Benjamin Clay Dysart, III

Background

III, Benjamin Clay Dysart, was born on February 12, 1940 in Columbia, Tennessee, United States. Son of Benjamin Clay and Kathryne Virginia (Thompson) D.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 1961. Master of Science in Sanitary Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1969.

Career

Staff engineer Union Carbide Corporation, 1961-1962, 64-65. From assistant professor to professor Clemson University, 1968-1990, McQueen Quattlebaum professor engineering, 1982-1983, director South Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, 1968-1975, director water resources engineering graduate program, 1972-1975, adjunct professor, 1990-1993. Facility development manager Chemical Waste Management, Inc., Marietta, Georgia, 1990-1991, regional facility development manager Memphis, 1991.

Director project planning and integration Waste Management, Inc., Washington, 1991-1992. President Dysart & Associates, Inc., Nashville, since 1992. Science advisor Office Secretary of Army, Washington, 1975-1976.

Member Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, since 1983, Reinvention Criteria Committee, NACEPT, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1998-2000. Senior fellow The Conservation Foundation, 1985-1990. Member advisory council Electric Power Research Institute, 1989-1995.

Member, chief of engineers environmental advisory board United States Army Corps Engineers, 1988-1992. Member Glacier National Park Science Council, National Park Service, 1988-1991. Member South Carolina Governor's Wetlands Forum, 1989-1990.

Secretary appointee Outer Continental Shelf Advisory Board and OCS Science Committee Department Interior, 1979-1982. Member South Carolina Environmental Quality Control Advisory Committee, 1980-1990, chairman, 1980-1981. Member Science Panel to Review Interagy.

Research on Impact of Oil Pollution National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Department Commerce, 1980. Member Nuclear Energy Center Environmental Task Force Department Energy-Southern States Energy Board, 1978-1981. Member Nonpoint Source Pollutant Task Force Environmental Protection Agency, 1979-1980.

Member civil works advisory committee Office Secretary Army-Young President's Organization, 1975-1976. Member South Carolina Heritage Advisory Board, 1974-1976. Member Pangue Project, independent review panel, World Bank, 1996-1997.

Chairman Georgia Erosion & Sedimentation Control Technology Study Committee, 1996-2001. Consultant on respect-based stakeholder engagement matters to corporation. Senior associate International Council Mining & Metals, London, 2001-2002.

Leader Indiana Review of Compliance Advisor Ombudsman Ofice, World Bank, 2003.

Achievements

• Benjamin Clay Dysart III has been listed as a noteworthy conservationist, consultant, engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Rene Dubos Center for Human Environs., 1985-1994, vice chairman, member executive committee, 1988-1994. Trustee Issue Management Council, 1997-2003, since 2005. Board visitors Kanuga Episcopal Conference Center, since 1988.

Member Trout Unlimited (trustee 1990-1994), Chattooga River Chapter Trout Unlimited (board directors 1988-1990), National Wildlife Federation (board directors 1974-1990, vice president 1978-1983, president, chairman board directors 1983-1985), Association Environmental Engineering Professors (board directors 1978-1983, president, chairman board directors 1981-1982), Water Environmental Federation (honorary, board directors Research Foundation 1989-1991), South Carolina Wildlife Federation (board directors since 1969, president, chairman board directors 1973-1974, South Carolina Wildlife Conservationist Year), The Georgia Conservancy (board trustees 1994-1997), Cosmos Club (Washington), Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Chi Epsilon, Omega Rho, Sigma Nu.

Connections

Married Nancy Elizabeth McDonald, December 28, 1991.

Father:

Benjamin Clay D.

Mother:

Kathryne Virginia (Thompson) D.

Spouse:

Nancy Elizabeth McDonald