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Karl Eklund

Address:76 Myricks Street, Berkley MA 02779
Voice: 508-822-3581; FAX: 508-828-1042
Email address: karl@eklund.com
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Dr. Eklund addressing Regional Planning Agency

Introduction:

This page is intended to provide information on the education and experience of Karl Eklund for those wonder about the curious ideas he writes about.

Education:

Elementary and secondary education in New York City Public Schools.

B. S., MIT 1950 in Physics

M. S. 1956, Ph. D. 1960, Columbia, Physics

Employment History:

• Eklund Associates
  See above
  Title: Principal Associate
  From: 1989-present
  Duties Included:
  1. Cleanup of Hazardous Waste Sites
  2. Other environmental consulting
  3. Other applied physics
• Southeastern [Mass.] Regional Planning and Economic Development District
  88 Broadway Taunton MA 02780
  Department: Commission
  Title: Chairman
  From: 89-9
  Duties Included:
  1. Member, 1989-date
  2. Executive Committee 1991-date
  3. Commissioner of the Year Award, 1992
  4. Distinguished Service Award, 1995
  5. Chairman 1996-1999
  6. Immediate Past Chairman (Ex Officio:Executive Committee) 1999-date
• Board of Health
  Berkley MA
  Title: Member
  From: 1989-1992
  Duties Included:
  1. Elected member of Town Board of Health
• American Reclamation Corporation (AmRec)
  Ashland & Charlton, MA
  Title: Vice President
  From: 1986-89
  Duties Included:
  1. Enabled AmRec to get first permit issued for the
  2. recycling of petroleum-contaminated soil
  3. from toxic waste sites
• Environmental Restoration Engineering, Inc
  Ashland MA
  Title: President
  From: 1986-1989
  Duties Included:
  1. Cleanup of hazardous waste sites
  2. UST removal
  3. Other environmental consultation
• (Mass.) Department of Environmental Quality Engineering
  Boston MA
  Department: Div. of Hazardous Waste,
  Title: Dir., Regulatiory Task Force
  From: 1984-86
  Duties Included:
  1. Devised rules for recycling of hazardous waste
  2. Staffed for Hazardous Waste Advisory Committee
  3. Staff training and industry liason
• Southeastern [Mass.] Regional Planning and Economic Development District
  88 Broadway Taunton MA 02780
  Department: Comprehensive Planning
  Title: Energy Management Coordinator
  From: 1981-1983
  Duties Included:
  1. Synergy between energy management and economic development
  2. Environmental impact of energy facilities
  3. Facilitated citizen input in siting energy facilities
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
  Stony Brook NY
  Department: Physics
  Title: Director of Physical Laboratories
  From: 1965-1970
  Duties Included:
  1. Chief of Staff for Physics Department
  2. Other administrative duties on an ad hoc basis
• Yale University
  New Haven CT
  Department: Physics
  Title:Asst. Director of Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratories
  From: 1962-1965
  Duties Included:
  1. Develop and manage support staff and infrastructure for research laboratory
  2. Act as ownerâs representative in the construction of major accelerator facility
• U.S. Maritime Academy
  Kings Point NY
  Department: Engineering
  Title: Associate Professor
  From: 1961
  Duties Included:
  1. Taught basic nuclear materials and nuclear safety for
  2. Engineering officers for the Nuclear Mercheantman N. S. Savannah
• Radiation Dynamics, Inc.
  Westbury NY
  Title: Director of Research
  From: 1959-1962
  Duties Included:
  1. Research on accellerator physics
  2. Two patents awarded
• Columbia University
  New York NY
  Department: Physics
  Title: Research Associate
  From: 1959
  Duties Included:
  1. Conversion of cyclotron from internal to external beam
  2. Develop instrumentation for Van De Graaff accellerator
• Parameters Inc.
  Garden City NY
  Applied Physicist
  From: 1955-1959
  Duties Included:
  1. Contract engineering for aerospace projects
  2. Received Air Force commendation for failure analysis of fuel control on YJ 67 engine.
• Army Radiological Defense Laboratory
  Edgewood MD
  Department: Instrumentation
  Title: Section Chief
  From: 1951-1954
  Duties Included:
  1. Develop Atomic Weapons Test Instrumentation
  2. Assist Health Physics Section

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  Have given expert testimony before:
  1. Salem MA District Court
  2. Energy Facilities Siting Council
  3. Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Council
  4. The Massachusetts Legislature Joint Committee on Natural Resources
  5. Assisted the Massachusetts Attorney General in a criminal prosecution



• Publications Include:
  1. Remediation of Petroleum-Contaminated Soil by Incorporation in Bituminous Concrete; Proceedings: Second Conference on Environmental Effects of Soils Contaminated with Petroleum Products, U. Mass., Amherst [Lewis Publishers, 1988]
  2. Survey of Remediation Methods for Petroleum-Contaminated Soils, REI Northeast Regional Conference on UST and Site Remediation [REI, April 1988]
  3. Incorporation of Petroleum-Contaminated Soil in Bituminous Concrete; Remediation of Contaminated Soils, [ Lewis Publishers, 1993]
  4. 16 other publications in nuclear science and related engineering; 37 publications in energy management and economic development; 30 weekly newspaper columns; several lectures and publications in environmental matters.