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
John McLaughlin, QA & Website Testing and User Documentation
John McLaughlin oversees testing & quality assurance of WebH2O web-applications and develops user guides
and documentation. John recieved his B.S. from U.C. Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering,
with a minor in Conservation and Resource Studies.Contact information:
Email: john@mywebh2o.org
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. Contact information:
Email: scott.mclaughlin(at)webh2o.net
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/