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Viney Aneja
Viney Aneja is a Professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University. He obtained his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India; and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Chemical Engineering, N. C. State University, Raleigh, N.C. Before joining the faculty of the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at N. C. State in 1987, he conducted and supervised research at Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, New York, and Northrop Service, in Research Triangle Park in the areas of environmental science and engineering and separations technology. In 2001 he was also appointed Professor of Environmental Technology, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1979; at Jawahar Lal Nehru University in New Delhi, India in 1980; and at the Arrhenius Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden in 1985. The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture appointed him as a member of the U.S. Agricultural Air Quality Task Force. He was a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee; and is also a member of the US EPA’s SAB Integrated Nitrogen Committee, and EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) Estimating Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations Panel. He is a Member Representative of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.
Dr. Aneja’s industrial and academic research contributions have been extensively recognized. He won the Noryl Division Proprietary Innovation Award from General Electric in 1983, the Air Pollution Control Association Award for Distinguished Service in 1984, the General Electric Managerial Award in 1986, and at North Carolina State University he received the 1991-92 Outstanding Extension Service Award. In 1998 the Air and Waste Management Association gave him its Frank A. Chambers Award, the Association’s highest scientific honor; in 1999 he became a Fellow of the Association; in 2001 he received the Association’s Lyman A. Ripperton Award for distinguished achievement as an educator. He is the recipient of the 2007 North Carolina Award in Science, the highest award a civilian can receive from the Governor of North Carolina. In 2009 he received the Senior National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship. In 2010 he received Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. In 2010 he was invited by the U.S. White House Council on Environmental Quality to assist in the BP Gulf Spill.
At North Carolina State University Dr. Aneja has developed one of the nation’s leading agricultural air-quality research programs (http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/airquality). He has published over 150 scientific papers, 120 book chapters and conference proceedings scientific papers, 45 technical reports, 5 US patents, and two books on his research. Dr. Aneja has directed 7 post doctoral fellows, 13 doctoral dissertations, and 37 masters’ theses.
Much of his work has focused on the science needed to make important decisions on environmental, bio-resource, and climate policies in North Carolina and the nation. He has conducted research on natural and anthropogenic emissions of nitric oxide, ammonia, and sulfur compounds and demonstrated the important roles of these substances in ozone formation and gas-to-particle conversion. His research on atmospheric photochemical oxidants in the North Carolina mountains has clarified the role of long range transport of pollutants and impact of these compounds on the formation of acid rain and on the damage to trees at high elevation. His most recent research has concentrated on the critical issue of the contribution of animal feeding operations to air quality; quantifying the emissions, transformation, transport and fate of pollutants in the environment, and climate. His contributions have been featured on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, The New York Times, Associated Press, Environmental Manager, and Fortune magazine. Dr. Aneja’s research has enjoyed support from a broad base of public and private sources. While conducting his extensive research, Dr. Aneja has maintained a heavy teaching load. He teaches a large and popular introductory courses (Introduction to Weather and Climate), an two upper division air quality course (Fundamentals of Air Pollution; and Fundamentals of Air Quality and Climate Change), and graduate courses, and has also given numerous short courses to public and private sector audiences.
Dr. Aneja has a long and distinguished record of public service, and he has been frequently sought as a lecturer and consultant to the Federal and State governments, professional societies, international organizations, and the private sector on issues related to environmental science and public policy. He was invited to visit the University of Munich, Germany in 1988 to discuss the problem of forest decline; to Berlin, Germany, during 1992 to discuss environmental issues in Eastern Europe; the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan, in 1994 to discuss urban and rural air quality; to the University of Sydney, Australia, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel in 1996 to discuss environmental issues; and the Ministry of Agriculture, Rome, Italy, in 1999 to discuss the role of intensively managed agriculture on the environment; and New Delhi, India in 2011 to discuss air quality, sustainability, and climate change. In 2000 he was a member of the North Carolina Delegation to the Netherlands on Agricultural Air Quality, and in 2001 he was leader of the U.S. Department of State Delegation to France on Environment Science and Technology. In 1990 Dr. Aneja served on the NASA panel for the selection of NASA Specialized Centers for Research and Training; and from 1994 to 2000 he served on the Exam Advisory Committee of the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice. From 1987-90 he served as the Site Director for the Mountain Cloud Chemistry Program. In 1990 he was appointed the Mission Scientist for the “Southern Oxidant Study"; in 1994 he was appointed Program Scientist for the U.S. EPA and NSF funded Project "NOVA"; in 1996 he was appointed the Science Team Leader for the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Program on "Atmospheric Nitrogen Compounds: Emissions, Transport, Transformation, Deposition, and Assessment,” and in 2001 he was appointed Program Scientist and Principal Investigator for the Animal and Poultry Waste Management Center/ Smithfield Foods funded Program OPEN (Odor, Pathogens, and Emissions of Nitrogen). He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on North Carolina Environmental Defense Fund, a member of the North Carolina Progress Board; and serves as a Director of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Chair of the Association’s Education Council. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Environmental Manager; and currently serves as Editorial Board Member of the international journal Atmospheric and Climate Science; and Atmospheres; and Associate Editor for International Journal of Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health; International Journal of Physical Review & Research International; International Journal of Applied Environmental Sciences; International Journal of Atmospheric Pollution Research; The Open Environmental & Biological Monitoring Journal; Journal of Marine Science: Research & Development; Journal of Environmental Research and Management; and the Scientific Journals International; and on the Reader Advisory Panel of Nature.
