RESUME FOR ERIC S. RINGLER

mail@polarismaps.com

SUMMARY

Since 1996, I have solely owned and operated Polaris Cartography - a digital cartography/GIS shop in Yancey County, NC. I started Polaris following a 10+ year career in environmental research, monitoring, and regulatory support. 

The combined experience from these two careers has provided me with a wide range of expertise.  My primary work related skills are the following:
~ Cartography (bringing art to communicating geographic information)
~ Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (data compilation, management, processing, analysis)
~ Data Communication (statistical graphics, data presentation)
~ Desktop Publishing (graphic design, layout, pre-press)
~ Project planning and management (coordinate multiple projects, keep schedule, budget and quality)
~ Environmental data analysis, reporting, and quality assurance (one of my main strengths)
~ Environmental monitoring (primarily air quality, lots of field experience, some lab experience)
~ Modeling (air quality dispersion models, some receptor modeling, coal degasification)
~ Technical Writing (proposals, work plans, reports, regulations and regulatory guidance)
~ Creative Thinking and Doing (good problem solver, resourceful, versatile, good at planning/design)
~ Work Ethic (works hard, responsible, honest, takes pride in work well done)
~ People Skills (I am patient, compassionate and (mostly) forbearing; I listen well and desire understanding; I can lead, follow, or collaborate as best suits the job at hand)
~ Computing (PC power user, expert with GIS and Desktop Publishing applications as well as basic computer tools (word processing, spreadsheet database, networking etc.). I designed and maintain a fairly sophisticated, networked, GIS/Graphics computing environment at Polaris.


MY EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND FORMAL EDUCATION ARE GIVEN BELOW.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
POLARIS CARTOGRAPHY, Yancey County, NC. 1996 to present. Owner and operator.  See www.polarismaps.com for more information.

POLARIS AIR QUALITY SERVICES (consulting), 1996-2000. Clients included Southern Research Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC and Remote Sensing-Air, St. Louis, MO. Projects included open path (FTIR) measurements, air pollution mapping, and green house gas mitigation technology evaluations.

SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Research Triangle Park, NC. Employment:1993-1996. Senior scientist and research group manager involved with developing and testing applications and methods for innovative air quality and emissions measurement and pollution prevention technologies. Methods and applications for emissions measurements based on optical remote sensing (FTIR) and dispersion modeling were the primary focus of the group.

TRC ENVIRONMENTAL CORPORATION, Chapel Hill, NC. 1989-1993. Served as an environmental scientist and project manager on a wide variety of technical and regulatory support programs related to implementation of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, ambient monitoring of criteria and non-criteria pollutants, acid deposition, and visibility. This work included field coordination of large networks of acid deposition, visibility and particulate monitoring stations, open path (UV-DOAS) monitoring, and ambient monitoring network design and review. Played key roles in preparing several monitoring and regulatory guidance documents for EPA, drafting model Title V permit fee demonstrations, regulations for enhanced ozone monitoring, and a revised air quality standard for lead.

RESEARCH AND EVALUATION ASSOCIATES, INC., Chapel Hill, NC. 1988-1989. Research Associate. Designed and performed management systems audits for 60 acid deposition monitoring sites. Prepared audit reports. Assisted in design and assessment of laboratory, aircraft, and data processing systems audits.

NC STATE UNIVERSITY, Clingman's Peak, NC. Site Operator 1986-1988. Operated NADP/NTN precipitation sampling station.

SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHER 1985 - 1988. Asheville Country Day School and Arthur Morgan School, Asheville and Burnsville, NC. Grades 6-12., including advanced placement calculus.

FORMAL EDUCATION 
1985, B.A. Mathematics, Indiana University - a general purpose education. I focused on pure mathematics, linguistics and computer science. I later became expert in statistical analysis of environmental data and in using, testing and developing mathematical models of various processes involved in air pollution emissions and dispersion.

