JOHN S. NORDIN P. E.
Senior Research Engineer
 
John was born and raised in Minnesota.  He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1961.  In 1965 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Biochemical Engineering.
 
He has over 30 years of engineering experience, including 21 years with two environmental engineering firms and 14 years with Western Research Institute.  He has provided training for handling of hazardous chemicals and hazardous site investigations under OSHA 29 CFR Part 1910.120.  He is published in vapor cloud modeling for toxic gas spill accidents and volatilization of PCBs from contaminated soils.  He provided technical consulting for handling of chemicals at the DOE Nevada HAZMAT Spill Center for vapor cloud modeling release experiments in 1993-1995.  He has written over 130 reports to clients and technical publications.
 
Dr. Nordin was a staff engineer at Mason and Hanger Engineers, 1979-1986, and developed methodology for feedstock preparation for a U.S. EPA mobile incinerator. He developed environmental monitoring of nerve gas releases, plume modeling of gaseous atmospheric releases and plans and specifications for incineration of explosive-contaminated soils.  He developed hazardous material regulations for the city of Lexington, KY, and conducted oil spill release studies at the EPA test facility, Leonardo, NJ.  He developed chemical processing and environmental engineering design and development for Mason and Hanger with clients like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Navy, Department of Defense, U.S. EPA and private industry.  He performed on-site assessments of hazardous chemical contamination at seven army depots and weapons manufacturing facilities and an expansion of nitric acid production facilities at Radford Army Ammunition Plant (technical and economic considerations). He has sampled PCB-contaminated soils and sediments in Waukegan Harbor superfund site under contract for the EPA.  He has written computer software for mass/energy balances for TNT thick liquor recovery plant and for incineration processes.  He has consulted on red water and chemical weapons disposal.
 
 
Dr. Nordin, a Licensed Chemical Engineer in Wyoming, has been the professional engineering expert for the chemical dispersion projects in the Emergency Response Technology program at University of Wyoming Research Institute under contracts to the DOE. Dr. Nordin conducted chemical spill release studies, emissions monitoring, and air permitting for incineration systems, wet air oxidation and hot-gas stripping of energy process wastewaters.  Dr. Nordin was consulting engineer for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects on incineration of explosive-contaminated soils and arsenic- and pesticide-contaminated soils.
 
He and his wife, Marlene have been married for 33 years.  They enjoy hiking and photography.