Contact Information: vpaneja@ncsu.edu; 919-515-7808
Viney Aneja is a Professor in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University. He obtained his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India; and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Chemical Engineering, N. C. State University, Raleigh, N.C. Before joining the faculty of the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at N. C. State in 1987, he conducted and supervised research at Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, New York, and Northrop Service, in Research Triangle Park in the areas of environmental science and engineering and separations technology. In 2001 he was also appointed Professor of Environmental Technology, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden in 1979; at Jawahar Lal Nehru University in New Delhi, India in 1980; and at the Arrhenius Laboratory in Stockholm, Sweden in 1985. The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture appointed him as a member of the U.S. Agricultural Air Quality Task Force. He was a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee; and is also a member of the US EPA’s SAB Integrated Nitrogen Committee, and EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) Estimating Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations Panel. He is a Member Representative of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.
Dr. Aneja’s industrial and academic research contributions have been extensively recognized. He won the Noryl Division Proprietary Innovation Award from General Electric in 1983, the Air Pollution Control Association Award for Distinguished Service in 1984, the General Electric Managerial Award in 1986, and at North Carolina State University he received the 1991-92 Outstanding Extension Service Award. In 1998 the Air and Waste Management Association gave him its Frank A. Chambers Award, the Association’s highest scientific honor; in 1999 he became a Fellow of the Association; in 2001 he received the Association’s Lyman A. Ripperton Award for distinguished achievement as an educator. He is the recipient of the 2007 North Carolina Award in Science, the highest award a civilian can receive from the Governor of North Carolina. In 2009 he received the Senior National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship. In 2010 he received Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. In 2010 he was invited by the U.S. White House Council on Environmental Quality to assist in the BP Gulf Spill.
At North Carolina State University Dr. Aneja has developed one of the nation’s leading agricultural air-quality research programs (http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/airquality). He has published over 150 scientific papers, 120 book chapters and conference proceedings scientific papers, 45 technical reports, 5 US patents, and two books on his research. Dr. Aneja has directed 7 post doctoral fellows, 13 doctoral dissertations, and 37 masters’ theses.
Much of his work has focused on the science needed to make important decisions on environmental, bio-resource, and climate policies in North Carolina and the nation. He has conducted research on natural and anthropogenic emissions of nitric oxide, ammonia, and sulfur compounds and demonstrated the important roles of these substances in ozone formation and gas-to-particle conversion. His research on atmospheric photochemical oxidants in the North Carolina mountains has clarified the role of long range transport of pollutants and impact of these compounds on the formation of acid rain and on the damage to trees at high elevation. His most recent research has concentrated on the critical issue of the contribution of animal feeding operations to air quality; quantifying the emissions, transformation, transport and fate of pollutants in the environment, and climate. His contributions have been featured on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, The New York Times, Associated Press, Environmental Manager, and Fortune magazine. Dr. Aneja’s research has enjoyed support from a broad base of public and private sources. While conducting his extensive research, Dr. Aneja has maintained a heavy teaching load. He teaches a large and popular introductory courses (Introduction to Weather and Climate), an two upper division air quality course (Fundamentals of Air Pollution; and Fundamentals of Air Quality and Climate Change), and graduate courses, and has also given numerous short courses to public and private sector audiences.
Dr. Aneja has a long and distinguished record of public service, and he has been frequently sought as a lecturer and consultant to the Federal and State governments, professional societies, international organizations, and the private sector on issues related to environmental science and public policy. He was invited to visit the University of Munich, Germany in 1988 to discuss the problem of forest decline; to Berlin, Germany, during 1992 to discuss environmental issues in Eastern Europe; the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan, in 1994 to discuss urban and rural air quality; to the University of Sydney, Australia, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel in 1996 to discuss environmental issues; and the Ministry of Agriculture, Rome, Italy, in 1999 to discuss the role of intensively managed agriculture on the environment; and New Delhi, India in 2011 to discuss air quality, sustainability, and climate change. In 2000 he was a member of the North Carolina Delegation to the Netherlands on Agricultural Air Quality, and in 2001 he was leader of the U.S. Department of State Delegation to France on Environment Science and Technology. In 1990 Dr. Aneja served on the NASA panel for the selection of NASA Specialized Centers for Research and Training; and from 1994 to 2000 he served on the Exam Advisory Committee of the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice. From 1987-90 he served as the Site Director for the Mountain Cloud Chemistry Program. In 1990 he was appointed the Mission Scientist for the “Southern Oxidant Study"; in 1994 he was appointed Program Scientist for the U.S. EPA and NSF funded Project "NOVA"; in 1996 he was appointed the Science Team Leader for the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Program on "Atmospheric Nitrogen Compounds: Emissions, Transport, Transformation, Deposition, and Assessment,” and in 2001 he was appointed Program Scientist and Principal Investigator for the Animal and Poultry Waste Management Center/ Smithfield Foods funded Program OPEN (Odor, Pathogens, and Emissions of Nitrogen). He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on North Carolina Environmental Defense Fund, a member of the North Carolina Progress Board; and serves as a Director of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Chair of the Association’s Education Council. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Environmental Manager; and currently serves as Editorial Board Member of the international journal Atmospheric and Climate Science; and Atmospheres; and Associate Editor for International Journal of Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health; International Journal of Physical Review & Research International; International Journal of Applied Environmental Sciences; International Journal of Atmospheric Pollution Research; The Open Environmental & Biological Monitoring Journal; Journal of Marine Science: Research & Development; Journal of Environmental Research and Management; and the Scientific Journals International; and on the Reader Advisory Panel of Nature.
Contact Information: vpaneja@ncsu.edu; 919-515-7808