Hanadi S. Rifai, Ph.D., P.E.

Honors, Awards and Recognition

• Elected to Board of Scientists and Engineers Division (SED), National Ground Water Association, 2010-2012.
• Appointed to Galveston Bay Council, 2010.
• Member, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Task Force on Bacteria TMDLs, 2006-2007.
• Editor-in-Chief, Bioremediation Journal, Taylor and Francis, January 2002-present
• Invited panelist, The State of Research within the Galveston Bay Ecosystem, the 7th Biennial State of the Bay Symposium, January 25, 2005.
• Recipient of the 2001 Wesley W. Horner Award for Best Paper from the American Society of Civil Engineers for Rifai et al., Modeling Natural Attenuation of Fuels with BIOPLUME III, ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, 126(5):428-438, 2000.
• Member of the Texas Natural Resource and Conservation Commission (TNRCC) Committee developing Natural Attenuation Guidance under the Texas Risk Reduction Rules (TRRP) program (TRRP-33), 2000-2001.
• Member of the U. S. EPA Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee (FY00) – Natural Attenuation Subcommittee, 2000-01.
• Invited Panelist, DuPont Workshop on Modeling and Management of Emerging Environmental Issues, Simulation of Halogenated Hydrocarbons in the Subsurface Panel, 2000.
• Guest Editor, Special 3-Part Issue on Natural Attenuation, Bioremediation Journal, 1998-1999.
• Associate Editor, Bioremediation Journal, CRC Press, 1997-2001.
• Co-Chair, ASTM Committee on Remediation by Natural Attenuation Standard for Chlorinated Solvents and other Compounds, 1998-99.
• Peer Review Panel Member for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Study Behavior of Chlorinated Volatile Organic Compound Plumes: Data Collection and Analysis Methods, 1997-1998.
• National trainer for the ASTM Remediation by Natural Attenuation Standard, since 1998.
• National trainer for the ASTM Risk Based Corrective Action Standard, since 1996.
• Eleanor and Mills Bennett Fellowship in Hydrology, Rice University fellowship awarded to outstanding graduate students, 1987-1989.
• Ralph Budd Award for Best Dissertation in Engineering, Rice University highest award to graduating Ph.D. students in engineering, 1989.

Special Honors For Research

• Union Carbide Unrestricted Research Grant $25,000 annually for 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.