Areas of expertise: Pollution, groundwater
contamination, radioactive and hazardous waste management,
mathematical modeling
Alan Rabideau’s research examines groundwater
contamination and remediation in a variety of settings. Most
recently, his work included the West Valley Demonstration
Project, an inactive nuclear fuel processing facility 30 miles
south of Buffalo. Rabideau, PhD, PE, also leads UB's Ecosystem Restoration
through Interdisciplinary Exchange (ERIE), a collection of
academic programs and research projects that advance the science
and policy of ecosystem restoration, with an emphasis on the Great
Lakes and Western New York. He is a member of a National Academy of
Science panel that explores ways to improve hazardous waste
management at thousands of sites where subsurface contaminants pose
risks to drinking water.