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Februrary 15, 2006
New Yucca office director namedHAMMERMEISTER SELECTED FOR COUNTY'S TOP POSITION IN REPOSITORY OVERSIGHT
By PHILLIP GOMEZ
County Manager Michael Maher named Hammermeister as the selected candidate for the job after a week of interviewing finalists and the selection panelists coming to a consensus. The panel was made up of Nye County Commission Chairwoman Candice Trummell, Commissioner Garry Hollis, Comptroller Marie Owens, Washington, D.C., consultant and lobbyist Rick Spees and HR director Danelle Shamrell. Under the direction of the county commissioners, Hammermeister will be responsible for all aspects of the county's involvement in the nation's nuclear waste repository program at Yucca Mountain, insofar as it pertains to Nye County. Hammermeister has a Ph.D in soils science from Oregon State University, a master of science in chemistry from Denver University and a B.A. in secondary education from the University of Washington. He has held teaching posts as a secondary school teacher teaching science, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guyana and as an assistant soils science professor at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls, Wis. Hammermeister was also a research chemist with the U.S. Geological Service in Menlo Park, Calif. He has been a hydrologist for USGS for Superfund cleanup sites and at the Nevada Test Site. He was a project manager for Yucca Mountain studies and at a mine in Silver City, N.M. He has also held management positions at a laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M, was section chief with REECo. at the Nevada Test Site and technical director with GeoSystems Analysis Inc. in Tucson, Ariz. More recently, Hammermeister was Nye County's site representative on geotechnical matters. Maher said in a statement, "Dr. Hammermeister will make a significant impact in our community working with the internal and external partners of our nuclear waste repository program office." |
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