Olin C. Braids, Ph.D. B.A. degree Chemistry, University of New Hampshire 1960 (B.A. degree because college of Liberal Arts and bachelor s thesis), M.S. Soil Chemistry, Univ. of New Hampshire 1963, Ph.D., Soil Chemistry, The Ohio State University, 1966. Post-Doc Fellowship, Dept. of Agronomy, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana (1966-67) Thirty-nine years of experience includes:Assistant Professor, Dept. of Agronomy, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana (1967-1972); U.S. Geological Survey, Mineola, New York (1972-1975); Geraghty & Miller, Inc., Long Island and Tampa (1975-1989 and 1995-1999); Blasland, Bouck & Lee, Tampa (1989-1993); Eder Associates, Inc., Tampa, (1993-1995); O.C. Braids & Associates, LLC, Tampa (1999-present). Editor/Author of a number of books/chapters, including: "Chapter 6 Fats, Waxes, and Resins in Soil," Braids, O.C. and Miller, R.H., in J.E. Gieseking, ed. Soil Components Volume I, Organic Components, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1975."Chapter 13 Effects of Industrial Hazardous Waste Disposal on the Ground-water Resources," Braids, Olin C., Wilson, George R., and Miller, David W., in Robert P. Pojasek, ed., Drinking Water Quality Enhancement Through Source Protection, Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 179-207, 1977."Chapter 26 Chemical Indicators of Leachate Contamination in Groundwater Near Municipal Landfills," Saar, Robert A. and Olin C. Braids, in Chester W. Francis, Stanley J. Auerbach, and Vivian A. Jacobs eds., Environment and Solid Wastes Characterization, Treatment, and Disposal, Butterworth Publications, Boston, MA, 1983."Chapter 3 Volatile Organic Compounds and the Ground Water Environment," Olin C. Braids, in Occurrrence and Removal of Volatile Organic Chemicals from Drinking Water," AWWA Research Foundation, Denver and KIWA, Rijswijk, The Netherlands, 1983."Chapter 12 Ground-Water Sample Analysis," Vitale Rock J., Olin Braids, and Rudolph Schuller, in David N. Nielsen, ed. Practical Handbook of Ground-Water Monitoring, Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI, 1991. (This book is in its first revision for later release in 2005)"Chapter 24 Groundwater Contamination from Hazaardous Wastes," Braids, Olin C., in James E. Hickey, Jr. and Linda A. Longmire eds, The Environment Global Problems, Local Solutions," Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1994."Chapter 12 Continuing Problems in Groundwater - MTBE,1,4-Dioxane, Perchlorate, and NDMA," Evan K. Nyer, Kathy Thalman, Pedro Fierro, and Olin Braids, in Evan K. Nyer et al. eds., In Situ Treatment Technology, 2nd Edition, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 2001. "Chapter 2 Soil," Braids, Olin C., in Jay Lehr, Marve Hyman, Tyler E. Gass, and William J. Seevers eds., Handbook of Complex Environmental Remediation Problems," McGraw-Hill Handbooks, NY, 2002.Cai, Yong and Olin C. Braids eds., Biogeochemistry of Environmentally Important Trace Elements," American Chemical Society Symposium Series 835, American Chemical Society, 2003, 436 pp.
