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Dr. Jeremy (Jerry) Boak

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Education and Training

• Ph. D. Geology, Harvard University, June 1983, Dissertation: Petrology and Geochemistry of Clastic Metasedimentary Rocks of the Isua Supracrustal Belt, West Greenland.
• M.S. Geology, University of Washington, 1977, M. S. Thesis: Bedrock Geology and Petrology of the Mount Chaval Area, North Cascades, Washington.
• B.A. Geology, Harvard University, 1974 Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors in Geology, Bachelor's Thesis: Porphyritic Basalt from the Kolbeinsey Ridge North of Iceland.
• DOE sponsored courses in Decision Analysis, Systems Engineering, General Management. Los Alamos Management Institute, which covered management approaches and tools and Federal budgeting processes. Los Alamos courses in nuclear assay methods for nuclear materials and waste.

Research Interests

• oil shale
• deep geologic respositories and other radioactive materials remediation and pollution prevention
• petroleum exploration, stratigraphy, sedmentology
• Isua Supracrustal Suite, West Greenlan, including metamorphic petrology and sedimentary geochemistry

Professional Experience

• Present, Director, Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research (COSTAR)
• 2006 - present, Colorado Energy Research Institute (CERI), Colorado School of Mines
  Project Manager
  Co-Chair of the 26th and 27th Oil Shale Symposia
• 1994 -2005, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Offsite Source Recovery Project, Team Member
  Nuclear Material Project Leader
  Science & Technology Project Leader
  Pollution Prevention Project Leader
  Technical Staff Member, Environmental Restoration Project
• 1989 - 1994, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office, Las Vegas, NV
  Physical Scientist and Technical Analysis Branch Chief
  DOE representative to OECD/NEA Performance Assessment Advisory Group
  
• 1987 - 1989, Geological Consultant, Ithaca NY
• 1983 - 1987, Geologist, ARCO, Inc., Anchorage, AK; Denver, CO; Bakersfield, CA (1/83 - 9/87)
• 1976 - 1982, Research Associate, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
  
• 1976 and 1977, Geologist, Union Molycorp, Spokane WA

Professional Societies

• Geological Society of America
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
• AAPG Division of Environmental Geology
• American Nuclear Society

Publications (excluding abstracts)

