Dade W. Moeller, PE, PhD, CHP

Biography

Dade W. Moeller was born and reared in Florida and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He received a BS in civil engineering and an MS in environmental engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1948. He later received a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from North Carolina State University. He retired in June, 1993, as Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, after serving 15 years as chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, followed by 12 years as Associate Dean for Continuing Education. Prior to that, he served for 18 years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. His duty stations included the Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories; the headquarters offices of the Public Health Service in Washington, DC; the Robert A. Taft Sanitary (Environmental) Engineering Center in Cincinnati, OH, where he served as Director of Radiological Health Training; and the Northeastern Radiological Health Laboratory in Winchester, MA, where he served as Officer in Charge.

From 1973 to 1988, Dr. Moeller was a member of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, and from 1988 through 1993, he chaired the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He was a member of the Subcommittee on Environmental Effects, Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (the BEIR-I Committee) of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. He also served as a member of the BEIR-III Committee. From 2002 to 2005, he chaired the Science & Technology Review Panel, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, U.S. Department of Energy.

For eight years, Dr. Moeller served on Committee 4 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. Earlier he served as a consultant to the World Health Organization. In 1997, he was appointed a Distinguished Emeritus Member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, after completing 30 years of service. He is past President of the Health Physics Society, and a fellow in the American Nuclear Society and the American Public Health Association. He is a registered professional engineer, is certified by the American Board of Health Physics, and is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. In recognition of his accomplishments, he has been awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Health Physics Society, and the Meritorious Achievement Award by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 and the Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame in 1999. He was the recipient of the NC State University Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award in 2001; the Robley D. Evans Commemorative Medal from the Health Physics Society in 2003; the William McAdams Outstanding Service Award from the American Academy of Health Physics in 2005; and the Professor Emeritus Award of Merit, School of Public Health, Harvard University, in 2006. He also served as a keynote speaker, representing the U.S. Health Physics Society, during the Second Asia and Oceanic Congress for Radiation Protection in Beijing, China, in October, 2006, and delivered the Lauriston S. Taylor Lecture during the annual meeting of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements in April, 2008.

Dr. Moeller is the author of about 250 papers published on various aspects of environmental health, with emphasis on radiation protection and associated standards, waste management, and environmental monitoring. He is also the author of a widely used textbook on Environmental Health, the 3rd edition of which was published in 2005, and a 4th edition which is in preparation for publication in 2010 or 2011. He has 5 children and 16 grandchildren, and is a member of, and is an Elder in, the First Presbyterian Church, New Bern, NC.