George Hallberg

George Hallberg, Ph.D. is a principal in the Drinking Water and Water Quality Group and an expert in research, policy, and the management of environmental, natural resource, and public health programs. He has extensive experience with water quality issues, contaminant occurrence, environmental monitoring, laboratory programs/methods, hydrogeol¬ogy, watershed management programs, exposure assessment, fate and transport, public health surveillance, agricultural-environmental issues, and nonpoint source pollution.

In 2004 Dr. Hallberg was designated a national associate of The National Academies of Sciences (NAS). Since 2006 he has chaired the Committee on Water Resources Activities at the U.S. Geological Survey for the NAS-National Research Council’s Water Science and Technology Board.

The author or co-author of more than 150 technical publications and scores of client reports, Dr. Hallberg has testified before and consulted to congressional committees and panels on the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, various farm bills, and pesticide legislation. Before joining Cadmus in 1997, he was the associate director and chief of environmental research at the State Hygienic Laboratory of the University of Iowa. For the 20 years prior to that, he directed environmental research programs with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. He also held adjunct appointments at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.

George Hallberg earned his doctorate in geology at the University of Iowa. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from Augustana College.