Chris is a Senior Scientists and the Financial Director at SEI-US.

As an environmental engineer Chris' primary research focus has been the fate and transport of contaminants in groundwater and surface water systems, domestic and international water resource planning efforts, and exposure assessment methodologies for human health studies. At SEI, Chris currently contributes to the development of water resource planning and management tools that incorporate a range of environmental and economic considerations.

Prior to joining SEI, Chris was at Silent Spring Institute, where he contributed to the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study, a multidisciplinary research effort. He also helped develop GIS-based approaches to assess human environmental exposures to pesticide spraying events and to reconstruct historical land use impacts to groundwater supplies for public drinking water. He also developed and managed a research program to investigate the introduction of hormonally active pollutants into groundwater resources via wastewater infiltration from septic systems. While a post-doctoral associate at MIT, Chris studied the source, distribution, and mobility of arsenic contaminating Bangladesh aquifers.

Chris received a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT in 1998.

Publications

• Water scarcity and climate change adaptation for Yemen's vulnerable communities (Journal article - 2011)

• Balancing groundwater conservation and rural livelihoods under water and climate uncertainties: An integrated hydro-economic modeling framework (Journal article - 2011)

• The Mekong: a diverse basin facing the tensions of development (Journal article - 2010)

• Aqueous and solid phase arsenic speciation in the sediments of a contaminated wetland and riverbed (Journal article - 2009)

• Mekong Basin Focal Project: Final Report (Project report - 2009)

• Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation (Report - 2008)

• Steroid estrogens, alkylphenols, and other wastewater contaminants leaching into groundwater from a residential septic system on Cape Cod, MA (Paper - 2006)

• Breast cancer risk and drinking water contaminated by wastewater: a case control study (Journal article - 2006)

• Arsenic contamination on the Ganges Delta: Biogeochemistry, hydrology, human perturbations, and human suffering on a large scale (Journal article - 2005)

• An analysis of steroid estrogens, alkylphenols, and other wastewater contaminants leaching into groundwater from a residential septic system on Cape Cod, MA (Journal article - 2005)

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Projects

• Toxic Pollutants and Birth Deficiencies

  
  

• Water, Socioeconomic and Ecological Relations in Urbanizing Environments – Phnom Penh

  
  

• Water Poverty Modeling in the Mekong River Basin

  
  

• Netherlands Climate Assistance Project - Yemen Country Support

  
  

• Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Abu Dhabi Emirate

  
  

• National-level Climate Change Adaptation Action Plans

  
  

• WEAP: Water Evaluation And Planning System

  
  

• Wastewater impacts to groundwater

  
  

• Sustainable Mekong Research Network Programme (Sumernet)

  
  

• Technical support for international climate change adaptation research