Editors

About the Editor

Dr. James W. LaMoreaux is Chairman of P.E. LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc. (PELA) an international consulting firm providing services in hydrogeology, geology, environmental sciences and engineering. Dr. LaMoreaux serves as Editor in Chief of the international journals Environmental Earth Sciences and Carbonates & Evaporites published by Springer of Heidelberg Germany. He also serves on the advisory boards for SpringerBriefs,Springer Theses, and Springer's Water Program and is Editor of Springer’s Environmental Earth Sciences Book Series. He served as Editor of the newsletters for the American Institute of Hydrogeologists, the Environmental Institute for Waste Management Studies and the Alabama Water Environment Association. Dr. LaMoreaux serves as Chairman of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Commission on Mineral and Thermal Water, a member of the IAH Karst Commission, and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the IAH US National Committee. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the American Ground Water Trust. He is the author and/or editor of numerous technical publications including the following books: Environmental Hydrogeology; Legislative History of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act; Survival and Sustainability-Environmental Concerns in the 21st Century; Advances in Karst Media Research. He also served as Editor of the Environmental Geology Section of The Encyclopedia of Science, Sustainability, and Technology and is currently serving in the same position for the online version and the 2nd Edition to be published in 2016. Dr. LaMoreaux currently serves as a member of the Ground Water Committee of the Water Environment Federation (WEF). He has also served on the Hazardous Waste, Industrial Waste, Public Education, and Program Committees of WEF and represented Alabama as State Director to WEF. He served as a member of the Science Advisory Committee for the EPA funded Urban Waste Management and Resources Center at the University of New Orleans. He received his MS and PhD and degrees from Syracuse University in 1970 and 1976 respectively.