GAIA Executive Team
Our inter- and multi-disciplinary team consists of experienced professionals in the areas of risk assessment and risk management. These include chemical, civil, mechanical, and environmental engineers, architects and builders, toxicologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, soil scientists and microbiologists, industrial hygienists, physicians board-certified in occupational medicine and neuropsychiatry, attorneys, and business managers. Our professionals have extensive experience in industry, government (EPA, ATSDR, OSHA, NIOSH, DOT, and FDA) and academia.
We are familiar with all the legal and technical requirements of designing and operating industrial processes, as well as running municipal systems and designing environmentally sound management plans. We have participated in and continue to contribute to government-sponsored panels on new possibilities for risk and waste reduction in manufacturing. Thus, our team is on the frontier of technological advances in the areas of risk and pollution reduction. Our professionals are also involved in community efforts to reduce risks from chemicals through participation in the Community Right-to-Know.
Dr. Vlasta Molak is a recognized national and international expert in risk analysis, risk management, environmental quality issues, and sustainable energy development, as well as deeply involved in the preservation of quality of life in her community in Greater Cincinnati for over twenty-two years.
In 1999, Dr. Molak worked on the Kyoto Protocol as an Environmental Congressional Fellow for the Hon. Dennis Kucinich(OH-10), who wrote the forward for her book on FUNDAMENTALS OF RISK ANALYSIS AND RISK MANAGEMENT, published by the CRC Press in 1997. She was a Secretary and International Coordinator of the International Society for Risk Analysis. Dr. Molak has an interdisciplinary training with an Engineer in Physics (equivalent to B.S. in Physics) from the University of Zagreb in Croatia, M.S. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from SUNY's Downstate Medical Center in New York City with postdoctoral training in Molecular Genetics. Dr. Molak is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology.
She has worked as a risk analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and for a private consulting company in a cleanup of a nuclear feed facility at Fernald, working with Departments of Energy, Defense, OSHA and FDA. She was also a founder of the Biotechnology Forum, which was organizing workshops and lecture series pertaining to biotechnology and thus enabled the members to be at the forefront of biotechnology developments in the late eighties and early nineties. One of the first methods for evaluating the danger of release of genetically modified organisms was the work of Dr. Molak. She also organized a workshop on the problems of oil spills in the marine environments, resulting in a book of proceedings titled A Comprehensive Approach to Problems With Oil Spills in Marine Environments (Proceedings of): TheAlaska Story Dr. Molak has taught courses on Sustainable Development and Risk Analysis at the UN's Division for Sustainable Development in New York City and at the University of Sao Paulo and Quiaba in Brazil.
Dr. Molak is the founder and President and CEO of GAIA UNLIMITED, Inc. (since 1993) an environmental consulting company that uses risk analysis and risk management techniques in solving environmental problems.
Also, she is a founder of GAIA FOUNDATION, Inc., a non-for-profit educational and research organization involved in broad issues of promoting a wide variety of sustainable development activities. One of the major projects is sustainable development of the inner city of Cincinnati (SEARCH), an area with empty houses and many homeless people.
Dr. Molak has participated in major community projects, such as chairing the Subcommittee for Technical Interpretation (STI) of the Local Emergency Planning Committee, chairing the environmental committee of the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister City Project, being a part of the Planning Committee for the Environmental Priorities Project in Hamilton County, participating in the Comparative Risk Analysis for the State of Ohio etc...As a Chair of the STI, she has initiated and saw a completion of the Hazard Analysis of Toxic Chemicals in Hamilton County, and has performed evaluations of industrial wastewaters by analyzing toxic release inventories for the Metropolitan Sewer District.
In the end of 2004 and first four months of 2005, Dr. Molak has spent in Nepal and India, studying their systems of food production and energy production (Nepal's electric energy is entirely hydroelectric from Himalayas and their agriculture is sustainable) performing environmental audit of energy consumption and material flows in a Buddhist monastery.
Fundamentals of Risk Analysis and Risk Management
Hardback by Vlasta Molak, CRC Press (1997)
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A Comprehensive Approach to Problems With Oil Spills in Marine Environments (Proceedings of): The Alaska Story Paperback by Vlasta Molak & Wendy Hoover, Princeton Scientific Publishing (December 1992)
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Dunn & Titus P.S.C.
Mr. Dunn has over twenty-five years experience in design and construction management of educational, recreational, housing and religious projects. His areas of expertise are construction management and environmental design, including both lighting design and acoustics. He teaches in both of these areas as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Dunn is responsible for the architectural design and project budgeting for Dunn & Titus. He has extensive experience in the development of housing and retail projects.
Mr. Dunn has traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East and lectured on Construction Management in Russia, Ukraine, South America and Africa as well as the United States.
U.S. Air Force: Construction Engineer/ Officer-In-Charge of Construction. Managed projects in Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Reserve Captain.
Ohio (ARC.6403616), Indiana, Kentucky, Texas and Florida. Holds Certificate from NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards).
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