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Robert W. Puls
Dr. Puls is the Director of Research for EPA’s Ground Water and Ecosystems Restoration Division. Before becoming director, he was Chief of GWERD’s Subsurface Remediation Branch. He has began working for EPA in 1987 and rose to Senior Research Soil Scientist in GWERD in 1998. His areas0 of research are water quality and availability, arsenic in drinking water, and permeable reactive barriers.
Dr. Puls’s experience includes work at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hanford Site, researching the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. His research has focused on the transport, fate, and remediation of inorganic contaminants in groundwater systems, in particular, innovative in situ, passive methods to remediate contaminated groundwater. He has received funding for his work from EPA, DOE, the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Coast Guard. His research projects are typically multi-agency collaborative efforts among the following institutions: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Depart of Defense, DOE, Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council, University of Oklahoma, University of Waterloo, and various industrial partners. Dr. Puls has authored or co-authored more than 100 research articles, book chapters, reports, and proceedings.
Dr. Puls is Co-Chair of EPA’s Permeable Reactive Barrier Action Team, one of seven action teams comprising EPA’s Remedial Technology Development Forum. He has been actively involved in research related to permeable reactive barriers since 1991. His recent publications have covered a range of topics including groundwater sampling, the development and evaluation of in situ remediation techniques for soils and groundwater, and metal transport and transformation studies in subsurface systems. He has served on several scientific advisory committees for the USGS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, DOE, and the National Research Council.
Dr. Puls holds a B.S. in Soil Science and Natural Resources from the University of Wisconsin, a master’s degree from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in Soil and Water Science from the University of Arizona. He has more than 25 years’ experience working in the environmental science field.