Title Here Go Back Environmental Engineer specializing in solid waste managemt Letter to Employers: WORK EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, University of Arizona (Jan 2000~present) · Exploring issues with regard to disposal of arsenic residuals and subsequent leaching of arsenic in municipal landfills. · Running column experiments to observe the leaching behavior of arsenic under long exposure times in landfills. · Designing an alternative leaching test to simulate the leaching of arsenic from solid residuals better than the TCLP. · Investigating the adsorption capacity of various sorbents currently being used for removal of arsenic from drinking water. Teaching Assistant, Dept of Chemical and Environemental Engineering, University of Arizona · Water and Wastewater Treatment System Design (CHEE 476/576), graduate levels course in Fall 2000 and Fall 2001. · Environmental and Water Engineering (CHEE 370), in Spring 2002. Undergraduate Project, Dept. of Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India · Designed and built a slurry disposal technique for fly-ash in Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant, WB, India. Name: amlan ghosh Contact Information E-mail: amlan@u.arizona.edu Phone Number: 520-624-4696 Target Work Locations: #1 - san francisco, CA #2 - , Willing to Relocate? Yes Date Available: 05/30/2005 Resume: AMLAN GHOSH Phone (520) 6244696 (h) Phone: (520) 6212642 (w) E-mail:amlan@u.arizona.edu URL: http://u.arizona.edu/~amlan EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Expected May 2005 GPA: 3.680/4.0 M.S. in Environmental Engineering University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Completed December 2002 GPA: 3.652/4.0 B.Tech. in Mining Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Completed July 2000 GPA: 8.01/10.0 WORK EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, University of Arizona (Jan 2000~present) · Exploring issues with regard to disposal of arsenic residuals and subsequent leaching of arsenic in municipal landfills. · Running column experiments to observe the leaching behavior of arsenic under long exposure times in landfills. · Designing an alternative leaching test to simulate the leaching of arsenic from solid residuals better than the TCLP. · Investigating the adsorption capacity of various sorbents currently being used for removal of arsenic from drinking water. Teaching Assistant, Dept of Chemical and Environemental Engineering, University of Arizona · Water and Wastewater Treatment System Design (CHEE 476/576), graduate levels course in Fall 2000 and Fall 2001. · Environmental and Water Engineering (CHEE 370), in Spring 2002. Undergraduate Project, Dept. of Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India · Designed and built a slurry disposal technique for fly-ash in Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant, WB, India. RECENT PUBLICATIONS · Ghosh, A., Mukiibi, M., Saez, E., Ela, W., “ Column Experiment Demonstrates the Leaching of Arsenic from Granular Ferric Hydroxide Residual under Landfill Conditions”, J. American Water Works Association, In Review. · Ghosh, A., Saez, E., Ela, W., “Effects of pH, Competitive Anions and NOM in the Leaching of Arsenic from Solid Residuals”, Environ. Sci. Technol, In Review. · Ghosh, A., Mukiibi, M., Ela, W., “TCLP Underestimates Leaching of Arsenic from Solid Residuals under Landfill Conditions”, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2004, 38, 4677-4682. · Ela, W., Sierra-Alvarez, R., Field, J.A., Ghosh, A.,Cortinas, I., de las Casas, C., “Laboratory Tests on the Fate of Arsenic in Landfills”, Proceedings of the 2003 WEF/AWWA/CWEA Joint Residuals and Biosolids Management Conference, Baltimore, MD, Feb., 2003. PRESENTATIONS · Leaching from Solid Residuals of Arsenic Treatment under Landfill Conditions Amlan Ghosh, Muhammed Mukiibi, Eduardo Saez, Wendell Ela SBRP 2004 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2004. · Disposal of Iron Sludge Wastes Generated by Arsenic Removal Processes Amlan Ghosh, Muhammed Mukiibi, Eduardo Saez, Wendell Ela GRA’s “Arsenic in Groundwater: Impacts on a Critical Resource”, Fresno, CA, Oct. 2004. · Column Experiments Demonstrate the Leaching of Arsenic from Solid Residuals under Landfill Conditions Amlan Ghosh, Muhammed Mukiibi, Eduardo Saez, Wendell Ela SBRP 2004 Science Fair, Tucson, AZ, Sept. 2004. · Toxics Leaching from the Residuals of Arsenic Treatment under Landfill Conditions Amlan Ghosh, Muhammed Mukiibi and Wendell Ela AWPCA 77th Annual Conference, Mesa, AZ, May 2004. · Adequacy of TCLP testing for Arsenic: Possible Impacts on Landfills Amlan Ghosh, Muhammed Mukiibi and Wendell Ela 2004 AHS Scientific Landfill Symposium, Tucson, AZ, March, 2004. · Comparitive Evaluation of Predictive Tests for Arsenic Leaching from Landfill Disposed Residuals Amlan Ghosh, Muhammed Mukiibi and Wendell Ela. Poster Presentation, NIEHS Superfund Quad-University/ EPA Region 9 Conference, Berkeley, CA, Oct. 2003. · Column Experiments demonstrating the Leaching Behavior of Arsenic Residuals under a Reducing Environment Amlan Ghosh, Muhammed Mukiibi, Wendell Ela. AWPCA 76th Annual Conference, Tucson, AZ, May 2003. · Arsenic Leaching from Iron Sludge in a Landfill Environment. Amlan Ghosh, Muhammed Mukiibi, Wendell Ela. Poster Presentation, Science Fair 2003, Tucson AZ, May 2003 · Toxics Leaching from the Residuals of Arsenic Treatment under Landfill Conditions, Amlan Ghosh, Dhananjay Mishra, Wendell Ela Poster Presentation, Superfund Basic Research Program Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, Nov 2002 · Arsenic Leaching from Activated Alumina under Landfill pH Conditions Amlan Ghosh and Wendell Ela Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference and Exposition, American Water Works Association, New Orleans, LA, June 2002 · Leaching of Arsenic from the Water Treatment Residuals under Landfill Conditions Amlan Ghosh and Wendell Ela Proceedings of the 75th Annual Conference, Arizona Water and Pollution Control Association, Mesa, AZ, May 2002. ANALYTICAL SKILLS · Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (both Flame and Furnace) · Ion Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer · Ion Chromatography · Total Organic Carbon Analyzer · Spectrophotometer GRADUATE LEVEL COURSES Microbiology for Engineers, Water and Wastewater Treatment System Design, Fundamentals of Water Quality, Environmental Transport Processes, Physical Chemistry of Materials, Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment, Air Pollution, Applied Surface Chemistry, Advanced Topics in Microelectronics Manufacturing, Biodegradation of Hazardous Organic Compounds, Experimental Methods of Microstructural Analysis, Water Quality Dynamics, Corrosion and Degradation, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry. ASSOCIATION AND AWARDS · Student Member: · American Water Works Association · Arizona Water Pollution Control Association · Paper selected for presentation at Annual National Meeting of Superfund Basic Research Program, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2004. · Nominated for the Best Senior Year Project Award in Department of Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India. (2000). · National Talent Search Scholarship from NCERT, India, for the period, 1998-1999. · Ranked 1693rd among about 0.35 million students for the I.I.T. Entrance Examination (1996). · National rank holder in Roorkie Entrance Examination, and Regional Joint Entrance Examination (1996). · Received Certificate of Merit for being among top 50 students in the All India Mathematics Talent Search Test (1994). REFERENCES Available upon request.