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Dr. E. Scott Bair took his B.A. in geology from the College of Wooster and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Penn State University. Following graduate school he worked six years at Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation. Tired of corporate politics and remembering academe to be devoid of it, Scott joined the faculty at Ohio State University in 1985. Over his career he taught courses in earth science, water resources, environmental geology, speleology, petroleum geology, hydrogeology, field methods in hydrogeology, and groundwater flow modeling. In 1991, he received the Ohio State award for teaching excellence; as penance he served six years as department chair. Scott advised 34 graduate students who worked on projects funded by Ohio DNR, Ohio EPA, NSF, USEPA, USDOE, USDA, USGS, and OSU.
Scott likes to talk. He’s given seminars at more than 90 colleges and universities in the US, Canada, and Japan, at several federal and state agencies, the Ohio Bar Association, Harvard Law School, and the National Research Council. From 1987 to 2015 he co-taught short courses for the National Ground Water Association (NGWA) including Principles of Ground-Water Flow, Transport and Remediation; Aquifer Test Design and Analysis; Ground-Water Control and Construction Dewatering; Artificial Recharge and Induced Infiltration, and Delineating Capture Zones of Wells for Contaminant Remediation and Wellhead Protection. He is co-author of the quasi-successful textbook Applied Problems in Groundwater Hydrology.
Dr. Bair is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA), recipient of its Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lectureship, and former chair of its Hydrogeology Division. Scott was an associate editor of the journal Ground Water for 11 years, a member of the Ohio Hazardous Waste Facilities Board for three governors, a technical reviewer for the Centers of Disease Control’s investigation of male breast cancers at U.S. Marine Corps Base Lejeune, and a member of the USEPA Science Advisory Board on Hydraulic Fracturing. He received the George B. Maxey Award from GSA and the Keith E. Anderson Award from NGWA and for his service to those organizations and to the greater hydrogeology community. Scott and his wife retired to the Outer Banks of North Carolina where they plan to lollygag around until rising sea level carries them away.
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