Biographical Sketches of Committee Members - Coal Waste Impoundments: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives - page 176

has received numerous awards from academic and technical and professional
societies. He was the 1995 president of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and
Exploration, Inc. He served on the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services' Mine Health Research Advisory Committee (1991-1998). He was the
chair of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Post Disaster
Survival and Rescue (1979-1981), and served on the NAS Committee on
Mining Technologies (2000-2001) and the Health Research Panel of the NAS
Committee on the Research programs of the U.S. Bureau of Mines (1994). He
was a member of the Department of the Interior's Advisory Board to the
Director of U.S. Bureau of Mines (1995), and a member of the Secretary of
Labor's Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Coal Workers'
Pneumoconiosis (1995-1996).
ROBERT L.SCHUSTER, P.E., P.G., is an engineering geology and
geotechnical engineering consultant. He retired from the U.S. Geological
Survey in 1995 but continues to serve that agency as a scientist emeritus. His
research interests include slope failure, engineering geologic aspects of natural,
water-storage, and tailings dams, and geologic hazards mitigation. He holds a
Ph.D. from Purdue University in civil engineering. He has served as professor
of civil engineering at the University of Colorado, professor and head of the
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Idaho, and chief of the
Engineering Geology Branch, U.S. Geological Survey. Among other honors,
Dr. Schuster has been awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the U.S.
Department of the Interior, the International Meritorious Service Award of The
Japan Landslide Society, a NATO Senior Fellowship in Science to the
University of London, and a Senior Fulbright Scholarship to MacQuarie
University, Australia. He is a member or fellow of numerous professional
societies and has served on several NRC boards and committees. Dr. Schuster
has written or edited more than 250 papers, texts, and reports on topics in
engineering geology and geotechnical engineering.
MADAN M.SINGH, P.E., is president of Engineers International, Inc. He
has held research positions at the Pennsylvania State University and IIT
Research Institute. Dr. Singh's research interests and expertise encompass
diverse aspects of rock mechanics, mining, hydrogeology, and geotechnical
engineering. He developed a graduate-level course in mine subsidence
engineering at the Pennsylvania State University and acted as advisor during the
drafting of subsidence-control legislation in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. He has a Ph.D. in mining engineering from the Pennsylvania
State University. Dr. Singh has served in several capacities for professional
societies, including national director of the American Consulting Engineers