Henry (Dirk) Felton
Mr. Henry (Dirk) Felton is currently employed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) as a Research Scientist III. He has a Bachelor of Arts undergraduate degree in Physics from Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio (1987), and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey (1993). He is also a Civil Engineer licensed in the State of New York.
Mr. Felton’s professional work has been entirely focused on ambient air monitoring. His first independent work involved setting up a monitoring network for criteria, toxic and tracer compounds around the Freshkills Landfill on Staten Island. Since then he has worked to optimize monitoring technology to operate a rural upwind PAMS site for NARSTO-NE, conducted several experiments to evaluate new automated mass measurement technologies, and has designed the PM-2.5 FRM and speciation program in New York. Mr. Felton is the lead for his Agency’s participation in the New York PMTACS SuperSite program. Working as a collaborator with the NY SuperSite has allowed him to participate in all aspects of air monitoring from program development to state of the art methods evaluation.
Mr. Felton currently serves as the chairperson for the NESCAUM Monitoring Assessment Committee (MAC). In addition, he participated in the OAQPS workgroup to develop the QA procedures for the PM-2.5 FRM program; and also participates in the new OAQPS workgroup examining new automated measurement technologies and in the workgroup working on the revision of CFR Part 58. Mr. Felton was recently asked to be a member of the EPA ORD committee for the “Synthesis and Integration” of the SuperSite program data and its application to State program planning needs. He also participated in a workgroup writing a chapter for the fourth edition of the Methods of Air Sampling and Analysis edited by Lodge.