• Bish, D. L., and Boak, J. M. (2001) Clinoptilolite-Heulandite Nomenclature, in, Bish, D.L., and Ming, D.W., eds. Natural Zeolites: Occurrence, Properties, Applications. Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, vol. 45, pp. 207-216, Washington, D.C.
• Boak, J., Chandler, G.T., Conrad, E.A., Roberson, G.D., and Abdalla, T. (2004) Technical Evaluation of Rocky Flats Stabilization Furnace #2 Failure, August 2, 2002, LA-UR-04-1435, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report, Los Alamos, NM
• Boak, J., Conrad, E.A., Delegard, C.H., Murray, A.M., Roberson, G.D., and Venetz, T.J. (2003) Recommendations on Stabilization of Plutonium Material Shipped to Hanford from Rocky Flats, LA-14070, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report, Los Alamos, NM
• Boak, J.M., and Dockery, H.A. (1998) Validating Long-Term Projections of Complex Systems: Can We Do It? Should We Try? in Welby, C.W. and Gowan, M.E., eds. A Paradox of Power: Voices of Warning andReason in the Geosciences, Geological Society of America Reviews in Engineering Geology, vol. XII, pp.177-184, Boulder, Colorado.
• Boak, J.M., Dockery, H.A., and Andrews, R.W. (1994) Total System Performance Assessment (TSPA-1993) for Yucca Mountain: An Iterative Refinement Addressing Scientific, Regulatory, and Design Concerns. Waste Management '94, pp. 505-510, WM Symposia, Inc., Tucson, AZ
• Boak, J.M., Dockery, H.A., and van Luik, A.E. (1993) Performance of a Potential Civilian Radioactive Waste Repository: Future Directions Derived from TSPA 1991 and Program Priorities. Waste Management '93, pp 1215-1222, WM Symposia, Inc., Tucson, AZ
• Boak, J.L., and Dymek, R.F. (1982) Metamorphism of the ca. 3800 Ma supracrustal rocks at Isua, West Greenland: Implications for early Archæan crustal evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 59, 155-176
• Boak, J.L., Dymek, R.F., and Gromet, L.P. (1983) Petrology and rare earth element geochemistry of clastic metasedimentary rocks from the 3800 Ma Isua Supracrustal belt, West Greenland. Rapports Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 112, 23-33
• Boak, J., Eller, P.G., Chipman, N.A., and Castle, P.M. (2002) Basic research to support the Nuclear Material Focus Area, Waste Management '02, Proceedings CD-ROM, Session 39A, Poster 9, WM Symposia, Inc., Tucson, AZ
• Boak, J., Eller, P.G., Erickson, R.M., Murray, A., and Roberson, G.D., (2002) Technical Basis for Equivalency to DOE Standard 3013 Requirements of Lower Temperature Stabilization for Electrorefining-Derived Plutonium Oxides, Revision 1, LA-UR-02-6054, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report, Los Alamos, NM.
• Boak, J.M., Flint, A., and Dockery, H.A. (1995) The treatment of conceptual model uncertainty for Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/ Nuclear Energy Agency, The Role of Conceptual Models in Demonstrating Repository Post Closure Safety, Paris, France, pp. 55-72.
• Boak, J.M., Kosiewicz, S.T., Triay, I.R., Gruetzmacher, K M., Montoya, A.J. (1998) Systematic Evaluation of Options to Avoid Generation of Non-certifiable Transuranic Waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Waste Management '98, Proceedings CD-ROM, Session 27, Poster 42, WM Symposia, Inc., Tucson, AZ.
• Boak, J.M., Turner, D L., Henry, D.J., Moore, T.E., and Wallace, W.K. (1987) Petrology and K-Ar Ages of the Misheguk Igneous Sequence, an Allochthonous Mafic and Ultramafic Complex, and its Metamorphic Aureole, Western Brooks Range, Alaska. In, I.L. Tailleur and P. Weimer, eds., Alaskan North Slope Geology, SEPM Pacific Section Special Volume, pp. 737-746.
• Dymek, R.F., Boak, J.L., and Kerr, M.T. (1983) Green micas in the Archæan Isua and Malene Supracrustal rocks, southern West Greenland, and the occurrence of Ba-Cr muscovite. Rapports Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 112, 71-82
• Dymek, R. F., Boak, J.L., and Brothers, S. (1988) A titanian chondrodite- and titanian-clinohumite-bearing metadunite from the 3800 Ma Isua Supracrustal Belt, West Greenland: Chemistry, petrology, and origin. American Mineralogist 73, 547-58.
• Kalsbeek, F., Bridgwater, D., and Boak, J.L. (1982) Evidence of mid-Proterozoic granite formation in the Isua area. Rapp. Grønlands Geol. Unders. 100, 73-76.
• Murphy, J.M., Mason, C.F.V., Boak, J.M., Longmire, P.A., (1996) Migration of Sr-90, Cs-137, and Pu-239-240 in a canyon below a Los Alamos outfall. Waste Management 96 Proceedings CD-ROM, Session 38, Paper 31, WM Symposia, Inc., Tucson, AZ
• Santi, D.J., Franco, J.B., Boak, J.M., Menlove, H.O., and Brown, C.M. (2000) Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS) Deployment of the Super High Efficiency Neutron Coincidence (SuperHENC) Counter, a Mobile Passive Neutron Counting System for Standard Waste Boxes. Waste Management 2000 Proceedings, WM Symposia, Inc., Tucson, AZ
• Slatt, R.M., Boak, J.M., Goodrich, G.T., Lagoe, M.B., Vavra, C.L., Bishop, J.M., and Zucker, S.M. (1988) Preliminary analysis of depositional facies, paleoenvironments, reservoir quality, and well-log characteristics of Mio-Pliocene deep water sands, Long Beach Unit, Wilmington Field, California, In, Lomando, A.J. and Harris, P.M., Giant Oil and Gas Fields, SEPM Core Workshop #12, pp. 31-88.
• Slatt, R.M., Phillips, S., Boak, J.M., and Lagoe, M.B. (1993) Scales of geological heterogeneity of a deep-water sand giant oil field, Long Beach Unit, Wilmington Field, California, In Rhodes, E.G. and Moslow, T.F., eds., Marine Clastic Reservoirs: Examples and Analogs, Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 263-292.
• Younker, J.L., Boak, J.M., and Dyer, J.R. (1993) Early Evaluation of the Suitability of the Potential Repository Site at Yucca Mountain, Waste Management '93, 1201-1206. WM Symposia, Inc., Tucson AZ

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