Dr. Jim LaMoreaux is Chairman of PELA GeoEnvironmental (formerly PE LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc.), an international consulting firm providing services in hydrogeology, geology, environmental sciences, engineering and archaeology. He also serves as Editor in Chief of the international journals Environmental Earth Sciences and Carbonates & Evaporites published by Springer. Dr. LaMoreaux is a member of the Advisory Board for SpringerBriefs; Editor of the Environmental Earth Sciences Book Series; and Editor of the Geoenvironmental Section of the International Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Science and Technology published by Springer. Dr. LaMoreaux has been a member of the Water Environment Federation (WEF) for over 30 years. He served as President and State Director of the Alabama Water Environment Association (AWEA) and as a member of the Program, Industrial Waste, Groundwater, Hazardous Waste and Public Education Committees of WEF. He served as Editor of the AWEA Newsletter as well as Editor of the newsletters for the American Institute of Hydrogeologists and the Environmental Institute for Waste Management StudiesDr. LaMoreaux serves on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Hydrogeologists US National Committee. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the American Ground Water Trust.He is the author and/or editor of numerous technical publications including the following books: Environmental Hydrogeology; Legislative History of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act; Survival and Sustainability-Environmental Concerns in the 21st Century; Advances in Research in Karst Media.He received his MS and PhD degrees from Syracuse University in 1970 and 1976 respectively and his BA from the University of Alabama in 1968.
