Kelly D. Moran, Ph.D.

                                                                                                                                                                                               

 

Dr. Moran is President of TDC Environmental.  A chemist with more than 18 years of experience as an environmental professional, Dr. Moran specializes in translating complex scientific information into plain language.  She completes water quality technical studies, pesticide regulatory interpretation, pollution prevention program development, pollutant source identification, environmental impact analysis, and environmental problem solving for public clients. 

Professional Experience:

         President, TDC Environmental.  Examples of project experience:

·        Technical Consultant, Urban Pesticides Pollution Prevention Project.  Provide technical and regulatory support for a cooperative California water quality agency program to prevent surface water toxicity from urban pesticide use.  Project considers a wide variety of pesticides, including marine antifouling paint, antimicrobials, and insecticides.

·        Technical Consultant, San Francisco Department of the Environment.  Provide on-call technical assistance to Toxics Reduction program on diverse topics, including pharmaceutical waste management and pesticides.

·        Technical Consultant, San Francisco Estuary Project, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, California State Stormwater Quality Task Force, and California Department of Pesticide Regulation.  Investigated sources of insecticide-related surface water toxicity and used environmental risk assessment methods to examine the implications of a transition to alternative urban insecticides. Identified state and Federal agency pesticide regulatory activities that may have implications for urban surface water quality, evaluated environmental risk assessments for pollutants, and provided technical support for the assembly of information for pesticide regulatory agency consideration.

·        Technical Consultant, San Francisco Bay Area Clean Estuary Partnership.  Advised partnership of wastewater treatment plants, stormwater management agencies, industrial plants, and waster quality regulatory agencies regarding sources of copper in urban runoff, pesticides in surface water,  and cost-effective strategies for minimizing copper and PCBs releases into urban runoff.

·        Technical Advisor, San Francisco Bay Area Dioxins Project.  Identified dioxins pollution prevention options suitable for municipalities. 

·        Steering Committee Member, Brake Pad Partnership.  Represents local governments on the Brake Pad Partnership Steering Committee. The Brake Pad Partnership is a national work group including all major vehicle brake manufacturers, government agencies, and environmental groups that seeks to eliminate vehicle brake-related surface water copper problems and to prevent future environmental problems from brakes.

Manager of Environmental Control Programs, Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant. 

·        Planned and implemented about 25 pollution prevention programs to reduce water pollution from more than 100 major industries, 1,000 commercial businesses, and 80,000 residences.  From 1993-1999 the program reduced levels of 5 key metals in the plant’s wastewater by 30 to 80% and eliminated problems with arsenic, lead, nickel, selenium, silver, and tributyltin. 

·        Led successful legislative and regulatory effort to regulate copper-based root killers and tributyltin-containing pesticides to protect San Francisco Bay.

·        Directed development of nation-leading source identification studies and pollution prevention plans for dioxins, mercury, PCBs, and organochlorine pesticides (new pollutants of concern for San Francisco Bay), and copper.

In 1998, program was named the Nation’s Most Valuable Pollution Prevention Program by the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable.

Project Manager and Hazardous Materials Group Supervisor, Environmental Science Associates. 

·        Management.  Responsible for all aspects of project performance, including technical quality, client relations, internal coordination, and budget performance.  Successfully managed jobs from $3,500 to $500,000 and staff from 2 to 33 people with performance periods from 3 weeks to 2 years. 

·        Technical Analysis.  Performed environmental impact assessments, health risk assessments, accident analyses, and environmental compliance analyses. Principal author of more than a dozen environmental review documents and co-author of more than 100 additional reports.

Education:

·              Ph.D., Chemistry, U. C. Berkeley, 1987.  Thesis:  Electrode Films of Porous Agarose:  The Effect of Physical Structure on Electron Transport Processes.

·              Bachelor of Science with Honors, Chemistry, Stanford University, 1982

Honors and Awards:

·              U.S. EPA Region 9 Environmental Achievement Award, 2004

·              Pollution Prevention Advocate of the Year, Western Regional Pollution Prevention Network, 2002

·              Letter of commendation from San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board for work done at the City of Palo Alto

Other:

·              City of San Mateo Planning Commission, 1/06-present

·              City of San Mateo Public Works Commission, 8/99-1/06 (Chair 7/02-6/03 and 7/05-1/06)

·              California Source Reduction Advisory Committee, 1999-present (Chair 1999-2003)