Charles CC Lee
Deputy Program Convenor
University of Newcastle
Australia
Biography
Charles CC Lee is a Deputy Program Convenor and Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle (Australia) Singapore campus. He has more than 25 years’ experience in environmental research, teaching and consulting in North America, and Asia-Pacific countries. He has soil science degrees from the University of Guelph (BSc) and University of Hawaii (MSc and PhD). At the Agency for Science Technology and Research, he was the lead co-author of a patent for the photocatalytic degradation of halogenated compounds. As an environmental consultant in California, he has worked with State, Federal (military sites) and multinational private sector clients (Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil) to assist them to solve complicated site assessment and remediation issues using the ASTM RBCA approach. Dr Lee has conducted workshops and seminars related specifically to: (a) environmental remediation; (b) environmental impact assessment; and (d) non-point source pollution. Recently, he was invited as a technical expert to conduct a technical workshop on “Risk-based Corrective Action and Bioremediation of Contaminated Sites†for the Chinese Federal Environmental Agency – Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), Beijing, China
Research Interest
Pollution control, occupational health and safety, environmental sciences