Landfill Gas & Biogas Technical Division Award Recipients

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Carter "Kerry" Kelly
Senior Director, Federal Affairs, Waste Management, Inc.

Eternal Flame

Vince Little, Jr.
Sales Manager, Organic Waste Technologies and American Environmental Group

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Thomas A. Bilgri
P.E. Manager - Biogas Engineering Services, Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC

Eternal Flame

Dennis Hayashi
President and Owner, Aqua Bio Environmental Technologies

Richard Jaszczak
President and Owner, National Services, Inc.

Tudor Williams
Owner, Cambrian Energy

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Steven M. Hamilton
Senior Vice President, SCS Energy

Hall of Flame

Thomas A. Bilgri, P.E.
Manager - Biogas Engineering Services, Tetra Tech LLC

Eternal Flame

Robert E. Caron
Tetra Tech

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

William M. (Bill) Held
Partner, Specialized Biogas Services

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Amy M. Banister
Senior Director Air Programs, Waste Management, Inc.

Eternal Flame

Robert E. Stearns, P.E.,
Retired, SCS Engineers

Eternal Flame

Carl Niizawa
Deputy General Manager/District Engineer, Marina Coast Water District Engineering Department

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Peter J. Carrico
Senior Vice President, SCS Engineers

Eternal Flame

Ed Wheless
Division Engineer, Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Bryan Stirrat
Managing Director, Solid Waste Practice Group, Tetra Tech

Hall of Flame

Vince Little
Sales/Marketing Manager, Tetra Tech

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Frank Caponi
Division Engineer, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Michael S. Michels, P.E.
Vice President, Tetra Tech

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Thomas A. Shuput
Vice President of Business Development, SCS Engineers

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Ed Wheless
Division Engineer, Los Angeles County Sanitation District

Hall of Flame

Ghassan M. Andraos
Director, Tetra Tech

William P. Brinker
Managing Director, Landfill Group/Enerdyne Power Systems, Inc.

Gordon L. Deane
President, Palmer Capital Corporation

Ted M. Landers
Vice President, Engineering/Founder, Perennial Energy, LLC

Michael S. Michelsm P.E.
Vice President, Tetra Tech

Michael Murphy
Project Manager, SCS Engineers

Carl Niizawa
Deputy General Manager/District Engineer, Marina Coast Water District Engineering Department

Michael Rodgers
President, Waste Energy Technologies, Inc.

Christopher Voell
Program Manager, Landfill Methane Outreach Program, US EPA

Ed Wheless
Division Engineer, Los Angeles County Sanitation District

Tudor M. Williams
Partner, Cambrian Energy

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Jean E. Bogner, Ph.D.
President, Landfills +, Inc.

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Ray M. Nardelli
Principal, Raynar Technical Advisors

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

James J. Walsh
President, SCS Engineers

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Frederick C. Rice
President, Soiltec, Inc.

Hall of Flame

Chuck Anderson
Retired, Waste Management

Don Augenstein
President, Institute for Environmental Management Inc.

John Bean
Project Development Professional

Lin Bjerken
Retired, Hirt Combustion Engineers

Freddi Greenburg
Attorney at Law

Steve Hamilton
Senior Vice President, SCS Engineers

Bill Perez
Independent Contractor, Landfill Gas Recovery

Richard Prosser
Retired, Consultant

Curtis T. Ranger, P.E.
President, DTE Biomass Energy, Inc.

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

W. Gregory Vogt
Retired

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Dave Myers
Waste Management Consultant

Distinguished Individual Achievement Award

Bernie Zahren
President

Hall of Flame

George Jansen
Retired, Genstar Gas Recovery Systems

Dave Myers
Waste Management Associate

Mark Paul
Retired, Getty Synthetic Fuels

Alex Roqueta
Senior Vice President, National Survey Systems

Thomas A. Shuput
Vice President of Business Development, SCS Engineers

Bryan Stirrat
Managing Director, Solid Waste Practice Group, Tetra Tech

Rainer Stegmann
Retired Professor, Hamburg University of Technology

W. Gregory Vogt
Retired, SCS Engineers

Jim Wheeler
President, Wheeler Environmental Management

Eric Zimmerman
President, RE Zimmerman Consulting

Hall of Flame

Max Blanchet
Retired, Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Ellen Bogardus
Vice President, HDR Engineering

Jean E. Bogner, Ph.D.
President, Landfills +, Inc.

Milt Bracy
Retired, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Mike Carolan
Owner, Carolan Associates

Craig Cassarino
Advisor, Aliança

Bob Collins
Retired, GSF Energy, Inc.

Russ Eberhart
Program Director, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Joe Edberg
Retired, Los Angeles County Sanitation District

Frank Flower
Retired, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Tony Giuliani
Independent Consultant

Bob Ham
Retired, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Lanny M. Hickman, P.E., BCEE
Consultant, Hickman Associates

Ray Huitric
Retired, Los Angeles County Sanitation District

Bob Kiley
Retired, NRG NuFuel

Willy Lockman
Chairman, Lockman & Associates

Don Love
Retired, Love Process Engineering

Steve Maguin
Chief Engineer & General Manager, Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts

Dick Mandeville
Retired, Mandeville & Associates

Mike Nosanov
Retired, San Diego County Air Pollution Control District Hearing Board

John Pacey
Chairman Emeritus, EMCON Associates & EMCON/OWT

Jack Peck
City of Los Angeles

Fred Rice
Principal, F.C. Rice & Co.

Charlotte Rines Frola
Retired, US Department of Energy

Ron Schwegler
Retired, Los Angeles County Sanitation District

Robert E. Stearns, P.E.
Retired, SCS Engineers

James J. Walsh
President/CEO, SCS Engineers

Fred Wehran
CEO, Wehran Energy Corporation

Mike Wilkey
Retired, Gas Research Institute

Peter Woodfill
Global Practice Leader and Project Manager, Jacobs