Background
Carpenter, Richard Amon was born on August 22, 1926 in Kansas City, Missoury. Son of Harry Russell and Ina Marie (Garver) Carpenter.
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Richard Amon Carpenter
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Bachelor of Science, U. Missouri, 1948; Master of Arts, U. Missouri, 1949.
Career
Chemist, Shell Oil Corporation, Wood River, Illinois, 1949-1951; assistant manager, Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, 1951-1958; trustee, Midwest Research Institute, 1964-1969, 75-79; manager, Washington office Callery Chemical Company, 1958-1964; senior specialist in science and technical, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, 1964-1969; chief environmental policy division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1969-1972; executive director Commision on, Natural Resources executive director Commision on, National Research Council executive director Commision on, National Academy Sciences, Washington, 1972-1977; senior fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu, 1977-1993; retired, 1993. Visiting professor environmental studies, Dartmouth, 1976. Member science advisory board to Department of Defense-Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, since 1995.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee Institute Ecology, 1979-1983. Member corporation visiting committee department сivil engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974-1984. Member international environmental programs committee National Research Council-NAS, 1980-1983.
Member United States National Committee Science Problems of Environment, 1984-1987. Chairman, board directors Pacific Basin Consortium for Hazardous Waste Research, 1989-1990. Study director Hawaii Environmental Risk Ranking Project, 1992.
Board dirs.Ivy Creek Foundation, since 1998. With United States Army Air Force, 1945. Member American Chemical Society, Ecological Society American, Sigma Xi, Sigma Chi.
Connections
Married Joanne Fisher, August 14, 1948. Children: Stephen Russell, Lynne, Wendy.
