Edwin Romanowicz, PhD, PG

Ed Romanowicz, PhD, PG graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BS in Earth Science and BA in Mathematics. For his MS degree in Geology from Syracuse University, he used anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility to study deformation in Ordovician carbonates in central New York State. Ed continued at Syracuse University for his Ph.D. in geology studying how changes in hydrogeology in boreal peatlands in northern Minnesota affect methane fluxes. As a post-doctoral at Duke University he studied how the hydrology in the northern Everglades has been affected by surface-water management.

Presently Ed is the director of the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Prior to coming to SUNY Plattsburgh he taught at Colby College and Duke University. Ed taught courses in physical geology, hydrogeology, surface hydrology, wetland hydrology, environmental geology and structural geology. He also teaches hydrogeology at the University of Missouri's Branson Geology Field Camp (Lander, WY). He is a licensed professional geologist in New York.

Over the past 10 years I have researched fracture-flow hydrogeology. Using borehole geophysical logging, while working with the Vermont Geological Survey, Ed researched the effects of regional geology on hydrogeologic resources and contaminant transport on a local scale. Presently, in collaboration with the Vermont Geological Survey and several colleges and universities he is studying the transport and distribution of PFOA in fractured aquifers in Vermont.