James Clarke

Affiliation

Vanderbilt University - CRESP

Biography

Dr. Jim Clarke is Professor of the Practice of Civil and Environmental and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He also serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the graduate program in Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty of Vanderbilt University in the Fall of 2000, he was Chairman, President and CEO of Eckenfelder, Inc, an environmental engineering and consulting firm focusing on services to the private sector in the areas of hazardous waste management, contaminated site investigation and remediation and wastewater treatment. Jim was a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) former Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste and Materials and served as an advisor on issues concerning the Yucca Mountain project; risk-informed and performance-based approaches to site decommissioning and remediation; and the overall nuclear waste regulatory program. He currently serves as a consultant to the NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards and its subcommittee on Radiation Protection and Nuclear Materials. He received a Ph.D. in theoretical physical chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in chemistry with honors from Rockford College.