Johanshir Golchin

Johanshir Golchin, Ph.D., Life Member ASCE, Environmental and Water Resources Institute, is the Director General of Energy and Environmental Research Group (EERG) (www.eerg.org), an international energy and resources management advisory team currently headquartered in Ames, Iowa, USA.

He taught engineering and served as MS and Ph.D. graduate faculty committee member at Iowa State University and also at Washington University in St. Louis [where he was also a member of corporate advisory committee for the McDonnell International Scholar Academy], University of Alaska, and Lakehead University in Canada as well as other academic institutes in Central and Far East Asia. Johanshir’s extensive works since 60's in the areas of water resources includes flood prevention, watershed management and water quality.

He had served as a member of DOE’s workers Nuclear Safety Group that has provided training for Expedited Radioactive Sites' Characterization.

During his tenure with the state of Iowa and USEPA Superfund management assistant team, he served in the National Presumptive Remedy Work Team and set up cleanup standards. In that capacity he worked with USEPA's innovative technology office (ITO) and established alternative remedial options into EPA's field operations and worked with DOD and Army Corps in environmental technology protocols developments. Dr. Golchin was assigned by the Iowa Governor to serve on the first panel of US Governors' Commission on Ethanol as an energy source. As a government regulator, he oversaw energy production hazardous sites remediation including Nuclear, MGP and mixed fuel Underground Storage Tank (UST) sites and establishment of professional certification programs.

Dr. Golchin developed applied use of satellites' multi-spectral scanners (MSS) imageries through his research at NASA’s EROS Center for monitoring earth resources and pioneered application of remote sensing techniques in the creation of the first worldwide geographical information systems (GIS). He also worked closely with Dr. Roland L. Hardy, on the design of GPS platform.

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