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environmental engineer in the U.S. Public Health Service and the U.S. EPA from 1961 to August 2002 and was Director of the USEPA's Water Supply and Water Resources Division (WSWRD) for 14 years (1985-1999). In 1999 he was appointed to a Senior Expert Position in the USEPA with the title Senior Research Engineering Advisor and retired from the USEPA in August of 2002. Dr. Clark was a member of USEPA's Water Protection Task Force and served as USEPA's liaison for homeland security research. Dr. Clark has published over 400 papers and 6 books and has been professionally active in several organizations where he served in numerous leadership positions. He is a lifetime member of both the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Clark is recognized both nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards for his work. Dr. Clark holds B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University (1960), and in Mathematics from Portland State University (1961), M.S. degrees in Mathematics from Xavier University (1964), and Civil Engineering from Cornell University (1968) and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (1976). He is a registered engineer in the State of Ohio.



Erwin A. Blackstone has taught economics in the US for over forty years. Dr. Blackstone holds an A.B. in economics from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to his current appointment at Temple, Dr. Blackstone taught at Dartmouth College and Cornell University. His research areas include the economics of industrial organization, health economics, and privatization. He has published on a variety of industrial organization topics including mergers, dominance, reciprocal buying, collusion, and damages. He has published articles on a wide variety of health issues including physicians, hospitals, and pharmaceuticals. In privatization he has published articles on such topics as private police and response to burglar alarms. His publications include over fifty articles in major economics and public policy journals, chapters in books, and a book on the electronic security industry. Dr. Blackstone has taught courses from the introductory to the Ph.D. level. In 1976, he received the Clark Award for distinguished teaching at Cornell and at Temple, the Andrisani-Frank Award for Excellence in teaching in 2001 and the Musser Excellence in Leadership Award for Teaching in 2006.