John Till

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About John Till

John E. Till, Ph.D. is president Risk Assessment Corporation He graduated with distinction from the US Naval Academy 1967. He served in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Program and retired a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Naval Reserve in Dr. Till received his M.S. degree from Colorado State University in 1972 and his Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976. In 1995, Dr. Till received the E.O. Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy in the field of Environmental Science and Technology. He was selected for this honor for his work in public involvement and research in dose reconstruction. He presented the L.S. Taylor Lecture at the annual meeting of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements in 2013. In 1977 he formed Risk Assessment Corporation (RAC). He has been responsible for a number of major research projects over the past 30 years that focused on sources, transport and dose to people from radioactive materials released to the environment from routine, accidental, and terrorist events. Dr. Till’s scientific achievements include over 200 scientific publications and books that stress new approaches to apply and simplify transport and fate mechanisms in environmental and risk analysis. His most recent book, Radiological Risk Assessment and Environmental Analysis was published by Oxford University Press. He served on the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), a Distinguished Emeritus Member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and various committees of the National Academy of Sciences. Other current work focuses on methods to convert environmental measurement data into knowledge for decision making during routine, accidental or terrorists’ events. His work called RACER has been enabled on the web and is a methodology for making environmental data accessible and understandable to both decision makes and the public.