DR. PHILIP E. LaMOREAUX

Education
Honorary Doctor of Science, 1972, Denison University
M.S., Geology, 1949, University of Alabama
B.A., Geology, 1943, Denison University

Professional Registrations
American Institute of Professional Geologists CPG No. 880
American Institute of Hydrology, CPH No. 170
State of Arizona Professional Geologist No. 18819
State of Arkansas Professional Geologist No. 221
State of Florida Professional Geologist No. 442
State of Georgia Professional Geologist No. 315
State of Indiana Professional Geologist No. 366
State of North Carolina Professional Geologist No. 624
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Professional Geologist No. 1056
State of South Carolina Professional Geologist No. 320
State of Tennessee Professional Geologist No. TN0044
State of Wyoming Professional Geologist No. 791

Dr. LaMoreaux has more than forty years experience managing complex, multi-phased projects. Since founding P.E. LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc. (PELA), more than sixteen hundred investigations have been completed under his direction. Dr. LaMoreaux has served in the positions of President and Chairman of the Board. Since 1990 he has served as Senior Hydrogeologist.

Formerly, Dr. LaMoreaux served as the Chief of the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and as Division Hydrologist in charge of Water Resources Programs in a 14-state area of the Midwest. His duties included the administration and supervision of USGS District Offices in the region. Prior to that, Dr. LaMoreaux served as a Geologist, then as District Geologist in charge of the USGS District Ground Water Office in Alabama.

During his tenure as the Alabama State Geologist and Oil and Gas Supervisor, the Alabama Geological Survey sponsored the first major national professional meeting on karst hydrogeology–the 12th Congress of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH). Dr. LaMoreaux has also served as President of the IAH.

In 1970 he was the primary editor of Hydrology of Limestone Terranes–Annotated Bibliography of Carbonate Rocks for the Alabama Geological Survey. This ongoing bibliography is now sponsored by the IAH and Dr. LaMoreaux is still the editor-in-chief, bearing witness to his continuing awareness of the state-of-science in this specialized subdiscipline of geology.

Dr. LaMoreaux's professional publications require twelve pages to list. Publications related to karst hydrogeology have addressed the following topics: hydrology and hydrogeology of karst; environmental planning for karst areas; remote-sensing techniques and the detection of karst; catastrophic subsidence; and legal problems in karst areas.

Since 1982 Dr. LaMoreaux has been the editor-in-chief of the international journal Environmental Geology and Water Science. From 1983 to 1988 he was the Director of the Environmental Institute for Waste Management Studies at the University of Alabama. From 1984 to 1988 he served as a member of the Technical Review Group (TRG) for Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

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