Faculty

John R. Nuckols, Ph.D., C.P.H.

Director and Associate Professor
john.nuckols@colostate.edu

John R. Nuckols holds degrees in Engineering from Texas A & I University (BS, 1973), Northwestern University (MSCE, 1975) and the University of Kentucky (PhD, 1982). Dr . Nuckols is trained as an environmental engineer and hydrologist, and has over 25 years of experience in the field of applied environmental sciences, including fate and transport modeling, environmental health assessment, and exposure assessment for epidemiological studies. In 1992, Dr. Nuckols established the Environmental Health Advanced Systems Laboratory at Colorado State University, with a mission to conduct research in the development and application of computer-based technology for exposure assessment in environmental epidemiological studies. Since September of 2000, Dr. Nuckols has served as a consultant to the Occupational Epidemiology Branch of the National Cancer Institute on exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology studies, including the application of GIS.

Mary H. Ward, Ph.D.

Occupational Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute
http://dceg.cancer.gov/ebp/oeb/index.html
wardm@exchange.nih.gov

Dr. Ward received an M.S. in ecology from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from The John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her research focuses on environmental and occupational causes of cancer, with special emphasis on pesticides and nitrates in relation to the etiology of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, childhood leukemia, and gastric cancer. She is examining the etiologic role of nitrosamines and their precursors with respect to drinking water and dietary ingestion for cancers of the brain, bladder, colon, stomach, esophagus, and nasopharynx. Dr. Ward's research interests include the use of Geographic Information Systems for exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology studies.