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Dr. Wolverton, a retired NASA research scientist, is President of Wolverton Environmental Services, Inc. He has a B.S. degree in chemistry, three years of graduate studies in medical microbiology and biochemistry, one year of graduate studies in marine biology, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering. For more than thirty years, Dr. Wolverton was employed with the U.S. Government. Most of those years were spent as a research scientist with NASA. His NASA research was directed toward the development of a closed ecological life support system for future permanent space habitats. Upon retirement from NASA, he has directed research with plants and microorganisms toward solving earthly environmental pollution problems, such as treating domestic sewage and industrial wastewater; treating and recycling water in intensive fish culture; and cleaning hazardous waste sites. He has consulted with professional engineers and architects in the design of aquatic plant wastewater treatment systems for cities such as Benton, Delcambre, and Crowley, Louisiana; Union, Leakesville, Carthage, Picayune, and DeKalb, Mississippi; Monterey, Virginia; Walnut Cove, North Carolina; and other towns and communities throughout the United States. He also has worked with professional engineers to design aquatic plant wastewater treatment systems for industrial waste and stormwater runoff for facilities such as Degussa Corporation, Theodore, Alabama; Albemarle Corporation, Magnolia, Arkansas; Gulf States Canners, Clinton, Mississippi. Dr. Wolverton also pioneered the use of house and office plants for indoor air pollution abatement. He perfected the first combined indoor air/wastewater purification system and in 1989, demonstrated its feasibility by installing the first system in his home. The first public building to use this process is a new math/science building on the campus of Northeast Mississippi Community College, Booneville, Mississippi, which has been operational since August, 1993. He has received numerous patents and awards including the Federal Environmental Engineer of the Year Award in 1983. In 1988, he was one of the first five inductees into the U.S. Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame. In 1989, he became the first American selected to open the world's largest Flowertrade Exhibition in Aaslmeer, Holland. In 1993, he received the State of Mississippi Award for Energy Innovation. In 1996, the American Chemical Society named Dr. Wolverton one of their "Heroes in Chemistry" for his work on industrial wastewater systems for Albemarle Corporation, Magnolia, Arkansas. He was awarded the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution "Conservation Medal" in May 1997. In June 1998, Dr. Wolverton was presented the "Award of Excellence" from the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc. Dr. Wolverton is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities in the use of natural processes for environmental pollution control. He has published more than 70 technical papers; has lectured in most major cities of the United States and throughout the world; and has written two books: "How to Grow Fresh Air" (Penguin Books, 1997) and "Growing Clean Water -- Nature's Solution to Water Pollution (WES, Inc., 2001).
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