Global Warming

About the Book

About the Author

     Patrick R. Dugan is an Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and is also a retired Science Fellow from The Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Dugan holds a B.Sc. degree in Arts and Science, an M. Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Microbiology from Syracuse University. He spent eight years as an Associate Research scientist at the Syracuse University Research Corp., conducting research sponsored by both government  and U.S. corporations related to environmental problems as well as  food handling, processing, packaging and preservation.

     In 1964 he joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology at The Ohio State University; where he taught and conducted research on various aspects of aquatic contamination by chemicals and microbes and processes to ameliorate aquatic contamination. During this period Dugan served as a Department Chairman and later as the Dean of the College of Biological Sciences. He also served as a Trustee of the Columbus Zoological Association and Zoo and was president of the Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Microbiology from 1968 to 1970. He remains a member of the American Academy for Microbiology.

     In 1987 he retired from OSU and joined the Idaho National Laboratory (formerly The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory) where he became a Science Fellow and Director of the Center for Bio-processing Technology, conducting research on a variety of projects of interest to the United States Department of Energy and other U.S. agencies while continuing to be a graduate faculty member of The University of Idaho and The Ohio State University. In 1990-1991 he was an Association of Western Universities Distinguished Lecturer. Upon retirement in 1994 he continued as a consultant to the INL.

     Professor Dugan’s  research covered a wide range of disciplines including: sanitation and water pollution; algal, fungal and bacterial control methods and agents; analytical chemistry including methods development; structure and function of exocellular polymers and capsules, chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria, physiology of aquatic microbes, acidic mine drainage; sulfur and mineral metabolism of microbes; microbial hydrocarbon oxidation and microbial methane formation. His published work includes over 150 articles in peer reviewed  journals as well as several book chapters, reports and the book “Biochemical Ecology of Water Pollution,” published in both English and Japanese versions. He is listed in Who’s Who: in America, in the World, and in several others.