1989-92 Graduate course work and research in atmospheric science, North Carolina State University. Research Area: Open Path UV/DOAS Measurements for Multicomponent Analysis of Photochemically Reactive Gases. Two papers were prepared in lieu of a thesis. Six hours coursework lacking for completion of MS degree. This is where I learned about atmospheric chemistry and dispersion and how to model these processes. This was very useful in my work at that time - too useful. The work took over and I never finished the degree.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Zwicker, Judith O.; Ringler, Eric; Kagann, Robert H.,  Monitoring of CO flare emissions using open-path Fourier transform infrared technology, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3534, p. 9-20, Environmental Monitoring and Remediation Technologies, Tuan Vo-Dinh; Robert L. Spellicy; Eds. 2/1999
- Zwicker, Judith O.; Ringler, Eric; Waldron, Timothy; Coe, Dana, "OP-FTIR monitoring for ammonia emissions in the San Joaquin Valley"  Proc. SPIE Vol. 3534, p. 150-161, Environmental Monitoring and Remediation Technologies, Tuan Vo-Dinh; Robert L. Spellicy; Eds. 2/1999 
- Piccot, Lewis-Bevan, Masemore, Ringler and Harris, "Field Assessment of a New Method for Estimating Emission Rates from Volume Sources using Open-Path FTIR Spectrometry", Journal of the A&WMA Journal, March 1996.
- Ringler and Jones, "Preliminary Inventory of Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions from Electric Utility Boilers in the United States", Presented at the A&WMA Emissions Inventory Specialty Conference, October, 1995.
- Ringler, Lewis-Bevan, and Piccot, "In-situ Measurement of Ammonia in a Selective Catalytic Reduction Test Bed", Presented at the A&WMA/SPIE International Symposium on Optical Sensing, McLean, VA, November, 1994.
- Ringler, Piccot, and Kirchgessner, "Methane Emissions from Abandoned Underground Coal Mines", Presented at the 1994 A&WMA Annual Meeting, June 1994.
- Kagann and Ringler, "The Use of Temperature Dependent Calculations of Spectra as References for Open Path FTIR Measurements" Presented at the 1994 A&WMA Annual Meeting, June 1994.
- Piccot, Masemore, Ringler, et.al., "Validation of a Method for Estimating Pollution Emission Rates from Area Sources Using Open Path FTIR Spectroscopy and Dispersion Modeling Techniques, J. Air & Waste Manage. Assoc. 44: 271-279, 1994.
- Ringler, "Estimating Area Source Emission Rates Using Open-Path FTIR Spectrometry: Data Analysis Refinements", Presented at the A&WMA Specialty Conference on Optical Remote Sensing, Atlanta, October 1993.
- Ringler, "Results from the 1992 PM-10 Saturation Monitoring Study in the Ashland, KY Area", Presented at the A&WMA Air Toxics Symposium, Durham, NC, May 1993.
- Ringler and Aneja, "A Ground-Based Inter-comparison of Path Integrated DOAS Measurements and Conventional Point Measurements of Ambient Trace Gas Concentrations", Presented at the A&WMA Specialty Conference on Remote Sensing, April 1992.
- Ringler and Aneja, "Remote Sensing of Criteria Pollutants and Volatile Organic Compounds Using a Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometer", Presented at the First International Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Congress, Isfahan, Iran, Sept. 1993.
- Ringler and Harrington, "Guidance for Conducting Ambient Air Monitoring for Lead Around Point Sources", USEPA (OAQPS) Monitoring and Reports Branch, Jan. 1992.
- Tropp, Ringler, and Evans, "Results from the Eastern Fine Particle and Visibility Monitoring Network", 1991 A&WMA Annual Meeting, No. 91-49.5, June 1991
- Ringler and Tropp, "Comparison of Nephelometer and Photographic Determinations of Light Extinction", A&WMA Specialty Conference Proceedings, May 1991.
- Ringler and Tropp, "Particulate Organic Sampling Artifacts", A&WMA Specialty Conference Proceedings, May 1991.

REFERENCES
Judith Zwicker, Vice President Technical Services, Remote Sensing Air, 314-308-6291, zwickeresrsa@aol.com

Steve Piccot, Director - Environment and Energy Department, Southern Research Institute, 1-800-9676774 Ext 2446 or 1-919-806-3456 ext 22, piccot@sri.org

Viney Aneja - Professor of Environmental Technology, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science, North Carolina State University,(919) 515-7808 ,viney_aneja@ncsu.edu