Angelo Lampousis, PhD

Angelo received his Ph.D. in environmental geophysics from CUNY-City College & Graduate Center in February 2009. He currently splits his time between teaching as an adjunct assistant Professor at the Hunter College Department of Geography and working as an environmental engineering consultant in a private consulting firm. Since June 2009, he is also the Seminar Series Faculty Coordinator for the City College Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences. Since 2002 he has been the producer and host of science programs for Cosmos FM 91.5, which is part of WNYE, a public television and radio station owned by the New York City Department of Education. His bi-weekly contributions to WNYE 91.5 FM Cosmos radio include in depth coverage of the on-going technological innovation activity. Angelo focuses on how technological innovations are commercialized, and how they, eventually, affect people's lives. Angelo’s investigative reporting is accessible through his personal website and blog at http://www.inun.tv as well as through several New York City based media outlets. Angelo Lampousis’ professional experience includes a combination of scholarly research conducted along government institutions such as the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the United States Geological Survey and environmental site assessments. His environmental site assessment experience includes performance of Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (Phase I ESAs) of various types of properties in the New York Metropolitan area. The Phase I ESAs were performed in accordance with the ASTM Standard Practice E 1527-05 for site acquisitions or prospective lenders involved in such transactions. Dr. Lampousis also has participated in subsurface investigations involving soil, soil vapor, and groundwater sampling. For subsurface investigations, he has overseen the installation of soil borings and permanent monitoring wells by a hollow-stem auger rig, collected soil and groundwater samples utilizing a direct-push unit, performed well gauging of permanent wells to measure the groundwater table elevation and to detect the presence and thickness of petroleum product on groundwater, and performed low-flow groundwater sampling in accordance with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) protocol. In addition, Dr. Lampousis has collected soil vapor samples in accordance with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Guidance for Evaluation Soil Vapor Intrusion.