New Appointment for Herbert T. Buxton

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Subject: New Appointment for Herbert T. Buxton
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Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 13:17:39 -0400
From: "David A Rickert, Chief, OWQ, Reston, VA" <drickert>


The Office of Water Quality is pleased to announce the appointment of 
Herbert T. Buxton as Chief of the Toxics Substances Hydrology (Toxics) 
Program, effective April 29, 1996. Herb will serve in this capacity from 
his current location in West Trenton, New Jersey. He brings a wealth of 
programmatic experience and technical background to this position, 
including 11 years of ground-water experience in Long Island, New York, 
as a Project Chief and District Modeling Specialist, and 7 years in West 
Trenton, New Jersey, as Assistant District Chief for Hydrologic Systems 
Investigation and Research. Herb has a B.S. in Geology from Rennselaer 
Polytechnic Institute in New York and a M.S. in Geology from SUNY 
College, New York. We welcome him to the office and look forward to 
having him on our staff.

We want to acknowledge the dedication and hard work of several people who 
helped fill the void when Gail Mallard became Acting Chief, Office of 
Hydrologic Research in 1994. First we thank Timothy Miller for his tenure 
as Acting Chief of the Toxics Program. Second, and in particular, We 
thank David Morganwalp, Assistant Toxics Program Chief, who stepped into 
the Toxics Chief position for the last 14 months as well as doing his own 
job. David and Herb will make a strong and creative team to guide the 
future of the Toxics Program.