Armistead (Ted) Russell
Dr. Armistead (Ted) Russell is the Georgia Power Distinguished Professor and Coordinator of Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Russell arrived at Georgia Tech in 1996 from Carnegie Mellon University, and has expertise in air quality engineering, with particular emphasis in air quality modeling, air quality monitoring and analysis. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1985, conducting his research at Caltech’s Environmental Quality Laboratory. His B.S. is from Washington State University (1979).
Dr. Russell is currently on the National Research Council’s Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and has been a member of a number of the NRC committees, including chairing the Committee to Review EPA’s Mobile Model and chairing the committee on Carbon Monoxide Episodes in Meteorological and Topographical Problem Areas, and serving on the committee on Tropospheric Ozone Formation and Measurement, the committee on ozone forming potential of reformulated fuels and the committee on Risk Assessment of Hazardous Air Pollutants. In November 2006, the EPA Administrator appointed Dr. Russell as a member of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). Dr. Russell also serves as an expert panel member on both the CASAC Ozone Review Panel and the CASAC Ambient Air Monitoring and Methods (AAMM) Subcommittee. He previously served on three other EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) or CASAC subcommittees: the SAB Workgroup on Air Monitoring Plan related to Hurricane Katrina (Chair); the CASAC National Ambient Air Monitoring Strategy (NAAMS) Subcommittee; and the Subcommittee on Air Quality Modeling of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis. In addition, Dr. Russell served on EPA’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) Subcommittee on Ozone, Particulate Matter and Regional Haze Implementation Programs. He was also a member of the North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO) and California’s Reactivity Science Advisory Committee. Previously he was on the EPA Office of Science, Technology and Policy’s Oxygenated Fuels Program Review and various National Research Council program reviews, and a committee to review a Canadian NRC program.
Dr. Russell is a member of the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). He is Associate Editor of Environmental Science and Technology. Dr. Russell has won a variety of competitions for animations he has developed that depict the dynamics of pollutants have won a variety of prizes here and abroad, and his work was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Smithsonian Award for Computing in the Environmental Sciences. Recently, Professor Russell led a multi-institutional effort to conduct air quality modeling of ozone, particulate matter and acid deposition to assist the Southern Appalachians Mountains Initiative to identify effective control strategies to improve air quality in Class I areas in the southern Appalachians. This work has been extended to detailed analysis of air quality strategies in Georgia, particulate matter modeling in the Southeast and Northeast, and development of a number of advanced numerical techniques for environmental modeling. For his service to National Research Council committees, he was recently selected as a National Associate of the National Academies.