Biographical Sketches of Committee Members - Coal Waste Impoundments: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives - page 174

BARBARA A.FILAS, P.E., vice president, Mining and Environment,
Knight Piesold Consulting, is a mining engineer with more than 20 years of
experience in surface and underground mine operations, engineering, and
regulatory support for coal, metals, and industrial mineral mining projects.
Knight Piesold is one of the top dam design consulting firms in the world.
Previously Ms. Filas was an engineer with Atlas Minerals, Summit Minerals,
Monterey Coal Company, and U.S. Steel Corporation with expertise in waste
containment facility design, reclamation plans and surety estimates,
environmental site and compliance audits, and storm water and sedimentation
control designs. Ms. Filas holds a B.S. in mining engineering from the
University of Arizona. She is a member of several professional organizations
such as the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. (having
served as chair of its Environmental Division and on its Board of Directors) and
the National Society of Professional Engineers, and currently serves as a
program reviewer for the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology.
She has published numerous articles on environmental aspects of new project
development, environmental controls, and mine waste disposal issues and mine
closure and reclamation.
C.DAVID HENRY is vice president of operations, Beard Technologies,
Inc. There his focus is to develop coal recovery operations through the
utilization of advanced technologies and to produce a high-grade fine coal
product to be sold in the general coal market. Previously, he held engineering
positions at C.D.H. Consulting and Mineral Development Corporation. His area
of expertise includes recovery and reclamation of coal slurry impoundments,
testing and analysis of coal slurry samples, slurry pond reclamation design, and
coal preparation. He has designed a sampling system to extract slurry materials
from impoundment structures and a dredging unit.
NORBERT R.MORGENSTERN is a university professor of civil
engineering (emeritus), University of Alberta, and an internationally recognized
authority in the field of geotechnical engineering. He was key to the
development of one of the leading geotechnical schools, bringing about the
foundation of modern practice in permafrost engineering and slope design.
Professor Morgenstern has received numerous awards, among them: the Walter
Huber Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil
Engineers, the Canadian Geotechnical Society Prize, including the Legget
Award, the Alberta Order of Excellence, and the Order of Canada. His
publications number approximately 300, dealing with foundation engineering,
environmental issues, mine abandonment, soil and rock