About Us

WebH₂O™ is a company whose  primary focus is building web-based environmental information management systems. WebH₂O™ is an Internet-based system used by private and public organizations to securely collect, analyze and share environmental information with one another. WebH₂O™ improves the timeliness and accuracy of environmental data, reduces the burden and costs associated with reporting data, enhances data access for environmental professionals, and supports better decisions on environmental and health issues.

Our Team

Yoram Rubin,  President, CEO

Dr. Yoram Rubin provides overall and technical leadership to the WebH₂O™ project. Dr. Rubin is a professor of environmental engineering at UC Berkeley, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His areas of expertise include groundwater hydrology, contaminant transport, subsurface characterization of geological media, spatial analysis and geostatistics, and environmental risk assessment. He is the recipient of the 2004 Hydrologic Sciences Award of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union. In 2006, he was nominated a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.   

Additional information is available at http://env.berkeley.edu/~rubin

Contact Information:

Email: yoram.rubin(at)webh2o.net
Phone (510) 295-5680

Pascual Benito, Research & Development Engineer

Dr. Pascual Benito is the lead research and development engineer at WebH₂O™. He received his B.A. in Geology from Amherst College, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in Civil & Environmental Engineering. He brings an extensive expertise in geological engineering and environmental engineering, as well as numerical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport processes.

Brent Pedersen, GIS Programmer/Analyst

Dr. Brent Pedersen brings expertise in linking GIS and database systems with web-based applications. Brent received his B.Sc. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona at Tucson, and his Ph.D from U.C. Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Division of Insect Biology. He is currently a Programmer/Analyst at U.C. Berkeley in the Center For Fire Research and Outreach and in the Dept. of Plant and Molecular Biology.

Scott McLaughlin, QA & Website Testing and User Documentation

Scott McLaughlin oversees testing & quality assurance of WebH2O web-applications and develops user guides and documentation. Scott recieved his B.S. from U.C. Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a minor in Environmental Economics and Policy.

Advisory Board

Doron Rotem

Dr. Doron Rotem is on our Advisory Board and is currently a senior staff scientist and a member of the Data Management group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. His research interests include Grid Computing, Workflow, Scientific Data Management and Parallel and Distributed Computing and Algorithms. Prior to that Dr Rotem co-founded and served as a CTO of a startup company, called CommerceRoute, that made software products in the area of workflow and data integration. In CommerceRoute he led a development team that built software to integrate heterogeneous databases and ERP systems such as SAP and  PeopleSoft. Prior to that, Dr. Rotem was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Contact information:
Email: doron.rotem(at)webh2o.net

Slawomir W. Hermanowicz

Prof. Slav Hermanowicz is a U.C. Berkeley  faculty member in the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering and sits on our Advisory Board. He brings expertise in biological water and wastewater treatment processes; biofilms and their development; analysis of full-scale treatment reactors; nutrient control; and  sustainable development.

Email: hermanowicz(at)ce.berkeley.edu
Additional information is available at
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~hermanowicz/

Maggi Kelly

Dr. Maggi Kelly sits on our Advisory Board. She brings her expertise in ecological monitoring and landscape quantification using integrated geospatial technologies - GIS, remote sensing, GPS, spatial analysis, modeling and landscape ecology approaches. She is the faculty director of the U.C. Berkeley Geospatial Imaging and Informatics Facility (GIIF), in the College of Natural Resources. Dr. Kelly received her Ph.D from the Department of Geography. University of Colorado, Boulder, and her M.A. and B.A also in Geography from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and U.C. Berkeley.

Additional information is available at
http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/