ROBERT D. COOK, Ph.D., P.G.

RR 9 Box 9240, Moscow, Pennsylvania 18444, Tel.: (570) 849-0077

e-mail: robert.cook@cookgeologic.com

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Geology - Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania (1991)

M.A. in Geology - Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania (1986)

B.A. in Geology - Kutztown State University, Pennsylvania (1983)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2005-Present CONSULTING GEOLOGIST, Cook Geologic, LLC, Moscow, Pennsylvania, Geologic consulting services including detailed hydrogeologic studies for water supply and waste water disposal, ground water modeling, and wellhead protection planning.

2007-Present DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, Keystone College, La Plume, Pennsylvania.

2007-Present ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Keystone College, La Plume, Pennsylvania, Curriculum coordinator for Water Resource Management.

2001-2007 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Keystone College, La Plume, Pennsylvania, Curriculum coordinator for Water Resource Management.

2001-2005 HYDROGEOLOGIST (Part time consultant), R.K.R. Hess Associates, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

1998-2001 ADJUNCT FACULTY, Penn State, Worthington Scranton Campus, Pennsylvania, Teaching Earth Systems Science, Biodiversity and Earth History.

1998-2001 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HEAD, National Institute for Environmental Renewal (NIER), Mayfield, Pennsylvania, Environmental education program development. Management and technical support of watershed management and eco-industrial development projects.

2000 (Spring) ADJUNCT FACULTY, Lackawanna Junior College, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Teaching Earth Science

1997-1998 ADJUNCT FACULTY, Northampton Community College, Tannersville, Pennsylvania, Teaching Physical Geology (lecture and laboratory).

1994-1998 HYDROGEOLOGIST, R.K.R. Hess Associates, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Head of hydrogeology department responsible for ground water exploration and resource development, preparation of wellhead protection programs, conducting environmental investigations and cleanups.

1992-1994 HYDROGEOLOGIST, Huntingdon Consulting Engineers and Environmental Scientists/Empire Soils Investigations, Inc., Groton, NY. Management, proposal preparation, design, data analysis, permitting, reporting, and budget tracking for subsurface investigations and groundwater clean-up projects related to LNAPL spills.

1991-1992 PROJECT GEOLOGIST, Hydro-Environmental Technologies, Inc., Clifton Park, NY. Groundwater assessment, remediation system design, and project management.

1990-1987 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. Mineral and whole rock chemical analysis, geothermobarometry, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and fission-track geochronology, structural analysis and geologic mapping as part of a project to study the geology of SE Alaska.

1990-1989 CONSULTING GEOLOGIST, X-ray diffraction and petrographic identification of asbestos and building materials.

1987 (Fall) INSTRUCTOR, Main Line Night School, Lower Merion Township, PA. Teaching Introductory Geology.

1987-1985 TEACHING ASSISTANT, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. Teaching the laboratory portion of Physical Geology, Environmental Geology, Historical Geology, and Aqueous Geochemistry.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

1987 DORIS CARLAND PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

(Bryn Mawr College)

1987 SIGMA XI GRANT-IN-AID OF RESEARCH - to fund a geochemical study of mid-Cretaceous plutons in the western metamorphic belt of southeastern Alaska.

1988 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANT (EAR87-19755) awarded to fund two-year study of the geology of the western metamorphic belt in southern southeastern Alaska.

PUBLICATIONS:

2004 Cook, R.D., Geology of ground water resource development and protection planning along the Wisconsinan glacial border, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5, p. 578.

2000 Cook, R.D., Developing a link between ecology and industry in Monroe County, PA (Eco-industrial development): Brownfields 2000, Research and Regionalism: Revitalizing the American Economy, Biographies and Abstracts, p. 91.

2000 Barnard, T.E., Haas, L.A., Cook, R.D., Field demonstration projects for evaluation of alternative technologies for providing continuous monitoring of nitrogen and phosphorous in fresh water streams: 16^th Annual Waste Testing and Quality Assurance Symposium, pp. 130-135.

2000 Cook, R.D. and Kozul, J., Assessments for Watershed Planning and Management in Two Diverse Watersheds in the Delaware River Basin, Pennsylvania: Watershed 2000, Vancouver, Canada.

1999 Cook, R.D., Kozul, J., Myshak, M., and Sorochka, T., Physical and chemical characterization of a mostly forested watershed in eastern Pennsylvania, USA: Natural and anthropogenic impacts on surface-water quality: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver Colorado, Program with Abstracts, no. 50044.

1994 Cook, R.D. and Crawford, ML., Exhumation and tilting of the western metamorphic belt of the Coast orogen in southern southeastern Alaska: Tectonics, v. 13, pp. 528-537.

1991 Cook, R.D., Crawford, M.L., Omar, G.I. and Crawford, W.A., Magmatism and deformation, southern Revillagigedo Island, SE Alaska: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, v. 103, pp. 829-841.

1990 Cook, R.D. and Crawford, M.L., Bell Island batholith, SE Alaska: petrology and geologic setting: Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada, Programs with Abstracts, v. 15, p. A27.

1989 Crawford, M.L., Crawford, W.A., Cook, R.D. and Bridson, M.S., Syntectonic igneous activity, Ketchikan quadrangle, southeast Alaska: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. A307.

1989 Crawford, M.L., Crawford, W.A., and Cook, R.D., Magmatism and tectonism, central Coastal Orogen, Alaska and British Columbia: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 70, p. 1299.

1987 Cook, R.D., Crawford, M.L., and Omar, G.I., Thermal history of southern Revillagigedo

Island, SE Alaska: Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada,

Programs with Abstracts, v. 12, p. 34.

Selected non-peer reviewed publications:

2002 Cook, R.D., Ground Water Resources of the Tunkhannock Creek Watershed: 41 p. Report prepared for Keystone College’s Tunkhannock Creek Watershed Atlas project with funding from Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Growing Greener Grant number 350386.

2004 Cook, R.D., Wellhead Protection Program for Portland Borough Authority, Northampton County, Pennsylvania Report prepared for R.K.R. Hess Associates with funding from Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Source Water Protection Grant

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Member: Geological Society of America, 1984-present

National Ground Water Association

Registered Professional Geologist – Pennsylvania (License Number PG003896)