the Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) air quality program, a voluntary partnership of states, tribes, federal land managers, local air agencies and the U.S. EPA, whose purpose is to understand current and evolving regional air quality issues for the western U.S. in the context of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) and the National Environmental Policy Act. He is funded by western states, EPA, and the National Park Service. He manages diverse and complex regional analysis projects covering ambient monitoring data, emissions inventory preparation and analysis, regional photochemical grid modeling and source apportionment results, and satellite air quality data; in support of the needs of WESTAR-WRAP members' air quality management programs across the West. A principal emphasis of his work from 2002 to the present is support of Regional Haze planning for more than 100 Class I areas with the highest level of air quality protection under the CAA within the WESTAR-WRAP region. Key western U.S. air quality expertise includes extensive work with the activity and emissions estimation techniques for electrical generating units, wildland and agricultural fire emissions, and oil & gas exploration and production emissions. Regional modeling analyses are used to address planning requirements related to Regional Haze sources, transport, deposition, and tracking visibility improvement, as well as related similar issues for the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards at various sources and scales. Tom has a B.S. in Physical Geography from Arizona State University in Tempe, with an emphasis on meteorological and glacier field studies, and climate data analysis projects, as well as additional graduate coursework related to air pollution and climate. He led a WESTAR project to advise EPA on western U.S. topics and issues with implementation of the national Particulate Matter health and welfare standards. He served on technical workgroups for the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission and the Federal Advisory Committee Act's Committee for Development of Ozone, Particulate Matter and Regional Haze Implementation Programs. He was also a member of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee - Particulate Matter Review Panel and an expert panel reviewing EPA's Report on the Environment. He is active in the Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA), organizing reviews and meetings, and publishing regularly for AWMA and other journals

Prof. Armistead (Ted) Russell

Prof. Armistead (Ted) Russell is the Howard T. Tellepsen Chair and Regents Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, where his research is aimed at approaches to improve air quality and health, develop novel technologies to remove traditional air pollutants and carbon dioxide from emissions and advance modeling methods to tackle environmental problems globally. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, conducting his research at Caltech's Environmental Quality Laboratory. His B.S. is from Washington State University. Dr. Russell was a member of EPA's Clean Air Science Advisory Committee (CASAC) and a member of the National Research Council's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and he continues to serve on associated committees.

Richard A. Wayland

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards

Richard A. "Chet" Wayland has over 30 years of experience in information management, air quality modeling and data analysis. He has been employed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 1991 and currently serves as the Director for the Air Quality Assessment Division within the EPA's Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He is currently responsible for the overall management of air quality modeling, source and ambient monitoring emissions inventory development and data analysis programs for OAQPS. In addition, he represents the Office of Air and Radiation on the E-Enterprise Management Board and served many years in that same role on its predecessor, the Environmental Exchange Network Leadership Council. In previous positions in EPA, he conceived and developed the AIRNow program, oversaw information management systems and developed emissions modeling platforms. He has B.A. and M.S. degrees in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia.