Distinguished Alumni > 2007 >Teresa S. Bowers

Teresa S. Bowers

• BS 1977, Mathematics and Geology, Purdue University
• PhD 1982, University of California Berkeley

Teresa S. Bowers is an Owner and Principal at Gradient Corporation, an environmental consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she specializes in modeling human exposure to environmental contaminants, with emphasis on modeling health effects resulting from exposure to environmental sources of lead, arsenic, and other metals, and application of this information to the calculation and negotiation of site-specific cleanup levels.

After completing post-doctoral work at CalTech, she moved to the Boston area, where she spent one year as a visiting professor at Harvard University and five years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At M.I.T., she held several positions, including Crosby Lecturer in Resource Geology.

She has done extensive work with U.S. EPA’s Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic (IEUBK) model for lead, and developed an adult lead model that is currently recommended by the U.S. EPA for establishing cleanup levels for lead at industrial/commercial sites. Additionally, she has worked on several river sediment systems involving PCB contamination, where she has developed unique statistical methodologies to calculate risk-based cleanup levels.  She was the lead risk assessor involved in assessing risks to human health resulting from spraying pesticides in the New York City area in 1999 and 2000 as a control for mosquitoes bearing the West Nile Virus. She is frequently invited to participate in EPA workshops, has been a member of National Academy of Science Review Panels, and is currently a member of the advisory council for the National Institute of Environmental Health and Safety.

Terri lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

 

Career Highlights
1999–present	Owner and Principal, Gradient Corp.
1999–2005	Manager of Technical Staff, Gradient Corp.
1995 – present	Principal, Gradient Corp
1990 - 1995	Senior technical staff, Gradient Corp