Dr. James L. Conca

Director,
New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC)

Dr. JAMES L. CONCA is the Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC), a radiochemistry facility dedicated to environmental monitoring and mitigation of radioactive materials, and the development of sustainable energy distributions.  Conca obtained a Ph.D. in Geochemistry in 1985, and a Masters in Planetary Science, from the California Institute of Technology, and a BS in Geology and Biochemistry from Brown University in 1979.  Conca has been developing and testing laboratory and field technologies for disposal of radioactive waste, mitigation of dirty bomb effects, and remediation of metal contamination in groundwater and soil.  He came to NMSU from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was Project Leader for Radionuclide Geochemistry.  Before that, Conca was on the faculty at Washington State University, was President of UFA Ventures, Inc, and a consultant for DOE, DoD, EPA, USGS and private industry. He is going talk today about his recent book with co-author Dr. Judith Wright, titled The GeoPolitics of Energy: Achieving a Just and Sustainable Energy Distribution by 2040.