LARRY LAPACHIN
Mr. Lapachin has a Master of Environmental Science from Miami University in Ohio with specializations in urban and regional analysis. He has a B.A. in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin at Superior where he graduated Cum Laude.
In his internship with the Institute, Mr. Lapachin is based in Denver. He is researching and developing the Taxonomy of Community Risk, a risk assessment evaluation tool designed to assist tribes and communities in identifying and taking inventory of quality of life issues, such as cultural, economic, human, and ecological health risks. He is collaborating with the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), and the U.S. Department of Energy Center for Risk Excellence (CRE) to incorporate this research into U.S. federal facility risk management. Mr. Lapachin is also researching and comparing the roles that the Suquamish Tribe of Washington State and the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge, South Dakota have adopted with the Department of Defense in the cleanup of former federal facilities within their landbases.
Mr. Lapachin was the Assistant Brownfields Coordinator for the Department of Economic Development for the City of Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.A. "Brownfields" is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program designed to clean up contaminated sites, especially in urban areas, to levels tied to potential development alternatives for those sites.